In posting the best record in baseball during a shortened season, the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched an eighth consecutive National League West title and put themselves in position to face the final team that qualified for the NL playoffs.
It took until the last day of the regular season and required some help, but that amounted to the Milwaukee Brewers backing their way into the postseason. They benefitted from an expanded playoff format and now take on the juggernaut Dodgers while being shorthanded.
Prior to this year, the lone postseason meeting the Dodgers and Brewers came in the 2018 NL Championship Series.