The Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers meet again with a World Series trip on the line.

Tarik Skubal will start Game 1 of the National League Championship Series for the Dodgers, ESPN reported. Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start Game 2. The series opens in Milwaukee.

It is a rematch of last year's NLCS. Then, the Dodgers swept the Brewers in four games and went on to win the World Series.

Before that series, Brewers manager Pat Murphy joked that the Dodgers could not name eight players on his roster, the New York Post reported. The joke backfired. This time, Murphy is taking a tougher tone. "We want to kick their butts," he said.

The Post still called the Brewers underdogs. Milwaukee was the winningest team in baseball in the regular season last year before falling to Los Angeles.

There is a lighter side story too. The Dodgers are staying at Milwaukee's historic Pfister Hotel, which opened in 1893 and is said to be haunted. Mookie Betts once booked an Airbnb rather than stay there, the Post reported. Max Muncy said he is not worried about ghosts. "Come on in!" he joked.

The winner of the series will face the American League champion in the World Series. In the AL, the Cleveland Guardians play the Tampa Bay Rays after completing a comeback against the White Sox on Saturday.

The Dodgers are trying to win a third straight title. No team has done that since the New York Yankees won three in a row from 1998 to 2000.

What we know: Tarik Skubal starts NLCS Game 1 for the Dodgers against the Brewers, with Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 2.
What we don't: Whether the Brewers can avenge last year's NLCS sweep.