MILWAUKEE — How indescribably hot are the best-in-baseball Brewers?
So hot that not even the stingiest pitcher in the game could stand in the way of their latest winning spree.
Make it 11 consecutive victories and counting for the Brewers, who needed four innings to knock out Pirates ace Paul Skenes on the way to a 14-0 win on Tuesday night at American Family Field, with Sal Frelick denting Skenes’ MLB-leading ERA with a leadoff home run to start a huge night at the plate, Brice Turang going deep for the sixth time in August, and Christian Yelich, Andrew Vaughn and Caleb Durbin launching insurance homers.
That kind of firepower is not at all representative of how the Brewers have been winning ballgames, but who was complaining? They are riding their second 11-game winning streak in a little more than a month, making the 2025 Brewers only the 13th team since 1900 to have two streaks that long in the same season since 1900, and the first since the 2015 Blue Jays. Before that, you have to go back to the 1954 Indians.
Even wilder, Milwaukee has packed both of its 11-game sprees into the span of 38 days — and that includes four idle days over the All-Star break.
The streaks bookend a 26-4 run that represents the best 30-game stretch of any season in franchise history, and lifted the Brewers from four games back of the Cubs in the National League Central standings to 7 1/2 games ahead after Chicago lost on Tuesday night.
Milwaukee is the 12th team to win at least 26 times during a 30-game stretch of a season in the Expansion Era (since 1961).
If they saved some runs for Wednesday’s series finale, the Brewers will try to make it 12 consecutive regular-season victories for the first time since their record-setting 13-0 start in 1987.
“These guys are playing like a team right now, and that’s a great thing to see and to feel,” manager Pat Murphy said. “You don’t always get to do that.”
