Dodgers 3, Brewers 1: 4 Takeaways From NLCS Sport 3

[ad_1] The Dodgers wanted their bullpen this time, however the outcome was all the identical.

For the third straight recreation to begin the Nationwide League Championship Sequence, the Dodgers held the Brewers to only one run in a 3-1 victory in Sport 3. Los Angeles is now one win away from returning to the World Sequence.

Listed here are my takeaways:

1. ‘Miz' silences Dodger Stadium … till the sixth Positive, it was a 3:08 p.m. PT begin on a weekday. However after the Dodgers jumped out for a run within the first inning, a crowd of 51,251 in Los Angeles was principally out of it for the primary 5 innings.

And that might be attributed to the work of 23-year-old Jacob Misiorowski.

The younger All-Star struggled within the second half, registering a 5.36 ERA after the break. However in Sport 3 of the NLCS, he regarded much more just like the model who carved by way of the Dodgers lineup again on July 8, when he struck out a career-high 12 batters and allowed only one run in six innings. It was that efficiency, largely, that made him an All-Star.

Three months later, the flamethrower flummoxed the Dodgers’ bats once more. Even by his requirements, Misiorowski’s stuff was taking part in up Thursday afternoon. His fastball averaged 101.3 mph — 2 mph quicker than his season common — and received as much as 102.5. He put out opener Aaron Ashby’s fireplace within the first inning, leaving two runners stranded when he entered and struck out Tommy Edman and Teoscar Hernandez.

It was an indication of issues to return.

Misiorowski struck out 9 of the primary 16 batters he confronted. However earlier than Thursday, he had not gone greater than 4 innings in additional than a month. And in his fifth inning of labor, issues started to unravel.

After a strikeout of Mookie Betts, Will Smith adopted with a single. Then Misiorowski walked Freddie Freeman. Brewers supervisor Pat Murphy caught with Misiorowski to face switch-hitter Tommy Edman, who delivered an RBI single to place the Dodgers forward and get up a slumbering crowd.

2. Extra Dodgers beginning brilliance The Brewers managed only one baserunner in eight innings of their first recreation of the sequence in Milwaukee towards Blake Snell. They didn’t do significantly better in Sport 2 towards Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who tossed a whole recreation.

The indicators have been extra promising to begin Sport 3 in Los Angeles towards Tyler Glasnow, but it surely was nonetheless powerful sledding for a lot of the day towards one other Dodgers starter.

Glasnow stranded two runners within the first earlier than Caleb Durbin tagged him for a triple within the second and scored the tying run with the infield in on a Jake Bauers grounder up the center. It was the Brewers’ first run for the reason that first pitch of Sport 2.

And it was all Glasnow would give up.

A slick play at third base from Max Muncy, who slid to his left, spun and threw residence to get Bauers on the plate, stopping the go-ahead run from scoring. Then Glasnow locked in, reminding everybody why Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior mentioned earlier than the sport that his uncooked stuff is "high 5 in baseball." He struck out the facet within the third, then struck out one other three within the fourth.

His one run allowed in 5 2/3 innings of labor moved the Dodger rotation’s ERA this postseason from 1.54 to … 1.54.

3. Including harm to insult By means of the primary two video games of the NLCS, Jackson Chourio was the one Brewers participant to knock in a run.

That made the seventh inning really feel significantly defeating on Thursday evening.

With a runner on second and two outs, Chourio fouled off an 0-2 pitch from Blake Treinen and instantly appeared to be in discomfort. Finally, he hobbled on one foot again to the dugout. It was a brutal blow for a Milwaukee staff already struggling to generate offense.

Pinch-hitter Blake Perkins entered for Chourio and struck out to finish the menace.

4. Dodgers bullpen stands robust The Dodgers didn’t want their relievers in a Sport 2 win that noticed Yamamoto go the gap. This time, the reduction corps' companies have been required after Glasnow left with two outs within the fifth inning.

And an unstable bullpen delivered.

Treinen’s strikeout after Chourio’s harm eradicated the one actual menace the Brewers posed late. Alex Vesia, Treinen, Anthony Banda and new nearer Roki Sasaki every struck out a batter and mixed to permit only one baserunner over the ultimate 3 1/3 innings.

Blake Treinen regarded like his outdated dependable self in Sport 3. (Mary DeCicco/MLB Images by way of Getty Photos)

4 1/2. Dodgers' familiarity with opener backfires for Milwaukee Regardless of Misiorowski’s success towards the Dodgers the final time he noticed them, the Brewers elected to begin Aaron Ashby because the opener.

Ashby has appeared in all however one recreation this postseason for the Brewers and threw in every of the primary two video games of the NLCS, together with serving because the opener in Sport 1. Over the course of a seven-game sequence, that familiarity with a pitcher generally is a boon for a hitter.

On Thursday, the Dodgers took benefit. Shohei Ohtani, who had an RBI single off Ashby in Sport 2, began the underside of the primary with a triple, and Mookie Betts adopted with an RBI double. Two batters in, the Dodgers led 1-0.

Later within the evening, Abner Uribe additionally pitched for a 3rd time within the sequence. The Dodgers didn’t see him properly — he retired all 4 batters he confronted after getting into for Misiorowski, however a failed pickoff throw to first base with runners on the corners allowed an necessary insurance coverage run to attain.

One of many solely positives of the evening for the Brewers is that Misiorowski’s efficiency allowed them to save lots of Jose Quintana, who’s now out there for Sport 4.

Rowan Kavner is an MLB author for FOX Sports activities. He beforehand coated the L.A. Dodgers, LA Clippers and Dallas Cowboys. An LSU grad, Rowan was born in California, grew up in Texas, then moved again to the West Coast in 2014. Comply with him on Twitter at @RowanKavner.

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