CHICAGO -- The Brewers’ choice to start Game 4 of the NLDS at Wrigley Field on Thursday is also the obvious one: Right-hander Freddy Peralta .

Peralta, the Brewers’ Opening Day starter who led the team in starts, innings, ERA and strikeouts, started -- and won -- Game 1 against the Cubs in Milwaukee. And he will be pitching on the standard four days’ rest thanks to the extra off day between Games 1 and 2 in this series.

That made Peralta a relatively straightforward pick, although the Brewers’ decision to delay an announcement with a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series left open the possibility of someone else trying to close out the Cubs in Game 4, while preserving Peralta for Game 1 of the NLCS in the best-case scenario, or for a Game 5 at home on Saturday in the worst.

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