Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Brewers completed a 4-0 series sweep of the star-studded defending champions.<\/p>\n
The top-seeded Brewers once again combined relentless offense with clinical relief pitching at Dodger Stadium to fight back from an early 4-0 deficit to snuff out the Dodgers\u2019 hopes of a rare World Series three-peat.<\/p>\n
The Brewers, who last reached the World Series in 1982, will face either the Cleveland Guardians or Tampa Bay Rays in baseball\u2019s championship series.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve still got a ways to go. We\u2019ve still got some big games in front of us,\u201d Brewers team captain Christian Yelich said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been so close to this so many times. Credit to our guys, our team, they stuck together, battled. We got down early, we were like it\u2019s gonna be a great story when we come back and win this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Milwaukee Brewers celebrate after completing a stunning 4-0 series sweep of the Dodgers.Source: AP<\/p>\n
Brewers skipper Pat Murphy meanwhile said simply: \u201cThey may have a bunch of Hall of Famers, but we have a bunch of gamers. And the gamers won this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
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 in a best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n
When Shohei Ohtani smashed a three-run home run deep into right field in the bottom of the second inning – the Japanese superstar\u2019s first home run in nearly two months – Dodgers fans dared to dream of a miracle.<\/p>\n
But Ohtani\u2019s mammoth blast was to prove the highlight of another largely inconsistent performance by the Dodgers offense, who squandered a series of late opportunities to get back into the game after stranding runners on third base in multiple innings.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
After initially struggling to find a way past Dodgers starting pitcher Tyler Glasnow, the Brewers carved out an opening in the fourth inning after Brice Turang and William Contreras got on base.<\/p>\n
Jake Bauers, who was named series Most Valuable Player, stepped up to drive a double into right field and suddenly the Dodgers lead had been cut to 4-2.<\/p>\n
David Hamilton singled to score Sal Frelick in the fifth inning to make it 4-3, and when Bauers drew a walk with the bases loaded in the top of the fifth, the Brewers had drawn level.<\/p>\n
Garrett Mitchell then homered for the second straight game in the sixth innning to put the Brewers 5-4 up and Hamilton added an insurance solo shot in the ninth to seal the win.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers meanwhile left ruing an anemic offensive display that saw them fail to exploit a series of promising openings.<\/p>\n
They failed to score in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings after getting a runner on third base, two of those occasions with only one out, and the defeat was sealed with a whimper as Brewers reliever Aaron Ashby mopped up the final three outs.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers\u2019 stunning exit has sparked plenty of reaction across the MLB world, with their massive payroll now a major talking point.<\/p>\n
And with the league considering introducing a salary cap, the timing of their elimination has certainly raised a few eyebrows.<\/p>\n
Miami Hurricanes beat writer Adam Lichtenstein was quick to poke fun at the Dodgers following their defeat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a shame small-market teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers just can\u2019t compete with large-payroll juggernauts like the Milwaukee Brewers,\u201d Lichtenstein wrote on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need a salary cap now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former ESPN writer Joon Lee also highlighted the massive difference in payroll between the Dodgers and the three teams still standing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe total 2026 payroll of the Dodgers: $338M. The total 2026 payrolls of the Brewers, Rays and Guardians: $316M,\u201d Joon wrote on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cA small-market team will win the World Series this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Front Office Sports also pointed out just how impressive the Brewers\u2019 run has been, considering the money they have to work with compared to some of the league\u2019s biggest teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Brewers are in MLB\u2019s smallest market and rank 19th in payroll, but have one of the sport\u2019s biggest baseball ops and data teams,\u201d FOS wrote on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey just swept the Dodgers and won their first-ever NL pennant.\u201d<\/p>\n
But while the Brewers are now preparing for their first World Series appearance in 44 years, there could be some massive changes coming to baseball.<\/p>\n
Unlike the NBA, NFL and NHL, MLB doesn\u2019t currently have a hard salary cap, meaning teams can spend as much as they want on players, although they can still be hit with luxury tax penalties.<\/p>\n
That could soon change, with the league reportedly proposing a salary cap of around $245 million, which is $93 million less than what the Dodgers are currently spending.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a massive difference, particularly for a team that has spent big in recent years to build one of the most star-studded rosters in baseball.<\/p>\n
But getting a salary cap introduced won\u2019t be easy.<\/p>\n
Team owners are pushing for the change, while players are strongly against it and there are now concerns that the disagreement could lead to a lockout.<\/p>\n
The current collective bargaining agreement (CBA) expires on December 1, 2026, meaning the two sides will need to come to an agreement before then to avoid a potential lockout.<\/p>\n
A lockout wouldn\u2019t automatically mean games are cancelled, but if the two sides can\u2019t work things out, Spring Training and potentially even the start of the 2027 season could be impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 on Thursday to reach baseball\u2019s World Series for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-929897","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\/929897","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=929897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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