The Milwaukee Brewers took a 1-0 lead in the National League Championship Series with a 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on October 11. The scoring came in two different forms: Brice Turang tied the game with a solo home run, then a walk and bunt helped set up Luis Lara’s go-ahead hit. Milwaukee’s bullpen handled the rest, recording 4 2/3 scoreless innings. The official MLB recap details how a low-scoring opener became a one-run finish.

Los Angeles scored first, but Misiorowski escaped

The Dodgers put pressure on Jacob Misiorowski early. Shohei Ohtani opened the second inning with a walk and scored on Andy Pages’ single. Los Angeles loaded the bases with one out, and Misiorowski was already working through a 35-pitch inning. The Brewers got out of it when Kiké Hernández grounded into a double play, with Cooper Pratt and Turang completing the turn.

Misiorowski did not have an easy start. He allowed five hits and three walks over 4 1/3 innings, but the Dodgers scored only once against him. That kept the deficit at one run long enough for Milwaukee’s offense to answer. The result was not a routine shutdown by the starter; it was a night when he worked around traffic and handed the bullpen a game still within reach.

Turang’s homer changed the score

Milwaukee tied the game in the fourth. Tarik Skubal got ahead of Turang 2-0, then left a fastball in a hittable spot. Turang drove it into the home bullpen in left-center field for a solo homer. The hit erased the Dodgers’ lead and gave the Brewers a run without needing a sequence of baserunners.

The go-ahead run in the fifth looked different. A walk and a bunt put Garrett Mitchell in scoring position, and Luis Lara brought him home. That was the only additional run Milwaukee needed. It gave the Brewers a lead built through movement and contact rather than another home run.

The bullpen protected one run

Milwaukee’s relievers covered the final 4 2/3 innings without allowing a run, a line reflected in MLB’s official game highlights. The Dodgers had made Misiorowski work, but they could not carry that pressure through the rest of the game. Trevor Megill secured the final out, closing a 2-1 result that left little room for another mistake.

That relief line represents 14 outs after the starter left with one out in the fifth. In a one-run game, the bullpen had to finish more than half the defensive innings, not just protect a lead for a short ninth-inning cameo. The Brewers needed two runs, then asked their relievers to cover the stretch from the middle of the fifth through the end.

The win also changed the opening feel of a rematch. Last October, Los Angeles won Game 1 on the road and swept Milwaukee out of the NLCS. One game cannot settle whether the rematch will follow a different path, but the Brewers now hold the first series lead and avoided starting from behind.

Concept inning strip showing 4 1/3 starter innings followed by 4 2/3 scoreless bullpen innings and 14 outs.
Concept illustration of Milwaukee’s Game 1 pitching workload: the starter covered 4 1/3 innings, then the bullpen recorded 14 scoreless outs over 4 2/3 innings.

What comes next

MLB listed Game 2 for Monday, October 12, at 5 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Central and 2 p.m. Pacific on FOX, FS1, FOX Deportes or FOX One. All three times refer to one scheduled start, expressed for viewers in different time zones. The official postseason schedule is the place to confirm the broadcast and start time. At the time of this update, the next game had not begun, so the series outlook remains open.