Jake Bauers named NLCS MVP as Brewers advance to World Series after sweeping Dodgers

The Milwaukee Brewers have won the 2026 National League pennant. They swept the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers with a 6-4 win in Game 4 Thursday night in Game 4. The NLCS MVP is Jake Bauers and it's one heck of a story. We'll get to that.

Bauers went 4 for 14 in the series, but he made his hits count. He doubled in two runs to cut the Dodgers' lead in half in Game 4 and had the big blow in Game 3 with a go-ahead, two-run home run in the seventh inning. He had six RBI in the four-game series and that doesn't even include the impact he had in Game 2 with a 12-pitch walk in the third inning that helped chase 2025 World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto from the game.

"There was never a doubt in that dugout what was going to happen," Bauers said after the game. "We knew we were going to win."

An interesting twist here is that this is the first LCS MVP for the Brewers franchise. They won the American League pennant in 1982, but the MVP in that ALCS went to a player from the losing Angels: Fred Lynn…

Original source: https://www.cbssports.com/