With Tuesday's loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series , the Milwaukee Brewers now find themselves down by a 2-0 margin in the best-of-seven set. The Brewers, the team with the best record during Major League Baseball's regular season, will now have to defy overwhelming odds to advance to their first World Series since 1982.

How deep of a hole are the Brewers in? MLB teams that have trailed 2-0 in a best-of-seven series have an all-time record of 15-78, according to WhoWins . That's roughly an 84% elimination rate. Of course, the Brewers needn't worry themselves with empirical data, lest this become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

"The one thing is you guys might have us counted out. And I understand that. Ninety percent of the teams tha

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