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The Brewers really just are this good

The first two games of the World Series were close – each ended with the tying run 90 feet from home on third base.

The crazy part is, they didn’t feel close. They felt like legitimate and legible depictions of how the Brewers never waver on the way to ultimate success. They felt like the Brewers were the better team.

But if there was any doubt, Game 3 should have convinced you.

The Rays – a great team, the other one-seed! – managed just three hits. They made outs on the basepaths again, and their regular season aggressiveness on the bases has started to look like a liability this series. Chandler Simpson made the catch of the postseason early on, but errors plagued them elsewhere.

It’s not their fault, though.

What are you supposed to do against a team that can put up double-digits on small ball? The Brewers scored 10 runs without the ball leaving the park once. They scored eight of them with two outs in the fifth inning on a history-making seven-straight hits (no team has had that many consecutive hits in a postseason…ever).

The next time they came to the plate, they managed another couple singles that never came around to score, but the point is: These guys do not let up.

Jackson Chourio was 4-for-5. Robert Gasser – a 27-year-old rookie – faced the minimum through six innings. And the bullpen is usually the Brewers’ biggest strength!

It’s very probable the Brewers will win the World Series, possibly as soon as tonight. It will be the first in the team’s history.

When they do, it will be because they undeniably deserve it. They have lost just one game this entire postseason. They swept the two-time champion Dodgers who are regularly and accurately compared to Goliath. They had the best regular-season record. They had the best regular-season record last year.

And, even if you’re uninterested in the labor implications, we should never stop marveling that a team which plays in the smallest media market in the sport, with a bottom-10 payroll, has established this level of consistent dominance.

Or, we’re about to witness an all-time comeback by the Rays.