Your Official NLDS Guide: Cubs vs. Brewers

Monday Morning Cubs Show · Oct 3, 2025 · 1h 16m · transcript

A five-game series doesn’t always reward the most dominant team—it rewards the team with the clearest plan. We walk into Cubs–Brewers with one: use the schedule to weaponize our bullpen, keep Game 1 on a short leash, and make Milwaukee live in the dead zone between contact and damage. It starts with Freddie Peralta, because of course it does. We break down his true patterns—east-west to righties, vertical traps to lefties—and explain why the fifth and sixth looks change the calculus, even against an ace. Then we zoom out to the rotation picture, the injuries that nudged Priester into bigger…