Brewers took aim at Shohei Ohtani with pointed celebration choice after beating Dodgers

The Milwaukee Brewers eliminated the Los Angeles Dodgers from the postseason Thursday, and they made sure to rub a little salt in the wound on their way out.

After completing a four-game sweep of the defending World Series champions in the National League Championship Series, the Brewers celebrated their first trip to the Fall Classic since 1982 in the visiting clubhouse at Dodger Stadium. And somewhere amid the champagne showers, beer-soaked celebrations, and cigar smoke, someone made a particularly pointed musical selection.

According to FOX Sports' Deesha Thosar, Michael Bublé's "Feeling Good" — Shohei Ohtani's walk-up song — came blasting through the clubhouse speakers. Milwaukee's players promptly lost their minds, grabbing more bottles, popping them open and singing along.

Subtle? Not remotely. Effective? Absolutely.

And considering what the Brewers had just accomplished, it's difficult to argue they hadn't earned the right to celebrate however they pleased.

Milwaukee's 6-4 victory Thursday night ended Los Angeles' hopes of becoming the first National League team to win three consecutive World Series titles. Even more humiliating for the Dodgers, they held a lead in all four games of the NLCS and still couldn't manage a single victory.

After struggling offensively throughout the postseason, Ohtani finally delivered the kind of moment in Thursday's elimination game that Dodgers fans had been desperately waiting for. His three-run homer off former teammate Dustin May in the second inning gave Los Angeles a 4-0 lead and snapped a home run drought dating back to August 18.

For a brief moment, it looked like the superstar might single-handedly keep the Dodgers' season alive. Instead, Milwaukee went on to score six unanswered runs. Jake Bauers, who earned NLCS MVP honors, helped erase the deficit before Garrett Mitchell's sixth-inning homer put the Brewers ahead for good. David Hamilton added insurance with a ninth-inning blast.

Ohtani finished 1-for-4 with three strikeouts, including a particularly costly seventh-inning strikeout against Aaron Ashby with the tying run standing at third base. It was a fittingly frustrating conclusion to an injury-plagued campaign.

Brewers' celebration adds insult to injury for Shohei Ohtani and Dodgers

Ohtani finished the 2026 postseason batting just .192 with one home run and three RBI. That lone homer came in his final game, after a playoff stretch in which lingering knee and biceps issues appeared to affect his production. He also hadn't pitched since July.

The contrast with last October couldn't have been more dramatic. In Game 4 of the 2025 NLCS against these same Brewers, Ohtani delivered one of the greatest individual postseason performances in baseball history, launching three home runs while striking out 10 batters across six scoreless innings to complete a Dodgers sweep.

One year later, Milwaukee returned the favor, becoming the first team in MLB history to sweep an opponent in the postseason immediately after being swept by that same team the previous year. And then the Brewers used Ohtani's own entrance music as the soundtrack to their revenge.

It's the kind of trolling that would infuriate Dodgers fans under almost any circumstances. But after watching Los Angeles squander four consecutive leads and see its championship aspirations evaporate, there's not much room to complain.

The Brewers outplayed the Dodgers, earned their pennant and took their victory lap. Unfortunately for Ohtani and Los Angeles, they also got the last laugh.

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