{"id":926049,"date":"2026-10-13T01:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926049\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T01:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:04:20","slug":"brewers-chase-dodgers-yamamoto-in-third-inning-of-nlcs-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926049\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers chase Dodgers&#8217; Yamamoto in third inning of NLCS Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reigning World Series MVP couldn&#8217;t escape the third inning in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series, getting just eight outs and tossing 75 pitches against a pesky Milwaukee Brewers lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Brewers captain Christian Yelich chased the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/los-angeles-dodgers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-dodgers\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> starter with a go-ahead two-RBI single, a base hit that came on the heels of a 12-pitch walk by Jake Bauers.<\/p>\n<p>Yamamoto finished his outing with three earned runs, four hits, two walks and just one strikeout on his line.<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers particularly made the 28-year-old work with two strikes. Yamamoto tossed 32 two-strike pitches in the game \u2014\u00a0nine of which Milwaukee fouled off.<\/p>\n<p>Monday marked the shortest playoff start of Yamamoto&#8217;s MLB career in the 11 times he has taken the ball to open a post-season game. He entered the outing with a career 2.14 ERA in 63 October innings.<\/p>\n<p>Yamamoto was excellent in the Dodgers&#8217; Game 3 win over the Atlanta Braves in the NLDS, punching out 10 over seven frames of one-run ball.<\/p>\n<p>Monday was also the first start of 2026 that the Japanese right-hander didn&#8217;t complete at least five innings. In the regular season, Yamamoto pitched to a 2.53 ERA over 28 starts and 185 innings of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reigning World Series MVP couldn&#8217;t escape the third inning in Game 2 of the National League Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-926049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926049","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=926049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}