{"id":826831,"date":"2026-10-11T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/826831\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:18:15","slug":"nlcs-links-tarik-skubal-shohei-ohtani-max-muncy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/826831\/","title":{"rendered":"NLCS links: Tarik Skubal, Shohei Ohtani, Max Muncy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After a three-day hiatus, the Dodgers are back in business on Sunday as they begin the 2026 National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tarik Skubal was handed the ball for Game 1 of the NLDS against the Atlanta Braves, and he managed to allow just one run while striking out seven across six innings of work. Fresh off a full week of rest, Skubal will once again be handed the ball to kick off the series, this time doing so against the soon-to-be NL Cy Young award winner Jacob Misiorowski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sunday\u2019s Game 1 matchup will feature quite the unprecedented pitching matchup, and <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=87443X1797504&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2Fmisiorowski-skubal-game-1-nlcs-matchup\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Petriello of MLB.com<\/a> breaks down just how rare a matchup between Skubal and Misiorowski is compared to other historic postseason pitching matchups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">If a rare matchup of 100-win teams in the NLCS isn\u2019t good enough, if a rematch of last year\u2019s NLCS \u2013 and the third time since 2018 \u2013 isn\u2019t good enough, there\u2019s this, too. You just don\u2019t really see starting pitching matchups like this, really ever. We\u2019re incredibly fortunate to get this one, potentially twice in the next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Facing Misiorowski will be another rigorous test for the Dodgers in their quest for a third consecutive championship, and for a struggling Shohei Ohtani, he\u2019ll have to find a way to bounce back offensively against one of the National League\u2019s premier young aces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dave Roberts still has confidence that Ohtani will turns things around at the plate, and the two-way star worked in some extra batting practice while the Dodgers have been preparing at American Family Field, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2026-10-10\/dodgers-confident-shohei-ohtani-will-break-out-of-his-slump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maddie Lee of the Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThere\u2019s nothing right now I\u2019m going to hang my hat on outside of, I just believe in the person and the talent,\u201d Roberts said in a conference call Friday. \u201cI do think that getting a couple days out of a game environment to kind of work on his swing, rest the body, rest the mind is a benefit. I\u2019m just never going to count Shohei out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Max Muncy and I share basically one thing in common; we aren\u2019t afraid of ghosts. That\u2019s why he has elected to stay at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee this series, even with its notoriety as a \u201chaunted\u201d hotel, per <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/10\/sports\/max-muncy-ghosts-haunted-milwaukee-hotel-dodgers-brewers-nlcs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Young of the California Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIf there\u2019s a ghost there, come on in. If the TV turns on, I know he\u2019s friendly. Hopefully he\u2019s just not there to disturb me. I welcome them. If there\u2019s a ghost, let\u2019s have a good time with it, come on in. It is what it is,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a three-day hiatus, the Dodgers are back in business on Sunday as they begin the 2026 National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,38410,8505,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":["post-826831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-dodgers-news-notes","tag-dodgers-links","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117422240770588511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}