LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The Dodgers will try to take a three games to none lead over the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series, which shifts to Dodger Stadium Thursday.
Only one Major League Baseball team has overcome a three games to none deficit in a best-of-seven series — the 2004 Boston Red Sox, who Game 4 comeback victory was triggered on a ninth-inning stolen base by Dave Roberts, now the Dodgers manager.
Victories in the two games in Milwaukee have bolstered the Dodgers’ chances of winning both the NLCS and World Series.
The Dodgers have a 91.1% chance of winning the series, up from a 70.5% chance before Monday’s start of the series, according to FanGraphs. The baseball statistics and advanced analytics website has made the Dodgers the favorite to win the World Series at 54.9%, up from a 42.5% chance before the start of the NLCS.
Since the NLCS moved to its current best-of-seven format in 1985, teams taking 2-0 leads have gone on to win the series 14 of 17 times.
The 3:08 p.m. game will be televised on TBS, streamed on HBO Max, broadcast in English by KLAC-AM (570) and in Spanish by KTNQ-AM (1020).
Right-hander Tyler Glasnow will start for the Dodgers while the Brewers have not announced their starter.
Glasnow has pitched 7 2/3 shutout innings in his two 2025 postseason appearances — a 1 2/3-inning relief stint in Game 1 of a National League Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies Oct. 4 when he was credited with a hold in 5-3 victory and a six-inning start in Game 4 Thursday when he did not figure in the decision in the series-clinching 2-1 11-inning victory.
Glasnow was 4-3 with a 3.19 ERA in 90 1/3 innings in 18 starts in the regular season. The Dodgers were 10-8 in his starts.
Glasnow was 0-1 with an 0.82 ERA in two starts against Milwaukee in 2025 and 0-3 with a 4.55 ERA lifetime in 31 2/3 innings in five starts and four relief appearances.
Glasnow was on the injured list from April 28 to July 9 because of right should inflammation.
When asked at his 4:15 p.m. Wednesday news conference what his pitching plans for Games 3 and 4 were, Brewers manager Pat Murphy responded, “It’s under construction right now, talking about it. Obviously anyone that follows us knows that we’ve got (Jose) Quintana, (Jacob) Misiorowski for some bulk. With a day off, all our relievers should be good.
“We’ll navigate from there. We’re not trying to hide anything from anybody. There’s no strategy. Everybody knows what we’ve got left.”
Shohei Ohtani is 2-for-25 with 12 strikeouts in his past six games.
“I think the first two games in Milwaukee his at-bats have been fantastic,” Dodger manager Dave Roberts said Wednesday. “I think he’s controlling the strike zone. I think he’s still staying aggressive when he gets his pitch. There was a line-out to the right field and there was three walks. There was the base hit in a run situation opportunity.
“Those are positives for me. You can only take what they give you, so for me, I think he’s in a good spot right now.”
To Murphy, “for a four-game stretch or a five-game stretch, whatever he’s struggled for, that’s not enough to say, `Oh, this guy is a in a bad place,’ because those guys are so good that they can flip it on, and boom, things can result-wise change like that.
“Ohtani I know had one line drive caught yesterday and got another hit. I don’t look at him as struggling at all.”
The ceremonial first pitch will be thrown by two members of the Dodgers’ 1981 and 1988 World Series championship teams — Steve Sax and Mike Scioscia.
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