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Milwaukee Brewers slugger Christian Yelich isn’t concerned after the club’s third straight loss to the Chicago Cubs in tight NL Central race
Generally speaking, I start eyeing a topic for the Power Rankings intro around Friday. Last Sunday, though, I told myself one thing was off-limits: I'm not writing on the Brewers again. I had done so two straight weeks and three of the last four.
All true. But even though the Brewers’ 14-game winning streak ended Sunday with a 3-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds in 10 innings, their record is best in the majors by six games. The team that opened the season with the sport’s eighth lowest payroll is putting the competition to shame.
One of their most impressive wins during that franchise-record 14-game win streak came on Friday night. The Brewers faced an 8-1 deficit after two innings against the Reds and clawed their way back on the strength of two homers and five RBI from Christian Yelich — doing so while using his customized Bob Uecker bat for player’s weekend.
SportsLine's model simulated Milwaukee Brewers vs. Chicago Cubs 10,000 times and revealed its MLB picks for Monday afternoon's Game 1 matchup at Wrigley Field in Chicago
By Grant Brisbee, Chad Jennings and Levi Weaver Every week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results.
Pat Murphy calls them the 'Woodpeckers.' The rest of baseball may soon be calling them inevitable. The Milwaukee Brewers climbed back from a five-run deficit on August 10 to beat the New York Mets, 7-6, on an Isaac Collins walk-off home run in the bottom ...
Made currently is ranked as the No. 1 prospect in the Brewers' system. Milwaukee has the No. 1 overall farm system in baseball, per Baseball America, which just goes to show how good Made is overall. ESPN's Kiley McDaniel just shared an in-season ranking of the top 100 overall prospects in the game as well and had Made all the way up at No. 3.