MILWAUKEE -- The inevitability of the Dodgers is a concept their opponents would rather not consider. This year’s National League Championship Series pits the defending champs against a Brewers team that not only led the Majors in wins, but that beat the Dodgers six times in six tries during the regular season.

And yet for all the spunk it took for the Brewers to reach this point, and for all the moxie they demonstrated throughout NLCS Game 1 on Monday, it was still the Dodgers who scored a 2-1 victory behind Blake Snell’s eight one-hit innings. Freddie Freeman’s homer in the sixth inning and a Mookie Betts bases-loaded walk in the ninth was just enough offense for L.A.

It was the Dodgers who won despite their bases-loaded rally in the fourth inning ending on one of the most bizarre doub

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