The Milwaukee Brewers try to stay alive against the LA Dodgers in Game 4 of the NLCS Friday at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

A dream season for the Milwaukee Brewers is over. After winning a franchise record 97 games during the regular season, the Brewers were unceremoniously swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS. The Brewers scored four runs in the four games and pitched with a lead for exactly one-third of an inning.

Brandon Woodruff looked around the room in the wake of the Brewers’ season-ending, 5-1 loss to the Dodgers in Game 4 of the NLCS and saw a team positioned to move forward, not backward, after it gets past the sting of being swept.

Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani will take the mound opposite Milwaukee left-hander Jose Quintana as the Dodgers try to sweep the series on Friday night at Dodger Stadium.

There are precious few things in this world that we can count on. There's death. There's also taxes. And then there's the Milwaukee Brewers looking like one of the best teams in baseball for six months before getting over-matched in the postseason.

How can the Brewers improve on their .101 batting average in the NLCS in Game 4? Jimmy Rollins said it was all about swinging in the strike zone.

Brewers manager Pat Murphy gets a call from Hall of Famer Joe Torre as his team faces 0-3 deficit against Dodgers in NLCS