{"id":206863,"date":"2025-10-12T03:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206863\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:03:04","slug":"milwaukee-brewers-defeat-chicago-cubs-head-to-nlcs-to-take-on-la-dodgers-live-reaction-and-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206863\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers defeat Chicago Cubs, head to NLCS to take on LA Dodgers: Live reaction and analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Sam mentioned, the Brewers were a perfect 6-0 against the loaded Dodgers this season, sweeping them in two three-game series in July in both Milwaukee and Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers, however, have defeated the Brewers in each of their last two postseason meetings. The most memorable is a thrilling seven-game NLCS in 2018 that happened under similar circumstances \u2014 just like this year, the Brewers had the best regular-season record in the National League, while the Dodgers were the defending pennant winners. Los Angeles won by taking the decisive Game 7 in Milwaukee behind a Yasiel Puig three-run home run.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers also swept the Brewers a best-of-3 series to open the expanded 2020 playoffs, which the Brewers entered at a record below .500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Sam mentioned, the Brewers were a perfect 6-0 against the loaded Dodgers this season, sweeping them in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-206863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}