Game 1 (pictured with the
Tampa Bay Rays in 2018) pitched eight scoreless innings and struck out ten batters for Los Angeles in Game 1. With the bases loaded and one out in the top of the fourth inning and the game scoreless, the Brewers pulled off the first-ever postseason 8-6-2 double play. On the play,
Max Muncy hit a deep fly ball to center field. Brewers outfielder
Sal Frelick leaped to catch it, but the ball bounced off his glove, then hit the wall and went back into his glove.
Teoscar Hernandez, not knowing the ball went off the wall went back to tag up, something he didn't need to do because according to rule 8.2.4: "If a fair or foul batted ball is caught, other than a foul tip, each base runner shall touch his base after the batted ball has
touched a fielder" (note that the ball doesn't necessarily need to be secured by the fielder). This means that Hernandez leaving third base after the ball went off of Frelick's glove would've been a legal tag-up had it been ruled a catch. However, because it went off the wall, it wasn't a catch, and as a result, there was a force at every base. Hernandez's errant second tag-up gave the Brewers enough time to relay and force him out at home. After getting the out at home, Brewers' catcher
William Contreras ran down and touched third base, getting the force out on
Will Smith, who had returned to second when he thought Frelick made a clean catch. The game was still scoreless through five complete innings until the top of the sixth inning when
Freddie Freeman hit a solo home run off
Chad Patrick to give the Dodgers a 1–0 lead. Dodgers starter
Blake Snell recorded ten strikeouts, allowed only one hit, and forced the Brewers to go scoreless through eight innings. With the bases loaded at the top of the ninth inning,
Abner Uribe issued a walk to
Mookie Betts, allowing the Dodgers to take a 2–0 lead. However, in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Brewers were able to get to Dodgers closer
Roki Sasaki. An
Isaac Collins walk followed by a
Jake Bauers double put the tying runs in scoring position with one out.
Jackson Chourio hit a sacrifice fly to center field, scoring Collins and cutting the Dodgers' lead to 2–1. However,
Blake Treinen struck out
Brice Turang to escape a bases-loaded jam for the final out of the game to get the save as the Dodgers took Game 1 of the NLCS.
Game 2 pitched a complete game and struck out seven batters for Los Angeles in Game 2. In the bottom of the first inning,
Jackson Chourio hit a solo leadoff home run off Dodgers starter
Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the first pitch to take a 1–0 lead for the Brewers; however, that was all the Brewers would get. In the top of the second inning,
Teoscar Hernández homered off
Freddy Peralta to tie the game, followed by an
Andy Pages RBI double, scoring
Enrique Hernández, putting the Dodgers up 2-1 and giving Yamamoto all the run support he'd end up needing. In the top of the sixth inning,
Max Muncy hit a solo home run to extend the Dodgers' lead to 3–1, it was his 14th career postseason home run, a new Dodger franchise record. Peralta pitched innings, allowed five hits, three runs, and walked one batter while striking out four batters. In the top of the seventh inning,
Shohei Ohtani scored Enrique Hernández on an RBI single, further extending the lead to 4–1. In the top of the eighth inning,
Tommy Edman hit a RBI single, allowing
Will Smith to score and extend the lead to 5–1. Yamamoto struck out seven batters, surrendering only three hits and one run in his
complete game victory, as the Dodgers took a 2–0 series lead. Yamamoto threw the first complete game in the postseason for the Dodgers since
José Lima did it in the third game of the
2004 NLDS and the first for any MLB pitcher since
Justin Verlander in Game 2 of the
2017 ALCS. He was also the first Japanese pitcher to throw a complete game in the postseason. Chourio's first inning home run would be the only lead Milwaukee had for the series.
Game 3 (pictured with the
Altoona Curve) pitched innings and struck out eight batters for Los Angeles in Game 3. In the bottom of the first inning, the Dodgers quickly took a 1–0 lead with a
Shohei Ohtani triple followed by a
Mookie Betts RBI double. Brewers
opener Aaron Ashby pitched a of an inning, allowed two hits, one run, and walked one batter while striking out one. In the top of the second inning,
Caleb Durbin scored on an RBI single by
Jake Bauers, tying the game at 1−1. Dodgers starter
Tyler Glasnow pitched innings, allowing three hits, one run, and walking three batters while striking out eight. In the bottom of the sixth inning,
Will Smith scored on an RBI single from
Tommy Edman, putting the Dodgers ahead at 2–1.
Freddie Freeman then scored on a throwing error from Brewers reliever
Abner Uribe, extending the Dodgers' lead to 3–1.
Roki Sasaki struck out Durbin for the final out of the game for the save as the Dodgers took a 3–0 series lead.
Game 4 Shohei Ohtani pitched six scoreless innings, struck out ten batters, and hit three home runs in Game 4. In the bottom of the first inning,
Shohei Ohtani hit a solo leadoff home run off of
José Quintana to take a 1–0 lead for the Dodgers.
Tommy Edman then scored
Mookie Betts on a RBI single to extend the lead to 2–0 and gave Ohtani all the runs he needed. Edman scored when
Teoscar Hernández ground out to first base to extend the lead to 3–0. Quintana pitched two innings, allowing six hits, three runs, and walking one batter while striking out one. In the bottom of the fourth inning, Ohtani hit his second home run of the game, extending the lead to 4–0. The 469-foot solo home run was hit out of
Dodger Stadium, which was the second home run that was hit out of Dodger Stadium in as many weeks, following
Kyle Schwarber's home run in Game 3 of the
NLDS. Ohtani pitched six scoreless innings, allowing two hits, zero runs, and walking three batters while striking out 10. In the bottom of the seventh inning, Ohtani hit his third home run of the game off Brewers reliever
Trevor Megill, further extending the lead to 5–0. With the leadoff hitter's third home run of the game, Ohtani was the second player in MLB postseason history to hit three home runs from the leadoff spot, joining
George Brett, who did so against the
Yankees in Game 3 of the
1978 ALCS. In the top of the eighth inning,
Brice Turang grounded into a force out to score
Caleb Durbin and get the Brewers on the board, cutting the Dodgers' lead to 5–1. Dodgers closer
Roki Sasaki got the final out to complete the sweep and seal the series, thus sending the Dodgers to the World Series for the second consecutive season. This was the Brewers' eleventh straight road postseason loss. As a team, the Brewers hit .118 in the NLCS, which was the worst batting average by any team in any postseason series of at least three games in MLB history. This was the Dodgers' first sweep in a seven-game series since the
1963 World Series; in that series against the
Yankees, they also allowed just four runs combined, just like this series. With the series win, the Dodgers were the first team to play in back-to-back World Series since the
Houston Astros did in
2021 and
2022. Additionally, they would be the first team to play in the World Series as the defending champion for the first time since the
Philadelphia Phillies did so in
2009. Shohei Ohtani won the
NLCS MVP, the first postseason award of his career. His Game 4 performance was considered one of the best ever in MLB postseason history.
Composite line score 2025 NLCS
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Milwaukee Brewers ==See also==