The Milwaukee Brewers dropped Game 3 at Petco Park, 4-3, only to turn around and win Game 4, 3-1.

Milwaukee punched its ticket to a second straight National League Championship Series, once again knowing the Los Angeles Dodgers would be their opponent.

When the lights shone the brightest, the San Diego Padres went 0-for-21 to end the game in a showing that proved just how good this Brewers bullpen truly is.

In the end, the Brewers had the best record in all of baseball for a reason, and there are plenty of reasons to be excited about this team going into the 2026 NLCS, but also quite a few reasons why Brewers fans should still be concerned.

Had this not been the postseason, there's a case to be made that Robert Gasser could've stayed in Game 4 much, much longer.

Gasser gave up a home run to Fernando Tatis Jr., but other than that, he was basically flawless against a power-heavy Padres offense.

Once Gasser was pulled, manager Pat Murphy went to one of his favorite options: Aaron Ashby.

Ashby was dealing early, and he ended up throwing three huge innings. It's not like the Brewers bullpen was in bad shape after Game 3, but his Game 4 performance will be one for the books. Milwaukee then turned to Abner Urbie and Trevor Megill to throw a pair of scoreless innings to close things out.

Coming off an extremely uncharacteristic three-error game from the Brewers, shortstop Cooper Pratt coughed up his third error of the series in Game 4.

Thankfully, this pitching staff had his back, and Pratt also made up for it with a huge ground-rule double that would later score Jake Bauers.

The rookie has clearly shown that in certain situations, the lights are a bit too bright, but then again, he's done a great job adjusting and seemingly gets better the deeper these games go.

Not a single team in this series won a game by scoring more than four runs. This one had just four runs combined, so it's clear runs are going to come at a premium in the postseason.

Milwaukee was just 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position, and once again left 10 runners stranded.

If they want to make it to their second-ever World Series, that can't happen against the Dodgers, a team with arguably a much better pitching staff than the Padres.