Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto achieves career-first in dominant Game 2 victory

The Los Angeles Dodgers took a commanding - series lead over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday at American Family Field behind starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto s dominant complete match in their - win The last complete event in the postseason prior to Yamamoto s was by Justin Verlander in for the Houston Astros against the New York Yankees in Match of the ALCS Verlander s and Yamamoto s complete games were exactly eight years apart It was the first complete battle of Yamamoto's MLB career It didn t look like Yamamoto was destined to go the distance after the first batter he saw Brewers right fielder Jackson Chourio hammered a fastball into the right-field seats to give the Brewers a quick - lead CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COMBut the star pitcher settled down and only yielded two more hits the rest of the battle Yamamoto s final line was nine innings one run on three hits and one walk while striking out seven Brewers I reset my mind after Chourio s homer and then I just focused on executing my own pitches Yamamoto reported through an interpreter Yamamoto's gem in Competition came one night after two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell allowed one hit over eight shutout innings in a - domination DODGERS' TEOSCAR HERNANDEZ ABANDONS COMPANY HOTEL IN MILWAUKEE DUE TO WIFE'S FEAR OF ALLEGED PARANORMAL ACTIVITY We declared before this postseason started our starting pitching was going to be what carried us stated third baseman Max Muncy who set a Dodgers record by hitting his th career postseason homer in the win And so far it s been exactly that The Dodgers ended the regular season strong and have continued their strong play into the postseason After winning nine of their last regular-season games the Dodgers are - in the postseason Our entire squad is playing the best baseball we ve played all year manager Dave Roberts noted The focus the concentration level is at the highest and we re peaking at the right time Meeting of the NLCS between the Dodgers and Brewers is scheduled for Thursday at p m ET the first meeting of the series that will take place at Dodger Stadium The Associated Press contributed to this record Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter