Tarik Skubal, Dodgers eliminated from the playoffs

By admin — In News — October 16, 2026

   ​LOS ANGELES — The Milwaukee Brewers can’t tell you much about their 1982 ancestors, with no current player alive the last time the club went to the World Series, but Thursday evening, they just carved out their own legacy.The Brewers, the team that resides in the smallest market in baseball, who can’t afford to keep their stars, who changed leagues since they last won the pennant, who have never won a World Series title, just claimed the National League pennant and a trip to the World Series.The Brewers shocked the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers by completing a four-game sweep, winning 6-4, in front of a paid non-sellout crowd of 49,104 at Dodger Stadium.Go crazy, Milwaukee! Go crazy!“I don’t know much about baseball history,’’ Brewers second baseman Brice Turang said, “but now that I’m a part of it, learning the history of and how much it would mean to the city… yeah, it would mean a lot.“They’ve gone through the bads and the goods, and they’ve stuck with us. And they’re really good fans. They show up to every game. They’re passionate about baseball. Any sport in Milwaukee or Wisconsin.”“We love them just as much as they love us. It’s been fun to be able to play a part with them in the stands.”Mark Attanasio, owner of the Brewers, plans to present the National League Championship Series trophy to former commissioner Bud Selig, who brought the franchise to Milwaukee in 1970, and owned it until selling it to Attanasio in 2005.“He deserves this,” Attanasio said. “He has meant everything to Milwaukee and this franchise.’’It was no fluke that the Brewers swept the Dodgers, who were swept for only the second time in franchise history. They simply beat them in every phase of the game.The Brewers out-hit them, hit with more power, pitched better, ran better, played better defense, and obviously outscored them.The Dodgers were in every game, but every time they managed a lead, the Brewers came fighting back, just like this night.The Dodgers, who have been looking for a clutch hit the entire postseason, batting .116 with runners in scoring position, finally appeared to find their magic moment in the second inning when Shohei Ohtani stepped to the plate with two outs and two runners on base.He looked terrible in his first at-bat against lefty Shane Drohan, striking out on five pitches, badly swinging and missing on a slider and losing his helmet in the process.This time, facing former teammate Dustin May, he swung at May’s 95.1-mph cutter, and sent it halfway up the right-field pavilion 428 feet away, with a vicious swing clocked at 113-mph.Ohtani stood at the plate, admired it, flung his bat high into the air, and screamed. He danced around the bases, stomped on home plate, skipped into the dugout, and slapped hands so hard that his hands stung.Just like that, the baseball world was subtly reminded that Ohtani, who was mired in the deepest slumps in his career, still is the greatest player in the  

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