Well folks, if you wanted redemption with no drama attached, you picked the wrong series to watch. Shohei Ohtani walked to lead off the second, came around to score on an Andy Pages RBI single, and just like that the ghosts of last October's sweep were sitting right there in the dugout. Misiorowski needed 35 pitches to get out of that inning alone, loading the bases before Kiké Hernández hit into a double play — Pratt to Turang to Bauers — to keep it a one-run game instead of something worse.
He settled in after that, mostly — enough to make it to the fourth still down just the one, where a disputed balk call wiped out what would've been his second out of the inning. He shrugged it off and got the real one a few pitches later, a cutter that froze Kyle Tucker for strike three. Still 1-0, Dodgers. Then Brice Turang decided that was enough suspense: a solo shot off Tarik Skubal, 384 feet the other way into the home bullpen, tied it at one. "I just stayed inside the ball," Turang said afterward, like that explains hitting one 384 feet to the opposite field in a win-or-go-home atmosphere in Game 1.
Misiorowski's night ended one out into the fifth, the game still tied — DL Hall came on and erased the rest of the inning with a double play of his own. Milwaukee answered right back in the bottom half: Garrett Mitchell walked, moved to second on a Pratt sacrifice, and 21-year-old Luis Lara lined a first-pitch single up the middle to bring him home. Lara's first big swing of the night was the one that mattered — Brewers up 2-1, and that's where it stayed.
From there it was all bullpen, and all business — Hall, Abner Uribe, Aaron Ashby and Trevor Megill combined for four and two-thirds shutout innings, with Milwaukee turning three double plays on the night to keep the Dodgers off the board. Megill made the ninth more interesting than it needed to be — a walk to Tucker, another to pinch-hitter De Paula — before getting Mookie Betts to fly out to the warning track to end it. Save number three. Los Angeles's bats never found the gaps when it mattered: the Dodgers finished 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.