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Clayton Kershaw rebounded after one of his best playoff debut, defeating the Dodgers in the Brewers 5-2 on Wednesday to win a win after returning to the World Cup.
The Dodgers took a 3-2 lead in the NL championship series, boosted by Max Muncy's single in the sixth inning. Kershaw held his head, scoring seventh and then stepping aside.
Game 6 will be Friday night in Milwaukee. The Brewers will start the left-winger Wade Miley, who led Cody Bellinger to open the fifth game before getting caught up in an interesting strategy from manager Craig Counsell. Lefty Hyun-Jin Ryu will go for the Dodgers.
The Dodgers are no longer part of the consecutive world series since losing to the Yankees in 1977 and 78. They were beaten by Houston in the seventh game last year.
The teams were less than 15 hours after the Dodgers had a 2-1 win on Tuesday night on Cody Bellinger's single, with two outs in a 13-game match that lasted more than five hours.
Kershaw was well rested and gifted to allow one point and three hits in seven innings. He hit nine, all on brittle ground, and walked two.
Kershaw has recovered from the shortest start of the season of his career. He lost just three first-day games against NLCS while awarding five points – four earned – to Miller Park.
"I do not know if it was much better, maybe a little better, maybe I threw more balls today than in the first game," said Kershaw.
Three-time winner NL Cy Young shone in third when the Brewers charged the goals and scored their only point. Kershaw eliminated Jesus Aguilar to end the third game, the first of 13 consecutive batters to retire from the southpaw.
Curtis Granderson scored a double RBI in the ninth. Kenley Jansen, third thrower on ninth of the Dodgers, has qualified for the last two outs and the save.
Brewers star Christian Yelich, who has almost won the NHL Triple Crown this season, has not been hit by four shots on goal. It is 3-in-20 without RBI in the NLCS.
The Dodgers' offense went wild with five points on the fifth, sixth and seventh innings that brought together the crowd of 54,502 spectators who beat blue towels and loud applause.
The team that hit a franchise and 235 top regular season circuits in NL played the little ball instead, scoring all of its races in singles, except one.
Tied 1-1, Muncy placed a 1-2 1-2 from Brandon Woodruff in the left field, scoring Justin Turner, who led with a single. Yasiel Puig, batter at the tip of the ball, squeezed into the center with two outs, bringing home Manny Machado after being hit by a shot by Corbin Burnes.
Los Angeles extended their lead to 5-1 in seventh on Turner's single RBI which scored the goal for Kershaw, who walked, and Brian Dozier's return to RBI.
Kershaw has struggled in the playoffs over the course of his career, his numbers never matching his excellence in the regular season.
But his Wednesday outing was about what he did in the second game of the NL Division series against Atlanta. Kershaw allowed two hits in eight shutouts, pulled out three and did not make one of the best playoff goals in his career.
The Brewers led 1-0 in third place in the center of Lorenzo Cain's center.
Milwaukee had not scored a goal in the last eight innings on Tuesday and the first two innings on Wednesday.
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