The Milwaukee Brewers wrapped up a 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the NLCS at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n
Milwaukee now owns a commanding 3-0 series lead, while Los Angeles is on the brink of elimination. The Dodgers haven’t hit a home run in any of the first three games of the series.<\/p>\n
Here’s a look at key stats from the game:<\/p>\n
And here’s a look at the overall postseason bracket:<\/p>\n
The Brewers didn’t waste any time getting on the board, as Jackson Chourio hit a leadoff home run on the first pitch of the game.<\/p>\n
The contest quickly turned into a pitching duel between Los Angeles’ Blake Snell and Milwaukee’s Robert Gasser, though. Neither team scored over the next four innings.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers finally started to gain momentum in the bottom of the sixth, loading the bases with walks by Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez, Kyle Tucker and Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles capitalized on the opportunity, jumping in front with a two-run double from Will Smith.<\/p>\n
Still, a pair of strikeouts to finish the inning prevented the Dodgers from extending their lead.<\/p>\n
The Brewers quickly responded in the top of the seventh, as Jake Bauers launched a two-run homer to cap off an 11-pitch at-bat.<\/p>\n
Garrett Mitchell followed it up with a solo shot to give Milwaukee back-to-back home runs, pushing the team’s advantage to 4-2.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles’ bullpen wasn’t able to prevent the Brewers from tacking on another run in the top of the eighth, as Brice Turang scored on a wild pitch by Justin Wrobleski.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee then gained a 6-2 lead with Joey Ortiz’s RBI single in the ninth frame.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers couldn’t pull off a late rally, as Brewers closer Trevor Megill recorded four outs to clinch the victory.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles finished with just five hits as a team, leaving eight runners on base and going 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers will attempt to keep their quest for a third consecutive World Series title alive in Game 4 on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Brewers wrapped up a 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-933932","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\/933932","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=933932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}