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🗞️ Story file #225

Brewers eliminate Padres to advance to NLCS

Oct 8, 9 AM ET to Oct 9, 7 AM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 8, 9 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Washington Times
  2. Oct 8, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
  3. Oct 8, 6 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 8, 12 PM6 PMOct 96 AM48leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 8, 9 AM to Oct 9, 7 AM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 7, 12 PMOct 812 PMOct 9NBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 7, 2:00 AM ET: Padres avoid elimination after 4-3 win over Brewers in NLDS Game 3Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times, Oct 8, 2:00 AM ET: Nine concerns the Dodgers should have about facing the Brewers in the NLCSChicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 8, 2:00 AM ET: Milwaukee Brewers eliminate the San Diego Padres with a 3-1 win in Game 4 and advance to the NLCSChicago Tribune, Oct 8, 10:00 AM ET: Milwaukee Brewers celebrate clinching win with an eye on looming NLCS showdown with Los Angeles DodgersUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 8, 2:00 AM ET: Brewers set for another David vs. Goliath in NLCS with DodgersNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 8, 2:00 AM ET: Dodgers-Brewers NLCS preview: Can Dodgers prevail in a rematch with Milwaukee?New York Post, Oct 8, 9:00 PM ET: Brewers manager fires warning shot at Dodgers ahead of NLCS rematchAPAPAP, Oct 8, 8:00 AM ET: Brewers eliminate Padres with 3-1 win in Game 4, advance to NLCS rematch with DodgersThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 8, 9:00 AM ET: Brewers eliminate Padres with win in Game 4, advance to NLCS rematch with DodgersThe Washington Times, Oct 8, 9:00 PM ET: Brewers celebrate clinching win over Padres with eye on looming NLCS showdown with DodgersFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 8, 6:00 PM ET: What Will Be The Keys To The Brewers Taking Down The Dodgers In 2026 NLCS?📺 TVFox News, 4:56 PM ET: DODGERS GO WILD AFTER PLAYOFF SERIES VICTORYFox News, 4:56 PM ET: AMAZING CATCH HELPS SECURE WIN FOR BREWERSFox News, 4:56 PM ET: DODGERS HEAD TO THEIR THIRD STRAIGHT NLCS
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word (The Washington Times)

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Chicago Tribune (2 wordings): “Milwaukee Brewers eliminate the San Diego Padres with a 3-1 win in Game 4 and advance to the NLCS” → “Milwaukee Brewers celebrate clinching win with an eye on looming NLCS showdown with Los Angeles Dodgers”
  • New York Post (2 wordings): “Dodgers-Brewers NLCS preview: Can Dodgers prevail in a rematch with Milwaukee?” → “Brewers manager fires warning shot at Dodgers ahead of NLCS rematch”
  • The Washington Times (2 wordings): “Brewers eliminate Padres with win in Game 4, advance to NLCS rematch with Dodgers” → “Brewers celebrate clinching win over Padres with eye on looming NLCS showdown with Dodgers”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News36 s
  • DODGERS GO WILD AFTER PLAYOFF SERIES VICTORY Fox News, 12 s
  • AMAZING CATCH HELPS SECURE WIN FOR BREWERS Fox News, 12 s
  • DODGERS HEAD TO THEIR THIRD STRAIGHT NLCS Fox News, 12 s

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Milwaukee Brewers San Diego Padres Los Angeles Dodgers NLCS

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Brewers NLCS rematch with Dodgers

  1. Brewers defeat Padres 3-2 in NLDS opener

    Oct 4, 8 PM ET

  2. Brewers eliminate Padres to advance to NLCS (this story)

    Oct 8, 9 AM ET