The Brewers Join Elite Company: Where Does Milwaukee’s Hot Streak Stand?

The Brewers are the best team in MLB in 2025, and that only seems to be more true by the day. 

On May 24, Milwaukee lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-1, dropping them a season-worst two games under .500 with a record of 26-28. On Aug. 11, the Brewers faced the Pirates again, winning 7-1, to improve their record to a league-best 74-44. They jumped from 6.5 games back of the Cubs in the NL Central to 6.5 games up on them in the months in between those contests, thanks to a 49-16 run that’s seen them win over three-quarters of their games since May 25.

The Brewers began an eight-game win streak that day, and then followed that up in July with an 11-game streak that book-ended the All-Star break. Monday’s victory against Pittsburgh was their 10th in a row, making them 25-4 in their last 29 games dating back to the start of that 11-game streak. There’s a reason that they’ve shot up the standings, and it’s because no one in 2025 has come close to this level of dominance for an extended period of time.

In fact, only on rare occasions this century have teams been as successful as this for as long as the Brewers have been in 2025. They’re currently tied 10th among all teams since 2000 in wins over a 65-game stretch, and they’re with some impressive company.

The 2017 Dodgers completed the common season with a file of 104-58 and made it to the World Series, the place they misplaced to the Astros in seven video games. The 2013 Dodgers went simply 92-70, however their 52-13 run started at a a lot worse low level than the Brewers have suffered in 2025: they had been 9.5 again within the NL West and 31-42 earlier than rattling off the second-greatest 65-game run of the century. 

The 2022 Dodgers completed at 111-51, tied for the fourth-most wins of the trendy period with Cleveland’s 1954 squad, however similar to that staff did not win the World Collection regardless of some all-time dominance: that Dodgers membership misplaced within the NLDS to the Padres in 4 video games.

The 2017 Guardians misplaced within the ALDS to the Yankees in 5 video games, however within the common season went 102-60 due to their monster stretch that included a 22-game win streak, the longest in AL historical past. The 2001 Mariners tied the single-season win file with 116, they usually did by popping out of the gate swinging.

The 2022 Yankees function an indicator of simply how unbelievable a run like this may be for a staff: they principally began the season as sizzling as they’d ever be, after which had been largely mediocre from that time ahead and nonetheless gained 99 video games. At this level, they’re like a reverse 2025 Brewers. The 2004 Cardinals misplaced the World Collection to the Red Sox, however are well known as one of the vital harmful groups of the century, one which notched 105 wins with three Corridor of Fame hitters within the lineup – Albert Pujols, Larry Walker and Scott Rolen – in addition to peak Jim Edmonds.

The 2002 Braves completed with 101 wins due to their memorable run, which adopted a 12-15 April through which they had been outscored. They gained 5 of their closing six video games in Could, and dominated principally till they misplaced within the NLDS to the eventual NL Champion Giants. 

You then’ve bought the 2001 Athletics, a 102-win staff that gained 20 video games in a row and is famously the membership that Moneyball is centered round, however do not sleep on the 2005 version of the membership, which had simply as spectacular of a 65-game run. The distinction is that the latter was digging out of an enormous gap: they completed Could 19-32, then went 56-25 over the following months earlier than slumping in September as soon as once more.

As for Milwaukee, they’re nonetheless in it, they usually’ve batted .277/.346/.438 in these 65 video games. Whereas they’re loads productive in opposition to right-handed pitching, they’ve feasted on lefties to the tune of .304/.370/.463. 

It is not all simply Andrew Vaughn, both, although his presence since being acquired from the White Sox for Aaron Civale has helped. The bottom on-base share of any spot within the Brewers’ lineup since Could 25 is .313, from the No. 7 batter. The common line in MLB in 2025 is .246/.316/.403: each different spot in Milwaukee’s lineup has cleared that over the past 65 video games, with the three, 4 and 5 spots all slugging over .500, as well. 

They crush beginning pitchers in the midst of video games, batting .300/.370/.522 within the fourth inning and .283/.362/.488 within the fifth, resulting in an total line in opposition to starters of .278/.345/.457. They’ve additionally been clutch within the ninth, posting a .304/.368/.459 line there, and it is not like setup males or center relievers have gotten off mild, both. Whereas main, they’ve batted .282/.347/.445, and .264/.332/.435 when trailing – the Brewers simply hit, no matter circumstance.

The pitching has been absurd, too: whereas the league’s ERA for the season is 4.12, Brewers’ starters have a 3.26 ERA on this 65-game stretch, and have averaged almost 5.1 innings per begin. For the season, the workers is third in ERA at 3.61, and tied for fourth in ERA+ at 113. 

The Brewers have not been sneaking wins in and narrowly avoiding losses. They have been dominant each offensively and of their pitching, and it is resulted in a run differential that is shot from -6 following Could 24 to the league-best +138 mark it sits at now: sure, the Brewers have outscored their opponents by 144 runs over the past 65 video games, a season’s value of progress in lower than half the time.

It is too quickly to know if the Brewers’ destiny will likely be like every of the groups that they are matching up with or chasing over this 65-game stretch. None of them gained the World Collection, with fairly a number of of them dealing with beautiful upsets early within the postseason as a substitute. You’ll be able to interpret that because the Brewers’ present run of dominance not that means a lot, or you possibly can take into account it a low bar to clear, as a substitute: possibly they will chart a completely new path that the Dodgers, Guardians, Athletics and extra couldn’t. J

It is too quickly to know if they’ll carry on profitable like they’ve from right here on out, or simply for one more week, or if we’re already on the finish. What is understood, although, is that the Brewers have dominated each side of the sport for months now, and solely appear to be getting stronger as they go. There’s nonetheless loads of season to go, however which may sound extra like a risk to the remainder of the league fairly than a consolation at this level.

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