MILWAUKEE — Possible future Yankee Manny Machado showed again Friday night what kind of October force he can be, but it wasn’t enough to keep the Dodgers from coming up short in the opener of the NLCS.
The Brewers hung on for a 6-5 victory at Miller Park to take a 1-0 lead in the series. Machado lined a home run in the second inning and ripped a two-run single in the eighth. The home run was his third in five postseason games for the Dodgers, the fifth player in Dodgers history to homer in three of the team’s first five postseason games, joining Manny Ramirez, Davey Lopes, Steve Garvey and Duke Snider.