The Milwaukee Brewers are one win from the World Series, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-0 in the National League Championship Series after a 6-2 win in Game 3 on Wednesday, while the Guardians and Rays are tied 1-1 in the American League series.
The Milwaukee Brewers lead the Los Angeles Dodgers three games to none in the 2026 National League Championship Series after beating them 6-2 in Game 3 on Wednesday, 14 October, according to CBS Sports. The Brewers won Game 1 by 2-1 on 11 October and Game 2 by 7-4 on 12 October, and Game 4 is scheduled for Thursday, 15 October, at 8 pm in Los Angeles, with a Game 5 on Friday at 9 pm if it is needed.
The Dodgers’ offence has struggled throughout the series, according to the CBS report, which says they have scored seven runs in three games. In Game 3 Jackson Chourio hit a home run on the first pitch of the game, and Jake Bauers and Garrett Mitchell added back-to-back home runs. The report says that Blake Snell was charged with allowing multiple home runs in the game, without giving the pitching line.
The Brewers reached the series by beating the San Diego Padres 2-1 in the division series, according to the same report, while the Dodgers had beaten the Atlanta Braves 3-1. No team in the sources reviewed has been described as recovering from a 3-0 deficit in the NLCS, and the sources do not give the historical record, so that point is not discussed here.
In the American League, the Cleveland Guardians and the Tampa Bay Rays are tied 1-1. The Guardians won Game 1 by 7-3 on 12 October, and the Rays won Game 2 by 3-1 on 13 October. Game 3 was moved to Thursday, 15 October, at 1 pm in Cleveland because of the weather, according to CBS Sports, and Game 4 is on 16 October.
The Guardians reached the series by beating the Chicago White Sox 3-2 in the division series, and the Rays swept the New York Yankees 3-0. The wild-card round was won by Atlanta, the Chicago White Sox, the New York Yankees and San Diego, according to the MLB page, which could only be used for that background because the rest of its schedule listed games that had not yet been played.
The World Series is due to begin on Friday, 23 October, and run until 31 October if it goes to seven games, according to the MLB schedule summary. The sources give the dates of Games 1 to 7, which are 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 31 October, but they do not say which team will have home advantage, because the finalists are not yet known.
Delima News has used only the results that were played by the morning of 15 October. The reports that describe the outcome of the later games were not used, because they could not be confirmed, and any result in this report after Game 3 of each series should be treated as unknown until the games are played.
For the Brewers, a win on Thursday would end the series in a sweep. For the Dodgers, the task is to win four straight games, and the data show that their bats must wake up quickly.
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