Dodgers game today: Brewers win 7-4, take 2-0 NLCS series lead
Milwaukee beat Los Angeles 7-4 in NLCS Game 2 as Contreras delivered and the bullpen shut the door, pushing the Brewers' series lead to 2-0.
Why "Dodgers game today" is trending
People are searching "dodgers game today" because the Dodgers and Brewers played Game 2 of the National League Championship Series, and Los Angeles lost. Milwaukee won 7-4, with Contreras delivering and the bullpen closing it out, according to ESPN's recap of the game. That result puts the Brewers up 2-0 on the two-time defending champion Dodgers.
There's no word yet on scheduling for Game 3, so what happens next in the series isn't settled in the reporting available right now. What is settled is that Milwaukee has beaten Los Angeles twice in a row to open this series. For a team that didn't score more than one run in any game of last year's sweep, winning the first two of the rematch is the kind of result that gets people checking the score today.
Game 2: Brewers 7, Dodgers 4
In Game 2, Contreras delivered for Milwaukee and the Brewers bullpen shut the door from there, per ESPN. The final score was Brewers 7, Dodgers 4. That result pushed Milwaukee's series lead to 2-0 over Los Angeles.
The Brewers bullpen has now closed out two straight postseason wins over a lineup that swept them in four games a year ago.
How Milwaukee got here
Game 1 looked like it could go the way last year's series did. In the 2025 NLCS, the Dodgers swept the Brewers in four games and held Milwaukee to one run or fewer in each one. On Sunday, that pattern broke. Brewers manager Pat Murphy said afterward, "Just proud of our guys."
Milwaukee beat Dodgers ace Tarik Skubal 2-1 in that opener. Brice Turang led off the fourth inning by turning around an inside sinker for an opposite field homer to left, tying the game at 1-1. The recap notes it was the first opposite field homer Turang has hit off a lefty pitcher in his career, and the first opposite-field homer Skubal has allowed to a lefty in the majors. Skubal said of the pitch, "A 2-0 sinker in, I'm going to live with that left-on-left." He added, "He put a good swing on it." Turang's take was simpler: "Sometimes less is more."
The go-ahead run came in the fifth. Garrett Mitchell walked to open the inning, Cooper Pratt sacrificed him to second, and 21-year-old Luis Lara bounced a changeup from Skubal up the middle for an RBI single. Brewers starter Jacob Misiorowski and four relievers limited the Dodgers to one run all night, an RBI single from Andy Pages in the second. The 2-1 win snapped a seven-game Milwaukee postseason losing streak against Los Angeles.
What's next
Two wins in a row now for the Brewers over the team that swept them out of the NLCS a year ago. Milwaukee leads the series 2-0. The available reporting doesn't say yet when or where Game 3 is scheduled.
Facts per ESPN, ESPN box score. Opinion is the taproom's.