Overview

• Game 1 begins Saturday at 2:08 p.m. ET on TBS at American Family Field, the Brewers’ home as the National League’s No. 1 seed.
• Milwaukee starts Freddy Peralta, while Chicago turns to left-hander Matthew Boyd after manager Craig Counsell finalized the choice late Friday.
• This is the rivals’ first postseason series meeting, with their most recent high-stakes clash being 2018’s NL Central tiebreaker at Wrigley Field.
• Betting markets list the Brewers as narrow series favorites (around -120), and MLB.com’s staff predictions slightly lean Milwaukee in a close vote.
• Rotation depth looms large for the Brewers, with attention on options like Quinn Priester and Jacob Misiorowski as Brandon Woodruff’s availability remains uncertain.