Brewers’ Jake Bauers reveals motivation he took from 2025 loss into Dodgers sweep
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Facing a payroll difference of nearly $200 million, the Milwaukee Brewers just took down the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2026 NLCS, sending them home in just four games after completing a 6-4 comeback victory in Game 4 on Thursday night. They went down early, courtesy of a Shohei Ohtani home run, but the Brewers, as they’ve done all postseason long, stuck to the task — with Jake Bauers once again starring for his team.
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Bauers was coming off a Game 3 performance in which he hit a crucial long ball and drove in two in the Brewers’ 6-2 victory. He then followed that up with another outstanding outing in Game 4; he opened the scoring for Milwaukee in the fourth by hitting a two-run ground-rule double. The 31-year-old first baseman then drew a walk with the bases loaded in the fifth to tie the game.
His heroics made him quite the deserving winner of the NLCS MVP award; in the series, he slashed .286/.412/.571 to go along with one home run, six runs batted in, and three walks in 14 at-bats. Clearly, Bauers was playing with a chip on his shoulder, and the Brewers slugger found a bit of inspiration from the way the Dodgers carried themselves after last year’s sweep.
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“I can’t speak on anybody else, but for me, watching the way they carried themselves on the field after sweeping us last year was a little bit eye-opening,” Bauers said after the game, per Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times.
“Those guys swept us, they sent us home, and you would have thought it was a handshake line at a Spring Training game. That’s something that I carried with me. That’s something that I remembered. Yeah, it was a little bit of motivation to just say, we’ve got to keep going until there’s not another game left to play.”
The Dodgers have been there and done that, which explains their purported nonchalance to advancing to the World Series last year. This time around, it’s the Brewers’ time to carry themselves in that same vein as they lock into their goal of winning the franchise’s first title.
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