The evidence holds.
A National League Division Series baseball game in 2026.
8 tagged games · 7 with published analysis
Milwaukee Brewers at San Diego Padres
Robert Gasser escaped San Diego's biggest early threat, Garrett Mitchell and Jackson Chourio built the fifth-inning lead, and Milwaukee's bullpen turned the last five innings into dead air.
October 8, 2026
Los Angeles Dodgers at Atlanta Braves
Pages got the hit, but the leverage broke one batter earlier. After Tyler Mahle compressed the game for 6.1 innings, Atlanta's two two-out walks in the seventh created the only mistake a 1-1 game could not absorb.
October 7, 2026
San Diego turned two third-inning steals and a messy Milwaukee sixth into the runs it needed, then handed the bridge to Bradgley Rodriguez's changeup.
Los Angeles scored all three of its runs in one fourth-inning burst off Chris Sale, but the game settled when Yoshinobu Yamamoto kept Atlanta’s fifth-inning rally to a single run.
October 6, 2026
Atlanta Braves at Los Angeles Dodgers
Atlanta and Los Angeles finished with the same hit total, but Michael Harris II, Robert Suarez and Didier Fuentes controlled the innings that actually moved the score.
October 5, 2026
San Diego Padres at Milwaukee Brewers
Milwaukee's 4-3 win over San Diego turned on a small-game truth: Ty France kept giving the Padres narrow leads, but Aaron Ashby's escape from a two-on, no-out eighth kept them from buying the extra run that would have closed the door.
October 4, 2026
Milwaukee scored on Chourio’s tying shot and Contreras’ seventh-inning winner, but the real separator was a bullpen that stranded all seven inherited runners.