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The Los Angeles Dodgers’ quest for back-to-back World Series championships is alive and well, with the team having pulled to a commanding 3-0 NLCS lead over the Milwaukee Brewers with a 3-1 victory in Game 3 on Thursday.
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L.A.’s pitching this series has been stellar: After Blake Snell’s one-hit gem and Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s complete game in Milwaukee, Tyler Glasnow got things started in Los Angeles with a great 5 2/3-inning showing in Game 3. The Dodgers’ bullpen, which has had its struggles this season, came in to close it down. Roki Sasaki, a highly-touted pitching prospect whose role as a starter was limited due to a lengthy IL stint this season, has become the team’s premier closer and proved that again with a scoreless ninth inning.
Now, the Dodgers are one win away from a sweep of the Brewers and a return to the World Series — with home-field advantage and with Shohei Ohtani on the mound, facing off against Jose Quintana. The No. 1 NL seed Brewers face an uphill battle to salvage their season, having scored only three runs in the NLCS.
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Date: Friday, Oct. 17
Time: 8:38 p.m. ET
Location: Dodger Stadium | Los Angeles
TV channel: TBS, truTV, HBO Max
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Ohtani obliterated that ball over the right-field pavilion at Dodger Stadium. Statcast had it at 469 feet. He is not real.
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Shohei Ohtani at the plate: 2-for-2 with two home runs and a walk
Shohei Ohtani on the mound: 4 scoreless innings, 1 hit, 6 strikeouts
We might be watching the best individual game in the history of the MLB postseason.
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The Dodgers star has six strikeouts against one hit and two walks in four scoreless innings. He’s at 63 pitches in what is shaping up to be another show of force from a Dodgers starting pitcher.
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Jackson Chourio’s hamstring appears to be OK. He leads off the fourth inning with a sharply hit ball that falls a few feet short of a solo homer. Instead, it’s a ground-rule double to give the Brewers a runner in scoring position with no outs against Ohtani.
At the risk of stating the obvious, they could really, really use a breakthrough here.
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The Brewers rookie strikes out Tommy Edman and Teoscar Hernández then ends the inning on a Max Muncy groundout. That’s pretty huge in a game that’s definitely not over, even if the Dodgers still have a leg up.
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Will Smith and Freddie Freeman open the bottom of the third with back-to-back singles to put runners on the corners with no outs. That will do it for the Brewers starter, as Milwaukee will once again have to lean on its bullpen just to finish the game.
The veteran left-hander just didn’t have it tonight, allowing seven of 13 batters to reach base. In comes Chad Patrick.
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Ohtani struck out Joey Ortiz, then got a fly ball from Brice Turang that turned into a double play when Dodgers left fielder Kiké Hernández caught Perkins way too far out from first base. An all-around disaster start for the Brewers, who are facing two different 3-0 holes.
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Blake Perkins worked the count full after falling behind 1-2 to give the Brewers their second baserunner.
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After two quick outs, Quintana surrenders a six-pitch walk to Ohtani, who is suddenly back to looking like the offensive threat we’re used to.
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It wasn’t three strikeouts, but Ohtani got the Brewers in order again in the top of the second.
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Teoscar Hernandez grounds out to first, but that’s good enough to score another run.
Max Muncy flies out to end the frame, but Dodgers are up 3-0 after one.
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Tommy Edman drives in a run with another single. It’s all going the Dodgers’ way so far.
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And now Mookie Betts and Will Smith hit back-to-back singles to put runners on the corners with no outs for Jose Quintana. Like the rest of the series, this is not going according to plan for the Brewers.
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That’ll break you out of a slump. Was that the greatest postseason inning for a single player in MLB history?