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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
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Tom Verducci

The Brewers Are Making the Dodgers Look Old, Tired and Vulnerable

MILWAUKEE — Everybody is busy. We get our news from TikTok, use emojis instead of words and punch up an app for dinner instead of firing up the stove burners. So, if you wanted to understand how the Brewers have won 108 games and how they are schooling the two-time defending champion Dodgers in the NLCS, all the time you needed to spare was seven minutes, 15 seconds.

Milwaukee first baseman Jake Bauers spent seven minutes, 15 seconds in the batter’s box against Dodgers righthander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, one of the premier clutch pitchers of this generation, in the third inning of NLCS Game 2 Monday. Bauers refused to go away. He defined Brewers baseball.

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