For the first time in franchise history, the Brewers are going to the postseason a third consecutive season. Here are the answers to some questions about rosters, scheduling and more:

What could the Wild Card Series roster look like?

Injury issues make this tricky, but here’s one guess:

C: Omar Narváez, Jacob Nottingham

1B: Jedd Gyorko

2B: Keston Hiura

3B: Luis Urías, Jace Peterson

SS: Orlando Arcia

Util.: Eric Sogard, Ryon Healy, Mark Mathias

OF: Christian Yelich, Avisaíl García, Ryan Braun, Tyrone Taylor

DH: Daniel Vogelbach

Rotation: Brandon Woodruff

Bullpen: Josh Hader (L), Devin Williams, Eric Yardley, Brent Suter (L), Freddy Peralta, Alex Claudio (L), Drew Rasmussen, Corey Knebel, Adrian Houser, Josh Lindblom, Justin Topa, Ray Black.

• NL Wild Card Series presented by Hankook Tire, Game 1: Wed., 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT, ESPN

What are the question marks in that projection?

You’ll notice that one name doesn’t make for much of a “rotation.” With Corbin Burnes out for this round and probably a potential Division Series round with a left oblique injury, and Brett Anderson having departed Sunday’s start in St. Louis with a blister on his index finger, the Brewers have decisions to make that will impact the proportion of pitchers and hitters they will carry into a best-of-three Wild Card Series. It was 14-14 going into the final weekend of the regular season, after Healy took the roster spot of the injured Burnes.

What is the injury situation?

“Robust” is a word that comes to mind. Burnes is out, a huge blow for the Brewers. Catcher Manny Piña is out for this round, still recovering from knee surgery. More uncertain is the status of Vogelbach, who gave the Brewers a power boost late in the season, but pulled up running to first base late in Sunday’s loss at St. Louis with what president of baseball operations David Stearns believed was a right quadriceps issue. He will be evaluated in the coming days along with outfielder Ben Gamel, who has been on the 10-day injured list with a left quad injury but is expected to work out at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday and could be active for the series.

Without Burnes, do the Brewers have the pitching to do this?

With Burnes, their chances would be better to topple the best-in-baseball Dodgers. The way it was lined up, Burnes would have pitched Game 1 and Woodruff on full rest in Game 2, with Devin Williams and Josh Hader looming at the back of the bullpen. In a best-of-three series, that would have set up the Brewers quite well against the Dodgers’ one-two punch of Walker Buehler and Clayton Kershaw. Now, the Brewers must decide whether to pitch Woodruff on short rest in Game 1 and hope Anderson’s blister heals for Game 2, or get creative. Considering Woodruff threw a season-high 108 pitches in arguably the best start of his career (eight scoreless innings, 10 strikeouts) on Saturday, and that the Brewers generally don’t favor throwing their pitchers on short rest, and that Game 2 is just as important as Game 1, creativity seems more likely.

“We're not afraid to do things unconventionally. I think we're going to be forced to do some things unconventionally over the next week,” Stearns said. “What Corbin did this year is a main reason why we get to keep playing. And so for him to not be able to participate as a starting pitcher in this postseason at the front end is hard to take. For him in particular, but for us, as an organization. He deserved to pitch Game 1 of a playoff series and is not going to get that opportunity. So that's disappointing. But we've got other guys who will need to step up. We'll figure out how we're going to line everything up over the next day or so and we'll go from there."

How have they fared against the Dodgers?

Does history matter in a season as strange as 2020? We’re not sure, but while they did not meet this year, the Brewers and Dodgers do have recent history, from a series of highly entertaining regular season games in 2018-19 to an ’18 National League Championship Series that went a full seven games and couldn’t have been much closer.

The Brewers have also held their own at Dodger Stadium in recent years. The Dodgers won two of three games there during the ’18 NLCS, but the Brewers won a pair of three-game series and split a four-game series at Dodger Stadium from 2017-19.

“It’s a solid squad,” Hader said of the Dodgers. “I feel like we owe them a lot, losing to them in Game 7 in 2018. For me, personally, and I would assume for the whole team, we have a lot going into this series, for sure. There’s definitely a chip on the shoulder, wanting to finish this out the right way.”

Even in 2020 when the rules can change, it takes runs to win, right?

It does, and the Brewers have had a very hard time in that department. They just came off an eight-game road trip against the Reds and Cardinals, with both teams in every game playing for the postseason, and didn’t manage to score more than three runs in any of those games. The Brewers went 3-5 because of that, and only got in because the Phillies and Giants fared worse.

But now they are not looking at a 60-game season, but a three-game season in which they only have to win twice. That means one productive night for a hitter, even one productive at-bat, can make a huge difference. Braun is a lifetime .306 hitter at Dodger Stadium, and Gyorko .274. Yelich sounded enthusiastic about wiping his regular season stats clean and starting over. And shortstop Arcia has proven productive late in recent seasons, including his 1-for-3 with a walk in Sunday’s loss at St. Louis preceded by a four-hit night on Saturday.

“In this type of playoff series, you’ve just got to find a way to win games,” Counsell said. “However that happens, we’ve got to find a way to win two games.”

What do the next couple of days look like?

The Brewers planned to travel to Los Angeles on Sunday night and take Monday off after playing 11 games in the past 10 days. Then they will work out at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday followed by games on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (if necessary). Whichever team advances will get a couple of days off before Game 1 of the NL Division Series between the winners of the No. 1 vs. No. 8 series and the No. 4. Vs. No. 5 series on Tuesday in Arlington, Texas.

What if it rains?

It’s L.A. Stop worrying.