Overview

• Milwaukee leads the best-of-five series 1-0 after a 9-3 win at American Family Field.
• Freddy Peralta allowed two runs over 5 2/3 innings and tied a Brewers postseason mark with nine strikeouts.
• Chicago started Matthew Boyd on short rest, and he exited in the first after six runs allowed, four of them unearned following a Nico Hoerner misplay.
• Aaron Civale held the Brewers to three singles with three strikeouts in 4 1/3 scoreless frames, a Cubs postseason record for longest scoreless relief outing.
• Cubs manager Craig Counsell said Civale and Ben Brown, who added two scoreless innings, reset the relief corps; Civale joined Chicago after a June 13 trade from Milwaukee to the White Sox and an Aug. 31 waiver claim by the Cubs.