MILWAUKEE — Runs were harder to come by than low-fat cheese curds or a vegan bratwurst at American Family Field on Monday night.

While Blake Snell was pitching a brilliant game on one side, the Milwaukee Brewers turned a head-spinning 404-foot double play on the other as the Dodgers and Brewers started their National League Championship Series with a 2-1 Dodgers victory in Game 1.

It was an exhibition of what modern front offices call elite-level run prevention on both sides. The only run in the first eight innings that couldn’t be prevented was a solo home run by Freddie Freeman in the sixth.

The Dodgers didn’t get their first hit of the game until the fourth inning. A leadoff walk of Teoscar Hernandez and back-to-back singles by Will Smith and Tommy Edman loaded the bases with one out

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