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NL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES: DODGERS VS BREWERS


October 16, 2025


Pat Murphy


Los Angeles, California, USA

Dodger Stadium

Milwaukee Brewers

Postgame 3 Press Conference


Dodgers - 3, Brewers - 1

Q. What is it the early word on Chourio? And given his absence and where the series is, where do you feel you stand right now?

PAT MURPHY: Chourio's had a continual cramps in his hamstring. He feels like he's going to be okay. So I'm hopeful. He's got an IV going right now, and we'll hope he's okay.

Q. Obviously Jake was rolling there, going into the sixth inning? What did you like about that match-up with him against Edman versus going against Abner?

PAT MURPHY: He gave a single up the middle. It wasn't like he got crushed. He threw the ball unbelievable. He gave us the best chance to win there.

Abner has not been throwing the ball like he normally has. I had to make a decision who's a better match-up. Miz was the best player on the field for us today, and he was fantastic.

I knew he was getting to the end because that's his pitch-count kind of thing, but in a game like this, I wanted to give him a chance to get out of that. Edman is much better with the ball down on that. I thought Uribe is going to throw the sinker, and Abner hasn't been as sharp. So went with it.

Q. All year, you've talked about the obstacles and hurdles you guys have overcome. How do you size up or summarize the 3-0 deficit and the hole you're in against that team?

PAT MURPHY: That team is pretty good. So are we. We haven't shown our best foot. Like I said, if you would have told me the Dodgers would score 10 runs in three games, what would be the score? If you said 2-1 us, or 1-2 them, you wouldn't say 0-3.

But we haven't got the clutch hit. We've been a little bit foreign to how we've played in terms of contact.

Now, there wasn't a hard hit ball hit between two outs in the second and the sixth because it was very difficult to see for hitters.

Take nothing away from Glasnow, who pitched great. Take nothing away from Miz, who pitched great, but it was a really tough visual for both teams. Nobody can think of a hard-hit ball hit during that time. That's very unusual in a game.

A very tough background at 3:00, which everybody can tell you. Dodger players will tell you, whatever. We're not making excuses, but neither team hit the ball. You can kind of erase that. And it came down to a few plays.

Muncy made a great play at third to keep that ball from going through. Made a great throw on top of it.

Abner throwing the ball away at first gave us another run. That's a run-run turnaround. And we had a man on second, nobody out at the end and our hottest hitter up and he couldn't get him over.

Those types of things happen. Your offense isn't going to click. We did some good things but didn't get the big hit. And, again, had a bunch of strikeouts when it was very difficult to see.

Q. Would you talk a little bit how you've kept Ohtani off balance all series? Interesting that last at-bat, two out, nobody on and you brought in a left-hander and struck him out.

PAT MURPHY: Shohei is one of the best hitters in the game. So whatever streak he's going through -- the ball he hit in the first inning was a good pitch. He just tapped it right in the right spot. It's a triple and it ends up being a run.

You take that, that's not -- Shohei hits the ball a hundred-plus most times when he barrels it. That was a little either off the end or whatever, flicked it over first base for a triple.

He's not hitting the bat like he can. But he's so dangerous and he's going through a period where right when you think he's not swinging it he'll get on it.

We're not doing anything so awfully special except we're pitching him very, very carefully. And anytime we can bring in a lefty, we do because that's foreign to all those guys. They don't see lefties as much as righties.

And Shohei's in a little spell here where he's not barrelling balls like he has. But he's still for us a tremendously dangerous, dangerous hitter. You can't forget that. These great ones, they can turn it on like that (snapping fingers).

But when you pitch them tough or you make pitches to the spot they don't hit it, then that's baseball. And tip your hat to that's good pitching.

Q. Was it a decision to stay with Misiorowski for that sixth? Was that the decision all the way? In the inning did you think Sal may have had a play at the plate when he first got --

PAT MURPHY: A little too deep, a little too deep. The Sal ball, it wasn't hit very hard. I don't know what the miles per hour was, but it certainly wasn't hit very hard, more off the end. And certainly no play at the plate from that far away.

Q. Whether it was Miz all the way at the start of the sixth?

PAT MURPHY: You know the situation with our pen and Miz is cruising. So, let me ask you something. We take out Miz right there, what questions am I getting right now when we bring somebody in and they give up two runs.

He was throwing the ball great. I'm really happy for him. And he's lined up now if we can do something extraordinary, he's lined up to pitch the last game.

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