There's no one more fitting to take the mound in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series than Yoshinobu Yamamoto. 

Down 1-0 in the NLCS heading into Monday, the Los Angeles Dodgers entrusted Yamamoto with yet another crucial playoff road game. No pitcher on the planet was better suited than Yamamoto, as he has won his last five postseason road games — four starts and one relief appearance. 

The Milwaukee Brewers did not falter in history, knocking out Yamamoto before recording three innings and taking a commanding 2-0 lead in the NLCS with a 7-4 win heading back to Dodger Stadium on Wednesday.

Milwaukee's hitters learned a few things from Los Angeles in Game 1 after knocking out their flamethrower, Jacob Misiorowski, before recording five innings. From the first hitter, something was off with Yamamoto on the mound. 

The Brewers jumped on Yamamoto early, driving in their first run of the game in the first inning thanks to an RBI single from William Contreras following a double from Brice Turang.

Yamamoto bounced back in the second inning with a scoreless frame after the 24-pitch first inning.

The third inning didn't do him any justice. 

He led off the inning by giving up a single to David Hamilton and later recorded the first out of the frame with a Jackson Chourio lineout to right field. Hamilton would swipe second in the midst of Turang earning a free pass on six pitches. 

Contreras would fly out for out No. 2, but the momentum shift occurred between Yamamoto and Jake Bauers. 

Bauers gassed Yamamoto on the rubber, fouling six consecutive pitches, en route to a 12-pitch walk.

Dave Roberts would allow Yamamoto to face one more batter in hopes of escaping the bases-loaded jam. Christian Yelich, who was absent from the Brewers' starting lineup in Game 1 to avoid a matchup against Tarik Skubal, came up big with a two-run RBI single. 

That did it for Roberts as he snatched Yamamoto off the mound with 75 pitches thrown and before he could reach the third inning, marking the lowest number of innings he's ever thrown in his postseason career.

With Yamamoto gone, the Brewers had the Dodgers looking into their bullpen before the fourth inning.  

Contreras, who already had an RBI single that tied the game in the first inning, came back in the fifth inning to tie the game with his third home run of the postseason. 

He outdid himself in the bottom of the sixth with a go-ahead RBI single that gave Milwaukee a 5-4 lead. In 23 postseason at-bats, the 28-year-old catcher is hitting .391 with an OPS of 1.245 and five RBIs. 

Brewers turned to young right-hander Logan Henderson in Game 2 and hoped to have better fortune than Misirowski. Unfortunately, it was the errors that limited Henderson's day on the mound to just four innings and four runs given up (two of them earned). 

But that might have been a good thing for Milwaukee with their bullpen single-handedly shutting out the Dodgers' offense in the final five innings. 

Los Angeles went 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position and left two men on base. 

This marks the first time since the 2023 National League Division Series that the Dodgers have trailed 2-0 in a postseason series.