After getting swept in the NLCS last season, Milwaukee came back this year a more determined and hungry team. It showed in every way with a dominant performance to send the Brewers to their first World Series appearance since 1982 -- when they were in the American League.
While not among the most newsworthy trades in August, Cleveland's deals for Jo Adell and Nathaniel Lowe in the lineup and Foster Griffin in the rotation were earth-shakers in the clubhouse.
Three relievers combined to hold the Dodgers scoreless over the final seven innings of the Brewers’ comeback win, which made Milwaukee the first team to have a reliever earn the win in at least seven of its first eight games of a postseason.
“The pure excitement of being in that moment and just having that moment in my career, I just kind of blacked out,” Petey Halpin said of his bat flip following his Game 3 go-ahead homer.
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