Dodgers Dynasty: 100 Wins, Best Run Prevention… Then Swept?

The Dodgers won 100 games and allowed the fewest runs in MLB. So how did the Brewers sweep them in the NLCS? After back-to-back World Series titles, is the Dodgers dynasty finally coming to an end? The 2026 Los Angeles Dodgers finished with a +201 run differential and just 600 runs allowed, ranking first in baseball. Yet Milwaukee outscored them 21–11 in four NLCS games, ending their pursuit of a third consecutive championship. In this data-driven breakdown, we examine why regular-season dominance failed to translate into postseason success. The Dodgers produced 41 hard-hit balls compared with Milwaukee's 32, but their offense struggled to convert opportunities into runs. We compare actual and expected offensive production to understand what went wrong. We also investigate the deeper concerns facing Los Angeles: MLB's oldest lineup by plate-appearance-weighted age, declining production from Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, and Teoscar Hernández, and shrinking workloads for Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow. But Andy Pages, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tarik Skubal, Roki Sasaki, and Shohei Ohtani offer another perspective on the team's future. Was this simply a disastrous October, or the beginning of a structural decline? The numbers reveal why those are two very different questions. CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro: 100 Wins, Then Swept 01:50 Chapter 1: Collapse, or One Short Series? 05:03 Chapter 2: The Offense Went Silent 06:16 Chapter 3: They Hit the Ball Harder 09:05 Chapter 4: The Oldest Lineup in Baseball 11:46 Chapter 5: The Next Core Is Already Here 14:45 Chapter 6: The Verdict Photos: MLB Advanced Media (MLB.com). #Dodgers #DodgersDynasty #LosAngelesDodgers #Brewers #NLCS #MLB #MLBPlayoffs #ShoheiOhtani #BaseballAnalysis #YoshinobuYamamoto