It is difficult to encapsulate the Milwaukee Brewers' first World Series victory, because for all the limiters and qualifiers that suggest they had done the implausible—the payroll, and the market size, and facing the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the "first World Series victory" of it all—they had, in all reality, done…

After sweeping the Dodgers and toppling the Rays, Milwaukee celebrates.

This World Series felt like it was in danger of losing its steam, as they all do when one team begins forcefully applying a throw pillow to the face of the other. The Milwaukee Brewers had kept the Tampa Bay Devil (yeah, we said it) Rays at arm's length through each of the first three games, and even though those had…