Brewers sweep the Dodgers and head to the World Series for the first time since 1982
The story
The Milwaukee Brewers are going to the World Series. They beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6 to 4 on Thursday night in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, finishing a four game sweep of the two time defending champions.
It is the first time Milwaukee has reached the World Series since 1982, the only other time the club made it that far. The Brewers have never won a title, so this team has a shot at something no Brewers team has done before.
The clincher did not start well. Shohei Ohtani hit his first home run of the postseason, a three run shot, and the Dodgers jumped out to a 4 to 0 lead in the second inning. Milwaukee chipped away and tied it in the fifth. Then Garrett Mitchell led off the sixth with a 409 foot home run to center field to put the Brewers ahead for good, and the bullpen shut the door from there. No team had ever come back from that big a hole to finish off a postseason sweep. Jake Bauers was named NLCS MVP.
There is some payback in this one too. A year ago it was the Dodgers who swept Milwaukee in the NLCS. The Brewers are the first team in major league history to sweep a postseason series against the same club that swept them the year before. The result also ends the Dodgers' hopes of winning three titles in a row, something only the Yankees and the Athletics have pulled off.
Milwaukee will face the winner of the American League series between Cleveland and Tampa Bay, where the Guardians lead 2 games to 1. The World Series opens next Friday in Milwaukee, and the city has waited 44 years for it.
