The Brewers just one win away from their first NL pennant and second overall in franchise history.

If they can wrap this series up, that'll guarantee that the WS winner will either be winning for the first time or be breaking a 78-year championship drought. Amazing to think the Guardians drought is now only 10 years short of the White Sox 88-year drought of 1917-2005.

2 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

The Brewers just one win away from their first NL pennant and second overall in franchise history.

If they can wrap this series up, that'll guarantee that the WS winner will either be winning for the first time or be breaking a 78-year championship drought. Amazing to think the Guardians drought is now only 10 years short of the White Sox 88-year drought of 1917-2005.

Their only other title was 1920.

One year after the Black Sox scandal.

5 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Airing immediately following NFL coverage, Sunday’s Dodgers-Brewers National League Championship Series Game 1 averaged 10.72 million viewers across FOX (10.6M) and Fox Deportes — marking the most-watched Game 1 of an LCS since Angels-White Sox in 2005 (15.01M) and most-watched Game 1 of an NLCS since Marlins-Cubs in 2003 (15.57M). (That excludes games that aired in regional windows; FOX aired Game 1 of one LCS and Game 2 of the other in regionalized primetime windows from 2002-06.)

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I don't remember the 05 playoffs getting great ratings. That's interesting.

7 minutes ago, wegner said:

I don't remember the 05 playoffs getting great ratings. That's interesting.

I thought the same thing

8 minutes ago, wegner said:

I don't remember the 05 playoffs getting great ratings. That's interesting.

maybe not that great compared to previous decade ???

or 2004 Red Sox / Yankees?

https://www.si.com/mlb/brewers/2026-nlcs-game-3-big-bad-dodgers-pushed-to-brink-by-journeyman-and-rookie

"Bauers had been a journeyman for most of his career. He debuted in 2018 with the Rays and bounced around the league for the next few years, spending time with the Guardians, Mariners and Yankees before landing with the Brewers in ‘24. He nearly retired after his first season in Milwaukee. He’d never found any semblance of stability in MLB, moving from organization to organization and struggling at the plate. But after deciding he was ready to call it quits on baseball, his wife found out she was pregnant, which caused Bauers to reconsider his stance on walking away from the game. Instead of retiring, Bauers decided to continue his career, because, in his own words, “We needed health insurance.”

On August 1, 2022, the Padres traded Robert Gasser, Dinelson Lamet, Taylor Rogers, and Esteury Ruiz to the Milwaukee Brewers for Josh Hader.

HEAVY

Jake Bauers Wasn't Wanted by Yankees or Cleveland, but No...

Jake Bauers has traveled a wandering baseball journey, but he has finally found a home with the Milwaukee Brewers.

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Bauers is only two years younger than Snell, and was in the Tampa Bay Rays system from 2015-18. Bauers played 96 games in his first major league season for the Rays in 2018, the year his teammate Snell won his first Cy Young Award. Now in his seventh organization, Bauers had his best season this year with the Brewers and just turned 31 last week. He turned around Games 2 and 3 in this NLCS with long battles, including a 12-pitch walk by Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Monday in Milwaukee.

“I’ve seen all the ups and downs he’s been through, and it’s been a lot of downs. For him to go through this right now, he’s earned it. Hats off to him, what an at-bat,” Snell said of Bauers. “I threw everything I had, and then a fastball down the middle. If I could locate that better, who knows what would have happened? This is the best I’ve ever seen him play. It’s a good at-bat. Hats off to him, but the walk’s what really frustrated me, with Vaughn.”

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