Brewers Edge Dodgers 2-1, Lead NLCS

The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1 in Game 1 of the NLCS on Sunday night at American Family Field in Milwaukee. Andy Pages singled in the second inning to drive in Shohei Ohtani and give Los Angeles a 1-0 lead. Brice Turang tied the game with a solo home run in the fourth. Garrett Mitchell led off the fifth with a walk, advanced to second on Cooper Pratt's sacrifice bunt, and scored on Luis Lara's single for a 2-1 Brewers lead. Tarik Skubal pitched five innings and allowed two earned runs on five hits with seven strikeouts and two walks. Jacob Misiorowski exited in the fifth after 94 pitches, allowing one run on five hits with five strikeouts and three walks. Kiké Hernández grounded into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the second. DL Hall induced a double play from Freddie Freeman in the fifth. Abner Uribe struck out Pages with runners on the corners in the sixth, and Aaron Ashby threw two scoreless innings as Milwaukee's bullpen held the Dodgers scoreless after the early innings. CONTESTED: none identified