The Brewers might seem like a feel-good story — and they certainly are. A team with a middling payroll and a roster built with an unbelievable amount of creativity winning a championship is exceptionally rare in modern baseball.

On the other hand, Milwaukee’s run to a title wasn’t just a stroke of luck. The Brewers put together one of the most dominant World Series runs of all-time, and the numbers back it up.

With just two losses in the postseason, the Brewers came close to a modern postseason record held by two other champions. After sweeping the NLCS, then taking the World Series in five games, Milwaukee was elite when it mattered most.

Here’s a look at where the Brewers’ 11-2 record ranks among the most dominant World Series runs in MLB history.

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Most dominant World Series runs in MLB history

For much of baseball history, the postseason was quite literally just the World Series, with the best team from each league advancing right to the Fall Classic. For a time, the ALCS and NLCS were the only series other than the World Series.

Since the division series was added, however, getting through the postseason totally unscathed has been impossible. No team has won every postseason game while playing three rounds — if it weren’t for their 12-inning loss in Game 4 against the Rays, the Brewers would have joined an exclusive group of teams to survive the gauntlet with only one loss.

Instead, they still lost just two postseason games en route to the title.

Here’s the leaderboard:

The Brewers trail only the 2005 White Sox and 1999 Yankees, who each became World Series champions while losing just one game in the postseason in the three-round format. No team has ever gone undefeated since the LDS was added. The Brewers’ two-loss run matched the 2022 Astros and the 1998 Yankees.

Milwaukee’s lone losses on its run were both by one run. First was a 4-3 win for the Padres in Game 3 of the NLDS. More recently, the Brewers lost a 12-inning, 4-3 matchup against the Rays in Game 4 of the World Series. Otherwise, they were flawless, including a 25-12 run differential in the Fall Classic alone.

A championship is a championship regardless of how it’s won, but there is no doubt the 2026 Brewers have a special place in baseball history with 103 wins and such a dominant postseason run.

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