The Magic Brew finally ran out, drained of its final drops by the most unrelenting force in all of baseball, a modern-day Murderer’s Row that might make even those ’27 Yankees blush.

But the only type of baseball seasons that end in October are good ones, and for the Milwaukee Brewers, this will go down as one of the best in franchise history. That they were swept away by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series will add a bittersweet note to the final aftertaste. That the ending was authored by one of the best MLB rosters ever constructed, and punctuated by Shohei Ohtani delivering the greatest individual performance the sport has ever seen, will make it seem all the more inevitable.

Nothing is truly inevitable in baseball, of course, which is why the gam

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