The Milwaukee Brewers keep turning October into a comeback reel, and now they’ve played their way into the same neighborhood as one of baseball’s modern heavyweights.
Through 10 games of the 2026 postseason, Milwaukee has found itself behind in eight of them. Seven times, the Brewers have shaken off that hole and won anyway. That run has pushed them to a 9-1 playoff record and left them two victories away from the franchise’s first World Series title.
Saturday night at American Family Field brought the latest example. Down four runs, the Brewers clawed back to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-4 in Game 2 of the World Series and take a 2-0 series lead.
That kind of resilience is why the comparison to the 2018 Red Sox has started to land. Boston, which won 108 regular-season games that year, finished its championship postseason at 11-3. Milwaukee, which led Major League Baseball with 103 wins in the regular season, now has a shot to finish with an even better postseason winning percentage than that Red Sox team.
The Brewers’ latest rally also put them in a very small club. They became just the fifth team in MLB history to overcome multiple four-run deficits for wins in the same postseason, joining the 1996 New York Yankees, 2002 Anaheim Angels, 2005 Chicago White Sox and 2022 Philadelphia Phillies.
Boston’s 2018 run followed a similar pattern of blunt-force offense and timely damage. Led by Mookie Betts, J.D. Martinez, Chris Sale and eventual World Series MVP Steve Pearce, the Red Sox beat the New York Yankees in four games in the American League Division Series and then knocked out the Houston Astros in five games in the AL Championship Series.
They kept the pressure on in the World Series, too. After dispatching the Dodgers in five games to win their fourth title since 2004, the Red Sox showed the same kind of late-game fight Milwaukee is showing now.
In Game 4, Boston trailed Los Angeles 4-0 entering the seventh inning, then scored nine unanswered runs to win 9-6. The next night, the Red Sox finished off the series with a 5-1 victory.
Milwaukee’s current pace would put the club in some elite postseason company of its own. The Brewers enter Monday with a .900 postseason winning percentage, better than Boston’s .786 mark in 2018. If they win the next two games, they would finish 11-1 and match the 1999 Yankees and 2005 White Sox for the best postseason winning percentage of the Wild Card Era.
A big reason the Brewers have survived all these tight spots has been the bullpen. Milwaukee relievers own a 1.24 ERA through 10 postseason games, and eight of the team’s nine wins have gone to relief pitchers. That matches the 2015 Kansas City Royals for the most relief wins in a single postseason.
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