Two games make for a ridiculously small sample size, but the first two games of the National League Championship Series also have made a mockery of the conventional wisdom.
The Dodgers had better rough up the Milwaukee starters, or so the wisdom went, because the Brewers bullpen is exceptional.
The Brewers excused their starter after two innings of Game 1, by design. They removed their starter in the sixth inning in Game 2, with a shutout intact, again by design.
And the Brewers are damn — searching for just the right word here — lucky to be even with the Dodgers in this series.