Day One of the League Championship Series is in the books, and the Brewers and Dodgers gave us a game as riveting as you could possibly hope. And that was just the start.

Those two teams are back at it on Monday, and then the Guardians and Rays will get the ALCS going at Tropicana Field. Here is one question for each of the four LCS teams ahead of Monday’s doubleheader.

NLCS Game 2: Dodgers at Brewers
5 p.m. ET, FOX/FS1
SP: Yoshinobu Yamamoto (LAD) vs. Logan Henderson (MIL)

Can Yamamoto continue to be a superhero?

This is obviously not the biggest game that Yamamoto has ever pitched -- to say the least. What Yamamoto pulled off in last year’s World Series is the stuff of legends; it still drops your jaw just to think of it. Game 2 of the NLCS is not quite that, but it’s hardly nothing. And this particular NLCS Game 2 is very much not nothing. A year ago, Yamamoto twirled an absolute gem in this very situation: Game 2 of the NLCS, at American Family Field. But last year, the Dodgers had won Game 1. Not this time. And the Dodgers have not been down two games in a series since the 2023 NLDS against the Diamondbacks which, perhaps not coincidentally, is the last postseason series they actually lost.

The Dodgers were hoping for a little shock-and-awe in Game 1, something they had a real chance to make happen considering they had Tarik Skubal on the mound, while the Brewers only got 4 1/3 innings out of Jacob Misiorowski. But now this Brewers crowd, and this young Brewers team, smells blood. It is the perfect time for a dominant starting pitching performance from a guy who has very much seen all this before. If you are a believer in Dodger inevitability, it comes from having guys like Yamamoto in a game just like this.

Are the Brewers finally breaking through?

We all remember that the Dodgers swept the Brewers in the NLCS last year. But it’s worth remembering that not only did the Brewers bow out in four quick games, they also scored a total of four runs the entire series -- exactly one in each game. Based on that, sheesh, Sunday night’s 2-1 result must have felt like a downright offensive explosion.

It’s hard to overstate how difficult a loss for the Brewers on Sunday would have been for the morale of this franchise and this fanbase. A 103-win season. Misiorowski on the mound. A Milwaukee crowd going bonkers from the first pitch. All those things going for them … and then they still lose to these danged Dodgers? Again? Not an issue now.

The Brewers have proven they can beat these Dodgers, but not just that: They beat them at their own game, with timely hitting, a big homer, solid starting pitching and a shutdown bullpen. Sure, they’ve got to do it three more times. But now, at last, they’ve at least done it once.

ALCS Game 1: Guardians at Rays
8 p.m. ET, TBS/HBO Max
SP: Foster Griffin (CLE) vs. Drew Rasmussen (TB)

Can José Ramírez keep this going?

The Guardians obviously had a good season. They won the American League Central, they earned the No. 2 seed in the AL playoff field, they’ve been full Guards Ball in all the ways you love Guards Ball. But it has all felt a little strange that this terrific year -- one that now finds them four wins away from the World Series -- has happened during the most trying year of Ramírez’s brilliant career.

The team’s superstar for a decade now, the guy who will have a statue outside Progressive Field someday, surely the last player to wear a No. 11 Guardians jersey in a live game, has endured a nightmare season. Ramírez missed more than a month in the middle of the season after having surgery on his left hamate bone, and after he returned, he posted a .598 OPS with two home runs in 53 games. The slump continued through the Guardians’ two losses to open the AL Division Series against the White Sox.

But well, wouldn’t you know it … in the final three games -- you know, the ones Cleveland won -- he had a full 35 percent of their RBIs, including a seemingly physics-defying homer in the decisive Game 5. Ramírez has said he won’t be truly healthy until he has an offseason to heal that wrist. But right now, he is coming up huge for the franchise for which he will be a legend forever. The only thing he’s missing -- and of course the whole franchise is missing, at least for the past 78 years -- is a World Series ring. Cleveland can’t end that drought without its franchise player.

Does this game actually feature the postseason’s best SP?

Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Jacob Misiorowski. Tarik Skubal. Gavin Williams. Blake Snell. Bah! One of the best things about Drew Rasmussen’s incredible ALDS Game 1 dominance of the Yankees -- and no one has thrown a better game yet than his eight-inning, 10-strikeout, one-hit performance -- is that it shined a huge spotlight on just how fantastic he has been for a while now.

Sure, that 2.67 ERA this season, in 172 innings, with a 0.91 WHIP and a 5.4 K/BB ratio, that’s all plenty impressive. But Rasmussen was absolutely magical in the second half, with a 9-0 record and a 1.86 ERA in 12 starts. Over his past seven starts, including the ALDS, he has put up a 1.13 ERA, 0.76 WHIP and .154 opponent batting average with a 28.3% strikeout rate across 39 2/3 innings. That’s vintage Pedro-type stuff. The Rays have a lot of advantages this series. But he sure feels like the biggest one.