NL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES: DODGERS VS BREWERS

October 17, 2025

Pat Murphy

Dodger Stadium

Milwaukee Brewers

Postgame 4 Press Conference

Dodgers - 5, Brewers - 1

Q. Obviously not the ending you wanted. What did you say to the guys about the season as a whole here?

PAT MURPHY: We've talked about being an inch from the top and an inch from the bottom. And we faced a really, really talented team that played really, really good.

We were part of tonight an iconic, maybe the best individual performance ever in a postseason game. I don't think anybody can argue with that. A guy punches out 10 and hits three homers.

I'm really proud of our team. I admire our team. Enough has been said, the narrative has been said many times. But it came to an end tonight to a team that was not only talented, played great.

Q. We've talked a lot about the pitching. You mentioned how many pitching performances they had in this series. What did you make of your offense? Was it their pitching, a little bit of everything? What did you see from the offense over the four games?

PAT MURPHY: Since the beginning of time in baseball, when you have dominant pitching on the mound throwing 98 to 100, every guy and tremendous off-speed pitches, the command they showed -- Will Smith deserves a ton of credit. Yeah. I said it was dominant pitching. If you want to say our offense -- I think most offenses would struggle.

Q. When you think about this team and some of the performances you got from the young guys, guys like Chad and Miz and Caleb, what do you want to them to take away from this season and the experience of the DS and playing against a team like the Dodgers?

PAT MURPHY: It's a great experience, but that's where you've got to go. That's why little things matter. That's all the things we harp on matter because we don't have as big a margin of error when your team is not filled with the same amount of talent.

We learned a lot from it. We had a lot of young players. You mentioned Durbin. Chourio is in his second year. You know, he looked pretty comfortable the whole series. A lot of good things. Chad Patrick, Miz, a lot of guys stepped up.

Excited about that for them. They have experienced this. They've seen it firsthand. They know how precious it is. You lead the league in wins and you do some great things for the franchise, but still there's work to be done.

The emotional series and the Cubs, you guys have to know the Brewers/Cubs things well. You have to have been part of it to understand how it really zapped a lot out of us emotionally. And then to have to come back and play right away -- and we lose a one-run game, it took us off it a little bit. Then the pitching performances by the Dodgers basically put the hammer down.

Q. Not a lot of free agents. This is pretty much the team you could run back with next year. How do you feel about that? How much are you looking forward to getting another shot at it with largely the same group?

PAT MURPHY: Yeah, I mean, we'll see. You say that, but that's not just how it always works. But right now we just have to sit back and look at our health and make sure guys are getting healthy, guys that need offseason procedures and things to get done can stay healthy.

We give them a plan of attack going forward. And I love the guys. I love what they bring to the table. I love their possibilities going forward.

But like every year, we'll look a little different, for sure.