Sunday’s 2-1 loss<\/a> in the opener. Yamamoto pitched a three-hitter in a 5-1 victory at Milwaukee in Game 2 of last year’s NLCS, just one of his clutch playoff performances in helping Los Angeles to its second straight World Series.<\/p>\nHenderson is making his second career postseason start. The right-hander tossed five-plus innings of two-run ball in Milwaukee’s 4-3 win over San Diego in Game 2 of their NL Division Series.<\/p>\n
Henderson went 2-0 with a 0.75 ERA in two starts against Los Angeles this season.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles is looking to become the first team to win three straight championships since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees. Milwaukee had lost seven consecutive postseason games against Los Angeles, including a sweep in last year’s NLCS.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s Game 1 saw the Dodgers jump out to a 1-0 lead against Brewer’s ace and Cy Young Award candidate Jacob Misiorowski, but the offense struggled with runners in scoring position. Los Angeles chased Misiorowski in the fifth inning, but managed just two hits against a Milwaukee bullpen that has allowed one earned run in 23 2\/3 postseason innings.<\/p>\n
LA grounded into three double plays, stranded nine runners and went 1 for 6 with runners in scoring position, dropping to 2 for 22 in the playoffs<\/p>\n
“You can\u2019t go into a long series against a team that has the best record in baseball and expect to just win four,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “It\u2019s going to be a long series. We knew it coming in.”<\/p>\n
The Dodgers have scored a total of 15 runs in their five playoff games so far. They are 2 for 22 with runners in scoring position, adding to the difficulty of their pursuit of a third consecutive World Series championship.<\/p>\n
They scored 24 runs and hit .324 with runners in scoring position over their first five postseason games in 2024. They scored 29 times and batted .265 with runners in scoring position over the same period in last year’s playoffs.<\/p>\n
Catcher Will Smith is 1 for 19 in the postseason after going 0 for 3 with a walk against the Brewers. Shohei Ohtani is 3 for 16 with no extra-base hits or RBIs. Mookie Betts is 4 for 18.<\/p>\n
Betts was the leadoff hitter for the NLCS opener. Smith batted third, and Ohtani was in the cleanup spot. Asked about changing the lineup to help Smith, Roberts acknowledged that was a possibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s always lineup construction,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI can think through \u2014 yeah, he\u2019s not swinging the bat well. Yeah, we\u2019ll see. I just \u2014 it\u2019s hard because the body of work, and he just has that knack to get a hit, to get a big hit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smith batted .276 (16 for 58) with eight RBIs in the postseason last year. He homered twice in the World Series against Toronto.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles scored its only run Sunday night when Ohtani scampered home on Andy Pages’ single in the second. The Dodgers had the bases loaded when Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez bounced into an inning-ending double play against Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski.<\/p>\n
Pages struck out with runners on the corners for the final out of the sixth. Batting with two on and two down in the ninth, Betts flied to the warning track in center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers will look for another strong postseason start from pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto Monday afternoon when they take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[426,48,52,51,47,53,50,49],"class_list":["post-493729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-dodgers","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}