LOS ANGELES.- The Los Angeles Dodgers, current two-time champions of the Major League Baseball, They suffered this Wednesday their third consecutive defeat against the Milwaukee Brewers and they were a foot and a half out of the 2026 playoffs.
A home run from the Venezuelan Jackson Chourio on the first pitch opened a resounding 6-2 victory for Milwaukee, with which they take a 3-0 lead in the National League Championship Series.
The Brewers sealed the victory in a packed house Dodger Stadium with two more consecutive home runs in the seventh inning, after a brief reaction from Los Angeles.
The Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani Relegated to sixth place at bat, she extended her unusual drought and was limited to one hit in two plate appearances.
“Thank God I was able to find a good (shot) and put the team ahead,” Chourio congratulated himself after the victory.
“I can’t stop thinking that we have the opportunity to go to the world series, But I want to live in the moment. We have to win one more game,” remarked the 22-year-old Venezuelan jewel.
On Thursday, Milwaukee will have its first opportunity to qualify for the World Series, in which it only has one presence, in 1982, which ended in defeat.
For the Dodgers, the dream of a three-time championship can only be saved with a miraculous comeback.
Only one team has come back from 3-0 down in the entire history of the playoffs, the Boston Red Sox in 2004 against their archrivals New York Yankees.
Before the Dodgers, 42 teams were down 3-0 in a postseason series, 32 of which ended up being swept.
The winner of this tie will face the World Series in the Tampa Bay Rays or the Cleveland Guardianswho are tied 1-1 in the American Championship Series.
Chourio record
After two initial losses on the road, the Dodgers relied on the support of their fans to begin one of the comebacks that have characterized their period of dominance in the Major Leagues.
But the 56,000 fans at Dodger Stadium were hit with cold water on the first pitch, when Chourio hit a 400-foot home run that left the stands and the starter frozen. Blake Snell.
The 170 km/h missile registered the Venezuelan prodigy in several records of the Seniors, starting with the one with the most home runs in the postseason for the Brewers, with six.
The baseball player Maracaibo He is also the one with the most RBIs in the playoffs before turning 23, with a total of 18.
The experienced Snell quickly recovered from Chourio’s bombing, while on the other side Robert Gasser He contained the Los Angeles strikers in five innings in which he did not give up any runs.
Consecutive home runs
The drama in the stadium grew as the game progressed, as the formidable collection of homegrown stars allowed Milwaukee to maintain its dangerous lead.
Ohtani, whom Dave Roberts remained in the lineup, he did not show any signs of getting out of the hole in which he is sunk, without a home run hit since August.
In the sixth inning, just after Gasser retired, the Dodgers found their moment by loading the bases against the Dominican reliever Abner Uribe.
Then a ball from Will Smith hit against the wall and allowed Kyle Tucker and the dominican Teoscar Hernandez They would go through the register and give the Dodgers a temporary advantage.
The locals still had two runners on base, but D. L. Hall, relief of Uribe, stopped the Los Angeles advance by striking out Joshua De Paula and Tommy Edman.
In the seventh inning the Brewers counterattacked against a fatigued Snell, whom Roberts kept on the mound after more than a hundred pitches.
The winner of two awards Cy Young could not prevent Jake Bauers hit a two-run home run and Garrett Mitchell another single on the next release.
Given the ineffectiveness of the Los Angeles offense, Milwaukee had the pleasure of increasing the advantage with an uncontrolled launch of Justin Wrobleski in the eighth inning and a single from Joey Ortiz in the ninth.
