Brice Turang, bullpen lift Brewers past Dodgers in Game 1 - ESPN

MILWAUKEE — In last year's National League Championship Series, the Brewers did not score more than one run in any contest of a four-game sweep against the Dodgers. In the first game of this year's rematch, they managed two against one of the game's best pitchers on Sunday, and it was enough to do something Milwaukee couldn't manage last year: Win.

The Brewers beat Los Angeles ace Tarik Skubal by eking out two somewhat improbable runs in Game 1 as Milwaukee edged the two-time defending champions 2-1, snapping a seven-game postseason skid against the Dodgers.

«Just proud of our guys,» Brewers manager Pat Murphy said.

In the box score, it looked simple enough. Brice Turang homered off Skubal in the fourth. Luis Lara bounced an RBI single up the middle against Skubal in the fifth. Milwaukee starter Jacob Misiorowski and four relievers held the Dodgers to Andy Pages' RBI single in the second.

Easy peasy, right? Not so much. As so often is the case in postseason baseball, the drama is in the details.

«You've got to just do what they give you and roll with the punches,» Misiorowski said.

Skubal rolled through his first three innings with such a combination of dominance and efficiency that, given the way last year's NLCS unfolded, it looked like Milwaukee might be in for yet another long, frustrating night.

Turang led off the fourth with the memory of a first-inning Skubal inside sinker that he fouled off his knee, leaving him hopping around the plate in discomfort. Three pitches into his second shot at Skubal, the lefty-hitting Turang got another inside sinker and this time somehow turned it around into an opposite-field solo shot to left, tying the game.

«I didn't want to foul a ball off my knee again, so I was like 'I'm