The Los Angeles Dodgers are within one victory of returning to the World Series.
Thanks in no small part to seven innings of one-run, nine-strikeout ball from Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers claimed their first advantage of the National League Championship Series with a 5-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday.
The Brewers head home with their 2018 season at stake and their hopes relying on an unlikely Game 6 starter—Wade Miley, the same pitcher on the hill at the start of Game 5. After Miley walked Cody Bellinger to open the bottom of the first, Brewers skipper Craig Counsell trotted out, signaled to the bullpen and made a pitching change.