The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 3-1, on Thursday to take a 3-0 lead in the NLCS. The defending champions are just one win away from getting back to the Fall Classic, and five wins away from becoming baseball’s first repeat champions in a quarter century.
A Shohei Ohtani triple started things off for LA as a Mookie Betts double brought him home, and an eight-strikeout performance from Tyler Glasnow kept the 97-win brewers at bay, allowing just three hits and one earned runs through 5.2 innings of work. A Tommy Edman RBI single in the sixth inning would increased the Dodgers’ lead, and a pickoff error later in the frame got Freddie Freeman home as the 3-1 lead would stick thanks to the bullpen.