Snell shuts down Brewers, Dodgers hold on to win NLCS Game 1 - ESPN

MILWAUKEE — Blake Snell allowed one baserunner in eight shutout innings before Los Angeles' bullpen barely held on as the Dodgers opened the National League Championship Series with a 2-1 victory over the Brewers on Monday night.

Blake Treinen struck out Brice Turang with the bases loaded to end the game. Freddie Freeman hit a solo homer for Los Angeles to break a scoreless tie in the sixth.

The Dodgers led 2-0 when they handed the ball to rookie Roki Sasaki in the ninth after Snell struck out 10 batters and threw 103 pitches. Sasaki had worked 5 1/3 scoreless innings while adjusting to a bullpen role in the NL Division Series against Philadelphia, but he wasn't nearly as sharp Monday.

Isaac Collins drew a one-out walk and Jake Bauers hit a ground-rule double that bounced over the center-field wall. Jackson Chourio hit a sacrifice fly that scored Collins and advanced pinch-runner Brandon Lockridge to third. Christian Yelich walked on a 3-2 pitch low and outside.

That's when Dodgers manager Dave Roberts removed Sasaki and brought in Treinen.

Yelich stole second to move the potential winning run into scoring position before William Contreras walked on a 3-2 pitch low and outside. After Treinen nearly hit Turang with a pitch — which would have tied the game — Turang struck out swinging at a neck-high fastball on a 2-2 count.

«That's kind of what you envision in the playoffs. It's, you're on the edge of your seat for all nine innings,» Freeman said. «That was a massive first win on the road for us in the NLCS.»

Snell didn't try to talk Roberts into letting him pitch the ninth.

«He said that was it, so I just trust him,» Snell said.

Game 2 in the best-of-seven series is Tuesday night, with Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitching for Los