At stake is a date in the NLCS with the Dodgers, who won a wild, 11-inning walk-off in Los Angeles just as the Brewers and Cubs were getting underway on a cool night on Chicago’s north side. For the Brewers, it was an inauspicious start. In the top of the first inning, Cubs left-hander Matthew Boyd, roughed up for six runs (two earned) in the opening inning of Game 1, earned redemption by making Milwaukee the first team in this series to fail to score in the opening frame. In the bottom half of the first inning, the Cubs refused to become the second.