A Brewers comeback in the 2025 NLCS would put them in elite company

The Milwaukee Brewers face what feels like an insurmountable deficit in their NLCS matchup with the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers. It would be one thing if the Brewers simply needed to climb out of the 3-0 hole that they are starting down, but it's another thing altogether when their performance in the first three games of the NLCS has given Brewers fans very little reason to believe that an incredible turnaround is on the horizon.

Pair with that the fact that Jackson Chourio's status for Game 4 tonight remains uncertain and that Milwaukee will face Shohei Ohtani, who sported a 2.87 ERA through 14 starts in the regular season, and winning four-straight games against the Dodgers doesn't just feel daunting; it feels downright impossible.

However, there's a reason they play the games. There's a reason that teams are asked to win four games in the League Championship Series and not just three. Anything can happen in baseball, and in the words of William Contreras, "Sometimes, the ball just bounces another way. You can’t explain it, can’t predict it, can’t pay for it … you can only go out there and play." Maybe, just maybe, the ball will bounce the Brewers' way for the next four games, two of which would take place at Dodger Stadium and two of which would take place at Milwaukee's home ballpark, American Family Field.

Should the Brewers accomplish the unlikely feat and advance to their second World Series in franchise history, it wouldn't just mean an incomprehensible defeat of the most expensive baseball team ever assembled; it would also put the 2025 Brewers in some seriously elite company.

Brewers looking to become just the second team in MLB history to overcome a 3-0 deficit

As outlined by Thomas Harrigan of MLB.com, 42 teams have taken a 3-0 series lead in a best-of-seven series, and just one, ONE, has come back to win the series. That one team? The 2004 Boston Red Sox.

For Brewers fans, a viewing of ESPN's 30-for-30 titled "Four Days in October" or Netflix's "The Comeback" should be in store sometime before the Crew takes the field in tonight's Game 4 matchup against the Dodgers. Both shows document the unlikely comeback that the Red Sox completed back in the 2004 ALCS, when they defeated their division rivals, the New York Yankees, in four-straight games and advanced to the World Series, where they swept the St. Louis Cardinals.

Ironically, one of the key plays in that 2004 ALCS was courtesy of now-Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. In Game 4, with the Yankees on the verge of a four-game sweep, up by one run in the ninth inning with their Hall of Fame closer, Mariano Rivera, on the mound, Roberts entered the game as a pinch runner. He promptly swiped second base, in what has become one of the most famous stolen bases in baseball history, before a single from Bill Mueller drove him in to tie the game.

Long story short, the Red Sox went on to win the game and the next three to advance to the World Series, a feat that the Brewers now hope to complete. How sweet it would be to give Roberts a taste of his own medicine, returning the favor for the Yankees and the rest of the baseball world by joining his 2004 Red Sox squad as the only other team to come back from a 3-0 series deficit.

A pipe dream? Maybe. Impossible? Nothing is in baseball.