MILWAUKEE — You could possibly zero in on the main points of the Brewers’ 7-1 win over the Pirates at American Household Area on Monday, from Brice Turang hitting the primary leadoff dwelling run of his profession to Christian Yelich making it 22 dwelling runs this season for No. 22, to a shock squeeze bunt from slugger Andrew Vaughn and culminating with Milwaukee changing into the tenth crew with a number of 10-game profitable streaks in a season through the Divisional Period (since 1969).
Or, with the Pirates on the town, you could possibly mirror on how the Brewers bought right here.
It was a great night time to try this as a result of this loopy run started towards the Pirates on Could 25, a Sunday getaway day at PNC Park. The Brewers wakened that morning with a 25-28 file, having already held two grim postgame conferences and with the supervisor, Pat Murphy, questioning aloud the place his crew had misplaced its edge. It was not what you need.
The Brewers had been 4 outs away from absorbing one other loss when rookie Caleb Durbin fouled off 5 straight pitches earlier than delivering a game-tying two-run double on an 0-2 rely within the eighth. Turang adopted with a go-ahead double to interrupt a 1-for-24 funk.
When the Brewers completed a 6-5 win, it was their first multi-run comeback victory all season.
“That,” Murphy mentioned afterward, “is how we’ve bought to play.”
Since then, it’s precisely how they’ve performed.
Beginning with that Sunday in Pittsburgh, the Brewers have vaulted to the very high of the MLB standings by profitable 49 of their subsequent 65 video games, together with the present stretch of 25 of the final 29 with an 11-game profitable streak on the entrance finish and now, a 10-game profitable streak and counting.