LOS ANGELES, CA — On a beautiful sunny Thursday afternoon into the early hours of the evening in Los Angeles, California, the Milwaukee Brewers entered Dodger Stadium down 2-0 to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. They knew they were in for yet another tough task in Game 3 with LA’s right-handed co-ace Tyler Glasnow, looking to follow in the footsteps of his fellow starters, Blake Snell, who had a line of eight innings, one hit, and 11 strikeouts in Game 1, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who was even better in Game 2 with a line of nine innings, three hits, one earned run and seven strikeouts.
The Brewers countered with lefty, Aaron Ashby, who started Game 1 in a bullpen game for Milwaukee. After Shohei Ohtani led off the Dodgers’ first inning with a triple, followed by a first-pitch double by Mookie Betts and a walk to Freddie Freeman, Ashby was done.
Brewers RHP Jacob Misiorowski then came in and struck out Tommy Edman and then Teoscar Hernández, Cotui, Dominican Republic, looking on a 102-MPH fastball.
The Brewers came back in the next inning with a triple by Caleb Durbin who scored an at-bat later to tie the game 1-1 on a single from Jake Bauers. Milwaukee then began to do the thing that made them the team with the most wins this season, “small ball.”
A stolen base and wild throw pickoff attempt by Glasnow, but a great play by Max Muncy to nail Bauers at home kept the Brewers from taking the lead.
“That was huge, I think that was the play of the game, for sure,” Glasnow said of Muncy’s second-inning web gem. “Just having a one-run ball game, if it had turned into two, it’s a different story. I think just after that, the relief of that inning, him making that good defensive play, I was able to go back out and just try to stay in the zone and get some quick outs.”
Glasnow left the game tied at 1-1 after 5.2 innings with a line of three hits, one run, three walks, and eight strikeouts. Six of his eight strikeouts came in innings three and four. The Dodgers finally got to the 23-year-old Misiorowski in the sixth inning, when the young rookie fireballer gave up a single to Will Smith, a walk to Freddie Freeman, and an RBI single by Edman.
LA would score one unearned run when Brewers reliever Abner Uribe, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, attempted a pickoff to first and threw it into right field, allowing Freeman to score and giving the Dodgers a 3-1 lead.
Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers are one win away from winning the National League pennant and returning back to the World Series following their Game 3 NLCS win over Milwaukee, 3-1, to go up 3-0 in the best of seven series – Image Credit: Emma Sharon/Latino Sports
The Dodger bullpen took the right time to pitch like champions as they shut down the pesky Brewers for the last 3.1 innings to nail down the Game 3 win and give the Dodgers a commanding 3-0 lead in the best of seven NLCS.
Los Angeles is now poised to return to the Fall Classic again to defend their World Series title.
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