Blake Snell walked the first batter of the seventh inning in Game 3, then gave up home runs to Jake Bauers and Garrett Mitchell before he was pulled, per CBS Sports. The three runs put the Brewers ahead of the Dodgers, and Milwaukee won 6-2 on Wednesday night. Dayn Perry's CBS piece is built around manager Dave Roberts explaining why he left Snell in. The summary we have doesn't include what Roberts said, so we can't pass it on.
The Reddit highlight from MLB's account says Bauers' homer came on the 11th pitch of the at-bat. Sportsnet's video description credits both players with the back-to-back shots that gave Milwaukee the lead. The Sportsnet text also calls the Dodgers the "Los Angeles Brewers," which is a typo.
Our box score fills in the rest. Snell went 6.0 innings with four hits, four earned runs, two walks and nine strikeouts on 101 pitches, and he took the loss. Three of the four hits he allowed were home runs. The first was Jackson Chourio's in the opening inning, which gave Milwaukee a 1-0 lead. The Dodgers scored twice in the sixth to go ahead 2-1. Snell then got no outs in the seventh, and the Bauers and Mitchell homers made it 4-2. Our box scores credit the seventh-inning runs to Snell. The reliever who followed him, Roki Sasaki, gave up a run after two more hits, and Justin Wrobleski finished the inning.
Milwaukee's pitchers took it from there. Robert Gasser threw five scoreless innings. DL Hall got the win with 2.1 scoreless innings, and Trevor Megill closed it out for the save. Los Angeles left 19 runners on base and went 5-for-32 at the plate, despite drawing four walks. Its two runs came on Will Smith's two RBI.
Snell came in with a 1.90 ERA over nine regular-season games and 42.2 innings, with 55 strikeouts. That is the kind of record that makes a manager hesitant to pull him. Bauers hit 26 home runs with an .873 OPS this season. Mitchell hit 11 with a .770 OPS, so the Dodgers gave up the lead to a hitter with a much lower power profile.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 0 |
| LAD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
The Dodgers finished 100-62 and won the NL West. They have now lost all three games of this series: 2-1 on Sunday, 7-4 on Monday and 6-2 on Wednesday. The Brewers were 103-59 and won the NL Central, and they have won five straight. The next game is Thursday, October 15, back at Dodger Stadium. If Milwaukee wins, it will have swept the series 4-0.
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