Dodgers near repeat World Series trip, beat Brewers for 3-0 NLCS lead

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LOS ANGELES — Tommy Edman hit a tiebreaking single off strong rookie Jacob Misiorowski in a two-run sixth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-1 on Thursday to take a 3-0 lead in their National League Championship Series.

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Los Angeles moved to within one win of becoming the first defending champion to reach the World Series since the 2009 Philadelphia Phillies. No team has won back-to-back titles since the New York Yankees won three in a row from 1998-2000.

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Game 4 is Friday. The only one of the 41 teams to overcome a 3-0 postseason deficit was the 2004 Boston Red Sox against the Yankees, initiated by current Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.

Shohei Ohtani tripled Andy Ashby in the bottom of the first and scored on a Mookie Betts double to give the Dodgers the lead, but Jake Bowers tied the game with an RBI single in the second.

It was the only run allowed by Tyler Glasnow, who teamed with Ohtani, Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to give Dodgers starters a 1.54 postseason ERA during an 8-1 postseason spurt.

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Misiorowski replaced Ashby with two walks and one walk in the first and struck out Edman and Teoscar Hernandez. The 23-year-old right-hander topped 100 mph with 17 pitches and tied the Brewers' rookie postseason record of nine, but his fastball dropped slightly to 98-99 mph in the sixth.

Will Smith singled on a slider in the center of the strike zone and Freddie Freeman walked trailing 1-2. Edman, who had struck out Misiorowski twice, lined a low slider to center and Smith scored for a 2-1 lead when Sal Frelick pitched the week.

Abner Uribe replaced Hernandez and struck out, then made a wild throw past first as Freeman scored, the second straight game with a Brewers closer error.

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Glasnow allowed three hits and three walks in 5 2/3 innings, striking out eight, drawing a standing ovation from the crowd of 51,251.

Alex Vecia followed Glasnow with two outs for his second playoff win.

Rocky Sasaki pitched a perfect ninth for his third save of the postseason, finishing the game with a four-hitter. Dodgers pitchers allowed one hit in 3 1/3 innings.

Milwaukee, which beat the Dodgers 6-0 in the regular season, has lost its last 10 postseason road games dating back to 2018. The Brewers have three runs and nine hits in the series, and since the Division Series finale, the Dodgers become the first team to allow no runs, no runs and four hits or fewer in four straight games in the postseason.

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Ohtani, 1-0 with a 4.50 ERA in the postseason, makes his second postseason start after the right-hander struck out nine in six innings against Philadelphia in the NL Division Series. The two-way star was 1-for-4 with two strikeouts and is hitting .158 (6-for-38) with one homer and six RBIs in nine postseason games. Milwaukee has not announced a starter.

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