Sweeps feel quite rare in Major League Baseball, but that's exactly what has transpired in the last two National League Championship Series.

After getting swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers a year ago, the Milwaukee Brewers were able to return the favor here in 2026.

It was a historic sweep, to say the least, and showed that even in a best-of-seven series, truly anything can happen.

No one expected the Brewers to come back from being down 4-0 in Game 4, but that's exactly what happened.

Milwaukee would sweep the Dodgers in a series that saw them trail in every single game, and somehow, they continued to get better as the series went on.

According to ESPN's Paul Hembekides, no team in baseball had a better batting line while trailing in a best-of-seven series over the last 100 years.

When behind in the NLCS, the Brewers slashed .379/.514/.828 with a 1.341 OPS. Those are video game numbers, to say the least, but Milwaukee was able to put up numbers that haven't been seen in a century against the back-to-back World Series champions.

Jake Bauers had a few big moments when trailing, and then a ton of players drew crucial walks, especially in Game 4.

To have a .828 slugging percentage is unbelievable, especially for a team that seldom hit homers in the regular season.

That's not to say they didn't, but when looking at the rest of the league, it's clear how few home runs the Brewers truly hit in the grand scheme of things.

Here in the playoffs, that began to change. Milwaukee absolutely still used small ball to manufacture runs, but quite a few players went yard other than Bauers, and that helped lead to the team's second-ever World Series appearance.

Now, just because they trailed in the NLCS, that doesn't mean they'll want to do the same in the World Series.

Roughly one week away from Game 1, this team has plenty of time to allow their pitchers to stay loose and keep all of their star hitters in the batting cages.

The margin for error is still quite thin in a best-of-seven series, and while the Brewers may have only lost one game so far this postseason, they can't take either of their potential opponents for granted, as this is a situation that is 44 years in the making.