NEW YORK, NY — Yoshinobu Yamamoto was as elite as they come Tuesday night in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series, pitching a three-hit complete game against the Brewers to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead in the best of seven NLCS.
Carrying Los Angeles on his back just like his teammate Blake Snell did so 24 hours prior in Game 1 of the NLCS—going eight innings with one hit allowed—the 27-year-old Japanese right-hander proved to be even more impressive, recording the first complete game in Dodger postseason history in over 20 years (José Lima vs. the Cardinals in Game 3 of the 2004 NLDS).
All in all, across the first two NLCS games played in Milwaukee, LA’s starting pitchers in Snell (10 K, a new postseason career high) and Yamamoto (7 K) combined for 17 innings with 17 strikeouts while only surrendering four hits and one earned run—a first inning solo home run to Brewers’ Venezuelan star outfielder Jackson Chourio to start Yamamoto’s outing.
To sum it up in two words, “Dodger Dominance.”
“They were both great, both of those pitchers were as dominant as two pitchers have been,” said Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy. “We chased way more than we’ve chased all year. We’ve been the best in baseball at not chasing and these pitchers brought out the worst in us.”
At the plate in Game 2 of the NLCS, a 5-1 Los Angeles victory, Teoscar Hernández (33, of Cotui, Dominican Republic) and Andy Pages (24, of Havana, Cuba) did the heavy lifting.
Teoscar Hernández and Andy Pages drove in the first two runs for the Dodgers in Game 2 of the NLCS Tuesday night in Milwaukee – Image Credit: Bill Menzel and Francisco Rodriguez/Latino Sports
And it all appeared in the top of the second inning as Hernández evened up the score, 1-1, on a solo homer, his fourth HR of the 2025 postseason and Pages, two at-bats later, providing LA with a 2-1 lead by doubling to drive in a hustling Kiké Hernández (34, of San Juan, Puerto Rico) all the way from first base, who recorded a one-out single.
Max Muncy (solo HR), Shohei Ohtani (RBI-single), and Tommy Edman (RBI-single), contributing to the Dodgers’ lead later in the game, each tacked on an insurance run of their own, which put the deficit out of reach for Milwaukee when accounting for Yamamoto’s historic evening on the mound of American Family Field.
“Our entire team is playing the best baseball we’ve played all year,” noted Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. “The focus, the concentration level is at the highest, and we’re peaking at the right time.”
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