But reflex caused Turang to back away, and he struck out swinging at a neck-high fastball on the next pitch as the Dodgers opened the best-of-seven series with a 2-1 victory<\/a> Monday night.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n “Well, if you see me look in the dugout, I’m thinking, ‘Damn,'” Turang said, according to MLB.com. “I know it. Everybody knows it. I couldn’t tell you why I did it. I just got out of the way. That’s just how it is.”<\/p>\n Brewers manager Pat Murphy defended his second baseman after the game, characterizing the move as human nature.<\/p>\n “When the ball is coming towards you, your natural thing — it’s a breaking ball, your natural thing is to do that,” Murphy said. “And I know he was thinking the same thing after the ball passed. It happens. He’ll learn from that situation. But it’s hard. Even if you try to maneuver yourself, it’s hard to get hit by the pitch because it’s so reactionary.”<\/p>\n After a brilliant effort from starter Blake Snell<\/a>, the Dodgers led 2-0 when they handed the ball to rookie Roki Sasaki<\/a> in the ninth after Snell had thrown 103 pitches over eight shutout innings.<\/p>\n Sasaki had worked 5\u2153 scoreless innings in the postseason while adjusting to a bullpen role, but he wasn’t nearly as sharp Monday. Isaac Collins<\/a> drew a one-out walk and pinch hitter Jake Bauers<\/a> smacked a ground-rule double that bounced over the center-field wall. Jackson Chourio<\/a> hit a sacrifice fly that scored Collins and advanced pinch runner Brandon Lockridge<\/a> to third. Christian Yelich<\/a> walked on a 3-2 pitch low and outside.<\/p>\n That’s when Dodgers manager Dave Roberts removed Sasaki and brought in Blake Treinen<\/a>, who posted a 9.64 ERA in September and gave up two runs and three hits in one inning during the National League Division Series against Philadelphia<\/a>.<\/p>\n“I couldn’t tell you why I did it, I just got out of the way,” Brice Turang said of his backing away from what would have been a tying hit by pitch from Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen in the ninth inning Monday night. “That’s just how it is.”\u00a0Ross Harried\/EPA<\/p>\n