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MILWAUKEE – The Cubs and Brewers have never before played each other in the MLB playoffs, but they did the next-best thing in 2018.
They faced off a tie-breaking Game 163 at Wrigley Field that year to decide the NL Central. The Brewers played spoiler on the Cubs’ home field, sending the Cubs to the wild-card game.
Now the National League Division series between the Cubs and Brewers, which opens Saturday at American Family Field, will write a new chapter in the already robust division rivalry.
“We’ve competed against each other a lot, in big moments and throughout seasons, for divisions,” Ian Happ, the longest tenured Cub on the roster, told the Sun-Times on Friday.