Snell dazzles, Dodgers hold on in NLCS opener

MILWAUKEE -- Blake Snell allowed 1 baserunner successful 8 shutout innings earlier Los Angeles' bullpen hardly held connected successful the ninth arsenic the Dodgers opened the National League Championship Series with a 2-1 triumph implicit the Brewers connected Monday night.

Blake Treinen struck retired Brice Turang with the bases loaded to extremity the game.

The Dodgers led 2-0 erstwhile they handed the shot to Roki Sasaki successful the ninth aft Snell had thrown 103 pitches. Sasaki had worked 5 1/3 scoreless innings portion adjusting to a bullpen relation successful the NL Division Series against Philadelphia, but helium wasn't astir arsenic crisp Monday.

Isaac Collins drew a one-out locomotion and Jake Bauers deed a ground-rule treble that bounced implicit the center-field wall. Jackson Chourio deed a sacrifice alert that scored Collins and precocious pinch-runner Brandon Lockridge to third. Christian Yelich walked connected a 3-2 transportation debased and outside.

That's erstwhile Dodgers manager Dave Roberts removed Sasaki and brought successful Treinen.

Yelich stole 2nd to determination the imaginable winning tally into scoring presumption earlier William Contreras walked connected a 3-2 transportation debased and outside. After Treinen astir deed Turang with a transportation -- which would person tied the crippled -- Turang struck retired swinging astatine a neck-high 2-2 fastball.

Game 2 successful the best-of-seven bid is Tuesday night, with Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitching for Los Angeles and Freddy Peralta starting for Milwaukee successful a matchup of All-Stars.

This NLCS is simply a survey successful contrasts, with the Brewers playing successful MLB's smallest marketplace portion the defending World Series champion Dodgers person the astir costly roster successful the game.

Brewers manager Pat Murphy referenced the quality successful prima powerfulness betwixt the 2 teams by joking during his pregame quality league that "I'm definite that astir Dodger players can't sanction 8 guys connected our roster."

Even so, the Brewers had swept their six regular-season matchups with the Dodgers. All those games came successful July, portion Snell was connected the injured database with enarthrosis inflammation.

Snell showed Monday however overmuch of a quality helium tin make. The two-time Cy Young Award victor struck retired 10 portion walking cipher and allowing lone 1 deed -- a leadoff azygous by Caleb Durbin successful the third.

Freddie Freeman broke a scoreless necktie with a solo homer successful the sixth. Freeman's thrust came aft the Brewers thwarted a mates of Los Angeles opportunities, astir notably connected a bizarre 8-6-2 treble play that was inches distant from becoming a Max Muncy expansive slam.

Freeman connected connected a 3-2 transportation from Chad Patrick and delivered a changeable truthful precocious that it got tantalizingly adjacent to the American Family Field extortion earlier hardly clearing the right-field partition for his archetypal homer of this postseason.

Patrick was coming disconnected an outstanding NL Division Series successful which helium struck retired six and allowed nary baserunners implicit 4 2/3 innings against the Chicago Cubs.

The Dodgers added what ended up being an indispensable security tally successful the ninth erstwhile Mookie Betts drew a bases-loaded locomotion from Abner Uribe connected a 3-2 transportation outside.

Milwaukee stayed adjacent due to the fact that of Los Angeles' missed opportunities. The astir evident illustration came successful the fourth, erstwhile the Brewers produced 1 of the strangest treble plays successful postseason history.

The bases were loaded erstwhile Muncy sent a thrust disconnected Quinn Priester that was headed retired of the ballpark earlier Milwaukee's

1. Homepage
2. Sports
3. Snell dazzles, Dodgers hold on in NLCS opener