FINAL: #Brewers edge #Dodgers 2-1 in Game 1 of National League Championship Series in Milwaukee.

#Dodgers strike first tonight at #Brewers. This regular season LAD was 69-20 when scoring first in the game. MIL was 35-36 when opponents scored first in a game, though 2-1 so far this postseason.

#Dodgers starter tonight will be Tarik Skubal, 29, a 2-time Cy Young Award winner. Came to LAD at the Trade Deadline. LAD won each of Skubal’s last 7 starts with the club, and overall on the season Skubal was 12-7 with a 2.72 ERA and a 0.96 WHIP in 26 starts.

#Brewers starter Jacob Misiorowski, 24, went 16-5 with a #MLB best 1.80 ERA in 30 starts this regular season with 18 quality starts.

Opponents batted .157 (96-for-610) vs Misiorowski, the lowest in baseball.

MIL was 22-8 in his starts.

What’s at stake tonight? Teams that win Game 1 of a Best-of-7 postseason series have won that series in 127-of-197 cases (64.5%).

Home teams, like #Brewers, that win Game 1 of such series at 67.9% likely to win the series. Road teams like #Dodgers are 59.8% likely to win the whole series.

#Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, a key member of the curse-busting 2004 #RedSox, is a perfect 11-for-11 in postseason managerial appearances, winning 10 division titles and one Wild Card berth. Is first National League manager in history to lead his team to the playoffs in his first 11 seasons.

Good starts: #Dodgers starting pitching led National League with a 3.43 ERA, a .218 opponent’s batting average, a 1.142 WHIP and a .651 opponents’ OPS. LAD starters walked the fewest hitters in NL (247) and posted an #MLB best 83 quality starts.

#Dodgers have appeared in the Championship Series 18 times, the most in National League history and 2nd all-time, behind #Yankees (19).

LAD has made the postseason in 14 consecutive years, tying #Braves (1991-2005) for longest consecutive postseason run in #MLB history.

#Brewers are 1 of 5 #MLB teams never to have won a World Series (also #Mariners, #Padres, #Rays and #Rockies). The one MIL World Series appearance was in 1982, losing to #Cardinals in 7 games.

Happy at Home: #Brewers were 55-26 at home this season, tying the Rays for the best record in baseball, including 21-4-1 in series play. MIL won their last 12 home series.

At 103-59 (.636), #Brewers had the best #MLB record for a 2nd straight season for homefield advantage throughout the postseason.

MIL set a franchise record with 103 victories in 2026, beating the previous record of 97 set last season (97-65, .599).

Now some notes about tonight’s National League Championship Series for #Dodgers at #Brewers.

This is the third ever match-up in the CS for LAD and MIL with LAD winning the first two series in 2018 and in 2025.

Umpire Mark Wegner will be crew chief for National League Championship Series, which begins tonight for #Dodgers at #Brewers.

Bill Miller will be crew chief for American League CS, which begins on Monday for #Guardians at #Rays.

7-member crew allows for one umpire off the field for each game.

American League Championship Series Games 1 and 2 are Monday (8:00 ET) and Tuesday (8:00 ET) at #Rays. Continues Thursday through Saturday, if necessary, at #Guardians or #WhiteSox. All games are on TBS and HBO Max.

Broadcast schedule finalized for Championship Series.

National League: Games 1 and 2 are Sunday (8:00 ET on FOX and FOX One) and Monday (5:00 ET FOX and FS1) at #Brewers. Continues Wednesday through Friday, if necessary at #Dodgers on FOX and FOX One.

One more game to be decided before the best-of-7 Championship Series teams are fully set.

Saturday’s #WhiteSox game at #Guardians will finalize the American League slate. Winner will face #Rays in Tampa for Game 1 on Monday.

In National League it will be #Dodgers at #Brewers for Game 1 on Sunday.

#Brewers will be at #Dodgers to face off in the best-of-7 National League Championship Series Game 1 on Sunday. Same teams as last year, when LAD advanced in a 4-game sweep.

MIL has not won a road game in the playoffs since a 4-0 shutout in 2018 NLCS Game 3, also at LAD facing Walker Buehler.

Last night’s #Rays win marked just the 2nd time #Yankees have been swept in any best-of-five postseason series.

NYY also lost in 3 straight games of the 1980 AL Championship Series vs #Royals (the Championship Series was a 5-game series until 1985).

Wednesday’s was the first postseason series win for #Rays since 2020 ALCS, when they beat #Astros in 7 games.

Is 3rd time TBR has passed the ALDS (also 2008 and 2020, reaching World Series both times).