Justin Turner completed a rally from a 3-0 deficit with a
two-run, go-ahead home run in the eighth inning Saturday night, lifting the Los
Angeles Dodgers to a 4-3 win over the host Milwaukee Brewers and into a 1-1 tie
in the National League Championship Series.
The teams will take Sunday off, and then meet in Game 3
in Los Angeles on Monday, with the Brewers’ Jhoulys Chacin and Dodgers’ Walker
Buehler listed as the probable starters.
Wade Miley took a shutout into the sixth inning, and
Orlando Arcia and Travis Shaw hit solo homers, giving the Brewers a 3-0 lead
and putting them nine outs away from a two-game home sweep to begin the
best-of-7 series.
But the Dodgers closed within 3-2 in the seventh on an RBI
single by Cody Bellinger off Brewers reliever Corbin Burnes and a bases-loaded
walk to Austin Barnes by Jeremy Jeffress.
The Milwaukee closer got out of the inning by getting
pinch hitter Yasmani Grandal to ground into a double play with the bases loaded
but then allowed Chris Taylor’s infield single to start the eighth before
Turner belted his seventh career postseason homer deep into the seats beyond
the left field fence.
Kenta Maeda survived a warning-track fly ball by pinch
hitter Curtis Granderson with a runner aboard to end the eighth, before Dodgers
closer Kenley Jansen stranded the potential tying run at second base in the
ninth by getting Christian Yelich to ground out to end the game and earn the
save.
Pedro Baez, the fifth of eight Dodgers pitchers, got the
win.
Miley was pulled two outs into the sixth with a 2-0 lead
after allowing the first of Taylor’s two hits. He had allowed just two hits at
that point.
The left-hander struck out three and did not walk a
batter.
Burnes got Turner to line out to center field to end the
inning.
Miley scored the second Brewers run in a two-run fifth
against Dodgers starter Hyun-Jin Ryu.
The scoring began when Arcia homered to center field to
give the Brewers a 1-0 lead.
A single by Miley, double by Lorenzo Cain and intentional
walk to Yelich loaded the bases with one out, before Ryan Braun produced the
Brewers’ second run with a grounder to shortstop against Dodgers reliever Ryan
Madson.
Ryu was charged with two runs on six hits in 4 1/3
innings. He struck out four and did not walk a batter.
Shaw’s homer came one out into the sixth inning off
Dodgers left-hander Alex Wood, increasing the Milwaukee lead to 3-0.
Turner, Taylor and Joc Pederson had two hits apiece for
the Dodgers, who also earned a split in two road games at Atlanta en route to
advancing through the NL Division Series.
Miley went 2-for-2 for the Brewers, who saw their 12-game
winning streak snapped.
The Dodgers out-hit the Brewers 9-7.
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