The Brewers refused to lose last night. Every time the Dodgers scored, they answered right back, and then some.

Down 1-0 after the first half-inning to the mighty, indestructible, undefeatable Dodgers with their dominating starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound, they were written off as dead. One run is all Yamamoto usually needs.

But the Brewers tied it in the bottom of the first, 1-1. 

The Dodgers scored in the top of the third to go ahead 2-1. That was the nail in the Brewers coffin. Except, it wasn’t. Milwaukee scored two in the bottom of the third to go ahead 3-2. 

Of course, this vaunted, historic, all-time best team Dodgers scored two in the top of the fifth to go ahead 4-3. That’s all they’d need to put the pesky Brewers down. Except the Brewers didn’t read the press clippings that said the Dodgers were the most dominating team in the history of baseball. The Brewers tied it 4-4 in the bottom of the fifth. Then made it 5-4 in the sixth, and tacked on two more in the eighth to roll over the invincible Dodgers 7-4, and take a 2-0 lead in the best of seven. 

There’s still a long way to go. This Dodgers team is loaded with superstars; the lineup is a virtual all-star team one through nine. But Milwaukee beat the best two pitchers the Dodgers have in Games 1 and 2, so they have to be feeling pretty good heading into Los Angeles for Game 3 on Wednesday and hope they don’t have to face Skubal and Yamamoto again. 

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