MILWAUKEE — The team with the best record in the major leagues continues to hand it to the best team money can buy as the Milwaukee Brewers moved two victories away from their first World Series appearance in more than 40 years.
The Brewers’ latest statement came in a 7-4 victory over the Los Angeles (LA) Dodgers in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series (NLCS) as their quest for revenge is halfway to completion.
The Dodgers swept last year’s NLCS by outscoring the Brewers, 15-4, on the way to a second consecutive title.
William Contreras delivered a game-tying home run in the fifth inning and a go-ahead RBI single in the sixth as the Brewers took their 2-0 lead in this NLCS while piling on 12 hits.
Contreras drove in a run with each of his three hits while Christian Yelich drove in a pair of runs.
The series shifts to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Wednesday.
“Our mentality is to stay focused,” Contreras said through an interpreter on the Fox broadcast. “It doesn’t matter what the state of the game is, if we’re ahead, we’re behind. We’re going to stay on the aggression and stay focused. I think we have been able to do a really good job of that as a team.”
Four Milwaukee relievers retired all 15 batters they faced with JoJo Romero (1-1) earning the win with a 1-2-3 sixth and Aaron Ashby picking up his first save of the postseason with 1 2/3 scoreless innings. The bullpen recorded seven of the Brewers’ nine strikeouts.
Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez each had an RBI for the Dodgers, who did not score any runs with the aid of a base hit. They were limited to three hits for the game.
Freeman and Hernandez each had a sacrifice fly while Los Angeles scored a pair of runs on two Logan Henderson throwing errors. — Reuters