The Brewers just SHOCKED the league...

The Brewers just shocked the league, taking a 3-0 series lead over the reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers. And Milwaukee now sits one win away from the franchise's second World Series appearance ever, and possibly a chance at the first World Series ring ever. Ever, ever, ever is all you can say. I'm almost speechless, but I also have so much to talk about that I could talk about for an hour. So let's talk about this Game 3, where the Brewers took a 3-0 series lead. They go into Los Angeles. They score on the very first pitch of the game. They blow that lead. They then get that lead back and don't give it back once more. A 6-2 win, Milwaukee Brewers baseball doing what they do best in just making it very uncomfortable for the other teams. The Brewers are finding different ways to do it this postseason. Three homers we saw in this contest. Just that's not how Brewers baseball does it. That's how they're doing it in this game, and that's what makes this team so fun, so unpredictable, and so hard to beat. I want to start off by talking with the pitchers in this one. It's easy to look at the offense in the six runs, but this Dodgers offense was only held to two runs of their own. And why was that? Well, Robert Gasser had a huge start for the Milwaukee Brewers. Five innings of work, did strike out three batters, gave up zero earned runs, only three hits, and only one walk. 72 pitches to get through five innings is what you love to see. There were some moments when, you know, maybe a couple runners were on, but, you know, Bobby Gasser did not take the foot off the gas at all. Bobby Diesel, whatever they call him, there's a lot of nicknames for him. He pitched absolutely incredible. Some neat stats that I saw on Robert Gasser. I'll flash one of these up right here. This is from Off The Stats. It says, Robert Gasser of the Brewers is the first rookie in MLB history with a scoreless start in the postseason against the defending champions. And that is just, if you talk about the biggest stage Robert Gasser could be on, it's a chance to give your team a 3-0 lead in the NLCS against the reigning champions on the road in their ballpark. Robert Gasser looked like a true veteran pitcher. He did not look like he just entered the league a couple years ago. And he has been the unsung hero for the Brewers. outside of Gasser well after he was done they brought in Abner Uribe who I finally is probably the wrong term but finally had a bad outing because he's just been that good the Dodgers were able to get to him Uribe only lasted a third of an inning gave up two runs the Brewers were now facing a 2-1 deficit but what does this team this season do best they come back and they play for each other everyone has each other's backs the Brewers were able to come back in this one offensively but the pitching shut it down after those two runs Uribe gave up nothing else was given up DL Hall will be the underrated MVP of this postseason run for the Milwaukee Brewers he has been absolutely unreal two and a third innings pitch two strikeouts no earned runs only one hit no walks 22 strikes out of 28 pitches again good enough for a zero ERA because he gave up nothing DL Hall's middle relief is something that I think people need to take away from this game way more than they probably are because there's a lot of highlights that came in that seventh inning or later that are easy to just remember and forget about everything else that happened up until that so a shout out to DL Hall the massive massive massive two and a third innings from him out of the bullpen and then you look at who closed it out well of course Trevor McGill getting the job done he went one and a third he did come into that eighth inning got the one out came back in the ninth luckily now with a comfortable six to two lead struck out two batters did not give up a hit a walk or an earned run he was pumping it for strikes as well 13 of 18 pitches uh went for strikes nice to see that from McGill man the Brewers I mean they sit one win away one win away and how else do they do it well the offense Jackson Churio one for five this game but you know what that one swing was on the first pitch of the game off of Blake Snell a middle middle fastball that's like the last thing I'd throw to Jackson Churio if I was a pitcher but hey appreciate the gift he takes that to right field and starts the Brewers off with an absolute bang love to see it from Jackson Churio one of if not the best postseason hitters in probably Brewers franchise history which is unreal to say because he's still very young only his third season in the league but he's been a part of the Brewers postseason in some very important runs and we see some stats right here this is from Sarah Langs on X talking about you know the most postseason RBI before turning 23 years old Jackson Chourio leads that list he's not even 23 years old yet and he's doing this Andrew Jones is in second who Chourio passed but Andrew Jones did this in 45 games which unreal how many postseason games he was in before 23 he He did that in 45 games. Jackson Chourio did this in 19, 19 games. An RBI a game is basically the pace he's on. That's impressive even in a regular season because if you're on pace for an RBI a game, you're getting 162 RBI in a regular season. This is in October against the biggest stars, against the biggest teams on the biggest stage, and he is absolutely showing up. But another guy that was showing up, I mean, how about Jake the Rake Bowers with arguably the biggest swing of his career, not even arguably, definitely is the biggest swing of his career, I would say his biggest swing of his career was the home run in the playoffs two years ago against the Mets that also resulted in back-to-back home runs but Jake Bowers incredible what we're seeing from him here I'm gonna put on the big screen because there's this is just big screen type of stuff Jake Bowers and his story on why he is currently on the Milwaukee Brewers right now is absolutely unreal again one for four homer that led to two runs we'll take a look at a nice picture a nice snapshot of what it looked like off the bat right there and he knew it you saw the bat flip like right away jake bowers knew that he got a hold of that one in what was an 11 pitch at bat but what i want to talk about is jake bowers and just this truly incredible story so this is right here two years ago jake bowers told his agent he was retiring his wife would return to teaching while he stayed at home with their child but then three days later after this she told him that she was pregnant so jake bowers returned to baseball to feed his family and for health insurances says last night hit the go-ahead home run in the NLCS his dad Stu who was there uh he has worn his t-shirt that says Jake Bowers Hardware Company which I think is hilarious the last four Brewers games and they are 4-0 it has not been washed yet so uh unfortunately for Jake Bowers dad um I think you're gonna have to stay in that I don't think you're gonna have to take a shower for a long time that would be much appreciated if it's truly that much of a good luck charm but Jake Bowers almost retired from baseball and he has been one of the most impactful bats from Milwaukee Brewers over the past three years maybe in that year when he hit the homer against the Mets yes he was batting 199 but he had the biggest swing in that postseason this year he's having a career year uh one of the best if not the best hitters on the Milwaukee Brewers this season and he had probably one of the biggest swings of their franchise history probably franchise history i hope that maybe one beats that because the Brewers win five more games and win the World Series but that swing from Jake Bowers might have been the biggest swing in franchise history we take a look at that at bat as well because he just absolutely his patience at the plate in this postseason we saw it literally a game ago in game two a 12 pitch at bat with Yoshinobu Yamamoto that resulted in a full count walk that then led Christian Yelich to get up to the dish take a hit up the middle two RBI single to give the Brewers a three to two lead right here it was another situation where the Brewers took a three to two lead following a big Jake Bowers at bat but this time it was Bowers doing the damage himself on the 11th pitch after one heck of an at bat he got a middle middle fastball that he absolutely crushed he did a bat flip like a half a second after it he knew it so a shout out to Jake Bowers but again who hit after Jake Bowers it was Garrett Mitchell right away one for three in this one with a homer and an RBI because he said hey Jake I kind of like that lefty lefty homer you hit off a Snell I'm gonna join the party he did the exact same thing I mean Garrett Mitchell saw a lovely change up right in that middle of the zone and absolutely crushed it the Brewers got four runs off of Blake Snell in a game where it looked like maybe they were only going to get one hit following that Jackson Churho leadoff homer. But look at this back-to-back stat right here. This is from OptaStats. A little nitpick, but I say all of these stats right here are so impressive. It says the Brewers are the first team in MLB history to hit back-to-back homers that came in the seventh inning or later. Talk about clutchness. Came on the road. Talk about a tough place to play even though that stadium was not that full. You're still on the road. Still on the road. Came off a multi-time former Cy Young winner. Blake Snell has two of those. And then turned a deficit into a lead that has not happened in any game regular season or postseason the Brewers first team to do it and that's because of Jake Bowers and Garrett Mitchell so how about that stat for those two guys but one more guy I want to give love to give attention to is Cooper Pratt he went three for four in this game and scored one of the runs that was huge for this Milwaukee Brewers six to two win I don't think many people are going to be talking about Pratt because he didn't have one of the three homers but he went three for four he went three for four on the road in his first NLCS his first road game NLCS. He was ready. He was dialed in three for four at the plate. We've seen some ugly at-bats from Pratt against some big-name pitchers, but he's only gotten better and better throughout this postseason. Really incredible stuff to see. Really awesome to see. But again, we take a look at the Dodgers and what the Brewers did against their pitchers. The Dodgers did have four pitchers go in this one, but I want to highlight Blake Snell and Worbletsky. Blake Snell, six innings, nine Ks, four earned runs, four hits, two walks on 101 pitches. After Jackson Chur hit that lead off homer Blake Snell retired the next 14 batters but the brewers were never going to quit got a 4-2 lead with Snell in there and after a little bit more bullpen in the middle that ended up being more Worblewski to try to finish off the game and not give up many more runs but unfortunately the brewers had different things in mind where Worblewski went one and two-thirds innings did strike out three brewers but gave up two hits and also an earned run he did that on 32 pitches so now the brewers they sit here with a beautiful win a six to two win in game three of this series and they have a chance to take game four and be in their first world series since 1982 i'm not going to get ahead of myself we've seen a 3-0 comeback it's happened one time but we could be talking about a brewers world series in a couple of hours here if that happens you know i will be live we will be having a post-game celebration and i will be up all night long even though this game is in la and we'll probably end very very late 10 11 o'clock whatever time range you're in the brewers put a graphic up that I don't think you can get a message across more than this. Finish them. Finish them. 4-0 sweep. Get out of LA. Focus on a World Series. I love that Yelich is on the graphic. He has been there since 2018 when the Dodgers beat the Brewers in seven games. I mean, if you could ever want a comeback story, it is right here and right now. I hope to be talking to you guys in a couple hours post-game following Game 4. The Brewers still yet to announce their pitcher. It will be interesting to see who they go with. Maybe it's a big bullpen game. Patrick Harrison Drowin still yet to pitch in this post season i saw patrick warming up yesterday but this brewers team one win away from a world series not going to get ahead of myself but if you told me taylor the brewers are going to have a 3-0 lead over the dodgers i would have called you crazy that is no negativity to the brewers it is just really hard to get a 3-0 lead in an NLCS in an ALCS in a playoff series in general the brewers are doing it against the back-to-back champions hoping the brewers complete the sweep and we are talking about how to party like it's 1982 hope to see you guys after the game maybe we're bringing the brooms out