Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski can’t complete 5 innings in NLCS opener

MILWAUKEE — It was a really challenging night for Milwaukee Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski. The front-runner for the NL Cy Young Award laboured just to make it to the fifth inning of the NL Championship Series opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday night. Los Angeles fouled off 21 of his 94 pitches by the time his final batter, Mookie Betts, reached on a one-out walk in the fifth. The 24-year-old allowed one run and five hits. The 6-foot-7 right-hander threw 44 pitches at 100 m.p.h. or higher, reaching 104 m.p.h. on his initial offering to Freddie Freeman in...