It’s about Brewtal there: The game of Rome takes 1 “

MILWAUKEE – A year ago, the Dodgers arrived in Milwaukee as the bottom seed in the NLCS and were knocked on the door by the Brewers. Milwaukee scored four runs, total, in a four-game sweep. Both teams’ rosters have evolved, and individual players have changed for better (Jacob Misiorowski) or worse (Shohei Ohtani), but what could be so different this time around? As Dan Szymborski wrote in his series of predictions, teams that lose in the playoff series are 17-28 all season when they are rehabilitated the following year. Teams are played with goals 0-5.

Well, at least there’s one other thing: The Brewers aren’t catching any goals this season. They stopped making the most important item on the list — Tarik Skubal right away, when they won 2-1 in the sold-out field of the American family. Misiorowski labored through his 4 1/3-innings, but some terrible infield defense allowed him to escape with one run on the board, and he was preceded by a solo homer by Brice Turang before an RBI single by Luis Lara an inning later. After another four innings, the Brewers took a 1-run lead.

Misiorowski respected his home city opponents by competing overnight. He might be the presumptive NL Cy Young winner and the fastest pitcher of all time, but Misiorowski is also a 24-year-old with arms like the wire guy in the radio tower. He ordered that he never be flawless to begin with – not that he needed to throw 102 – and something a little bit about Miz’s peak figure.