Brewers Steal It in the Ninth, 5-4 Over LA
Milwaukee trailed by two heading into the ninth inning and walked out with a 5-4 win, stringing together three consecutive RBI singles to erase a deficit that looked insurmountable minutes earlier. Max Muncy had given Los Angeles what appeared to be a commanding cushion with a 426-foot three-run shot in the sixth — but the Brewers had other ideas.
The game's first real drama arrived in the fourth, when Milwaukee put up a two-spot without a hit. Joey Ortiz drew a walk that scored Sánchez, then David Hamilton drew another to score Vaughn — two free passes, two runs, and a 2-0 lead that Sasaki's command issues handed directly to the visitors. Sasaki finished with 5 walks over 6 innings, and that wildness in the fourth set the tone for a night where Los Angeles couldn't afford to give anything away.
Los Angeles clawed one back in the fifth when a single to left scored Rojas, making it 2-1. Then came the moment that looked like it decided everything. In the sixth, Muncy launched a 426-foot home run to right center, scoring Edman and Freeman with it — a three-run blast that flipped the scoreboard to 4-2 in favor of the Dodgers. The win probability swung from 40% to 84% on that single swing. At that point, it looked like Muncy had personally closed the book on Milwaukee's night.
He hadn't. The story of this game — and it's a good one — is what DL Hall did to keep Milwaukee alive before the offense took over. Hall threw 2.0 innings of shutout ball, allowing no hits and no walks while striking out three. That bridge to the ninth mattered enormously. When Chourio singled to right to score Ortiz and make it 3-4, the comeback was on. Mitchell followed with another single to right, scoring Hamilton and tying it at four. Then Bauers, also singling to right, scored Chourio to put Milwaukee ahead 5-4 for good. Three singles, three runs, three different hitters delivering in sequence — that's not luck, that looks like a lineup that refused to fold. Drohan had a rough night on the mound — 3 earned runs in 5.1 innings — but Milwaukee's bullpen and offense bailed him out completely. For Los Angeles, Muncy's three-RBI night is the only real bright spot in a game that slipped away in the final three outs.