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The situation never presented itself last year, mainly because the Los Angeles Dodgers completely shut down the Milwaukee Brewers’ offense. Also, because of where the Crew’s starting rotation was at entering the postseason, much less the 2025 NL Championship Series, manager Pat Murphy felt the best use of his ace left-handed reliever, Aaron Ashby, was to get the pitching staff off to a good start and hope from there. It mostly worked from the Ashby perspective as he started three postseason games, including Games 1 and 3 of the NLCS. A year later, Ashby serving as an opener wasn’t even a thought. Of the various weapons Murphy has in his holster, Ashby is the most versatile, but also is a silver bullet. When you want to put an opponent out of their misery, you pull the Ashby trigger. When it came time to slay the Dodgers, the two-time defending World Series champions who have been favored to win a third straight since the last out of last year’s Fall Classic, Ashby did the grittiest work of a Brewers bullpen that, other than one glitch, kept a potent Dodgers offense off-balance. Because of that, the Brewers are headed back to the World Series for the first time since 1982 with a 6-4 victory over the Dodgers on Thursday at Dodger Stadium. It was a four-game sweep of the mighty Dodgers with their megapayroll. Ashby is responsible for a big part of that. The bespectacled left-hander, who vultured 13 wins throughout the regular season, was masterful for the final three innings of Game 4. This time, he picked up the biggest save of his career. With his curveball as sharp as it has ever been, Ashby went the final three innings, seemingly getting stronger with each out. The 28-year-old, taken by the Brewers in the fourth round in 2018, came on to protect a 5-4 lead. Sure, the Brewers had the cushion of more games to lose, but when you have a chance to take down the dragon, you take down the dragon. Ashby started off a little rough by giving up a leadoff double to Andy Pages, stirring the fervent fans at Dodgers Stadium. Enrique Hernandez bunted Pages to third, bringing up the top of the order and the resurgent Shohei Ohtani. The four-time MVP ended his slump with his first homer since Aug. 18 to put the Dodgers up 4-0 in the second inning. Ohtani fouled off a first-pitch slider, then wiped him out with a sinker and another slider way outside that he flailed at. Another former MVP, Mookie Betts, grounded out to rookie shortstop Cooper Pratt. That figured to be half of Ashby's job with right-handed closer Trevor Megill getting ready in the bullpen for the ninth. In the eighth, Freddie Freeman, the third of the Dodgers' MVPs, led off the eight by flying out to Jackson Chourio in left. Will Smith, who hit the decisive homer in Game 7 of last year's World Series, then doubled into the right-field corner and went to third when Sal Frelick couldn't handle the ball, getting the nerves of Brewers fans working. But Ashby, with the tying run 90 feet away, got Kyle Tucker to fly out to Garrett Mitchell, who raced in to make the catch in shallow center. Teoscar Hernandez struck out, putting the Brewers three outs away. While conventional wisdom had Murphy calling on Megill to close it out, Murphy rode the hot hand and stuck with Ashby to at least begin the ninth. Tommy Edman pinch-hit and ran the count full before grounding out to Pratt at short. Two more outs. Pages, the first batter he faced in Game 4, struck out on four pitches. One more out. Ashby got in front of Hernandez 0-2, then hit a liner that seemed headed over Chourio's head, but he reached up and plucked it out of the air for the final out. Ashby had the save, not just a regular save, a three-inning save. The Brewers were going back to the World Series. It capped a three-game performance in which Ashby pitched 6⅔ innings, allowing just two hits and no walks, punching out six. He hasn't allowed a run in 12⅓ innings in six appearances this postseason. Ashby gets the headline, but it was the work that right-hander Dustin May and left-hander JoJo Romero, the two players the Brewers acquired at the trade deadline from the St. Louis Cardinals, following the abbreviated start by rookie left-hander Shane Drohan, who was making his postseason debut by pitching a potential clincher. Sure, May did give up the three-run bomb by Ohtani that could have been a dagger in the Brewers. But he bounced back from that and gave Murphy the innings he needed in this game. May shut down his former team for two more innings, getting the Crew through four innings. Meanwhile, the offense got a pair in the fourth thanks to NLCS MVP Jake Bauers' two-run double to make it 4-2. Romero was the next piece of the puzzle and just as big as Ashby. After walks helped bring in two more Brewers runs, the game was now tied. Garrett Mitchell would homer in the fifth to put the Crew up 5-4. Romero was nails. He allowed a hit, but retired six of the seven hitters he retired. His fifth inning was his biggest challenge. Facing the MVP triumvirate of Ohtani, Betts and Freeman. Strikeout, groundout, strikeout. He was credited with the victory, giving the bullpen all four wins in this series. It is a unit that was already pretty respected across MLB, but with the performance the bullpen put on throughout the series against the Dodgers, the relievers took it to a new level. Because of that, the Brewers are back where they were 44 years ago. The World Series.

For the first time in 44 years, the Milwaukee Brewers are one win away from advancing to the second World Series in franchise history. Rookie left-hander Shane Drohan gets the call to start what could be a monumental game for the Crew, who have a 3-0 lead over the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the best-of-seven series. This will be Drohan's postseason debut despite being on the roster throughout the NL Division Series and the NLCS. With that, it is not expected that Drohan, who made his MLB debut in early April, goes deep in this game. Perhaps one time through the order and then with a quick hook from there. Another candidate to see early action is right-hander Dustin May, a former Dodger, who could also give the Brewers multiple innings before getting to the leverage arms in the bullpen. Acquired from the Boston Red Sox in the Caleb Durbin deal, Drohan has appeared in 33 games for the Brewers, making 19 starts. He has a 3.73 FIP (4.19 ERA) with an 8.3% walk rate and 23.7% strikeout rate, both fairly average by MLB standards. His last appearance was in the regular-season finale, when he pitched 1⅔ innings of relief against the St. Louis Cardinals on Sept. 27. He didn't allow a run or a hit while striking out two. That came three days after a 2⅔-inning start against the Philadelphia Phillies in which he gave up a run on three hits with two walks and two strikeouts. Drohan faced the Dodgers three times this season, two early relief outings and then an August start. In the two May games out of the bullpen, Drohan pitched a combined 4⅓ innings, allowing three runs (two earned) on three hits and two walks with seven strikeouts. In his Aug. 13 start, Drohan went 5⅓ innings and gave up three runs on three hits and three walks with five strikeouts in a 5-4 Brewers victory. Thus, the Dodgers have a small sample size vs. Drohan. None of the 11 players on the Dodgers' roster have more than one hit against the rookie, although Andy Pages hit a two-run homer in the May 24 relief appearance and Kyle Tucker a two-run triple in the same game. Drohan has struck out Freddie Freeman twice, perhaps one reason he is getting the start. Shane Drohan vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: Current Batters Table Rk Player B PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GIDP 1 Andy Pages R 6 6 1 0 0 1 2 0 2 .167 .167 .667 .833 0 0 0 0 0 2 Freddie Freeman L 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 .000 .200 .000 .200 0 0 0 0 0 3 Kyle Tucker L 5 4 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 .250 .400 .750 1.150 0 0 0 0 0 4 Teoscar Hernández R 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .250 .250 .250 .500 0 0 0 0 0 5 Shohei Ohtani L 4 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 .250 .250 .500 .750 0 0 0 0 0 6 Miguel Rojas R 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .250 .000 .250 0 0 0 0 1 7 Tommy Edman B 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .333 .000 .333 0 0 0 0 0 8 Mookie Betts R 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .500 .000 .500 0 0 0 0 0 9 Kiké Hernández R 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 10 Dalton Rushing L 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 11 Max Muncy L 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Provided by Stathead: Found with Stathead. See Full Results. Generated 10/15/2026. For the first time in this series, the Brewers will not be facing a starting pitcher who has either won two Cy Young Awards or a World Series MVP. But don't overlook right-hander Tyler Glasnow, who has a repertoire that is every bit as good as the three starters who preceded him in the NLCS. The 6-foot-8 Glasnow missed a good chunk of this season with lower-back spasms, but did post a 2.74 FIP (3.53 ERA) in 13 starts with an 8.7% walk rate and very good 34% strikeout rate. He started the clinching Game 4 of the NL Division Series vs. Atlanta, going 4⅔ innings, allowing a run on a hit, but walking five and striking out five. He made six appearances for the Dodgers in last year's postseason, three in relief. While Glasnow didn't face the Crew this year, he did pitch against them twice last year and nine times in his career. Last year, he struck out 11 over 11 innings, giving up two runs (one earned) on six hits and four walks. For his career, Glasnow has a 4.55 ERA in 31⅔ innings, walking 22 and striking out 37. All but three of those appearances came with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including four relief outings. The other three have been starts with the Dodgers. Christian Yelich has seen Glasnow the most, but is just 1-for-14 with seven strikeouts. Backup catcher Gary Sanchez is 3-for 12 with seven strikeouts, while starting catcher William Contreras is 0-for-9 with three punchouts. Brice Turang has some success, going 3-for-8. Jake Bauers has homered for his lone hit in seven plate appearances. The Brewers, who finished with the second-fewest homers in MLB this season, have outhomered the Dodgers 5-0 in the NLCS. Tyler Glasnow vs. Milwaukee Brewers: Current Batters Table Rk Player B PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GIDP 1 Christian Yelich L 14 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 .071 .071 .071 .143 0 0 0 0 0 2 Gary Sánchez R 13 12 3 1 0 0 0 1 7 .250 .308 .333 .641 0 0 0 0 0 3 William Contreras R 10 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .000 .100 .000 .100 0 0 0 0 0 4 Brice Turang L 8 8 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 .375 .375 .375 .750 0 0 0 0 0 5 Jake Bauers L 7 6 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 .167 .286 .667 .952 0 0 0 0 0 6 Jackson Chourio R 7 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .143 .143 .143 .286 0 0 0 0 0 7 Sal Frelick L 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 8 Joey Ortiz R 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 9 Garrett Mitchell L 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .333 .000 .333 0 0 0 0 0 10 Bo Naylor L 3 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 .333 .333 .667 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 Provided by Stathead: Found with Stathead. See Full Results. Generated 10/15/2026.

Do you remember the scene from “A Christmas Story” where something possessed Ralphie to beat the ever-living snot out of Scut Farkus, the neighborhood bully? Ralphie was walking dejectedly, when he was smucked in the face with a snowball from Farkus. As Farkus and his toady, Grover Dill, sat atop the abandoned body of an automobile, Ralphie removed his glasses and wiped the snow from his right eye. Tears were welling up in Ralphie’s eyes as Farkus hopped down and approached his helpless victim, ready to hurl more insults and do more damage. Farkus’ taunts continued. Then, Ralphie snapped into puncher’s mode, jumping Farkus and landing haymaker after haymaker until the table was turned. Farkus was the one crying as Ralphie let loose a few bad words as the pummeling continued. Well, the Milwaukee Brewers were sick and tired of taking punches from baseball’s bully in recent years. Their egos were left battered by the Dodgers’ sweep in the 2025 NL Championship Series. This year, they punched back. And how. Now, the Brewers lead the 2026 NL Championship series three games to none following a 6-2 victory in Game 3 at Dodger Stadium, the site of the final two games of last year's sweep. You hear baseball people talk about shutdown innings. That is when a pitcher needs to shut down the opposing team’s offense after his team scores a run. The thought is that it provides momentum for the offense to score more. It might be something from the great baseball book of things that might be true, but the Brewers didn’t want to test that theory. With every punch the Dodgers have landed in the first three games, the Brewers have hit back. They weren’t always body blows, but they prevented a shutdown inning. The only time it didn’t happen was Game 1. After the Dodgers scored in the second inning for a 1-0 lead, the Brewers didn’t score until the fourth inning, then again in the fifth for a 2-1 win. But after that, each time the Dodgers crossed the plate in Games 2 and 3, the Brewers did so the next half-inning. In Game 2, that was William Contreras answering the Dodgers’ run in the top of the first with an RBI single. Christian Yelich following Jake Bauers’ epic walk with a two-run bases-loaded single after the Dodgers had taken a 2-1 lead in the top of the third. After Los Angeles got two in the fifth, the Crew bounced back with Contreras’ big solo homer to tie it 4-4, then took the lead in the sixth thanks to Contreras and went on to record a 7-4 victory. But Game 3 was the biggest punch yet. This time, it was the Brewers who struck first on Jackson Chourio’s first-pitch homer. After being held scoreless for five innings by left-handed starter Robert Gasser, the Dodgers took advantage of a wobbly Abner Uribe to score twice in the bottom of the sixth. The thought was everywhere. This is when the mighty Dodgers were about to step on the throat of the small-market Brewers. There was another punch left in the Brewers. Andrew Vaughn drew a seven-pitch leadoff walk against Dodgers left-hander Blake Snell, who had been tremendous up to this point, allowing just two hits while missing a lot of bats en route to nine strikeouts. Christian Yelich ran for Vaughn and had a front-row seat for another fantastic plate appearance by Bauers. This time, it was only 11 pitches and five foul balls in six pitches before the decisive one was thrown. This time, it wasn’t a curveball in the dirt and a walk. Bauers got a four-seamer in every batter’s happy spot, right down the middle and a bit up. Bauers turned on it and deposited it in the right-field bleachers, giving a look into the Brewers’ dugout as he flipped his bat away. A 2-1 deficit was now a 3-2 lead with the two-run shot. For good measure, Garrett Mitchell, two pitches later, did the same thing and a 4-2 advantage. The team that doesn't hit homers went back-to-back to send the champs to the ropes. The Brewers made it 5-2 in the eighth and added another in the ninth. The Dodgers haven’t struck back once after the Brewers scored in any inning of these three games. The Brewers have scored in 10 innings without being hit back. Brewers pitching has complemented the offense and turned in shutdown innings. Because of that, the Brewers are now one victory away from making history. Not only would they be going back to the World Series for the first time since that memorable 1982 team, but they would be ending the reign of the best team money could buy, the two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers who were looking to become the third franchise to win three in a row. But they need to keep their guard up for one more game. You never know when a champion is going to get up off the mat.

There is a familiar face and a new face representing the Milwaukee Brewers for this year's NL Gold Glove awards. Second baseman Brice Turang and left fielder Jackson Chourio were named as finishing in the top three in voting for the 2026 Gold Glove awards. Turang won the NL Gold Glove in 2024 as well as the NL Platinum Glove, which goes to the top overall defender in each league. Chourio is up for his first Gold Glove. Winners will be announced Nov. 1. Managers and up to six coaches from each of the 30 teams vote on the best defenders at each position, although they can't vote for players on their club. That accounts for 75% of the vote, with SABR's defensive index making up the remaining 25%. In 151 games (148 starts) at second base, Turang had a .992 fielding percentage, with five errors in 593 chances. He led the NL with 219 putouts and MLB with 91 double plays. He also led MLB with 15 total zone field runs above average, per Baseball Reference. The other two in the top three at second are Brandon Lowe of the Pittsbugh Pirates and JJ Wetherholt of the St. Louis Cardinals. Turang also was among the top three last year, when the award was won by Nico Hoerner of the Chicago Cubs. Chourio has made tremendous progress in his third MLB season. He looked lost at times as a rookie, but has shown significant improvement the last two years. Just considering when he played left field (123 games, 112 starts), Chourio made zero errors in 207 chances, with eight assists. Ian Happ of the Cubs and Daylen Lile of the Washington Nationals also finished in the top three for left field. Including his 13 games in center and one in right, Chourio did not commit an error in 226 chances. The Brewers had the seventh-best fielding percentage in MLB at .987. There is only one round of balloting, which was already done, so these players are not technically finalists.

Holding a 2-0 lead in the NL Championship Series, the Milwaukee Brewers travel to the West Coast in a bid to take a stranglehold on the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the best-of-seven series. Left-hander Robert Gasser, still technically a rookie, will be sent to the mound by the Brewers to start Game 3. The 27-year-old will be making his second start of this postseason and fourth appearance in the last two playoffs. Gasser pitched twice in relief in the 2025 postseason, including getting two outs in Game 2 of last year's NLCS vs. the Dodgers. Gasser made a start against the Dodgers in L.A. this year and turned in a decent start. Gasser went 6⅓ innings, allowing three runs on eight hits and one walk while striking out seven in a 3-1 loss. Dodgers ace right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto was the opposing pitcher that day. In his start against the San Diego Padres in the NL Division Series, Gasser got the assignment in Game 4 as the Brewers clinched with a 3-1 victory. He went just four innings and yielded a run on three hits and a walk with three strikeouts. After starting the season in the minors, Gasser started all but one of his 21 appearances and went 109⅓ innings, posting a 7.6% walk rate and 22.2% strikeout rate. Gasser was very good in his final six starts of the regular season, putting up a 1.67 ERA over 32⅓ innings with 12 walks and 31 strikeouts. Walks have been a slight concern over the last two months with 21 in 52 innings. He has made two regular-season appearances against the Dodgers. In those two games, Andy Pages has the most success, going 4-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs. He went 3-for-4 with that homer in the game this year. Teoscar Hernandez also has a homer while going 2-for-5, as does Tommy Edman in his 2-for-3 showing. Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is 0-for-6 vs. Gasser. Ohtani has struggled this offseason due to right biceps and left knee injuries. His 3-for-20 performance with seven strikeouts prompted manager Dave Roberts to have a conversation about the four-time MVP being in the lineup. Roberts said Ohtani will be the designated hitter for Game 3. Robert Gasser vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: Current Batters Table Rk Player B PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GIDP 1 Shohei Ohtani L 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .000 .143 .000 .143 0 0 0 0 0 2 Mookie Betts R 6 6 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 .167 .167 .167 .333 0 0 0 0 0 3 Teoscar Hernández R 5 5 2 0 0 1 3 0 2 .400 .400 1.000 1.400 0 0 0 0 0 4 Andy Pages R 5 5 4 1 0 1 2 0 0 .800 .800 1.600 2.400 0 0 0 0 0 5 Kyle Tucker L 5 4 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 .250 .400 .750 1.150 0 0 0 0 0 6 Tommy Edman B 3 3 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 .667 .667 1.667 2.333 0 0 0 0 0 7 Hunter Feduccia L 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 8 Freddie Freeman L 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000 0 0 0 0 0 9 Kiké Hernández R 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 10 Max Muncy L 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 .333 .333 .667 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 11 Miguel Rojas R 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 12 Will Smith R 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Provided by Stathead: Found with Stathead. See Full Results. Generated 10/13/2026. After facing the reigning two-time AL Cy Young Award winner in Game 1 and the 2025 World Series MVP in Game 2, the Brewers won't get much of a break in Game 3 as left-hander Blake Snell, a two-time Cy Young Award winner himself, will start for the Dodgers. Snell only pitched in nine games this regular season, only one before August, due to left shoulder, left elbow and left groin injuries. He had a 1.72 FIP (1.90 ERA) over 42⅔ innings, with a walk rate of 9.2% and strikeout rate of 31.8%, pretty much on par with his career numbers (10.8%, 30.1%). He made one start in the NL Division Series vs. Atlanta, going in Game 2 at Dodger Stadium. Snell went 3⅔ innings, giving up a run on three hits, but walking five and striking out five. He has limited experience vs. the current group of Brewers hitters. Aside from backup catcher Gary Sanchez, who is 7-for-23 with five homers in 31 plate appearances (.304/.484/1.000), Christian Yelich is 2-for-6, the second-most plate appearances. None of Snell's three career games against the Brewers came with the Dodgers, with his last outing vs. the Crew coming in 2024 with the Padres. Blake Snell vs. Milwaukee Brewers: Current Batters Table Rk Player B PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GIDP 1 Gary Sánchez R 31 23 7 1 0 5 8 8 13 .304 .484 1.000 1.484 0 0 0 0 0 2 Christian Yelich L 6 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 .333 .333 .333 .667 0 0 0 0 0 3 Jake Bauers L 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 4 William Contreras R 3 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 .333 .333 .667 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 5 Jackson Chourio R 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 6 Sal Frelick L 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 7 Joey Ortiz R 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .500 .000 .500 0 0 0 0 0 8 Garrett Mitchell L 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000 0 0 0 0 0 9 Brice Turang L 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Provided by Stathead: Found with Stathead. See Full Results. Generated 10/13/2026.

If you think Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy has been a little edgy this season, you are correct. And that edginess is needed at its most right now. With the Brewers feeling good after taking the first two games of the NL Championship Series at American Family Field against the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, Murphy and his staff are about to find out how much this approach has taken hold of his young players. "I respect the Dodgers a great deal. That's all there is to it," Murphy said after the 7-3 win in Game 2. "They're arguably one of the best teams ever put together. They're a great team. And I'm not going to think about anything but the next game. That's it. Just one inning, one pitch at a time. Don't look ahead. Don't plan. Don't complain, explain. Just keep going." But that is hard to do when your team is two wins away from returning to the World Series for the first time since 1982. Teams winning the first two games of any best-of-seven postseason series have gone on to win the series 79 of 95 tries (83.2%). Teams that are up 2-0 after winning both at home in the current 2-3-2 format have won 46 of 57 series (80.7%). Murphy is channeling his inner Han Solo: "Don't ever tell me the odds." He knows full well that if there is one team that can flip those odds, it is the Dodgers with their star-studded roster and back-to-back World Series rings. That feat has been done very recently. Just last year, the Toronto Blue Jays lost the first two of the AL Championship Series at home to the Seattle Mariners, then won the next two on the road, then both at home to advance to the World Series. That was the latest of the 16 comebacks from 2-0 deficits, six of which have happened in the LCS. Of the 16 instances, 12 were pulled off by the team that did not have home-field advantage. It also happened in 2023, when the Philadelphia Phillies were up 2-0 in the NLCS after outscoring the Arizona Diamondbacks 15-3. The D'backs won the next two, lost Game 5, then won the final two games on the road in Philadelphia to move on to the World Series. The Dodgers were down 2-0 to Atlanta in the 2020 NLCS, played at a neutral site due to the pandemic, and were also down 3-1 after dropping Game 4. Los Angeles, which had the best MLB record that season at 43-17, won the next three games at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, then won the World Series at the same venue. Before that, the last time a comeback like that happened was even more spectacular. That was the 2004 ALCS in which the Boston Red Sox lost the first three, then won the final four en route to winning the World Series, ending their historic 86-year drought. Murphy's challenge will be to keep the younger players in check. He has a few veterans to rely on, led by captain Christian Yelich, as well as injured right-hander Brandon Woodruff, outfielder Sal Frelick and former Dodger Dustin May, who was on that 2020 L.A. championship team. However, with the mentality that Murphy has instilled since the first day of spring training, it shouldn't be a tough task to keep the players focused on the task at hand. That is winning Game 3. Then winning Game 4. One game at a time. Until the Brewers actually get that fourth win and can celebrate actually going to the World Series for the first time in 44 years, Murphy will need to maintain the edge he has had all season. Benching rookie shortstop Cooper Pratt to teach him about running everything out. Removing rookie right-hander Brandon Sproat mid at-bat because he wasn't throwing strikes. That edge is as important as ever now. The Dodgers have the players who can flip the switch at a moment's notice. Mookie Betts single, Freddie Freeman double, Kyle Tucker homer. Bam. Three runs. The Brewers' pitching has handled that lineup well through two games. Only two Dodgers have more than one hit (Betts and Teoscar Hernandez have two). Remember, these Dodgers were down 3-2 to the Blue Jays in last year's World Series, then won two the final two in Toronto for their second straight World Series title. "The way I look at it, you're climbing a mountain, and you're getting really close to the top, and when you are, usually that path narrows a little bit, you know what I mean? It's not as wide," Murphy said Tuesday. "When you start the mountain, it seems like this wide. Then as you get closer and closer, most mountains are like that. "I think, as you get closer, you've just got to keep your footing, keep your head down, make sure you keep your footing, and you can't look too far ahead. When you look up for the prize, 'Oh, where's the top?' you might step in a crack or a pothole. You've got to keep your head down and go forward and don't — adversity is coming. You know all that kind of stuff could possibly come, whatever, just keep responding, keep your head down, and keep going."

How much is America behind the Milwaukee Brewers? If you are to believe hashtags from a questionable website loaded with bots, the Brewers have overwhelming support in the NL Championship Series. That is because of the Crew's opponent, the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and their mega-payroll. In fact, all the payrolls of the Brewers and the two AL Championship participants are each less than what the Dodgers will pay just in competitive-balance tax penalties ($183 million). In data from Saturday up until just before first pitch of Monday's Game 2, the sports-betting website thesportsinsider.com said fans in 34 of the 50 states had thrown their support behind the Brew Crew, who posted MLB's best record at 103-59. The Dodgers, who entered the NLCS as the favorite and have been the top choice to win this year's World Series since the final out of the 2025 Fall Classic, accumulated just three states: California, Nevada and Hawaii. In addition to taking most of the Midwest and other states to the west of Wisconsin, the Brewers also pulled in Alaska, several Northeastern states including New York and Massachusetts, as well as Southern states, with Georgia and Alabama among them. Over in the AL Championship Series, the Tampa Bay Rays were only able to win their home state, Florida, while the Cleveland Guardians took care of many of the rest of the states surrounding Ohio and into the Mid-Atlantic, getting 12. As Brewers fans painfully know, the team has not won a World Series since the franchise came into existence in 1969 as the Seattle Pilots. Neither have the Rays, who started in 1998. Cleveland has won two World Series, the last in 1948. Sports Insider, using geotagged data, tracked various hashtags on X.com, more commonly known as Twitter. The primary hashtags counted were the Brewers' #ThisIsMyCrew, the Dodgers' #ITFDB and #LetsGoDodgers, the Rays' #ForTampaBay and the Guardians' #GuardsBall. Also, phrases such as "I'm rooting for the Brewers" were tracked. The timeframe of the social-media posts for all four teams began from the time the ALCS matchup was set Saturday. According to the website Bitdefender, a cybersecurity and software company, the social-media website's owner said Twitter suspended 800 million accounts in 2024 for breaching rules on spam and manipulation. Other estimates have between 9% and 15% of accounts as bots, an alarming number. There was no data on how many of those bots are Brewers (or Dodgers) fans, but would they tell you the truth anyway?

How often can you say a game-changing plate appearance happened in the third inning? Well, in the postseason, it can occur at any time. Most remember walk-offs or late-inning hits that lead to a team winning a game. But Monday, the biggest plate appearance happened in the bottom of the third inning of the NL Championship Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. It was a walk—it was the walk heard 'round Wisconsin. And because of it, the Brewers have a 2-0 lead over the Dodgers thanks to a 7-4 win. Four wins are needed to get through the NLCS. A trip to the World Series, their first since 1982, awaits if they get two more. It won't be easy as the next three games are in Los Angeles. The Dodgers had just taken a 2-1 lead in the top of the third inning against Brewers rookie right-hander Logan Henderson. Perhaps the Dodgers were about to go on and add more runs against Henderson and go on to even the best-of-seven series at a game apiece. After all, the Dodgers had right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound, last year's World Series MVP. The Japanese star began his impeccable postseason run against these Brewers in Game 2 of last year's NLCS, throwing the first of back-to-back complete games. Those were the first complete games of Yamamoto's brief MLB career. So it had to creep into the Brewers' minds that Yamamoto was about to throw a shutdown inning and give the Dodgers' bats a chance to tack on. Only the Brewers had other ideas. David Hamilton, the light-hitting No. 9 batter, led off with a single to center. Star leadoff hitter Jackson Chourio lined out to right fielder Kyle Tucker, who made a nice running play. Hamilton easily stole second and one of the Game 1 heroes, Brice Turang, walked. William Contreras, who would make his own mark on this game with two run-scoring singles and a solo homer, flew out to center, with the runners still at first and second. Up came Bauers. A surprising big piece of the Brewers' offense this season with a team-high 26 homers to go along with 86 RBIs, Bauers didn't have a good at-bat in his first trip to the plate against Yamamoto. He popped up to catcher Will Smith on five pitches. Yamamoto wishes he only needed five pitches against Bauers in his second time up. Bauers, a left-handed hitter, got ahead in the count 2-1, with Yamamoto getting back into the count with a curveball at the top of the zone. The next pitch was a ball high and outside. Full count. Two outs. Two on. The fun was about to begin. 97 mph four-seamer up and in. Fouled off. 77.7 mph curveball down and in. Fouled off. 95.7 mph sinker middle up. Fouled off. 97.4 mph four-seamer up and off the plate inside. Fouled off. 93.7 mph cutter just a little below the previous pitch. Fouled off. 92.3 mph splitter missed low and outside. Fouled off. Six straight foul balls. The tension of the postseason, even on a late-afternoon start on a Monday, was intense. The sellout gathering at American Family Field was with Bauers on every pitch, every swing. Finally, after swinging at three pitches that were out of the strike zone, the last three swings, Bauers didn't swing. Ball four was in the dirt. After a scintillating 12-pitch battle with one of the best pitchers in all of MLB, the journeyman first baseman trotted to first with a walk that loaded the bases. Bauers, as the Brewers have preached all season, did his job and handed the baton to the next hitter, That guy was Christian Yelich, the newly christened captain of the Crew. After a poor finish to the regular season and speculation over his postseason role rampant, Yelich has found a second wind after being named captain. Yelich lined a 1-0 curveball right down the pipe to center. Two runs scored. The Brewers had the lead at 3-2. That lead wouldn't hold. The Dodgers took a 4-3 lead, then the Brewers tied it 4-4. But what Bauers did wore down Yamamoto. After Yelich's hit, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts did what no one had on their bingo card entering the game: removing his ace with two outs in the third inning. Yamamoto had thrown 75 pitches. A Yamamoto game usually means a light day for the bullpen. Not on this day. Bauers exhausted Yamamoto with a plate appearance that took 7 minutes, 15 seconds. It was Yamamoto's shortest of 11 postseason starts. The 2⅔ innings matches what Yamamoto pitched to close out Game 7 of the World Series last year. This year's Game 2 was different. No complete game. Instead, a parade of seven Dodgers relievers. The Brewers have now beaten Yamamoto and Tarik Skubal, the two-time reigning AL Cy Young Award winner in the first two games of the series. Blake Snell, another two-time Cy Young Award winner, awaits in Game 3. But as Yamamoto found out, these Brewers are different. They have expected to perform on this stage. They have done just that. And a 12-pitch walk has the Brewers with an improbable series lead and halfway to a long-awaited trip to the World Series.

Following a 2-1 victory in Game 1 of the NL Championship Series—the same score as last year's NLCS opener with the opposite outcome—the Milwaukee Brewers will be aiming to protect home-field advantage in Game 2 at American Family Field. And the pitcher tasked with that responsibility is right-hander Logan Henderson (4:20 p.m., Fox or FS1). The rookie, who was injured at the end of the 2025 season, preventing him from pitching in the postseason, will look to build off his start in Game 2 of the NL Division Series. Against the San Diego Padres in his postseason debut, Henderson allowed two runs (one earned) over five innings, allowing two hits and walking three while striking out five in a 4-3 victory. Henderson had a terrific second half. In 12 starts after the All-Star break, Henderson had a 2.19 ERA over 70 innings, walking 12 and striking out 76 while limiting opponents to a .174 batting average. For the season, Henderson had a 2.47 ERA (3.32 FIP) with a 5.1% walk rate and 29.6% strikeout rate. He did face the Dodgers twice this season, with the Brewers coming out on top both times. In the May 22 game at Am Fam, Henderson tossed five shutout innings, giving up two hits and three walks, striking out seven. He was better in the Aug. 16 rematch at Dodger Stadium, going seven innings and allowing a run on three hits and a walk with six strikeouts. With this being Henderson's 20th MLB game, the Dodgers only have those two games to go off of. Shohei Ohtani is 2-for-5 with a walk and two strikeouts, while Mookie Betts, Max Muncy and Teoscar Hernandez are the only other Dodgers with hits off Henderson. Muncy hit a solo homer in the second game. Logan Henderson vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: Current Batters Table Rk Player B PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GIDP 1 Shohei Ohtani L 6 5 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 .400 .500 .400 .900 0 0 0 0 0 2 Mookie Betts R 5 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .200 .200 .200 .400 0 0 0 0 0 3 Freddie Freeman L 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .200 .000 .200 0 0 0 0 0 4 Max Muncy L 5 5 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 .200 .200 .800 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 5 Andy Pages R 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 .000 .400 .000 .400 0 0 0 0 0 6 Kyle Tucker L 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 7 Teoscar Hernández R 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .250 .250 .250 .500 0 0 0 0 0 8 Tommy Edman B 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 1 9 Dalton Rushing L 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Provided by Stathead: Found with Stathead. See Full Results. Generated 10/11/2026. Opposing Henderson will be Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Last year's World Series MVP began his tremendous postseason run against the Brewers in Game 2 of last year's NLCS, pitching his first career complete game and the first of back-to-back postseason complete games. Yamamoto has already begun this postseason with a terrific start. In Game 2 of the AL Division Series vs. Atlanta, Yamamoto struck out 10 over seven innings, yielding one run on four hits and a walk. That is on the heels of a 2.53 ERA (3.33 FIP) over 28 starts in the regular season. He had a career-best 5.9% walk rate, but his strikeout rate was down to 25.7% after being at 29.4% in 2025. Like Henderson, Yamamoto faced the Crew twice this season and the Dodgers won both. On May 24 in Milwaukee, he went seven innings, scattering seven hits while giving up a run, walking one and striking out three. Then on Aug. 14 at Dodger Stadium, he struck out nine and allowed a run on four hits and two walks over six innings. Yamamoto's only other appearance against the Brewers came last year, when the Crew chased him after two-thirds of an inning, allowing five runs on four hits and two walks. Andrew Vaughn hit a three-run homer in his first at-bat in a Brewers uniform. Jake Bauers and Joey Ortiz are each 2-for-4 vs. Yamamoto. Yoshinobu Yamamoto vs. Milwaukee Brewers: Current Batters Table Rk Player B PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GIDP 1 Jackson Chourio R 7 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .143 .143 .143 .286 0 0 0 0 0 2 Jake Bauers L 6 4 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 .500 .667 .500 1.167 0 0 0 1 0 3 William Contreras R 6 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .200 .333 .200 .533 0 0 0 0 1 4 Garrett Mitchell L 6 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 .200 .333 .200 .533 0 0 0 0 0 5 David Hamilton L 5 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .200 .200 .200 .400 0 0 0 0 0 6 Bo Naylor L 5 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .200 .200 .200 .400 0 0 0 0 0 7 Joey Ortiz R 5 4 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 .500 .400 .750 1.150 0 1 0 0 0 8 Sal Frelick L 4 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 .250 .250 .500 .750 0 0 0 0 0 9 Brice Turang L 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .333 .500 .333 .833 0 0 0 0 1 10 Christian Yelich L 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .250 .000 .250 0 0 0 0 0 11 Luis Lara B 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 .500 .500 1.000 1.500 0 0 0 0 0 Provided by Stathead: Found with Stathead. See Full Results. Generated 10/11/2026.

This is all new to Luis Lara. He wasn’t on the roster last year when the Milwaukee Brewers faced the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL Championship Series. He wasn’t even really a glimmer in their eyes. One of the last places Lara figured he would be a year ago was as the starting right fielder for Game 1 of the 2026 NLCS. Heck, even in spring training that was probably a reach. But there the rookie was, in the starting lineup Sunday against the two-time defending World Series champs at American Family Field in what would be a 2-1 victory. He was batting eighth against Tarik Skubal, the winner of the last two AL Cy Young Awards. Lara was in the lineup because of Skubal. As a switch-hitter and platooning with Sal Frelick, a left-handed hitter, in right field, Lara was the choice. But Lara hasn’t done much offensively in his rookie season. In 61 games since coming up in early July, the 5-foot-7 speedy outfielder has put up a .246/.311/.325 slash line. Not far from his .257/.369/.343 mark last year at Double-A Biloxi. After all, he was known for his defense in center field, winning a minor-league Gold Glove for the entire minors a year ago. He has certainly excelled in that area this year with several sparkling plays. Lara — sharing the field with stars such as former MVPs Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman — made himself a significant part of Sunday’s Game 1. His first at-bat against Skubal went about as you would think, a two-time Cy Young winner facing a rookie playing on his biggest stage yet. Leading off the bottom of the third, Lara saw four pitches from Skubal, the first one a ball, then two pitches in the zone. Lara headed back to the bench after whiffing on a 97.6 mph sinker above the zone. As things would have it, Lara came up in a key situation in his second at-bat. That came in the bottom of the fifth. Garrett Mitchell drew a four-pitch walk and fellow rookie Cooper Pratt, who preceded Lara to the majors by about a month, bunted Mitchell to second. What did Lara learn from that first at-bat? Don’t let the big left-hander get on top of the count. On the very first pitch, the 21-year-old attacked a changeup and bounced it up the middle and into center. Mitchell scored easily and without a play. Lara had put the Brewers up 2-1. It was the biggest moment in the young career of Lara. He earned his spot on the major-league roster through an improved offensive approach this season, leading to a .321/.432/.470 slash line in his first 78 games at Triple-A Nashville. The offense, not to mention the spectacular defense, was the impetus for the Brewers to give Lara a seven-year, $31 million contract during the season. It was less than Pratt’s eight-year, $50,750,000 deal, but Pratt also plays a more important position, shortstop. Still, Lara came through when the Brewers needed him to. There will be a point, perhaps next year, where Lara could be more of an everyday player rather than platooning with Frelick. Due to splitting time, Lara came to the plate in just one game in the NL Division Series against the San Diego Padres. That was when he started Game 1 against left-hander Robbie Ray and went 0-for-3. His only other appearance came in the Game 3 loss, when he pinch-ran for William Contreras in the ninth inning. He sat and watched and learned in the other games. But there Lara was in Game 1. He will likely be back on the bench for Monday’s Game 2, when the Dodgers send World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a right-hander, to the mound. Lara could get a pinch-hit opportunity against one of the Dodgers’ left-handed relievers, such as Alex Vesia and Tanner Scott. He will get another starting assignment when Blake Snell starts, probably in Game 3. Whether Lara comes through in that game is something to wait and see. For one night, though, Lara — on a stage with some of the biggest names in all of MLB, players with a proven postseason pedigree — stood tall as the one who had the hit that gave the Brewers a victory in Game 1. If the Brewers take down Goliath and advance to their second World Series, that hit becomes an even bigger part of franchise lore.

The Milwaukee Brewers are running it back with the same 26-player roster they opened the postseason with. There were no changes to the Brewers' roster for the NL Championship Series, which begins Sunday with Game 1 at American Family Field (7:08 p.m., Fox). The Brewers are sending right-hander Jacob Misiorowski to the mound against Dodgers left-hander Tarik Skubal. That means an even split of position players and pitchers (13-13) for the best-of-seven. Also, the umpires for the NLCS were announced. Here is how the umps line up for Game 1: Edwin Moscoso behind the plate, crew chief Mark Wegner at first, Ryan Additon at second, Alan Porter at third, David Rackley in left field and John Tumpane in right field. Chris Segal sits out Game 1 but will be behind the plate for Game 2.

There is no question that the Milwaukee Brewers' pitching staff as a whole is better-equipped heading into the NL Championship Series this year than it was last year against the same opponent, the powerful Los Angeles Dodgers. Not only is that from a health angle, but from a weapons perspective, too. Specifically, the Brewers are stocked up on quality left-handed pitchers to attack the Dodgers' top bats, most of which are left-handed. While only one of the Brewers' probable starters—Jacob Misiorowski, Logan Henderson, Dustin May and Robert Gasser—is a lefty (Gasser), the Brewers are expected to have five left-handers in the bullpen. Expect to see a lot not only of Aaron Ashby, who led the Crew in regular-season appearances with 75, but of DL Hall, JoJo Romero, Shane Drohan, and Kyle Harrison. Romero was acquired from the St. Louis Cardinals at the trade deadline for these situations, but Hall has emerged into some leverage use, which was on display in the NL Division Series against the San Diego Padres. After not being on the postseason roster in 2025 as he finished the year on the injured list with a strained right oblique, he got three late outs in Game 1 against the Padres, setting up right-hander Trevor Megill, then notched four outs in the Game 3 loss, with right-hander Abner Uribe finishing. Drohan and Harrison, acquired in the spring from the Boston Red Sox, did not pitch in the NLDS and will be making their postseason debuts. All have had key roles for the Brewers at some time during the regular season, with perhaps the exception of Hall. But Hall has now had two postseason appearances, setting him up for his spots against the Dodgers. Which brings us to the Dodgers. Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy, Kyle Tucker. Those are the Dodgers' left-handed bats, with Tommy Edman a switch-hitter. With the youth of most of the Brewers' lefties, there isn't much of a track record to go off of. Ashby has faced Ohtani six times (2-for-4, two RBIs, walk, sacrifice fly), while holding the other three to 0-for-3 with two walks and a hit-by-pitch. Romero has more experience vs. that quartet, with Freeman going 2-for-8 with a double and a walk, Tucker 1-for-2 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch, and Muncy 0-for-5. He has kept Ohtani in check thus far at 1-for-8 with four strikeouts. Those are already fairly small sample sizes. Against lefties, Dodgers left-handed hitters have a .249/.325/.427 (.752 OPS) slash line, while putting up a .260/.353/.431 (.784 OPS) mark against righties. With the variety of lefties, manager Pat Murphy and pitching coach Chris Hook will be able to deploy their southpaws at different times and spread out the matchups so some don't get too repetitive over a seven-game series. Of course, that probably doesn't apply to Ashby and Romero, who will be used in more crucial situations regardless of inning. Hall and Drohan will be next up in the pecking order, with the Brewers carefully picking Harrison's situations. He has looked better in his more recent relief appearances after struggling in the aftermath of being removed from the rotation. The starts by Misiorowski and Henderson in the first two games will be particularly important in limiting the exposure of the left-handed relievers. Not that the Brewers are banking on this, but Ohtani's current status as looking rather mortal will also play into who faces who and when. Murphy might be more willing to roll with a right-hander to finish off an inning vs. Ohtani rather than automatically bringing in a lefty, even for an out. The four-time MVP, who earned NLCS MVP for his incredible two-way performance in the clinching Game 4 a year ago, went just 2-for-13 in the Dodgers' four-game NL Division Series win over Atlanta and hasn't homered since Aug. 18, during which Ohtani is 13-for-83 (.157). That span includes a stint on the 15-day injured list near the end of the regular season. But Ohtani, like Freeman, Muncy and Tucker, can get hot and be a force at any time. That is one reason why the Dodgers are the two-time defending World Series champs. Last year, the Brewers had Ashby, Gasser and Jared Koenig as lefties in the bullpen, two fewer than this year. Ashby was used as an opener twice, basically wasting his value. Gasser was used for two outs, while Koenig was in three of the four games, pitching four innings. This year, though, the Brewers are better armed to take on that challenge. They will need that as the series is unlikely to be a repeat of last year's sweep.

A matchup that has been anticipated since the first day of spring training is finally here. The Milwaukee Brewers vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the NL Championship Series. MLB's best team in the regular season vs. the two-time defending World Series champions in a repeat of last year's NLCS. And the starting pitchers are the perfect ones to begin this best-of-seven series. For the Brewers, that means right-hander Jacob Misiorowski. In his first full season in MLB, the Miz has taken his game to levels only dreamed of by Crew fans. Misiorowski is the presumptive NL Cy Young Award winner after going 16-5 and leading MLB in ERA (1.80), FIP (2.17), strikeouts (252) and WHIP (0.802). He had a 6.6% walk rate and 37.9% strikeout rate. Misiorowski faced the Dodgers once this year, on the Brewers' last West Coast road trip. That was Aug. 15 at Dodger Stadium, a 4-1 Brewers victory in which Misiorowski went six innings, allowing a run on five hits with a walk and six strikeouts. Of course, Misiorowski had a dominant performance in Game 4 of last year's NLCS, but that one came out of the bullpen. With left-hander Aaron Ashby used as an opener, Misiorowski came on in the first and went five innings, striking out nine and allowing two runs (one earned) on three hits and one walk. With just two regular-season games against Misiorowski (one last year), the Dodgers have limited exposure to Misiorowski. Four-time MVP Shohei Ohtani is 2-for-5 with a solo homer and a walk. The only other Dodger with multiple hits vs. the Miz is backup outfielder Alex Call, who had both in this year's meeting. Jacob Misiorowski vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: Current Batters Table Rk Player B PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GIDP 1 Mookie Betts R 6 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .167 .167 .167 .333 0 0 0 0 0 2 Freddie Freeman L 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 3 Shohei Ohtani L 6 5 2 0 1 1 2 1 2 .400 .500 1.400 1.900 0 0 0 0 0 4 Andy Pages R 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 5 Tommy Edman B 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 6 Max Muncy L 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .333 .000 .333 0 0 0 0 0 7 Alex Call R 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 0 0 0 0 0 8 Hunter Feduccia L 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 9 Teoscar Hernández R 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .500 .500 .500 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 10 Miguel Rojas R 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 1.000 1.500 0 0 0 0 0 11 Dalton Rushing L 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .500 .500 .500 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 12 Kyle Tucker L 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .500 .000 .500 0 0 0 0 0 Provided by Stathead: Found with Stathead. See Full Results. Generated 10/10/2026. Meanwhile, the Brewers' task will be to solve two-time reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal. While there won't be a third consecutive Cy Young in Skubal's future, the left-hander still was very good this year. Between the Detroit Tigers and Dodgers, who acquired him over a push from the Brewers at the trade deadline, Skubal had a 2.72 ERA (2.51 FIP) in 26 appearances with a 4.4% walk rate and 30% strikeout rate. Skubal missed a handful of starts in May as he had a new procedure called a nanoneedle to remove a bone chip from his left elbow. Skubal faced the Brewers twice this year, once with the Tigers and once with the Dodgers. In his Dodgers outing, Skubal went six innings, giving up two runs (one earned) on seven hits and two walks with strikeouts on Aug. 16. The Brewers got four runs off him in six-plus innings, allowing seven hits with no walks and five RBIs. There are a few players with some small success vs. Skubal. William Contreras is 3-for-8 with a double, Jackson Chourio is 3-for-9 with a double, and Jake Bauers is 3-for-3 with an RBI. The bullpens for both teams should be in fine shape with three days off between series. Tarik Skubal vs. Milwaukee Brewers: Current Batters Table Rk Player B PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GIDP 1 Gary Sánchez R 19 16 2 1 0 0 1 2 7 .125 .263 .188 .451 0 0 0 1 0 2 Joey Ortiz R 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 3 Jackson Chourio R 9 9 3 1 0 0 0 0 3 .333 .333 .444 .778 0 0 0 0 0 4 William Contreras R 9 8 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 .375 .444 .500 .944 0 0 0 0 1 5 Brice Turang L 8 8 2 0 1 0 1 0 4 .250 .250 .500 .750 0 0 0 0 0 6 Brandon Lockridge R 6 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 .200 .333 .200 .533 0 0 0 0 0 7 Sal Frelick L 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 1 8 Jake Bauers L 3 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 0 0 0 0 0 9 Luis Lara B 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 10 Garrett Mitchell L 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 11 David Hamilton L 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 12 Bo Naylor L 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 13 Christian Yelich L 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 14 Bryse Wilson R 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Provided by Stathead: Found with Stathead. See Full Results. Generated 10/10/2026.