Brewers End Dodgers' Run With Dominant NLCS Victory

Man, I'll tell you, it just looked to me like the Dodgers going so deep for so many years. Tim, it just looked like they ran out of gas and they ran into a buzzsaw because that Brewers team right now is playing as good a baseball as anybody that we've seen in recent memory here. Just your overall thoughts here on how the season went and how the season ended for the Dodgers here. Well, we'll start with last night and this week. It's, you know, they picked a bad week to have a bad week, right? that's that's kind of what happened they did not do well with runners in scoring position they were two for 11 again last night uh through through the entire postseason they were uh almost anemic with runners in scoring position they get a guy like last night they had a chance to tie it two consecutive innings runner on third less than two outs couldn't get them in so you know you've got hitters chasing pitches uh you know but milwaukee capitalized and you have to tip your cap to the brewers for the season they've had and for what they did against the two-time defending champs they knew they were going to see a tough team they really did but i think that whole organization and again don't overlook the advanced scouting people their analytics people their those people contributed greatly to what we just saw and you know frankly i don't see anybody excuse me i don't see anybody else beating them the way that they're playing right now the way that they're pitching right now uh they were the best team in baseball record wise during the course of the year there's no reason to think they aren't now um but they you know they're on to their first world series since 1982 they've never won one this is the first time as a national league team they're gone to the World Series, remember in '82 they're in the American League at that point but uh i don't know i wish them the best of luck they got a lot of great people a lot of talented people there and and you know they earned it they definitely earned it winning four straight coming back from four down last night. Ohtani gets back into it. I thought the night before when he rifled one up the middle, a big single, he squared it up and said, okay, he's getting close. And then he hit the three-run bomb last night. I said, okay, we're getting shades of Ohtani back, best player in the world, which he is. And just wasn't enough. Just couldn't get it done in the end. But all in all, seasonally, I thought it was another really good season. And anytime you have a chance to get to the National League Championship Series uh you know you've had a really good season but the expectations from Dodger fans are much higher because the Dodgers have have won the last two years in a row and look where they've been i mean since 2017 they were in the World Series lost to Houston next year in the World Series lost to Boston uh you know then in 20 they win it 24 25 they win it so yeah the expectations are really really high um the the narrative that this team's just too old now i don't know if i buy that completely but from what you said dan it did look like they were out of gas in certain areas uh maybe that was the case consider the fact is believe not making an excuse here just saying these guys have played a lot of baseball together the last few years beginning of the '24 season they opened in Korea right came back played right away um went to the World Series that's a long season the next year they went to Japan to start the season back-to-back seasons starting in Asia then they have to come back get used to the time again all that stuff it was a World Baseball Classic mixed in there as well um so for a lot of these guys that's a lot of baseball that's a ton of baseball in a three-year period and you know this is a little earlier than they're accustomed to hanging them up for the year but i think some of these guys will get ample rest or whatever medical attention they need and they'll be back and they'll be one of the favorites again next year no matter what the roster looks like because The core roster with guys like Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, you know, and pitchers like Yamamoto and Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow, who we know are under contract, you know, those are pretty solid pieces to have in your puzzle for 2027.