Brewers sweep Dodgers in NLCS, advance to World Series - ESPN

LOS ANGELES — For the first time since 1982, the Milwaukee Brewers are headed to the World Series.

Garrett Mitchell hammered a go-ahead sixth-inning solo homer off Dodgers lefty Tanner Scott as Milwaukee capped a rally from a four-run deficit against the Dodgers on Thursday. Milwaukee beat the Dodgers 6-4, completing a National League Championship Series sweep of the two-time defending champs.

The next stop for Milwaukee is one it hasn't made since the heyday of Robin Yount, Paul Molitor and Cecil Cooper — the Fall Classic against either the Cleveland Guardians or Tampa Bay Rays.

In was just under a year ago that the roles were reversed and the Dodgers swept Milwaukee en route to a championship. This marks the first time in postseason history that a team has swept an opponent that swept it in the preceding season.

The win gives the Brewers their first National League pennant, as Milwaukee was still a member of the American League when it went to its only previous World Series 44 years ago. The Brewers were the only one of the 15 current NL franchises that had never won a pennant.

The Brewers checked that box and now an even bigger one looms: Milwaukee will have a shot to leave the group of five active MLB franchises without a championship.

It looked as if the Brewers' long wait would endure for at least another day early in the contest when slumping Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani launched a 428-foot three-run homer off righty Dustin May, giving the Dodgers a 4-0 lead.

But these Brewers are, among other things, relentless. Milwaukee plated four runs to tie the score, all charted to Dodgers starter Tyler Glasnow, who was dominant during a perfect first trip through the Milwaukee lineup.

There were no big blasts in the Brewers'