Lights, Camera, Action Jackson - 2026 NLDS Recap - Games 1 & 2

2026 National League Division Series

Before the game threes tonight, let’s quickly recap how the NLDS games have gone so far.

Atlanta Braves @ Los Angeles Dodgers - Games 1 and 2

Familiar foes face off again, and the Braves appear to begin this series behind the 8-ball. By using ace Chris Sale in relief to close out the Wild Card, Atlanta won’t have him available until at least game three. That means manager Walt Weiss is forced to open this series with consecutive bullpen games. Not ideal in any series, even less so given who they’re facing. 

The two time defending World Series champion Dodgers are loaded. Despite being without Shohei Ohtani on the mound, they still will send 2X Cy Young Tarik Skubal to the mound in game one, 2X Cy Young Blake Snell in game two… oh and last year’s WSMVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto for game three. But baseball’s not played on paper, it’s decided between the lines and in the batter’s box. Atlanta will need to drag LA into a fight, and that’s exactly what they’re gonna do.

ATL Radio The Fan - Ben Ingram and Joe Simpson

LAD Radio AM 570- Charley Steiner and Rick Monday

San Diego Padres @ Milwaukee Brewers - Games 1 and 2

How do they keep doing this? The Brewers took their third consecutive NL Central crown, putting up their best regular season ever with 103 wins! They have the presumptive NL Cy Young in Jacob Misiorowski, young stars in Brice Turang and Jackson Chourio, dependable veterans in Christian Yelich and William Contreras (who’s a vet by this point), and a stable full of options for one of the best managers in baseball, Pat Murphy. All of the regular season success is great and all, but what the Milwaukee faithful need is for it to translate to the playoffs. 

Standing in their way are the Padres, under first year manager Craig Stammen. They’ve got star power, they’ve got passion, and they have the weapons at the back end to rival anyone. They eased past the Cubs, but expect the Brew Crew to mount much more of a challenge.

SDP Radio KWFN - Jesse Agler and Tony Gwynn, Jr.

MIL Radio WTMJ - Jeff Levering, Lane Grindle, and Josh Maurer

As always, shout out to Baseball Reference and MLB.tv for box scores, statistics, audio clips, and much, much more.

Catch you next time,

P.S. the 20 mile run was a success. I’m now doing what’s called a ‘taper’ slightly reducing the miles to recover before the marathon in less than 20 days!