The book on beating the Los Angeles Dodgers always comes back to their bullpen. That pen owned a middle-of-the-pack 4.27 earned run average in the regular season and a 5.91 postseason ERA. If you can get to it, you’ve found the soft underbelly of baseball’s most fearsome beast. You’re genuinely in with a chance to slay the dragon.

But here’s the problem after two games in the National League Championship Series. The Brewers have faced that Dodgers bullpen for a grand total of three outs. Because the dragon’s starting pitchers are burning the Brewers to a crisp.

In Game 1, all Blake Snell did was imitate Don Larsen for one of the greatest postseason pitching performances since 1956. He faced the minimum number of Brewers through eight innings – the first time anyone has done so since La

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