Back on Saturday morning, before the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs embarked on their history-making NLDS matchup, Reviewing the Brew's Tremayne Person noted the one Cubs hitter that Pat Murphy's squad needed to watch out for. With eight homers in the month of September, five in the final week of the regular season, and a towering homer off of San Diego Padres' All-Star closer Robert Suárez in the NL Wild Card Series, Chicago's first baseman, Michael Busch, was clearly the Cubs' hottest hitter entering the NLDS.
In immediate fashion, Person's warning became a reality, as Busch rocked a leadoff homer off of Brewers' ace Freddy Peralta in Game 1 of the NLDS, giving him seven total longballs in his last 12 games played.