LOS ANGELES — Things are going well for the Dodgers, who are up 2-0 in the National League Championship Series and have the next three games scheduled at home in Dodger Stadium. Their starting pitching is on an all-time heater and they’ve won seven of their eight games this postseason.

But, things could be a little bit better.

The Dodgers offense did well to tack on runs in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings in Game 2 in Milwaukee, helping to clear and pave the road as Yoshinobu Yamamoto smoothly glided to the end of his complete-game win. But the offense has been a bit sluggish of late, scoring exactly two runs in each of the previous three games before Tuesday. The Dodgers pitching was so good that they still won two of those games, but it’s time for the bats to carry a bigger load

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