By STEVE MEGARGEE
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a three-hitter for the primary postseason full sport in eight years because the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 on Tuesday night time to increase their lead within the Nationwide League Championship Sequence.
Teoscar Hernández and Max Muncy every hit a solo homer because the Dodgers left Milwaukee with a 2-0 benefit within the best-of-seven sequence, which shifts to Los Angeles for Sport 3 on Thursday. Muncy’s 412-foot drive to heart subject was the 14th homer of his postseason profession, breaking the Dodgers report he had shared with Corey Seager and Justin Turner.
Yamamoto allowed a house run to Jackson Chourio on the primary of his 111 pitches however shut down the Brewers the remainder of the way in which. The $325 million right-hander struck out seven and walked one throughout his first full sport in two main league seasons.
The earlier postseason starter to go the gap was Justin Verlander when he tossed a five-hitter with 13 strikeouts for Houston towards the New York Yankees in Sport 2 of the 2017 ALCS on Oct. 14, 2017 — eight years in the past to the day.
Yamamoto’s full sport was the primary for Los Angeles since Gavin Stone’s gem on June 26 final yr. The final Dodgers pitcher to throw an entire sport within the postseason was Jose Lima towards St. Louis in Sport 3 of their 2004 NL Division Sequence.
That is the primary time since 1970 that each LCS street groups began 2-0. The Seattle Mariners personal a 2-0 lead over Toronto within the ALCS heading into Sport 3 on Wednesday in Seattle.
Twenty-four of the earlier 27 groups that took the primary two video games on the street in a best-of-seven sequence with a 2-3-2 format have gone on to win. The three groups to return again after dropping Video games 1 and a couple of at residence all got here in World Sequence: the 1985 Kansas Metropolis Royals towards the St. Louis Cardinals, the 1986 New York Mets towards the Boston Crimson Sox, and the 1996 New York Yankees towards the Atlanta Braves.
The Brewers pulled out all of the stops Tuesday as they tried to keep away from that 2-0 deficit. Former slugger Eric Thames acquired on the sector to exhort followers simply earlier than the sport and popped open his jersey to disclose his naked chest.
The 21-year-old Chourio then delighted a sellout crowd by sending Yamamoto’s first pitch over the right-center wall for his fourth profession postseason homer, tying Orlando Arcia and Prince Fielder for the Brewers report.
That appeared like a foreboding begin for Yamamoto, who lasted simply two-thirds of an inning in an 8-1 loss the earlier time he pitched in Milwaukee. However he bounced again and silenced the Brewers the remainder of the way in which.
The Brewers have 5 hits within the sequence. Los Angeles left-hander Blake Snell restricted them to 1 hit and no walks over eight innings throughout the Dodgers’ 2-1 victory in Sport 1.
Los Angeles grew to become the primary workforce to have consecutive postseason begins of no less than eight innings in the identical sequence since San Francisco’s Madison Bumgarner and Tim Lincecum did it in Video games 4 and 5 of the 2010 World Sequence towards Texas.
After Chourio’s homer, Los Angeles wasted no time coming again towards Brewers ace Freddy Peralta.
Hernández, whose baserunning mistake contributed to the Brewers’ uncommon 8-6-2 double play in Sport 1, despatched a 3-2 curve over the left-field wall for his fourth homer of this postseason. Two outs later, Kiké Hernández singled and scored on Andy Pages’ double.
Pages had been 1 for 27 within the postseason earlier than delivering his shot into the right-field nook.
Muncy prolonged the result in 3-1 together with his two-out homer within the sixth, which got here on Peralta’s 97th and ultimate pitch. The Dodgers added two extra runs on RBI singles by Shohei Ohtani within the seventh and Tommy Edman within the eighth.
Initially Revealed: October 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM PDT
