Posting 103 victories across the regular season placed Milwaukee atop the majors in wins, yet the Brewers' power output ranked among the lowest in the league, with only one club hitting fewer home runs. Consecutive home runs from Jake Bauers and Garrett Mitchell against Blake Snell in the seventh inning helped carry Milwaukee to a 6-2 victory over Los Angeles on Wednesday, extending the Brewers' lead in the National League Championship Series to three games without a loss.

Chourio connected on the opening delivery of the contest, a home run that trimmed Milwaukee's deficit to a single victory away from an NL pennant appearance the franchise has never reached. The franchise's lone World Series appearance came during its American League tenure — a seven-game defeat to St. Louis in 1982 — and Mitchell noted the work ahead remained unfinished.

Thursday's contest at Dodger Stadium puts the Brewers in position to achieve something no major league team has managed before — reversing a postseason sweep against the very opponent that swept them out in the prior year's playoffs. A sweep of all four NLCS contests against Milwaukee belonged to Los Angeles the previous postseason.

Milwaukee's three-run seventh-inning rally wiped out a 2-1 Los Angeles lead that had been established just the half-inning before. That defeat left the reigning back-to-back World Series holders one loss away from an early exit, while Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy noted that his team had answered every opponent run with one of their own across all three games played — a pattern he described as far from routine at this level of competition — marking the Brewers' fifth come-from-behind win in seven postseason outings against a Los Angeles club that has held the upper hand in each of their three prior playoff meetings.

On the one prior occasion Los Angeles found itself down three games to none in a best-of-seven postseason run, Baltimore swept all four contests to claim the 1966 World Series title. Only the Boston Red Sox have managed to overturn a 3-0 series deficit to take a best-of-seven postseason matchup — a feat they accomplished against the New York Yankees in the 2004 AL Championship Series — and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pointed to his team's track record of stringing together four consecutive victories multiple times during the season as a basis for confidence heading into the following day's contest.

Heading into the seventh inning, Snell had set down 14 consecutive batters without allowing any of them to reach base. Chourio sent the opening delivery from the two-time Cy Young Award recipient over the fence, and Mitchell's solo blast off that same pitcher closed out his night.

Vaughn worked a seven-pitch walk to lead off the seventh inning, at which point Yelich entered the game as a pinch-runner in his place. Bauers connected on the 11th pitch of the at-bat, sending a 412-foot shot into right field that put Milwaukee ahead 3-2, with much of the dugout emptying onto the field in response — a player who had accounted for 26 of the team's 154 home runs across the regular season, and who told reporters afterward that his approach had shifted because he stopped placing emphasis on outcomes and had simply been waiting on a fastball he did not want to let pass.

Mitchell described a shift in mindset toward presence and self-trust — and then sent a ball 428 feet into right-center field. Snell's departure followed, with the left-hander having kept the ball in the yard across 46 and a third innings of work before that at-bat. Across his entire career to that point, he had never surrendered home runs to two consecutive left-handed batters, and only once before had multiple left-handed hitters gone deep against him within a single outing.

Batting left-handed, Bauers and Mitchell placed themselves in narrow postseason company — across the entire history of the playoffs, only two other pairs of left-handed batters had connected on consecutive home runs against a southpaw pitcher. Homers struck by Schwarber and Harper off Atlanta's Dylan Lee put Philadelphia in the record books during this year's NL Wild Card Series, while a similar back-to-back feat unfolded nearly a century earlier when Ruth and Gehrig each went deep against St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bill Sherdel during the 1928 World Series for New York.

Five home runs have come off Milwaukee bats during the NLCS alone, with their total postseason output standing at eight. Four runs crossed the plate against Snell across his six-plus innings of work, with four hits allowed along the way. Nine batters went down on strikes, while two others drew free passes.

A wild pitch from Wrobleski allowed Turang to cross the plate in the eighth inning, capping a journey that had begun with an infield single and continued to third base on a William Contreras hit, stretching Milwaukee's lead to 5-2. A two-strike base hit off Ortiz's bat in the ninth brought home another run.

A two-run double by Will Smith off reliever Abner Uribe in the sixth inning pushed Los Angeles ahead, 2-1, despite the team's struggles to generate offense throughout the game. Gasser, making his debut as a starter, held the opposition scoreless across five innings before Uribe took over and promptly surrendered free passes to Teoscar Hernández, Kyle Tucker, and Shohei Ohtani, filling every base without recording an out. A two-bagger off the left-center wall — Smith's first NLCS knock — came with one out, snapping an 0-for-25 run through the postseason.

Entering the game in relief of Uribe, Hall retired pinch-hitter Kiké Hernández and Tommy Edman on strikeouts, leaving the runners at second and third base on the basepaths. Pitching 2 1/3 hitless frames — save for a single — Hall pushed his postseason record to three wins without a loss. Entering the game to record four outs, Megill earned his second save of that series and his fourth across postseason play.

Trailing from the outset, the Dodgers found themselves chasing yet again after Chourio launched a leadoff home run — his third of that kind across postseason play. Following a walk to Mitchell and a single by Cooper Pratt in the second inning, Snell put together a stretch of 14 consecutive outs — six of them via strikeout — before running into trouble in the seventh.

Runners reached base for the Dodgers in six of nine innings, yet the offense fell short of converting those opportunities into enough runs. No home runs have come for them through the NLCS, and across the full postseason their bats have gone quiet with runners on base — just 3 hits in 32 at-bats when a run was there to be driven in. Batting sixth — a spot lower in the lineup than he had occupied at any point across his three seasons in a Dodgers uniform — Ohtani reached base via a walk and collected one hit in two at-bats.