When the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs battled it out to a fifth and deciding game in the 2025 National League Division Series, Milwaukee wanted to move ahead.

That's just what they did, defeating the hated Cubs 3-1. Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy had the right players on the field at the right time.

What, though, did MLB.com think about that NLDS clincher? Well, the outlet, which was reviewing big victories from all 30 MLB teams, pointed toward this one as the top win for Milwaukee. Christian Yelich gets shown some love, too, from Brewers reporter for MLB.com Adam McCalvy.

"Christian Yelich homered twice with a Bob Uecker tribute bat to power a comeback from an 8-1 deficit for a 10-8 win on Aug. 15 in Cincinnati that gave the Brewers a 13-game winning streak, matching the club record," McCalvy wrote.

"Then the last player on the bench, Andruw Monasterio, who wears No. 14, made it 14 wins in a row the next night with an improbable 11th-inning home run," McCalvy continued.

"But nothing could have topped the mixture of joy and relief of beating Craig Counsell and the Cubs in the NLDS, vanquishing a rival and finally dropping the weight of a postseason losing streak that stretched across six heartbreaking series as far back as 2018."

For the Brewers, it must have felt so good to get into the National League Championship Series. Of course, the Los Angeles Dodgers swept that series 4-0 and went on to beat the Toronto Blue Jays for the World Series championship.

There's nothing more that Murphy and his Brewers players want to do this season than to lift The Commissioner's Trophy high in the air after the 2026 World Series.

Brewers fans are anxiou.sly watching to see if the ballclub ends up trading top starter Freddy Peralta at all. Peralta has been one outstanding pitcher for Milwaukee during his tenure with the team.

It's going to be hard for Milwaukee fans to accept that Peralta might be with another team at some point in the 2026 MLB season.

Still, Murphy and his players are going to aim high next season. They wouldn't mind putting together a game like Game 5 of the NLDS, either. Time will tell, though.

We'd like to wish all of our Brewers Roundtable readers a very Merry Christmas. Here's looking forward to a successful, prosperous 2026.