LOS ANGELES (AP) — Turned out the National League Championship Series was indeed a mismatch, just as Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy suggested.

But not only in payroll and star power.

On the baseball field, too. Where it really matters.

After compiling the best record in the majors during the regular season, the scrappy Brewers appeared capable of beating anybody — until they ran into Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Milwaukee mustered only four runs and 14 hits in a four-game Dodgers sweep that left the Brewers steps short of the World Series once again. The team’s only pennant came in 1982, when Milwaukee was in the American League.

“The pitching performances by the Dodgers basically put the hammer down,” Murphy said.

Before the series, Murphy did his best to paint

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