Blake Treinen avoiding Dodgers disaster has fans ripping Brewers' Brice Turang

Every blue moon, our instincts betray us. The Los Angeles Dodgers were on the winning end of such an occasion on Monday in Game 1 of the NLCS, whereas Brice Turang and the Milwaukee Brewers had a much different experience.

Turang stepped to the plate in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded and his team down one run. It seemed like a dream scenario for Milwaukee to have one of its most talented bats at the plate in this situation, even against a robust reliever such as Blake Treinen.

In truth, as Turang stepped to the plate, the Brewers felt beyond fortunate to have any sort of chance to steal a win or force the game into extras, given that Blake Snell had just utterly dominated them for the first eight innings of the game.

Facing a 1-2 count against Treinen with two outs, Turang and the Brewers were then given an even more divine gift that dwarfed the aforementioned fortune in its generosity: an 85 MPH sweeper went rogue on Treinen, veering way out of the strike zone directly into the orbit of Turang's lower body.

In an alternate universe (a much happier one for the Brewers), Turang ignored his primal instincts and stood motionless in the box, allowing Treinen's wild pitch to strike him in the knee or thigh, thereby driving in the game's tying run.

In our present reality, however, Turang couldn't help but obey his body, which lunged backwards to evade being struck by the baseball, ultimately succeeding in its self-preservation. For Treinen and the Dodgers, it was a sigh of relief. For anyone associated with the Brewers, it was a moment of profound exasperation.

Brewers fans express anguish over Brice Turang's game-deciding moment vs Dodgers

It would have been a momentous, series-defining feat for Milwaukee to have stolen Game 1 after the outing that Snell pulled off, which made the end of the game that much more heartbreaking for Brewers fans, many of whom took to social media to vent about Turang's missed opportunity.

Some fans were graceful enough to acknowledge something that Brewers manager Pat Murphy acknowledged postgame — Turang didn't consciously try to avoid the baseball; rather, it was natural for him to escape getting plunked.

Other fans sought humor as a refuge from the depressing aftermath of Turang's what-if moment.

Meanwhile, the Dodgers escaped what could have been a postgame narrative about renewed bullpen woes. Roki Sasaki wasn't able to deliver after an array of dominant outings over the past week, and Treinen nearly blew the game, too.

Instead, LA evaded disaster, leaving their haters with one more reason to diminish a 2025 run to the World Series.