{"id":921149,"date":"2026-10-05T05:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921149\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:40:08","slug":"braves-rock-dodgers-to-level-series-brewers-win-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921149\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves rock Dodgers to level series, Brewers win thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n The Atlanta Braves shut down the Los Angeles Dodgers’ star-studded batting line-up to score a series-leveling 3-2 victory in Major League Baseball’s playoffs on Sunday as the Milwaukee Brewers snatched a dramatic walk-off win to defeat the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n

A superb collective Braves pitching performance set up a vital win at Dodger Stadium that leaves the best-of-five National League division series finely balanced at 1-1 ahead of game three in Atlanta on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers — the reigning back-to-back World Series champions who are chasing a rare treble of championships — were left ruing an out-of-sorts performance from ace starter Blake Snell and a toothless display from their bats, who were for 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n

Braves relievers Robert Suarez and Didier Fuentes were the heroes for Atlanta, locking down the late innings to frustrate the Dodgers hopes of taking a commanding 2-0 lead after their game one win.<\/p>\n

Braves catcher Drake Baldwin saluted the contribution of the 21-year-old Fuentes, who came within one out of pitching four perfect innings.<\/p>\n

“He was so poised,” Baldwin said. “It says a lot about him — he’s been doing it for us this entire year and you saw it tonight.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got a ton of confidence in him and he went out and showed it.”<\/p>\n

The Dodgers runs came from solo homers from Freddie Freeman and Max Muncy, but it was not enough to pip the Braves, who took an early lead from a Mauricio Dubon single, added another run from a wild pitch by Dodgers reliever Kris Bubic, and grabbed a third with a Michael Harris double.<\/p>\n

Earlier Sunday, Jackson Chourio smacked a walk-off two-run single to give the Brewers a 4-3 victory over the Padres and a commanding 2-0 lead in their series.<\/p>\n

For the second straight day the Brewers rallied from 2-0 down to beat the Padres, who are now in survival mode as the best-of-five National League division series shifts to San Diego for game three on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“I don’t have words for this,” Venezuela’s Chourio — who hit a two-run homer to spark the Brewers’ game-one rally — told Fox Sports after belting a two-out, bases-loaded fastball from dominant Padres closer Mason Miller up the middle for the winning runs.<\/p>\n

“I was just looking for a good pitch to hit there and, you know, thankfully he threw me one that I could do something with,” Chourio said.<\/p>\n

With three errors the Brewers looked far from the team that won an MLB-best 103 regular-season games.<\/p>\n

San Diego seized a 1-0 lead in the first inning and capitalized on Brewers errors to push the advantage to 2-0 in the fifth.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee had stayed in range with a run in the bottom of the fifth, finally breaking through against Padres starting pitcher Michael King with a double from Christian Yelich, who scored on a base hit by Sal Frelick.<\/p>\n

The Padres pushed their lead back to two in the seventh, but the Brewers pulled within 3-2 in the bottom of the inning when an error from Padres second baseman Jake Cronenworth allowed a run to score.<\/p>\n

“We’re a team that never backs down,” Chourio said. “We’re never going to back down from a challenge, and we like these moments. We’re going to keep going, and we’re going to battle for every opportunity that we get.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Braves shut down the Los Angeles Dodgers’ star-studded batting line-up to score a series-leveling 3-2 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-921149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}