The Milwaukee Brewers eliminated the Chicago Cubs from the postseason, talked their shit, which they certainly earned, and were then promptly ushered out of the playoffs by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS. They didn't even last a week as the Dodgers swept the Brewers in four games in what turned out to be the worst showing by any team in MLB postseason history.
That is not hyperbole, this is not a Cubs fan gleefully celebrating the embarrassment that was the Brewers, OK it's exactly that. The Brewers were shit against the Dodgers and proved all the haters right. Keep talking about the beauty of small ball, how making contact is the real way to win games, putting pressure on the opposition by having a lineup filled with slap hitters.
Well, how did that work out for the Brewers?
Milwaukee had 14 total hits and four runs scored against the Dodgers as essentially everyone on the Brewers disappeared in the NLCS. Rookie Caleb Durbin was the only Brewers' player to post a decent slash line as the right-handed hitting infielder was 4-for-13, with a triple, two doubles and two runs scored.
Meanwhile, below are the numbers for the other notable players in Milwaukee's lineup.
Jackson Chourio: 3-for-15, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 0 BB, 5 K
William Contreras: 2-for-14, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 2 BB, 4 K
Christian Yelich: 1-for-14, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 2 BB, 7 K
Brice Turang: 1-for-15, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 6 K
Sal Frelick: 1-for-14, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 3 K
Andrew Vaughn: 0-for-12, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K
That awful performance also brought us this fun fact. The Brewers ended the regular season as the No. 1 seed in the National League and before they were swept by the Dodgers, the St. Louis Cardinals were the last top seed to be swept in the playoffs.
You know what, though, credit to William Contreras who did take the Cubs' trolling in stride and had fun with it, sharing an AI video of the Cubs greeting the Brewers in Cancun after Milwaukee was swept, saying "now we go to vacation," in Spanish.
Still, way suck Brewers.
