Brewers sweep LA Dodgers to advance to World Series

The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 on Thursday to reach baseball's World Series for the first time in 44 years after completing a 4-0 series sweep of the star-studded defending champions. The top-seeded Brewers once again combined relentless offence with clinical relief pitching at Dodger Stadium to fight back from an early 4-0 deficit to snuff out the Dodgers' hopes of a rare World Series three-peat. The Brewers, who last reached the World Series in 1982, will face either the Cleveland Guardians or Tampa Bay Rays in baseball's championship series. "We've still got a ways to go. We've still got some big games in front of us," Brewers team captain Christian Yelich said. "We've been so close to this so many times. Credit to our guys, our team, they stuck together, battled. We got down early, we were like it's gonna be a great story when we come back and win this." Brewers skipper Pat Murphy meanwhile said simply: "They may have a bunch of Hall of Famers, but we have a bunch of gamers. And the gamers won this week." After a lacklustre defeat in game three on Wednesday, the Dodgers had been left needing to become only the second team in...