Yamamoto throws 3-hitter as Dodgers beat Brewers for 2-0 lead in NLCS

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MILWAUKEE — Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a three-hitter in the first complete postseason game in eight years as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 on Tuesday night to take the lead in the National League Championship Series.

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Teoscar Hernandez and Max Muncy hit singles as the Dodgers left Milwaukee with a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series, Game 3 of which is Thursday in Los Angeles. Muncy's 412-foot blast to center field was the 14th homer of his postseason career, breaking the Dodgers record he shared with Corey Seager and Justin Turner.

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Yamamoto allowed a home run to Jackson Churio on the first of his 111 pitches, but stopped the Brewers the rest of the way. The right-hander's complete game was his first in the majors and first in the postseason since Justin Verlander did it for Houston against the New York Yankees in Game 2 of the 2017 ALCS.

The last Dodgers pitcher to complete a postseason game was Jose Lima against the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 3 of the 2004 NL Division Series.

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For the first time since 1970, both LCS road teams started 2–0. The Seattle Mariners lead 2-0 in the ALCS heading into Game 3 on Wednesday in Seattle.

Twenty-four of the previous 27 teams that played the first two games on the road in a best-of-seven 2-3-2 series won. All three teams that came back from losing Games 1 and 2 at home were in the World Series: the 1985 Kansas City Royals vs. the St. Louis Cardinals, the 1986 New York Mets vs. the Boston Red Sox, and the 1996 New York Yankees vs. the Atlanta Braves.

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The Brewers made every effort Tuesday to avoid a 2-0 deficit. Former Milwaukee slugger Eric Thames took the field to instruct fans before the game and unbuttoned his jersey to reveal his bare chest.

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The 21-year-old Chowrio then delighted the sold-out crowd by sending Yamamoto's first pitch over the wall in right-center field for his fourth career homer of the postseason, tying the Brewers' record with Orlando Arcia and Prince Fielder.

It seemed like a bad start for Yamamoto, who lasted just two-thirds of an inning in an 8-1 loss the previous time he pitched in Milwaukee. But he bounced back and silenced the brewers the rest of the way.

The Brewers had five hits in the series. Los Angeles left-hander Blake Snell limited them to one hit and no walks over eight innings in the Dodgers' 2-1 Game 1 victory.

Los Angeles became the first team to make consecutive postseason starts of at least eight innings in the same series since San Francisco's Madison Bumgarner and Tim Lincecum did so in Games 4 and 5 of the 2010 World Series against Texas.

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After Churio's homer, Los Angeles wasted no time in coming back against Brewers ace Freddy Peralta.

Hernandez, whose base-running error contributed to the Brewers' unusual 8-6-2 double play in Game 1, sent the ball over the left field wall for a 3-2 count for his fourth homer this postseason. Two outs later, Kayque Hernandez singled and scored on Andy Pages' double.

Page was 1-for-27 in the postseason before hitting a hit to the right field corner.

Muncie extended the lead to 3-1 with his two-out homer in the sixth, which came on Peralta's 97th and final pitch of the night. The Dodgers added two more runs on RBI singles: Shohei Ohtani in the seventh and Tommy Edman in the eighth.

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