MLB playoffs: Takeaways from NLCS Game 4, ALCS Game 3 - ESPN

On Day 5 of the league championship series, one team broke a series tie… and another advanced to the World Series.

In the finale of the National League Championship Series, the Milwaukee Brewers pulled off yet another come-from-behind win to sweep the reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium and advance to their first Fall Classic since 1982.

After splitting the first two games in Tampa Bay, the Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays faced off at Progressive Field in the day's first game. Thanks to Petey Halpin — and his epic bat flip — Cleveland prevailed, taking a 2-1 American League Championship Series lead.

We have you covered with in-game action and postgame analysis from Los Angeles and Cleveland.

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Milwaukee wins series 4-0

It was over when… David Hamilton blasted a home run with two outs in the top of the ninth inning, extending the Milwaukee lead to two runs — which, for a Dodgers offense that was already down, must have felt like a finishing body blow. At the moment of contact, a collective ooooh could be heard in the lowest bowl of Dodger Stadium.

The stat that defined the game: The Dodgers went 2-for-11 with runners in scoring position, repeatedly squandering chances to tie the game in the final innings. They had a runner at second and one out in the sixth, a runner at third with one out in the seventh and a runner at third with one out in the eighth. Time and again, they could not plate the run they needed to knot the score. — Buster Olney

Game 4 star: After a typical Brewers rally from a four-run deficit (they tied it up with no home runs), Garrett Mitchell lit up Dodgers lefty Tanner Scott