Brewers vs. Dodgers Game 3 Predictions, Picks and Odds

On Wednesday night, the Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles Dodgers move their National League Championship Series from the midwest to the west coast for Game 3. First pitch is set for 8 p.m. ET, and the game can be viewed or streamed on FOX Sports 1.

The Brewers won both games at American Family Field to hold serve at home, as the No. 1 seed picked up a 2-1 win in the series opener behind RHP Jacob Misiorowski, while posting a higher-scoring 7-4 victory in Game 2 as a home underdog.

Milwaukee cashed the Over in Game 2, halting a 4-0-1 run to the Under during these playoffs. Meanwhile, Los Angeles has managed a 3-3 record in the postseason, as it stopped the Atlanta Braves in the best-of-five NLDS, 3-1, but it has tumbled into an 0-2 series hole in this series.

In the regular-season series at Dodger Stadium, the Brewers posted three victories in a four-game set Aug. 13-16, while the Over-Under split 2-2.

The Brewers will start LHP Robert Gasser, who posted a 5-5 record with a 3.87 ERA and 1.19 WHIP in 20 regular-season starts and a relief appearance with 103 strikeouts in 109 ⅓ IP.

Gasser made his first-career postseason start in Game 4 against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park, allowing one run, three hits and a walk in four innings with four strikeouts in the no-decision. The 27-year-old El Dorado Hills, California native will make his second consecutive start in his native state, and that might give him a little extra oomph.

However, the Dodgers are going with LHP Blake Snell, who was 4-1 with a 1.90 ERA and 1.10 WHIP with 55 strikeouts across 42 ⅔ IP in the regular season across nine starts.

Snell made his 16th career postseason start in Game 2 of the NLDS against the Braves, allowing 3 ⅔ IP with one run, three hits and five walks allowed, as he labored badly in a 90-pitch effort with five strikeouts.

He faced the Brewers in Game 1 of the NLCS last season in Milwaukee, allowing just one hit with no walks and 10 strikeouts across eight scoreless innings in a 2-1 win.

The Dodgers are trying to avoid going into an 0-3 series hole, as it would be next to impossible to make the World Series with that type of deficit. This is a must-win game for the Dodgers, and with a red-hot Snell going up against an inexperienced Gasser, Los Angeles is a strong play play on the moneyline, as long as it doesn’t close at -190 or more.

Looking to the total, while the Dodgers have a ton of postseason experience, there is still a ton of pressure to win. The expectations are world title or else. As such, we could see a little bit of nerves, and some lower scores. It wouldn’t be surprising to see this as a 3-2 or 4-2 kind of a game. Let’s go UNDER 7.5 (-118) on the total for Game 3, too.