MILWAUKEE -- If you thought Cubs-Brewers games were supercharged affairs during the regular season, you haven’t seen anything yet.

The NL Central rivals are set to meet in the postseason for the first time after Chicago dispatched San Diego in the NL Wild Card Series to earn a trip up Interstate 94 for an NLDS date with best-in-baseball Milwaukee , beginning with Game 1 on Saturday at American Family Field.

“It feels fitting, right?” Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner said. “They’ve had an incredible season. Every regular-season [game] we play with them is seemingly higher stakes and intense and close. We’ll see when we get there, but it’s kind of fun not to get on any planes yet in the playoffs. That’s a good thing. They’re a great baseball team. So are we. It’ll be a lot of close gam

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