Dodgers 5-1 Brewers Game Summary (Oct. 14, 2025)

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Yoshinobu Yamamoto launched ball of three hits to achieve the first full game in postseason in eight yearsand Los Angeles Dodgers they won on tuesday 5-1 to the Milwaukee Brewerswith which expanded to 2-0 his advantage in the National League Championship Series.

The Dominican Teoscar Hernández and Max Muncy each hit solo home runs for the Dodgers, who took a pair of victories away in the best-in-a-seven-game series, which moves to Los Angeles for the third game, which will take place on Thursday.

Muncy’s 412-foot blast to center field was the 14th home run of his career in the postseason, breaking the Dodgers record he shared with Corey Seager and Justin Turner.

Yamamoto gave up a home run to Jackson Chourio on the first of his 111 pitches, but held off the Brewers the rest of the way. The $325 million right-hander struck out seven and walked one during his first complete game in two major league seasons.

The previous postseason starter who pitched a complete game was Justin Verlander when he had a five-hit ball and 13 strikeouts for the Houston Astros against the New York Yankees in the second game of the American League Championship Serieson October 14, 2017, exactly eight years ago.

Yamamoto’s complete game was the first for Los Angeles since the gem of Gavin Stone on June 26 of last year. The last Dodgers pitcher to achieve a complete game in the postseason was the Dominican Jose Lima against the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 3 of the 2004 National League Division Series.

This is the first time since 1970 that both visiting teams in the league championship series have started 2-0. The Seattle Mariners have a 2-0 lead over the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League Championship Series heading into Game 3, scheduled for this Wednesday in Seattle.

Twenty-four of the previous 27 teams that won the first two road games in a best-of-seven series with a 2-3-2 format have ended up taking it. The three teams that came back after losing the first two games at home did so in the World Series: the 1985 Kansas City Royals against the Cardinals, the 1986 New York Mets against the Boston Red Sox, and the 1996 Yankees against the Atlanta Braves.

The Brewers did everything they could on Tuesday to avoid that 2-0 deficit. Former slugger Eric Thames entered the field to cheer on fans just before the game and opened his shirt to show his bare chest.

The 21-year-old Chourio then delighted the sold-out crowd by sending Yamamoto’s first pitch over the right-center field wall for his fourth career postseason home run.

He equaled the Brewers’ record, set by his compatriot Orlando Arcia and for Prince Fielder.

That seemed like an ominous start for Yamamoto, who lasted only two-thirds of an inning in an 8-1 loss the last time he pitched in Milwaukee. But the Japanese recovered and silenced the Brewers the rest of the way.

For the Dodgers, Dominican Teoscar Hernández was 2-for-5 with one run scored and one RBI. Puerto Rican Kiké Hernández went 3-2 with two runs scored. Cuban Andy Pagés went 1-2 with an RBI.

For the Brewers, the Venezuelans Chourio 1-for-4 with one run scored and one RBI, William Contreras 0-for-4. Mexican Joey Ortiz 1-0.