Overview

• Milwaukee scored all three runs on solo home runs by William Contreras, Andrew Vaughn and Brice Turang in the winner-take-all finale.
• The Brewers opened with closer Trevor Megill for a perfect first, then rookie Jacob Misiorowski delivered four strong relief innings after yielding a game-tying homer to Seiya Suzuki.
• Five Brewers pitchers combined to hold Chicago to one run on four hits and one walk with eight strikeouts, with Abner Uribe closing a two-inning save.
• Chad Patrick escaped a sixth-inning jam and worked a clean seventh, preserving the lead before Turang’s seventh-inning insurance blast.
• The victory marked Milwaukee’s first postseason series clincher since 2018; Game 1 of the NLCS is set for 7:08 p.m. CT Monday in Milwaukee, with 42,743 fans reported for Game 5.