Who’s to blame for Dodgers’ shocking NLCS loss vs. Brewers? Five places to point fingers

The Milwaukee Brewers are going to the World Series for the second time in franchise history and the first time as a National League team (the Brewers were still in the American League when they went to the World Series in 1982). This also means the Los Angeles Dodgers have been eliminated, and their shot at becoming baseball's first threepeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees ended on Thursday night. The Brewers have swept the Dodgers in four games in the NLCS, doing so one year after the Dodgers swept them in the 2025 NLCS.

Who is to blame for the Dodgers going four-and-out in the NLCS? There's plenty of blame to go around, so let's assign it, shall we?

We have to start here. The Dodgers got swept in the NLCS because the Brewers outplayed them in every phase of the game. The Brewers got better starting pitching. Their bullpen was better. Their defense and baserunning were better. Their offense was better at both stringing together hits to build a rally and launching the ball out of the park. Pat Murphy out-managed Dave Roberts as well. You name it, and the Brewers did it better than the Dodgers…

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