Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw MLB's first postseason complete game in 8 years to give the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0 lead against the Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS. Michael McLoone/Imagn Images/Reuters

Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw MLB ’s first complete game in the postseason in eight years as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers Tuesday to take a 2-0 lead in the National League Championship Series (NLCS).

Yamamoto pitched all nine innings of Game 2 at American Family Field, striking out seven batters, giving up just three hits and walking one in the dominant 5-1 Dodgers victory.

It was the first complete game of the 27-year-old’s MLB career – regular season or playoffs – and the first seen in the MLB postseason since Justin Verlander in Game 2 of the 2017 ALCS . Yamamoto is al

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