By Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times

MILWAUKEE — The reason the Milwaukee Brewers are here in the National League Championship Series is because of plays like the one that ended the fourth inning Monday night.

A strange, one-in-a-million, 400-foot double-play in which one Brewers fielder made a spectacular defensive effort, and another never lost awareness of a wacky situation — highlighting the sound fundamentals that made them baseball’s winningest team this season.

The reason the Dodgers are here, however, is because of the way they can respond to adversity just like that — settling the panic with their dominant starting pitching, rallying at the plate with their star-studded lineup and suffocating an opponent with a record payroll’s worth of talent.

In a 2-1 Game 1 win of the NLCS at

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