The Milwaukee Brewers return to the National League Championship Series for the first time since 2018. They’ll meet the same team from the last appearance in the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Milwaukee enters as the No. 1 seed in the NL bracket and closed out a competitive, five-game series over their division rivals, the Chicago Cubs, in the Division Series. Young players and several products of a stellar pitching development system have the Brewers back on the verge of a trip to the World Series.
To do so, they’ll have to avenge the 2018 NLCS loss and knock off the current reigning world champions.
MLB Hall of Famer and TBS analyst Pedro Martinez picked the Brewers before the start of the postseason to win it all. He stood by that prediction prior to the NLCS.
“I still believe the Brewers are, for the first time, a team that we can believe in and a team that can do it all,” Martinez told Newsweek. “They run, they play defense, they pitch, they relieve. They have a great manager. They have a lot of hunger with those young players. They know how to basically play the game. Fundamentally, they’re solid.”
The bullpen for manager Pat Murphy, in Martinez’s eyes, makes them specifically dangerous in October with arms in Abner Uribe and Trevor Megill at the backend of games.
“The type of arms that they have are just impressive,” Martinez added. “Believe me, they’ve got a couple of guys right now that are not pitching for them that if they were there, they’d be more scary. They would be the top one in all of baseball.”
The NLCS kicks off Monday when Blake Snell takes the ball for the Dodgers in Milwaukee. The Brewers are yet to announce their starter for the series opener.
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