As Dodgers grapple with the end of a dynasty, questions abound for Shohei Ohtani, free agency and the coming labor fight

LOS ANGELES — In the end, the unfamiliarity outshinedthe shock. The defeated 2026 Los Angeles Dodgers, many of them back-to-back champs, hadn’t been forced to face this uncomfortable silence in a while. A four-game drubbing courtesy of the Milwaukee Brewers in a stunningly comprehensive NLCS sweep cast onto the most expensive team ever assembled a very foreign feeling: failure. Milwaukee, so often bounced early in the October melee, knows that discomfort and its soundtrack. That unsettling hush that comes with the humbling unmooring of a premature postseason exit. Hugs, daps, thank yous, low-volume answers, goodbyes, regrets. But here it was,…