MILWAUKEE — What will you tell your grandchildren about the strangest double play in postseason history? Whatever it is, they might start looking at you funny.

How will you make them understand that Max Muncy pulverized a baseball 404 feet, and it turned into a “ground-ball” double play?

How will you explain that it was a “ground-ball” double play with no actual “ground” in it?

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How will you try to put into words that this was a baseball that came within inches of clearing the center-field fence, for what would have been a grand slam … and somehow, when the dust settled, there were no runs at all on the board and the catcher wound up recording two outs — at home and then at third?

This really happened Monday night, in the fourth inning of Game 1 of the National League Championship Series. And the funny thing was, in pretty much every other way, this game was a certifiable October classic:

Dodgers 2, Brewers 1. … Dodgers starter Blake Snell spent eight innings carving an all-time postseason, 10-strikeout, one-hit, no-run masterpiece. … The Brewers would leave the bases loaded in an ear-splitting bottom of the ninth. … And from start to finish, it left all hearts pounding.

Yeah, that was special, all right … but how ’bout that wacko double play!

This is the column where we’re going to tell you all about that double play. We have been commanded by baseball fans around the world to do just that. And we aim to please.

How bizarre was it? Ha. Here it comes, everything you ever wanted to know about how weird it truly was, but forgot to ask.

Could it really have been that strange?

Let’s start this way. First, we’ll present the official play-by-play description Major League Baseball furnished us on this play. Then we’ll show it to you once again. And please tell us whether that description and that video are somehow the same play.

Here’s the description — Max Muncy grounds into a double play, center fielder Sal Frelick to shortstop Joey Ortiz to catcher William Contreras. Teoscar Hernández out at home.