As one of two teams to make the playoffs with a record under .500 this year and the one playing the best team in baseball in the first round, the Brewers’ odds at winning their three-game set against the Los Angeles Dodgers admittedly aren’t great.
But weird things can happen in a three-game series. The Dodgers, after all, did lose a three-game series at home to the Colorado Rockies this month, and the Rockies were under .500 when that series began. There’s always a chance the better team loses when you limit the sample size and crank up the randomness.