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Turang homers and Milwaukee’s bullpen delivers as the Brewers beat the Dodgers 2-1 in NLCS opener

The Milwaukee Brewers stormed into the NL Championship Series with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1, snapping a seven-game postseason losing streak against their division rivals. Brice Turang delivered a clutch postseason homer in the fourth inning, while Luis Lara’s RBI single in the fifth broke a tie and set the tone for a dominant bullpen performance.

The Brewers’ relievers stifled the Dodgers, who struggled with just two hits and nine stranded runners, including three double plays and a key ninth-inning collapse. Jacob Misiorowski, the Brewers’ Cy Young frontrunner, lasted just five innings but held on despite allowing two runs, while the Dodgers’ bullpen locked down the win with a combined four scoreless frames.

The series shifts to Milwaukee for Game 2, where Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Logan Henderson will take the mound in a rematch of last year’s NLCS opener, now with both teams chasing history as the first 100-win squads in a postseason showdown since 1976.

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