Milwaukee Brewers end the Dodgers’ quest for a third-straight title, sweeping LA to earn a trip to the World Series

Major League Baseball will have a new champion this fall.

The Milwaukee Brewers are headed to the World Series after a dominating sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the reigning two-time champions. The high-priced Dodgers aimed to make history as the first National League team to ever win three straight titles, but Shohei Ohtani and company ran into a blue-and-yellow buzzsaw this week.

Milwaukee pulled off a four-game sweep of the Dodgers, capping their domination with a 6-4 victory at Dodger Stadium on Thursday.

The Brewers were baseball’s best team in the regular season and were looking for revenge after the Dodgers swept them in dominant fashion on their way to the 2025 title. This year, it’s the Dodgers who are left wondering what just happened and the Brewers going on to pull off a bit of history: The Brew Crew are looking for their organization’s first title and Milwaukee has only been to the Fall Classic once in team history, losing in seven games in 1982.

In front of a stunned Dodgers Stadium, the Brewers fought back on Thursday from an early 4-0 deficit. Ohtani seemed to shake off months of doldrums, hitting a three-run home run in the second inning that put the defending champs up with a big lead.

Sometimes in the playoffs, a four-run lead can feel like more than enough. But the Brewers were not fazed by Ohtani’s jubilant celebration after his moonshot and began to chip away.

The Brewers scored two runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth to tie the game. Then it was center fielder Garrett Mitchell who hit a long drive to deep right field in the sixth, carrying the fence and landing in the first row of seats, that gave Milwaukee the lead.

Mitchell’s blast seemed to knock some of the fight out of the Dodgers, who were able to get the tying run to third base three times in the ensuing innings but couldn’t quite get the big hit needed to even the contest. The subdued crowd in Chavez Ravine was often drowned out by the paltry number of Brewers fans in attendance.

Their best chance came in the bottom of the eighth when longtime catcher Will Smith laced the ball into the right field corner. It bounced around, eluding Brewers right fielder Sal Frelick and Smith was able to get to third with a stand-up triple.

There was just one out and the Dodgers’ latest expensive signing, Kyle Tucker, coming up next. Tucker was jammed by an Aaron Ashby pitch, flying out to short center field for the second out. Teoscar Hernández followed, looking to author yet another signature playoff moment for the Dodgers. It never came – instead Hernández was left baffled by an Ashby curveball, striking out and stranding Smith.

Just an inning later, David Hamilton added an insurance run, belting a solo home run to make it 6-4 in the top of the ninth.

It was a strange way for this dominant run for the Dodgers to end, a comparative whimper after two years of massive success. LA had long been expected to waltz to another title with the game’s second-most-expensive roster paired with the kind of analytics baseball has embraced over the last two decades.

Instead, it will be the comparatively thrifty Brewers representing the National League in the World Series, which promises to be a battle of the little guys. The Brewers’ roster cost about $143 million to assemble, good for 19th in MLB this year. They’ll play either the Cleveland Guardians or Tampa Bay Rays, two of the cheapest teams in the league.

The Guardians payroll is the lowest in the league at $74 million; the Rays are 25th at $98 million.

今年秋天，美国职业棒球大联盟将迎来新的冠军。

密尔沃基酿酒人队横扫卫冕冠军洛杉矶道奇队，挺进世界大赛。道奇队身价不菲，原本志在创造历史，成为首支连续三次夺得国家联盟冠军的球队，但大谷翔平和他的队友们本周遭遇了蓝黄相间的酿酒人队的强力阻击。

密尔沃基队横扫道奇队，以四场比赛的胜利结束了他们的统治，并在周四于道奇体育场以 6-4 的比分获胜。

酿酒人队是常规赛中棒球界最强的球队，在2025年被道奇队横扫夺冠后，他们渴望复仇。然而今年，道奇队只能茫然地思考究竟发生了什么，而酿酒人队则创造了历史：酿酒人队正在冲击队史首个总冠军，而密尔沃基酿酒人队历史上也只打进过一次世界大赛，在1982年鏖战七场后惜败。

在震惊的道奇体育场，酿酒人队周四上演逆转好戏，从开局0-4落后的局面中奋起直追。大谷翔平似乎摆脱了数月的低迷状态，在第二局击出一记三分全垒打，帮助卫冕冠军取得大比分领先。

季后赛中，四分的领先优势有时就足以锁定胜局。但酿酒人队并没有被大谷翔平击出本垒打后的狂喜庆祝所影响，而是开始逐步缩小分差。

酿酒人队在第四局和第五局各得两分，将比分扳平。随后，中外野手加勒特·米切尔在第六局击出一记深远的右外野安打，球越过围墙落在第一排看台上，帮助密尔沃基队取得领先。

米切尔的本垒打似乎打击了道奇队的斗志，尽管他们在接下来的几局中三次将比分扳平的跑者送上三垒，但始终未能击出扳平比分所需的关键安打。查韦斯峡谷球场内原本就略显沉闷的气氛，常常被寥寥无几的酿酒人队球迷的欢呼声所淹没。

他们最好的机会出现在第八局下半，老将捕手威尔·史密斯将球击向右外野角落。球弹来弹去，躲过了酿酒人队右外野手萨尔·弗雷利克的防守，史密斯得以站稳脚跟，跑上三垒，完成一次三垒安打。

当时只剩一人出局，道奇队最新高价签约的凯尔·塔克即将上场打击。塔克被阿隆·阿什比的投球击中，击出中外野浅飞球出局，成为第二个出局。特奥斯卡·埃尔南德斯随后上场，力图为道奇队再添一个季后赛经典时刻。然而，这一刻并未到来——埃尔南德斯被阿什比的曲球难住，三振出局，史密斯被留在垒上。

仅仅一局之后，大卫·汉密尔顿又添一分保险分，在第九局上半击出一支阳春全垒打，将比分改写为 6-4。

对于道奇队来说，这种统治级的表现以一种奇怪的方式结束，在经历了两年辉煌的胜利之后，最终却以相对黯淡的方式收场。人们一直期待着洛杉矶道奇队能够凭借联盟第二贵的阵容，以及过去二十年来棒球界广泛采用的数据分析技术，轻松再添一座总冠军奖杯。

取而代之的是，相对而言较为节俭的密尔沃基酿酒人队将代表国家联盟参加世界大赛，这场比赛势必会成为一场小球队之间的较量。酿酒人队的阵容组建费用约为1.43亿美元，在今年的大联盟中排名第19位。他们的对手将是克利夫兰守护者队或坦帕湾光芒队，这两支球队都是联盟中最便宜的球队之一。

卫士队的薪资总额为 7400 万美元，是联盟中最低的；光芒队的薪资总额为 9800 万美元，排名第 25 位。