Are the 2025 Dodgers the best postseason team in baseball history?

The Milwaukee Brewers don’t have a chance.

Neither the Seattle Mariners nor the Toronto Blue Jays.

The clear truth emerged from the shadows of Dodger Stadium Thursday night, amid a roar of joy and disbelief that shook downtown.

It’s ridiculous. It’s just ridiculous, how well the Dodgers are playing, how well the history books are beckoning us, and how an ordinary summer was followed by unbelievably extraordinary days.

The Dodgers won’t lose another game in October. Write it, bet it, no team in major league baseball has ever played this well in the postseason, ever, ever.

With their 3-1 victory over the Brewers on Thursday in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, the Dodgers take a three-game lead to none with a sweep likely in the next 24 hours and a coronation in the next two weeks.

The Dodgers are going to win this NLCS and follow it with a four-game World Series shutout because, well, you tell me.

How can we beat them?

Match their ace-flush rotation? No. Equal to their bullpen closer and revived? Sorry. Better than their full range? No one is even close.

The Dodgers are more than halfway through the most dominant postseason in baseball history. It’s all in the numbers.

The only team to go undefeated in the playoffs since the start of the divisional era was the 1976 Cincinnati Reds. But the Big Red Machine only had to win seven games. Since the postseason was expanded and the test became tougher, the biggest October streaks belonged to the Chicago White Sox in 2005 and the New York Yankees in 1999, who both went 11-1.

These Dodgers were forced into this first wild-card series, so if they finish this postseason without another loss, they will finish 13-1.

The last team from this city to have such a dominant playoff run was the 2001 champion Lakers, who went 15-1 in the playoffs with just one misstep against Philadelphia the night Allen Iverson stepped over Tyronn Lue.

Fittingly, the mamba mentality of this group was brought up on Thursday by Mookie Betts.

“Honestly, I have no emotion,” he said. “We’re on the rise but, you know, like Kobe said, the work’s not done, so we’ve got to keep going and keep pushing.”

These Lakers were legendary. These Dodgers will be soon.

“This team is pretty good,” admitted Brewers manager Pat Murphy.

Do you think? They are currently 8-1 in the playoffs and have won 23 of their previous 29 games and once again, who is going to beat them?

Start with this rotation. Tyler Glasnow followed gems from Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Thursday by spinning 5 ⅔ innings of swing and miss, limiting the Brewers to one run with eight strikeouts. In three games, the Brewers scored two runs in 22 ⅔ innings against the Dodgers starters.

And perhaps their best pitcher hasn’t even taken the mound yet, namely Friday’s starter, Shohei Ohtani.

Now let’s move on to their full lineup. Ohtani is still mired in the worst slump of his career, but his only hit Thursday was a leadoff triple that brought him in to score the first run, and seemingly everyone contributed. Betts had the first RBI, Tommy Edman hit Will Smith with the go-ahead run in the sixth, a scrambling Freddie Freeman scored on a wild putout attempt, and so on…

Finish with their enclosure, which is currently being completed. Taking over for Glasnow with a runner on first and two outs in the sixth on Thursday, Alex Vesia, Blake Treinen, Anthony Banda and Roki Sasaki stopped the Brewers down the stretch, and their regular-season weakness became their strength.

“I think the thing about our guys is they’re battle-tested and they know I’ve never lost confidence in them,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

Incidentally, Sasaki’s ninth-inning save was aided by a brilliant groundout in the hole by shortstop Betts, seven innings after Max Muncy threw out a runner at home, and this golden defense is just one more way the Dodgers can beat you.

All this, and as confirmed on Thursday, they have arguably the best home field advantage in baseball.

No place is bigger. No place attracts more fans. And no place is louder, from the roar of the stands to the sound system that plugs your ears.

“This place has an aura,” Muncy said of Dodger Stadium. “It’s the greatest ability in baseball. Everyone talks about it when you come here. The lights seem a little brighter. The music seems a little louder – maybe that’s actually because it’s a little louder.”

Yes, fans, you may hate the supernatural volume of the stadium, but the players love it.

“That’s part of the benefit of being at Dodger Stadium, we have this sound system,” Muncy said. “It seems silly to say that a public address system could be an advantage. But it really is. When the speakers in center field are spinning and the crowd is going absolutely crazy and you feel the field shaking under your feet, that’s a really big advantage. And that’s something we’ve always had here.”

The stadium rose to the occasion on Thursday, as it always does at this time of year, filling up despite the strange early afternoon hour, constantly on their feet and screaming as the game ended.

“When we had those big moments, there’s probably no place that could be louder than Dodger Stadium, especially in the playoffs,” Muncy said. “When you have 56, 57,000 people screaming at the same time in a big moment, it’s pretty wild. It’s an advantage we’ve always had here, and the guys love it.”

There’s a lot to like.

“We have a long way to go,” Roberts said.

Becoming shorter from the roar.