NLCS going to Game 7 after Ryu, bats struggle

MILWAUKEE -- The Dodgers needed rookie Walker Buehler to win Game 163 and clinch the National League West, and now they need him to pitch them into the World Series after taking a 7-2 loss to the Brewers on Friday, forcing a decisive Game 7 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday at Miller Park.

• NLCS presented by Google Assistant, Game 7: Saturday, 8:09 p.m. ET/5:09 PT on FS1

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Buehler has shown this year he's pretty special, and he'll need to be once more. The only Dodgers rookie to start a Game 7 was Joe Black, who lost to the Yankees, 4-2, in 1952. Fernando Valenzuela started the winner-take-all Game 5 of the 1981 NLCS against Montreal (the Rick Monday…