Crew’s thrilling run ends in heartbreak in G7

The Brewers’ World Series hopes turned on two line drives. One was caught. One was not. And because of those outcomes — a Christian Yelich drive that found Chris Taylor’s glove at the warning track in the fifth inning before a laser beam of a three-run home run for Yasiel Puig in the sixth — a surprising season that carried a Milwaukee team two years removed from rebuilding to within one victory of the Fall Classic came to a close. The 2018 Brewers went down with a 5-1 loss to the Dodgers in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series at Miller Park on Saturday night.