Just to mock the bunt post - we also have rarely gotten aggressive at stealing for 2nd base. Getting a runner into scoring position has cost us a few runs this post season. We only steal on wild pitches. Ohtani is far from his 50/50 season where he stole 2nd often. The dinosaur baseball needs some fresh legs to win this series.

You can feel it with the Brewers, but it feels like every game so far is just the Dodgers trying to get through it instead of dominating and being in control. Hopefully the change in scenery will make the difference ¯\(ツ)/¯

Josue is having professional at bats this post season. Yes, he popped out in one game, but he also worked 2 walks against high leverage arms.

The issue is our outfield right now is hot in the playoffs:

Andy Pages: Last 3 games 5-11, 3 RBIs, only 1 SO (best outfield defender)
Teo: 2 hits yesterday
Tucker: Last 3 games 2-9 with 3 walks

I’m a big proponent for manufacturing runs and our outfielders are getting on base and doing their part in that operation. The only way Josue sees the starting lineup is if we bench Teo, Tucker, Pages or Ohtani and I don’t see that happening even with Ohtanis struggles. Remember when Josue provided the spark when he came up? He only hit 1 home run but was getting on base to manufacture runs. In his 11 games, he walked 11 time, came around to score 7 times and only struck out 5 times.

The postseason is not rattling him. Extend his leash a little bit LA.

Shohei and will smith are not producing any offense. I'd say put in JDP and hunter. We have had a big enough sample size to say will smith and ohtani are not right and will not be in the next 2 games. We need those walks and high obp that jdp gives, and we need the intagibles that come with putting in less experienced players (i.e. they might be actually good in pressure situations).

In addition to this, we need to move up tucker in the batting order, as well as muncy. Jdp will hit 6 or 7. Tucker should slot in at 3 or 4.

We just need to change things up so we can say we did everything possible to win.

It’s not every day Roki looks good, and today he did. He’s a starter, so why take him out in such an important game? And we scored too! We will again, but come on, take responsibility.

If snell and glasnow spam breaking balls in the dirt brewers will not go for that this series will not come back to Milwaukee 😭😭😭

I typically sit on the third base side to avoid the sun, but with this being October and the game starting at 5:00pm? How long after the game start will the sun be out of my eyes if I decide to sit on the 1st base side? Yes, I know actual sunset is around 6:23pm that day, but I'm wondering when the sun goes down behind the stadium. TIA!

The catcher is the only batter in the lineup allowed to suck, so long as he defensively makes up for it, and for the most part he has. Ohtani and DH on the other hand, if the DH is an auto out every time, something got to change. Personally, im for JDP for DH and Smith at 9. But where are we at with them collectively?

Hope y'all keep the same energy for WIll that y'all had for Dalton. on top of that, he's avg 0.0s BA

Basically the tittle.

Don’t come here proclaiming how much of a fan you are when we win the tittles but then when we lose the FIRST 2 games in a 7 game series all of the sudden this is the worst team. It’s baseball nothing new here.

Man up.

Go Dodgers.

Dodger bats look tired. The drive and fire is missing. Hopefully coming home to LA wakes them up!

Reminds me of Michael Jordan in “The Last Dance”

[Michael Jordan] Each time that you win it takes away a little bit of that hunger. A battle in your mind to go to that same place you've been 5 times before. People say the first one is the hardest. No, the last one is the hardest because you're battling with yourself.

The Dodgers seem allergic to small ball. Do they know how to play it? Or more importantly, how to defend against it?

The Rays, the Brewers, and the Guardians have all been very effective with bunts and stolen bases this season. Compared to the Dodgers, who seem like they don't really want to mess with it.

During the 2026 regular season:

• Tampa Bay Rays - 45 sacrifice bunts (1st in MLB)
• Milwaukee Brewers - 37 sacrifice bunts
• Cleveland Guardians - 28 sacrifice bunts
• Dodgers - 15 sacrifice bunts

on stolen bases:

• Tampa Bay Rays - 164 stolen bases (tied for 2nd)
• Milwaukee Brewers - 162 stolen bases (5th)
• Cleveland Guardians - 146 stolen bases (7th)
• Dodgers - 72 (28th)

Not saying that the Dodgers need to start bunting (a little too late to practice that to perfection now), but they need to be able to defend against it.

Regardless of the outcome of this series, even if we somehow come back and win, we still have a daunting problem: the roster is old AF. Freddie is 37. Mookie is 34. Shohei is already 32. Max Muncy is 36. The roster is getting old and tired, and they need some fresh blood injected soon. The Brewers roster is mostly young and hungry, and we need some hungry young blood coming soon.

Fortunately for us....we also have an elite farm system and a bunch of intriguing young guys to call up. I am sad about losing Zyhir Hope, but.....Quintero and Sirota are certainly nothing to sniff at. We got Pages at Center, and Quintero and Sirota covering the corner outfields long term.

I feel like there's really two different eras of Dodger teams: the teams from 2013 to 2020 (when we got Betts), and the team from 2020 to now. The team from 2013 was mostly homegrown while the team from 2020 onward was mostly trades and free agents, but the team from 2027 onward is gonna be mostly fresh blood. The payroll is getting kinda bloated, and.....this year's free agency class for hitters is pretty slim pickings anyways (IIRC Luis Arraez is the best free agent position player....)

I feel like Teruki Sato is the perfect fit for replacing Freddie and/or Muncy. Freddie's contract is almost up, same with Muncy.

Josue De Paula will be the face of this new Dodgers era, and him, Rushing as Will's successor, Andy Pages, Sirota, Quintero, Sato as Freddie/Muncy's successor, and Morales to be Betts' successor will be fun to watch. I predict Will moves to 1B in the coming years.

Ofc the older guys will stay to mentor and hand over the reigns, but I feel good about the team long-term.

Instead of one of the players calling for that ball and catching it and ending that inning, both let the ball drop. That extended Yoshi’s inning by another six pitches before the walk on Bowers, and then Yelich tied the game which led to our pitching order screwing up, so by the time we led 4-3 in the 5th, Yoshi, Roki, and Vesia were all gone, so of course Contreras goes 1998-McGuire on us from there on out, partially because the bullpen got used too early as a kneejerk reaction to that dropped, easy 3rd out.

Hunter Feduccia is a better option right now. If Shohei can be benched then Will Smith needs to be too.

I was hoping they would wear their blue alts for this game....

There was no time for what-ifs this week for Tarik Skubal, who stared at the elephant in the room and kept on walking. While Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman each allowed themselves to think of what might be different had it been the Milwaukee Brewers, not the Los Angeles Dodgers, who acquired the two-time Cy Young winner at the deadline, Skubal quickly dismissed the question.

“I haven’t really thought about it at all, to be honest,” Skubal said Saturday, on the eve of Game 1.

What’s done is done, and Skubal landing in Los Angeles was supposed to maintain the clear gap between the two National League powers. Except that gap might no longer exist, not after the Brewers won every margin to take the opener of this National League Championship Series, 2-1.

“We didn’t necessarily expect a sweep,” Kiké Hernández said. “It’s gonna be a good series.”

The decisive blow? A taste of “Brewer Ball” — a walk, a bunt and a knock. The go-ahead single came from Luis Lara, one of the promising young players Milwaukee didn’t trade for Skubal. He hit a Skubal changeup back up the middle to make it 2-1 in the fifth.

“It’s kind of what we envisioned the series was going to be,” Freddie Freeman said.

These 103-win Brewers might be better, but they are not different than the group the Dodgers dismantled in 2025. They scored two runs in Game 1 after managing just one per game in last year’s NLCS, a four-game sweep. On Sunday, the Brewers even got a home run — from Brice Turang  — after hitting the second-fewest in the majors during the regular season. They also took enough hacks at Skubal for him to finally show a crack.

Even on a night when the Dodgers harassed likely Cy Young winner Jacob Misiorowski and knocked him out before the end of the fifth inning, they failed to capitalize. Milwaukee needed to cover 4 2/3 innings with its vaunted bullpen and put up nothing but zeros. The Brewers, who led the NL by hitting .276 with runners in scoring position, got the timely hit. The Dodgers, four spots behind the Brewers on the leaderboard at .262, did not.

“We just needed a big hit to come through,” Mookie Betts said. “Some of it is just baseball.”

Read for free: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7679152/2026/10/12/dodgers-mlb-playoffs-nlcs-game-1/?unlocked_article_code=1.IFE.buKu.CtiNjD82GUJK&source=emp_shared_article&smid=re-share-ta

So clearly playing Ohtani was a mistake, big surprise. But I'm genuinely concerned if him playing through these injuries may have jeopardized his career long-term. The way he dropped his bat today after a strikeout is just....concerning.

Let’s give everyone 24 hours to doom as much as they want as our boys in blue face a 0-2 deficit. But by this time tomorrow, I want everyone rallying around the team as they prepare for a must win Game 3.

Sound like a plan? Let’s go Dodgers!!!!

First time to LA & Dodger Stadium. I need all the tips on parking! I’ve read a lot about Lot 13. How early do we need to be in the line for the lot? Is it safe/secure? Thanks in advance!

This is do or die.

Ohtani is hurt and is causing us at bats.
He isn’t going to magically heal over night.

Bench Ohtani and out in De Paula as DH!

Given that he was hurt as a hitter only in 2024, and now hurt as a hitter/pitcher in 2026, I don’t think the injuries are completely associated with his workload. It’s honestly crazy that we’ve only seen him “healthy” for one postseason run with us so far but have won two rings in the process regardless