Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy put it all pretty bluntly Thursday. After a 6-0 loss against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, the Brewers are staring down elimination.

As the game began, we saw Chicago jump on Milwaukee immediately. Left-fielder Ian Happ crushed a three-run shot in the first inning. The Brewers, though, never got a foot in the door. Matthew Boyd walked three times, but the offense didn’t really show up. Three hits all night. And then there was a Caleb Durbin error in the sixth. Pretty ugly, that was, because, well, the team that owned MLB’s best regular-season record suddenly looked human.

Manager Murphy, who shared an emotional letter from the late Bob Uecker after clinching the playoffs last month, refused to blame his players. He called out the atmosphere inste

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