MILWAUKEE — Legend has it that ghosts reside in Milwaukee’s Pfister hotel, a common stopover for major-league visitors over the years.
Tales from that place made the rounds again this week when Teoscar Hernández revealed the Los Angeles Dodgers’ wives had seen their fair share of paranormal occurrences this week.
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By the time the Dodgers boarded their flight back home Tuesday night, however, it was the Brewers who had to ward off the ghosts of possibly losing another National League Championship Series to the Dodgers. Los Angeles powered to a 5-1 victory to take a 2-0 series advantage in this 2018 NLCS rematch as the series heads to Dodger Stadium.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto surrendered a leadoff home run to Jackson Chourio but did not allow another run while delivering the Dodgers’ first postseason complete game since José Lima’s shutout of the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 3 of the 2004 National League Division Series.
The Brewers now face a formidable challenge. Since going to the 2-3-2 format, road teams that go up 2-0 in any best-of-seven postseason series have gone on to win the series 24 out of 27 times.
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