THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 to reach baseball’s World Series for the first time in 44 years on Thursday after completing a 4-0 series sweep of the star-studded defending champions.
The top-seeded Brewers once again combined relentless offence with clinical relief pitching at Dodger Stadium to fight back from an early 4-0 deficit and snuff out the Dodgers’ hopes of a rare World Series three-peat.
The Brewers, who last reached the World Series in 1982, will face either the Cleveland Guardians or Tampa Bay Rays in baseball’s championship series.
Brewers skipper Pat Murphy said simply:
“They may have a bunch of Hall of Famers, but we have a bunch of gamers. And the gamers won this week.”
After a lacklustre defeat in game three on Wednesday, the Dodgers had been left needing to become only the second team in Major League Baseball history to overturn a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-seven series.
When Shohei Ohtani smashed a three-run home run deep into right field in the bottom of the second inning – the Japanese superstar’s first home run in nearly two months – Dodgers fans dared to dream of a miracle.
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But Ohtani’s mammoth blast was to prove the highlight of another largely inconsistent performance by the expensively-assembled Dodgers offence, who squandered a series of late opportunities to get back into the game after stranding runners on third base in multiple innings.
Instead, it was the Brewers – swept 4-0 by the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series last year – who rallied to a deserved victory.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had few complaints at the loss, saying the 2024 and 2025 MLB champions had been comprehensively outplayed.
“At the end of the day, we got beat,” Roberts said. “We got outplayed in all facets. Those guys played flawless.”
In Thursday’s other playoff game, Petey Halpin’s two-run home run powered Cleveland over Tampa Bay 3-2 to give the Guardians a 2-1 lead in their American League Championship Series.
Games four and five are set for Cleveland on Friday and Saturday.
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Milwaukee Brewers sweep star-studded Dodgers to book first World Series place in 44 years
THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 to reach baseball’s World Series for the first time in 44 years on Thursday after completing a 4-0 series sweep of the star-studded defending champions.
The top-seeded Brewers once again combined relentless offence with clinical relief pitching at Dodger Stadium to fight back from an early 4-0 deficit and snuff out the Dodgers’ hopes of a rare World Series three-peat.
The Brewers, who last reached the World Series in 1982, will face either the Cleveland Guardians or Tampa Bay Rays in baseball’s championship series.
Brewers skipper Pat Murphy said simply:
After a lacklustre defeat in game three on Wednesday, the Dodgers had been left needing to become only the second team in Major League Baseball history to overturn a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-seven series.
When Shohei Ohtani smashed a three-run home run deep into right field in the bottom of the second inning – the Japanese superstar’s first home run in nearly two months – Dodgers fans dared to dream of a miracle.
But Ohtani’s mammoth blast was to prove the highlight of another largely inconsistent performance by the expensively-assembled Dodgers offence, who squandered a series of late opportunities to get back into the game after stranding runners on third base in multiple innings.
Instead, it was the Brewers – swept 4-0 by the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series last year – who rallied to a deserved victory.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had few complaints at the loss, saying the 2024 and 2025 MLB champions had been comprehensively outplayed.
“At the end of the day, we got beat,” Roberts said. “We got outplayed in all facets. Those guys played flawless.”
In Thursday’s other playoff game, Petey Halpin’s two-run home run powered Cleveland over Tampa Bay 3-2 to give the Guardians a 2-1 lead in their American League Championship Series.
Games four and five are set for Cleveland on Friday and Saturday.
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