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Shohei Ohtani hits three home runs and pitches six shutout innings as the Dodgers defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 in Game 4 of the NLCS to advance to the World Series.

The Los Angeles Dodgers will start Blake Snell on Friday for Game 1 of the World Series, according to Dave Roberts. Yoshinbou Yamamoto will be the starter for

Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts are friends, going back to Rivers’ days as the Los Angeles Clippers coach when they got to know each other fairly well. “We golf,” Rivers said. “Or, put it like … we plan on golf a lot. We never actually get to do it much.”