LOS ANGELES -- The Brewers know it won't be easy to rally past the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series -- a task that will require them to win four of the potential next five games.

But a path to the NL pennant becomes far more feasible if two of Milwaukee's best hitters -- Christian Yelich and Brice Turang -- can find their respective swings as the series shifts to Los Angeles.

The fact is, the Brewers go as those two go. It's not a novel concept -- most teams tend to perform better when their star hitters are, well, hitting.

It's particularly true, though, for the Brewers. In the regular season, Milwaukee was 80-43 when Yelich reached base even once -- that's a 105-win pace. The club was just 9-18 in games when Yelich did not reach safely.

Similarly, the Brewers we

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