Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws a complete game in Dodgers’ NLCS Game 2 victory

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers used the slogan “Magic Brew” as their slogan for their playoff series.

Tuesday night, the Dodgers made it seem like the magic was running out.

In their first truly stress-free win of this postseason, the Dodgers slowly snuffed out the Brewers in a 5-1 win in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series, thanks to a complete game from Yoshinobu Yamamoto and relentless attack from their all-star lineup to leave the gutsy but controlled Brewers nearly left for dead.

In every way, this one felt like a mismatch.

Milwaukee staff ace Freddy Peralta couldn’t limit the damage against the giant Dodgers lineup, allowing three runs in the starting 5⅔.

Milwaukee’s typically opportunistic offense led the game with a home run, then barely touched Yamamoto en route to the Dodgers’ first complete postseason performance since a shutout of José Lima in the 2004 NL Division Series.

Even on defense, the Brewers failed. In almost the same spot where he robbed Max Muncy of a grand slam on a stunning double play in Game 1, Milwaukee center fielder Sal Frelick, drifting on another Muncy drive in Tuesday’s sixth inning, made a similar effort against the wall, but this time came up empty as the ball barely cleared the fence.

The Brewers, plain and simple, failed to measure up to the defending World Series champions.

And now, with a 2-0 lead as the NLCS moves to Dodger Stadium, it would take a major upset for the Dodgers to let this series return here.

Despite winning six of their first seven games in this year’s postseason, the Dodgers’ success in October didn’t come easy.

In each of their three previous victories (all of which came by a single run), their opponent had the winning run or go-ahead scoring position in the final inning — including a bases-loaded ninth-inning jam late in Monday’s NLCS opener.

In the previous game, the Dodgers let the potential tying run reach base in the eighth. Back up again, and the tying run was at home plate against the team’s shaky bullpen.

On Tuesday, however, there was no late-game theater.

Behind Yamamoto’s nine-inning gem, the team imposed its will from start (well, almost) to the end.

It wasn’t until the first inning, when Jackson Chourio threw out Yamamoto’s first pitch, that it felt like the Magic Brew was being stirred.

But then the 27-year-old Japanese right-hander immediately put it down, turning in another historic pitching performance from a Dodgers rotation starting to give them a sense of routine.

Yamamoto was unfazed by a series of early traffic, working around a Muncy error in the second, singles in the third and fourth, and his only walk of the night in the fifth.

He was dominant down the stretch, retiring his final 14 batters while finishing with seven strikeouts on just 111 pitches.

The Dodgers’ offense, meanwhile, quickly gave him the advantage. In the top of the second, Teoscar Hernández tied the score on a towering home run to left before Andy Pages hit a two-out RBI double down the line for a 2-1 advantage.

And from there, the Dodgers didn’t relent, finally pulling away after Muncy’s home run in the top of the sixth.

With a swing that both expanded the Dodgers’ lead and etched his name in Dodgers postseason history, Muncy took Peralta deep on the right-hander’s final pitch, hitting his 14th career postseason home run (a franchise record) on a scorching line drive to center.

For a brief moment, some at American Family Field cheered, thinking Frelick had denied Muncy a long ball, just as he had done on the double play in Game 1.

Alas, Muncy continued to round the bases this time as Frelick revealed his glove was empty. And from then on, a crowd of 41,427 watched in relative silence, as the Dodgers scored again in the seventh (on an RBI single by Shohei Ohtani, breaking a one-for-23 slump dating back to the start of the Division Series) and the eighth (on an RBI single by Tommy Edman) to give Yamamoto room to complete his domination of the complete match.