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Brewers put Dodgers season on the brink with stunning comeback Game 3 win

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In Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers with a final score of 6-2, putting the Dodgers on the brink of elimination. The game featured a dramatic turnaround in the seventh inning after Will Smith’s two-run double gave the Dodgers a brief 2-1 lead. However, Blake Snell's struggles led to back-to-back home runs by Jake Bauers and Garrett Mitchell, sealing the Brewers' victory. This loss places immense pressure on the Dodgers as they now face an unprecedented challenge of overcoming a 3-0 deficit in a best-of-seven series.

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Brewers Extend Lead to 3-0 Over Dodgers with Game 3 Win

In a dramatic turn of events, the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series (NLCS) on Wednesday night. The loss puts the two-time defending World Series champions at the brink of elimination as they trail 3-0.

The game began with Jackson Chourio hitting a leadoff home run off Blake Snell, putting the Brewers ahead early despite Snell's dominant six innings where he retired 14 consecutive batters. However, in the seventh inning, Snell faltered when Jake Bauers and Garrett Mitchell hit back-to-back home runs to reclaim a 3-2 lead for Milwaukee.

The Dodgers managed to take a brief 2-1 advantage in the sixth inning with Will Smith's go-ahead two-run double off Abner Uribe. But this moment of hope was short-lived, as Milwaukee's bullpen proved too strong once again. With Andrew Vaughn drawing a walk and later scoring on Bauers' home run, the Brewers extended their lead to 3-2.

Mitchell then sealed the victory with his solo shot in the seventh inning, pushing the score to 4-2 before the final runs were scored in the eighth inning by Brice Turang’s wild pitch. This decisive win leaves the Dodgers facing a daunting task of overcoming a 3-0 deficit in their quest for a World Series three-peat.

Game 4 will be played at Dodger Stadium on Thursday, with the Dodgers needing an immediate turnaround to avoid being swept out of the NLCS by Milwaukee. The Brewers now hold a commanding lead and are one win away from reaching the World Series.

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Who wrote this

Jack Harris

81 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction

🔮 And unless they can become only the second team in MLB history to overcome a 3-0 hole in a best-of-seven series, the way they got there Wednesday will reverberate long into the winter –– serving as the potential death-nail in their modern-day dynasty.

2026-10-15 · assertive framing · Brewers put Dodgers season on the brink with stunning comeback Game 3 win

🔮 It gave the Dodgers’ slumping offense time to finally break through, when Will Smith hit a go-ahead two-run double with the bases loaded in the sixth.

2026-10-15 · assertive framing · Blake Snell goes from hero to zero as Dodgers collapse in Game 3 loss to Brewers

🔮 Shohei Ohtani was indeed in the Dodgers’ lineup for Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, as manager Dave Roberts confirmed on Tuesday amid speculation that the slugger could be benched.

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🔮 They couldn’t help but remember last year’s NLCS, when Ohtani entered Game 4 in a 3-for-29 slump — then delivered perhaps the greatest individual performance in baseball history, hitting three home runs and striking out 10 batters to complete a pennant-clinching sweep.

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🔮 Shohei Ohtani will remain in the Dodgers’ starting lineup for Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Wednesday night.

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🔮 One big loss, and four ugly at-bats later, however, that previously steadfast plan suddenly seemed capable of changing. Following a 7-4 defeat to the Milwaukee Brewers that put the Dodgers in a two-game hole in their National League Championship Series, manager Dave Roberts told The Athletic that the team would have “a conversation” with Ohtani about his status for Game 3.

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🔮 Zero: The whole Dodgers’ offense –– but especially Shohei Ohtani and Will Smith Really, the 7-4 scoreline in Monday’s Game 2 loss flattered the Dodgers.

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🔮 Yamamoto, despite entering with a five-game playoff win streak and the second-lowest postseason ERA in the last 100 years, couldn’t steady the two-time defending champions. The Brewers, who allowed Yamamoto to throw a complete game against them on the very same mound in Game 2 of last year’s NLCS sweep, turned the tables decisively with long, relentless, unforgiving at-bats.

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🔮 He finally reached base with a walk in the eighth, but it might be time for him to move down in the lineup.

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🔮 Still, the result will sting for the Dodgers –– after they seemingly had the game where they wanted it early, only to cede control with their costly string of missed opportunities.

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After six nearly flawless innings from Blake Snell, in which he had retired 18 of 20 batters after a leadoff home run on the first pitch of the game from Jackson Chourio, the two-time Cy Young Award winner returned to the mound in the seventh with Dodger Stadium still pulsing.

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2026-10-15 · New York Post

Brewers put Dodgers season on the brink with stunning comeback Game 3 win · assertive framing

Claims (30 extracted, 2 hedged)

The Dodgers embarked on this postseason in search of World Series three-peat history. asserted

Dodgers → embark → history

If they are still to accomplish that now, they’ll have to make even more daunting history along the way. asserted

they → accomplish → way

A year after they swept the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series, the shoe is suddenly, stunningly, unbelievably in danger of being put on the other foot. asserted

shoe → sweep → foot

And unless they can become only the second team in MLB history to overcome a 3-0 hole in a best-of-seven series, the way they got there Wednesday will reverberate long into the winter –– serving as the potential death-nail in their modern-day dynasty. asserted

they → become → dynasty

In the sixth inning, the Dodgers had finally captured momentum in this previously one-sided matchup, taking a 2-1 lead on a bases-loaded two-run double from Will Smith against hard-throwing Milwaukee reliever Abner Uribe. asserted

Dodgers → capture → Uribe

It was the kind of moment the Dodgers had been waiting for all series: A big hit with runners on base. asserted

Dodgers → wait → base

A late-game lead that seemed to take their season off life support. asserted

that → seem → support

Minutes later, it would all disappear. asserted

it → disappear → ?

Stadium → retire → seventh

Then he issued a leadoff walk, and got locked in an epic battle with Brewers first baseman Jake Bauers. asserted

he → issue → Bauers

Just as he had done to Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a 12-pitch duel during Game 2, Bauers refused to be put away, working an 11-pitch at-bat in which he fouled off five two-strike offerings. asserted

he → do → offerings

Finally, having exhausted all other options, Snell challenged him with a fastball in the heart of the plate. asserted

Snell → exhaust → plate

Bauers was ready for it, clobbering a 412-foot shot halfway up the right-field pavilion. asserted

Bauers → clobber → pavilion

Chavez Ravine went silent. asserted

Ravine → go → ?

The Brewers had regained a 3-2 lead. asserted

Brewers → regain → lead

The Milwaukee dugout had barely ceased celebrating before Garrett Mitchell stunned the place again. asserted

Mitchell → cease → place

Two pitches after Bauers’ blast, Mitchell also took Snell deep on a no-doubt drive to right. asserted

Mitchell → take → right

This time, it was on a hanging changeup, sending another shockwave through a dazed crowd of 50,708. asserted

it → hang → 50,708

And this time, there would be no way back for the Dodgers’ offense, which went missing again after its sixth-inning outburst. asserted

which → go → outburst

In some ways, the Dodgers’ most costly sequence might have come at the end of the sixth, when they failed to tack on more after Smith’s two-run drive. uncertain

they → come → drive

Shohei Ohtani, having drawn the third walk against Uribe, seemed to get a late read on Smith’s ball and only made it from first to third on the play. asserted

Ohtani → draw → play

Then, after the Brewers turned to left-hander DL Hall, Kiké Hernández and Tommy Edman both struck out to end the inning with Ohtani and Smith stranded in scoring position. asserted

Ohtani → turn → position

That would prove to be the Dodgers’ last legitimate scoring opportunity on Wednesday. asserted

That → prove → Wednesday

Over the final three frames, a two-out eighth-inning single from Ohtani –– who, base-running mistake aside, took a step forward after speculation of a benching following Game 2 by reaching base three times –– would be their only offense. asserted

took → take → base

The Brewers, meanwhile, tacked on insurance runs in the eighth and ninth en route to putting the Dodgers’ season on the brink. asserted

Brewers → tack → brink

At some point, of course, the Dodgers’ dynasty was bound to end. asserted

dynasty → bind → course

After so many close calls the last two years, their October luck was eventually due to run out. asserted

luck → run → calls

But not even in their worst nightmares could they have imagined a scenario like this, a loss like this, a potential sweep like this. uncertain

they → imagine → this

Now, they either have to make history, or become history. asserted

they → have → history

Even for the two-time defending champions, it feels like a task too big. asserted

it → defend → task