The Brewers didn’t just win a championship. They put together one of the cleanest postseason runs baseball has ever seen.
Milwaukee’s title path ended with an 11-2 postseason record, a mark that lands among the most dominant World Series runs in MLB history. For a club with a middling payroll and a roster built with an unbelievable amount of creativity, that kind of finish only adds to the feel-good angle. But the numbers show this was much more than a charming upset story.
Only two teams in the three-round postseason era finished with a better record: the 2005 White Sox and the 1999 Yankees, each going 11-1 on the way to the championship. The Brewers sit right behind them, tied with the 2022 Astros and the 1998 Yankees at 11-2.
That’s a rare class to join, especially in the modern playoff format. Once the division series was added, a perfect postseason became impossible to sustain through three rounds.
No club has managed to win every game since then, and Milwaukee came painfully close to joining that truly exclusive group. If not for the 12-inning loss in Game 4 against the Rays, the Brewers would have been sitting in an even smaller club.
Their two defeats were both one-run losses, and everything else was ruthlessly efficient. The first came in the NLDS, a 4-3 Padres win in Game 3.
The other was the 12-inning, 4-3 loss to the Rays in Game 4 of the World Series. Outside of those games, Milwaukee was spotless, and the Fall Classic alone featured a 25-12 run differential.
The postseason road was short on blemishes and long on control. After sweeping the NLCS and then taking the World Series in five games, the Brewers finished the job with a 103-win season and a championship run that will live near the top of baseball history’s most dominant lists.
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