It was extremely difficult to identify any flaws during the Milwaukee Brewers' first two postseason games of 2025. Sure, you could point to the first inning runs, or the four longballs that Brewers' pitchers allowed in Games 1 and 2 of the NLDS, but when the team outscores their division rivals by 10 runs in two games, pointing out even the smallest of shortcomings feels futile.
However, in playoff baseball, the tides can turn quickly, changing seemingly meaningless pitfalls of a team's performance into major question marks. As has become the case for the Brewers, whose offense could do no wrong on Saturday afternoon and Monday evening when they collected emphatic wins over the North Siders to gain a commanding 2-0 series lead before suffering two disheartening losses at Wrigley Field to send the series to a win-or-go-home Game 5.