{"id":79909,"date":"2026-10-12T20:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/brewers-two-wins-from-first-world-series-since-1982-as-contreras-skewers-dodgers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:55:41","slug":"brewers-two-wins-from-first-world-series-since-1982-as-contreras-skewers-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/brewers-two-wins-from-first-world-series-since-1982-as-contreras-skewers-dodgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers two wins from first World Series since 1982 as Contreras skewers Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>NLCS Game 2: LA Dodgers 4-7 Milwaukee Brewers<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Reigning champions 2-0 down in best-of-seven series<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>William Contreras hit a tying homer in the fifth and singled home the go-ahead run an inning later as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-4 on Monday in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p>Four relievers combined to retire the last 15 Dodgers batters in order as the Brewers took a 2-0 lead over the two-time defending World Series champions in this best-of-seven series, which heads to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/12\/mlb-playoffs-scores\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NLCS Game 2: LA Dodgers 4-7 Milwaukee Brewers Reigning champions 2-0 down in best-of-seven series William Contreras hit a tying homer in the fifth and singled home the go-ahead run an inning later as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-4 on Monday in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series. Four &#8230; <a title=\"Brewers two wins from first World Series since 1982 as Contreras skewers Dodgers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/brewers-two-wins-from-first-world-series-since-1982-as-contreras-skewers-dodgers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Brewers two wins from first World Series since 1982 as Contreras skewers Dodgers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}