In a mid-season statement, Brewers sweep defending champs

What. A. Series. With the All-Star Break looming, the Milwaukee Brewers are showing no signs of needing a rest — they are too busy making history. The Brew Crew just swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in Milwaukee for the first time in franchise history. What started with a blowout 9-1 win on Monday night, ended with a nail-biting series finale on Wednesday afternoon, as Jackson Chourio provided the nail in the coffin with his first career walk-off hit to send the Brewers into an off-day on the heels of a three-game sweep of the defending champions.

Game one on Monday started with fireworks, as the Brewers’ recent trade acquisition Andrew Vaughn slugged a three-run homer in his first-ever at-bat with the Crew. Two more runs in the first frame of the series opener from the Brewers' offense chased 2025 NL All-Star Yoshinobu Yamamoto out of the game before he could collect three outs. On the pitching side of things, fellow NL All-Star Freddy Peralta earned his 10th win of the season after tossing six shutout innings with seven strikeouts. Christian Yelich's 18th home run of the season brought the Brewers’ run total up to nine, and the Crew coasted to a stress-free victory.

Game two offered a historic pitching match-up, pitting rookie sensation Jacob Misiorowski against long-time Dodger legend Clayton Kershaw, who just collected his 3,000th career strikeout in his previous start. The game began with a towering solo homer from Shohei Ohtani, which brought his season total up to 31. However, Miz quickly hunkered down and struck out six of the next seven batters he faced. The 23-year-old right-hander finished with six innings of one-run baseball with a career-high 12 strikeouts. Offensively, the Brewers finally got to Kershaw in the fourth inning, with RBI singles from Vaughn and Isaac Collins giving them the lead. An 8th-inning solo shot from Sal Frelick and lockdown performances from Jared Koenig, Abner Uribe, and Trevor Megill out of the bullpen gave the Crew a 3-1 win, and set them up for a chance to sweep on Wednesday afternoon.

Brewers sweep the Dodgers after a walk-off win in Wednesday's matinee

Wednesday's series finale started as a pitcher's duel between Milwaukee's savvy veteran José Quintana and the Dodgers' Tyler Glasnow, who came off the injured list prior to today's start. Some questionable umpiring in the top of the fourth handed the Dodgers their first run of the game, but the Brewers answered with a run of their own in the bottom of the frame, thanks to some opportunistic base-running from Jake Bauers.

In the seventh, Mookie Betts broke the tie with a sacrifice fly after Aaron Ashby, who tossed 39 pitches in Monday's opener, struggled to find the zone and walked two consecutive batters to load the bases.

The Crew answered back once again in the bottom of the ninth, with the big hit coming from none other than Andrew Vaughn. A broken-bat RBI single from the newcomer plated Collins and sent the game into extra innings.

In the top of the 10th, NL All-Star Trevor Megill struck out the side, with an impressive display of velocity — each strikeout came on a pitch north of 100 mph. With an automatic runner on second base to start the bottom of the 10th, the Brewers just needed one hit to sweep the defending champs.

Staring down 2x All-Star Kirby Yates, Jackson Chourio smacked a ground ball through the left side and scored Frelick, giving the Brewers the series sweep and their fourth-straight win.

The Brewers get a well-deserved off-day tomorrow before closing out the first half of the season with a three-game series against the Washington Nationals. Game one of the series is set for 7:10 p.m. CT on Friday night, and on Saturday afternoon, Brandon Woodruff makes his return to American Family Field.