Brewers smothered by Cubs in 6-0 loss, forcing Game 5
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Tyler Glasnow threw six scoreless innings and Roki Sasaki had three perfect innings of relief as Dodgers pitchers matched Cristopher Sánchez, Jhoan Duran and Phillies' pitchers until they won it in the 11th.
Chicago tallied four runs in the first inning but didn't score again, hanging on for a 4-3 victory. Ace Freddy Peralta starts for the Brewers while Matthew Boyd takes the mound for the Cubs after failing to get out of the first inning in a Game 1 loss.
It was at this ballpark in late August that the Brewers’ master of zen, Christian Yelich, urged calm. The Brewers were fresh off a franchise-record 14-game winning streak when they came to Wrigley Field to play five games over four days,
The Cubs' 4-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers was a little more narrow, after Chicago got all four runs in the first inning and held on tightly for the win. It's been a bit of a tough series for the Cubs, who lost Games 1 and 2 in Milwaukee by wider margins, but Chicago will try to tap into Wednesday's fight for Thursday's elimination game.
After going hitless in the first two games of the series in Philly - both losses - the veteran crushed a fourth inning pitch from Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 3 almost out of Dodger Stadium. That tied the game at one and from there the Phillies rolled to an 8-2 win to claw back into their Best-of-5 series against the Dodgers.