MILWAUKEE — Brewers manager Pat Murphy might have nailed it in proclaiming his team a decided underdog in this National League Championship Series.

It’s not that Goliath — the defending World Series champions — is crushing the ball to all quarters, but the depth and dominance of the Dodgers rotation offers a brutal resistance.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a complete-game gem Tuesday night, leading a 5-1 victory over the Brewers in Game 2 of the NLCS at American Family Field, and yet it was only the second-best Dodgers pitching performance of this NLCS.

Yamamoto’s masterpiece (one earned run allowed on three hits over nine innings with seven strikeouts and one walk) followed Blake Snell’s brilliance a night earlier, when the left-hander faced the minimum 24 batters over eight frames and st

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