The Milwaukee Brewers are one win away from the second pennant in franchise history and their first as a National League team. The Brewers were still in the American League when they went to the World Series in 1982. This also means the Los Angeles Dodgers are one loss away from elimination, and seeing their shot at becoming baseball's first threepeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees come to an end.
The Brewers have a commanding 3-0 lead in the NLCS. "I don't need to tell them anything. We don't change anything.
There's nothing to change," Brewers manager Pat Murphy said after the Game 3 win. "The Dodgers are, like I've mentioned, an incredible team that's won back-to-back championships. You think they're not good enough to come back and win a game against us or come back and play well?
I know how good they are. Our guys know how good they are. Our guys know what we're up against." Murphy is correct.
As bad as the Dodgers have looked this series -- as old as the Dodgers have looked this series -- they are plenty good enough to come back and win the NLCS. But the Brewers don't want to give this talented, battle-tested Dodgers team an opening. Lose Game 4 on Thursday, and suddenly you're looking at Tarik Skubal in Game 5 and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 6.
Anything can happen in a Game 7. That right there is L.A.'s path to an NLCS comeback. "It's certainly possible.
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