It sure seems like the Brewers have figured out the Dodgers
By Cody Rivera
The Dodgers are only down 2-1 in the NLCS, but do they have a chance at beating this really good Brewers team?
It might not have seemed this way for much of the regular season when the Chicago Cubs were in first place in the NL Central, but yet here we are smack dab in the middle of October, and the Milwaukee Brewers are sitting just two wins away from reaching the World Series.
Even more so, they are two more wins away from eliminating the Los Angeles Dodgers, the reigning National League champions.
It would be a pretty incredible story, wouldn’t it? Brewers trailed Chicago by as many as five games in September, but they unleashed a historic winning streak to come back and tie them at 96 wins apiece, then took the NL Central title in Game 163. After that, they breezed past the Colorado Rockies in the NLDS, and now they are here, knocking on the door of the World Series.
So, is it officially true? Are the Dodgers finished? Is the NLCS Milwaukee’s series to lose?
After three games, it sure does seem like it. The Brewers pretty much outplayed Los Angeles in Game 1 at home, and then snuffed out a late rally to hang on for the win. They darn near won Game 2 as well, until Justin Turner’s go-ahead two-run homer in the eighth turned the tide of the game and the series … at least for one night.
The series then shifted to Dodger Stadium for Game 3 on Monday, and the Brewers quieted the Dodger faithful by shutting their team out in a 4-0 victory.They received outstanding pitching in Game 3 from Jhoulys Chacin, who tossed 5.1 scoreless inning with six strikeouts, followed by some shutdown innings from the bullpen. Orlando Arcia delivered the finishing blow with a two-run bomb in the seventh inning.
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The Dodgers almost sparked a rally in the ninth inning, but couldn’t get any runs across against Jeremy Jeffress as Milwaukee took a 2-1 series lead.
There is still plenty of baseball to be played in this series, but other than Turner’s two-run blast in Game 2, it has essentially been all Brewers in this NLCS. They have been playing some sensational baseball this October, and it might be safe to say that the Brewers officially have the defending NL champs solved.