MILWAUKEE – Andrew Friedman, Los Angeles Dodgers president of baseball operations, scurried down the staircase Sunday night with several of his staff members as blaring chants from the crowd in the American Family Field concourse pierced his ears.Let’s Go Brewers.Let’s. Go. Brewers.LET’S! GO! BREWERS!Friedman descended into the Dodgers’ clubhouse after the Milwaukee Brewers’ 7-4 victory where there was nothing but dead silence.The Dodgers, the two-time defending World Series champions, are on the ropes.They boarded the team bus at 8:20 p.m. local time for the Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport for a return flight to Los Angeles, trying to make sense of what just happened.The Dodgers certainly weren’t taking the Brewers for granted, not after winning 103 games this season, but they never imagined that their high-powered offense would be suffocated like this, trailing the Brewers 2 games to 0, with their dynasty on the brink.“It’s hard to win,’’ Dodgers future Hall of Fame shortstop Mookie Betts said, “when you get only three hits.’’“It’s tough to hit,’’ Dodgers future Hall of Fame first baseman Freddie Freeman said, “when their bullpen is throwing 100 mph with different arm angles.’’“It’s just tough to beat those guys,’’ Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández said. “They play hard. They never give up. You know, they play clean baseball. That’s the thing, we’ve got to play a better game.’’The Dodgers certainly put up a brave front in the clubhouse, reminding everyone that they have two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell going in Game 3, playoff experienced Tyler Glasnow in Game 4, with two-time Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal returning for a potential Game 5.Yet, they are in deep trouble, trailing 2 games to 0 for the first time in a postseason since the COVID 2020 NLCS against Atlanta, which they came back to win in seven games.They also came back from a 3-games-to-2 deficit in the World Series last year to the Toronto Blue Jays.Still, this feels different.Yoshinobu Yamamoto, their World Series MVP who yielded a 1.07 ERA in his last five postseason starts, lasted just 2⅔ innings Monday, and coming just a day after the two-time Cy Young winner Skubal lasted only five innings.“It was tough,’’ Betts said. “But he’s a human being, too, you know. I think everybody’s so used to him being a robot that if he didn’t go eight innings, no hits, whatever, then he wasn’t Yamamoto.“So, it just shows he’s a human being. It’s playoff baseball.’’The Brewers aren’t getting length from their starters, either, but their bullpen has made the Dodgers look absolutely silly.The Brewers bullpen came into the game in the fifth inning, and promptly retired 15 consecutive batters, setting a postseason record. Their bullpen is yielding a 0.31 ERA this postseason. And the Dodgers, who have seen six different Brewers’ relievers, are hitting just .067 with just two singles off their bullpen.I
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