"Brandon Woodruff will not pitch in the NLDS, Pat Murphy said. But the good news is that the lat issue is separate from the shoulder repair. Brewers are not ruling out Woodruff pitching later in the postseason if they advance."

The fact that the Brewers play the winner of the wild-card series between the Chicago Cubs and the San Diego Padres may be part of the reason for the doubt. The Brewers are a combined 8-11 against those two teams. However, they're also a combined 10-2 against the Philadelphia Philles and the Los Angeles Dodgers, the NL teams with better odds.

Following their three-game win over the San Diego Padres in the National League Wild Card Series, the Chicago Cubs have moved on to the NLDS for the first time

With NLDS opening Saturday in Milwaukee, maybe some pressure has shifted to Brewers? The Cubs are just a plucky wild-card team, after all.

Healthy and loving baseball again, Christian Yelich has one goal remaining: to win a World Series with the Milwaukee Brewers.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/brewers as Brewers Have Interesting Case To Win First World Series This October.

In the wild-card series that determines who the Brewers will play in the NLDS, the San Diego Padres got 15 votes and the Chicago Cubs 10. In the NLDS, the experts gave the Brewers a narrow edge, 13-11, over the Padres, with only one picking the Cubs.