LOS ANGELES — With another loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers Thursday night in Game 3, the Milwaukee Brewers are now just one loss away from elimination the National League Championship Series.
Brewers leadoff hitter Jackson Chourio hopped off the field with an apparent hamstring injury in the seventh inning.
The 21-year-old right fielder was batting against reliever Blake Treinen when fouled off a pitch and couldn't put any weight on his right leg.
He hopped off on his left leg and was replaced by Blake Perkins, who struck out swinging for the inning's final out with Brewers trailing the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-1.
Chourio was forced out of the NL Division Series opener because of hamstring tightness. He missed a month during the regular season with an injury to the same hamstring.
During Thursday's game, Tommy Edman hit a tiebreaking single off hard-throwing rookie Jacob Misiorowski in a two-run sixth inning.
Los Angeles moved within one win of becoming the first defending champion to reach the World Series since the 2009 Philadelphia Phillies. No team has won consecutive titles since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees took three in a row.
Game 4 is Friday. The only one of the 41 teams that overcame a 3-0 postseason deficit was the 2004 Boston Red Sox against the Yankees, sparked by current Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.
Shohei Ohtani tripled off Andy Ashby to start the bottom of the first and scored on Mookie Betts’ double to put the Dodgers ahead, but Jake Bauers tied the score with an RBI single in the second.
That was the only run allowed by Tyler Glasnow, who has combined with Ohtani, Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to give Dodgers starters a 1.54 postseason ERA during an 8-1 postseason spurt.
Misiorowski replaced Ashby with two on and one out in the first, and struck out Edman and Teoscar Hernández. The 23-year-old right-hander topped 100 mph with 17 pitches and struck out a Brewers postseason rookie record nine, but his fastball velocity dropped to 98-99 mph slightly in the sixth.
Will Smith singled with one out on a slider in the middle of the strike zone and Freddie Freeman walked after falling behind 1-2 in the count. Edman, who had struck out twice against Misiorowski, lined a low slider into center, and Smith scored for a 2-1 lead as Sal Frelick made a weak throw.
Abner Uribe relieved and struck out Hernández, then made a wild pickoff throw past first as Freeman scored, the second straight game with an error by the Brewers closer.
Glasnow allowed three hits and three walks in 5 2/3 innings while striking out eight, leaving to a standing ovation from the crowd of 51,251.
Alex Vesia followed Glasnow and got two outs for his second win of the playoffs.
Roki Sasaki pitched a perfect ninth for his third save of the postseason, finishing a four-hitter. Dodgers relievers allowed one hit in 3 1/3 innings.
Milwaukee, which swept the Dodgers 6-0 during the regular season, has lost its last 10 postseason road games dating to 2018. The Brewers have three runs and nine hits in the series, and dating to the Division Series finale, the Dodgers are the first team to allow no runs or one run and four hits or fewer in four straight postseason games.
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