The Los Angeles Dodgers swept the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series, securing their spot in the World Series for the second consecutive season and 23rd time in franchise history.
The Dodgers were able to pull off athe sweep thanks to their pitching staff, which was carried by a dominant run from Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Shohei Ohtani.
Dodgers starters combined to pitch 28.2 of the 36 total innings in the NLCS and allowed only two runs, giving them a 0.63 ERA as a rotation.
That mark was the lowest in MLB history by a starting rotation in the NLCS or American League Championship Series, via Bob Nightengale of USA Today:
The Dodgers starting rotation yielded a 0.63 ERA, the lowest in NLCS/ALCS history.
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) October 18, 2025
Snell started off the Dodgers in Game 1 with eight shutout innings, allowing only one hit and striking out 10. Yamamoto followed the next night with a complete game while allowing one run and adding seven strikeouts.
Back at Dodger Stadium for Game 3, Glasnow provided 5.2 innings, allowed just one run and struck out eight. Then Ohtani had the greatest game in MLB history and tossed six shutout innings with 10 strikeouts, while also hitting three home runs.
In total, Dodgers starting pitchers only allowed nine hits and seven walks across the four games, giving them a 0.56 WHIP for the series. They also tallied 35 strikeouts as a group, accounting for an 11.2 strikeouts per nine.
“Since the beginning of time in baseball, when you have dominant pitching on the mound throwing 98 to 100 (mph), every guy and tremendous off-speed pitches, the command they showed,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said when asked if he viewed the NLCS loss as an offensive issue or credited it to the Dodgers’ pitching staff.
“Will Smith deserves a ton of credit. Yeah, I said it was dominant pitching. If you want to say our offense — I think most offenses would struggle.”
Dodgers pitching staff made MLB history
The Dodgers allowed just one run in four consecutive playoff games between Game 4 of the NL Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies and Games 3 of the NLCS against the Brewers. During that stretch, they also allowed no more than four hits in any of the games.
That made the Dodgers the first team in MLB postseason history to pitch four consecutive games while allowing one or fewer runs along with four or fewer hits.
In addition, the Dodgers pitching staff has walked fewer than five batters each of those games, while striking out seven or more. No pitching staff in history, during the regular season or postseason, has previously had a stretch of four straight games achieving all those marks.
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