{"id":194521,"date":"2025-10-07T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194521\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:31:09","slug":"mlb-playoffs-2025-division-series-updates-as-dodgers-put-phillies-on-the-brink-cubs-seek-to-even-series-vs-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194521\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB playoffs 2025: Division Series updates as Dodgers put Phillies on the brink, Cubs seek to even series vs. Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Monday’s MLB schedule<\/a> | Live blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Dodgers put the Philadelphia Phillies on the brink of elimination with a 4-3 win in the early game Monday<\/a> to take a 2-0 NLDS lead in the best-of-five series.<\/p>\n

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The Milwaukee Brewers will try to do the same to the Cubs in the nightcap after a 9-3 blowout of Chicago<\/a> in Game 1 of their NLDS.<\/p>\n

Blake Snell was brilliant. The Dodgers’ bats woke up in time. And the beleaguered Los Angeles bullpen survived as the Dodgers secured a 4-3 win over the Phillies in Game 2 and took a 2-0 lead in the NLDS.<\/p>\n

For six innings, Monday’s game was locked in a pitchers’ duel, as Snell and Phillies starter Jes\u00fas Luzardo traded blows from the mound. Snell didn’t allow a hit until one out remained in the fifth inning. Luzardo retired 17 consecutive Dodgers batters to go into the top of the seventh knotted in a scoreless tie.<\/p>\n

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But then Luzardo cracked. Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez led off with a single. Freddie Freeman followed with a double to put runners on second and third with no outs. With that, the Philly starter’s night was done.<\/p>\n

With reliever Orion Kerkering on the mound, Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez delivered again in the postseason, like he has so many times before. He sent Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez home on a fielder’s choice and made it safely to first as the play at the plate failed. The Dodgers then loaded and cleared the bases with a two-run single by Will Smith and an RBI knock from Shohei Ohtani, his first hit of the series.<\/p>\n

But no lead is truly safe with the Dodgers bullpen<\/a>, and things got tense late. The Phillies plated a run in the eighth, then two more off Blake Treinen in the ninth, as Nick Castellanos reached second with no outs via a two-run double that cut the Dodgers lead to 4-3. Then Alex Vesia and Roki Sasaki combined to put out the fire and secure the last three outs of the game without further damage.<\/p>\n

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The series now shifts to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers will have two chances to close out the best-of-five series at home. Game 3 is scheduled for Wednesday<\/a> (9:08 p.m. ET\/TBS, TruTV). \u2014 Jason Owens<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Philadelphia Phillies 3<\/a>
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Follow along with Yahoo Sports for live updates, highlights and more from Game 2 of the NLDS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Monday’s MLB schedule | Live blog] The Los Angeles Dodgers put the Philadelphia Phillies on the brink of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[12424,64,63,5781,25423,5127,5128,12215,122626,63345,481,1187,5159,591,22728,118428,16054,2365,6110,5149,85,10222,10221],"class_list":["post-194521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alex-vesia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blake-snell","tag-blake-treinen","tag-chicago","tag-cubs","tag-freddie-freeman","tag-jesus-luzardo","tag-kike-hernandez","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-nick-castellanos","tag-nlds","tag-orion-kerkering","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-roki-sasaki","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-teoscar-hernandez","tag-will-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}