Brewers sweep Dodgers in NLCS, ending bid for third straight World Series title
Milwaukee rallied from four runs down to win Game 4 in Los Angeles. The Dodgers enter the offseason without a settled account of what they will change.
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ bid for a third straight World Series title ended Thursday, October 15, when the Milwaukee Brewers won 6-4 at Dodger Stadium to complete a four-game sweep of the National League Championship Series. Milwaukee advanced to its first World Series in 44 years, while Los Angeles faces an offseason without the title it had sought to defend.
How Milwaukee won Game 4
Shohei Ohtani’s three-run homer in the second inning put the Dodgers ahead 4-0, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. Milwaukee recovered, and Garrett Mitchell hit a go-ahead solo home run off Tanner Scott in the sixth. The Dodgers later put the tying run on third base but could not bring it home.
Across the series, the Brewers outscored Los Angeles 21-9 and hit seven home runs to the Dodgers’ one, ESPN reported. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts acknowledged Milwaukee’s stronger play: ‘We got outplayed in all facets,’ he said. ‘Those guys played flawless. Defensively they pitched better than we did, they hit better than we did, they slugged more than we did.’
What Dodgers players said about next season
Ohtani said through an interpreter after Game 4 that he was dissatisfied with how his pitching had gone late in the season, ESPN reported. He said he would reassess his treatment and training for next season. That is a stated plan to review his preparation, not a decision about a specific change.
ESPN reported that Mookie Betts described the attempted three-peat as difficult and the team’s run as a grind. Kiké Hernández said he did not know what would happen with him personally next year, while expressing confidence in the Dodgers’ talent and prospects. The club has not established which offseason changes it will make.
The defeat followed a 100-win regular season and a league-record $432 million payroll, according to the New York Post. Those figures show the scale of the Dodgers’ investment and regular-season success; they do not settle why the team lost this series. Milwaukee’s four wins, including its comeback in Game 4, settled the championship question on the field.
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Sources and context
- How DodgersESPN
- Four fatal flaws that doomed the Dodgers’ bid for a historic three-peatNew York Post
- Dodgers’ three-peat bid ends with NLCS sweep by BrewersLos Angeles Daily News / Southern California News Group
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