The Los Angeles Dodgers are Going to the World Series

After seven games full of strategy, game-changing moments, constant substitutions and occasional testiness, talent simply won out in the end.

That’s the lingering feeling from the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 5-1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in Saturday’s Game 7 of the National League Championship Series. The best of the best of the Brewers can hang with anybody on the Dodgers. But in a matchup between teams that rely on depth and matchups more than any other teams in baseball, that’s a battle fought on the Dodgers’ turf.

“We definitely are going to tip our cap to the Brewers,” NLCS MVP Cody Bellinger said, while sitting behind the comically large statue he had just won. “They were a great team. Obviously, they put up a really tough fight. Like I said, we’ve been there, we’ve done that.”

Add it up and the Dodgers just had more. But you also get the feeling that these Brewers aren’t going anywhere. “They earned their chance to go back to the World Series,” Braun said. “Winning a Game 7 here. It’s not the position we hoped to be in. I think we entered the day feeling really good about our chances.”

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