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  "angle": "Brewers lead the NLCS 3-0 after a 6-2 Game 3 win, one victory from their first World Series in 44 years; the Dodgers' stars are ice cold.",
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          "markdown": "The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 in Game 3 of the NLCS and now lead the series three games to zero. They are one win away from reaching their first World Series in 44 years.",
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          "markdown": "This is not supposed to be a power team, which is what makes the series strange. Milwaukee won a franchise-record 103 games in the regular season, and in this series it is winning with the highest three-true-outcomes rate of any team in League Championship Series history: 31 percent, alongside a 14.7 percent walk rate. The Brewers have outhomered the Dodgers 5-0 in the series.",
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          "markdown": "The pitching has been just as responsible. Milwaukee's staff owns a 1.74 ERA this postseason, the lowest among the 12 playoff entrants, and Chourio has 18 career postseason RBIs. The small-ball instincts survive too: Milwaukee used two sacrifice bunts in Game 1, and William Contreras became the first Brewer with 10 hits in the 2026 postseason. The Brewers are beating the Dodgers at the Dodgers' own game: waiting for mistakes and punishing them.",
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          "markdown": "The Dodgers did get one brief rally. Will Smith delivered a go-ahead two-run double in the sixth inning of Game 3, and Shohei Ohtani followed with a 113.5 mph single in the eighth. Manager Dave Roberts had moved Smith to seventh and Ohtani to sixth in the lineup to lengthen it and disrupt Milwaukee's bullpen matchups. It was not enough, and the Dodgers have yet to hit a home run in the series.",
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          "markdown": "The history is unforgiving. Teams leading a best-of-seven 3-0 have won 41 of 42 series; the only comeback was the 2004 Red Sox, a team Dodgers manager Dave Roberts played for. The Dodgers now need to become the second.",
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