Overview
- The Dodgers opened the series with a 2-1 win in Milwaukee to take a 1-0 NLCS lead.
- Blake Snell threw eight scoreless innings with one hit allowed and 10 strikeouts, facing the minimum 24 batters.
- Milwaukee escaped a fourth-inning, bases-loaded jam on a rare 8-6-2 force double play after Sal Frelick’s bobble off the wall.
- Los Angeles scored on a Freddie Freeman solo homer in the sixth and a Mookie Betts bases-loaded walk in the ninth.
- Roki Sasaki faltered in the ninth before Blake Treinen struck out Brice Turang with the bases loaded; Game 2 features Yoshinobu Yamamoto vs. Freddy Peralta.