LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jake Bauers and Garrett Mitchell hit back-to-back homers off Blake Snell as Milwaukee regained the lead in the seventh inning, and the Brewers beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 on Wednesday to take a 3-0 lead in the National League Championship Series.
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Brewers → hit → Series
Los Angeles had just taken a 2-1 lead in the sixth before getting stunned.
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Angeles → take → sixth
The loss pushed the two-time defending World Series champions to the brink of elimination.
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loss → push → elimination
“All three games we’ve played so far, and hopefully that continues, where just every time they score, we come back and score,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said.
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Murphy → play → ?
“That’s not easy to do in baseball.
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That → ’ → baseball
Game 4 is Thursday at Dodger Stadium, where the Brewers can become the first major league club to complete a postseason sweep after getting swept by that same opponent in the previous postseason.
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Brewers → become → postseason
Los Angeles took all four games against Milwaukee in the NLCS last year.
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Angeles → take → NLCS
The only other time the Dodgers trailed 3-0 in a best-of-seven postseason series, they were swept by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1966 World Series.
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they → trail → Series
The lone team in big league history to come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-seven postseason series was the Boston Red Sox in the 2004 AL Championship Series against the New York Yankees.
“We’ve won four in a row a number of times this year,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
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Roberts → come → times
“We’ve got to win tomorrow.
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We → get → ?
That’s our only focus.”
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That → ’ → ?
Coming into the seventh, Snell had retired 14 batters in a row.
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Snell → come → row
The first pitch of the game thrown by the two-time Cy Young Award winner was hit for a home run by Jackson Chourio, and his last pitch was Mitchell’s solo shot.
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pitch → throw → Chourio
Andrew Vaughn drew a seven-pitch walk to open the inning and was replaced by pinch-runner Christian Yelich.
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Vaughn → draw → Yelich
Bauers followed with a 412-foot drive to right field on the 11th pitch of the at-bat for a 3-2 lead as most of the players in Milwaukee’s dugout came onto the field to celebrate.
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most → follow → field
Mitchell was next and his drive traveled 428 feet to right-center.
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drive → travel → center
That chased Snell, who hadn’t given up a home run in 46 1/3 innings this year entering the game.
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who → chase → game
It was only the second time in his career the left-hander served up multiple home runs to left-handed hitters in one game.
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hander → serve → game
And it was the latest relentless plate appearance for Bauers, who drew a 12-pitch walk from Yoshinobu Yamamoto that helped the Brewers go ahead early in Game 2.
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Brewers → draw → Game
Milwaukee, which has never beaten the Dodgers in three previous playoff series, is chasing its second pennant and first in the National League.
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which → beat → League
The Brewers were in the American League when they reached their only World Series, a seven-game loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1982.
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they → reach → 1982
Snell gave up four runs and four hits in six innings, struck out nine and walked two.
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Snell → give → two
The Brewers extended the lead to 5-2 in the eighth on Justin Wrobleski’s wild pitch that scored Brice Turang, who reached on an infield single and advanced to third on William Contreras’ single.
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who → extend → single
They added another run on Joey Ortiz’s two-strike RBI single in the ninth.
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They → add → ninth
The offensively starved Dodgers took their first lead, 2-1, on Will Smith’s two-run double off reliever Abner Uribe in the sixth.
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Dodgers → starve → sixth
After rookie starter Robert Gasser pitched five shutout innings, Uribe entered and loaded the bases on walks to Teoscar Hernández, Kyle Tucker and Shohei Ohtani.
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Uribe → pitch → Hernández
Smith, who was 1 for 25 in the playoffs, doubled off the left-center fence with one out for his first hit of the NLCS.
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who → double → NLCS
DL Hall took over from Uribe and stranded runners at second and third by striking out pinch-hitter Kiké Hernández and Tommy Edman.
Hall allowed one hit in 2 1/3 scoreless innings to improve to 3-0 in these playoffs.
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Hall → take → playoffs
Trevor Megill got four outs for his second save of the series and fourth this postseason.
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Megill → get → series
The Dodgers played from behind again after the 22-year-old Chourio connected for his third career leadoff homer as fans were still heading to their seats.
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fans → play → seats
After that, Mitchell walked and Cooper Pratt singled in the second before Snell retired 14 in a row — six on strikeouts — before getting hammered in the seventh.
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Snell → walk → seventh
The Dodgers had runners on base in all but three innings, but couldn’t get enough across.
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Dodgers → have → enough
They have yet to homer in the NLCS.
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They → have → NLCS
Ohtani was 1 for 2 with a walk while hitting sixth in the order, the lowest he’s batted since joining the Dodgers three years ago.
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he → hit → Dodgers
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