MILWAUKEE -- For the Cubs and Brewers, it comes down to Game 5 of the NLDS on Saturday night.

“This is a nine-inning season,” Cubs manager Craig Counsell said. “For the players and for myself, it’s really about, ‘Focus on your job. What’s your job to do?’ Every player is going to have nerves going into [the] game. You’re supposed to. That’s why it’s great. That’s why it’s so much fun. How it all plays out in nine innings? I don’t know.”

Neither do the Brewers, really.

“Will they respond?” Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy said. “They always do. I fully expect them to respond.”

With the managers meeting the media virtually on Friday’s off-day and players taking part in optional workouts, MLB.com’s Cubs and Brewers writers took advantage of the break in the action to go back and forth about s

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