This Milwaukee Breweries currently have the largest division lead in baseball. They extended that lead to double digits for the first time this season by defeating the Cleveland Guardians 5-3 on Friday night, while the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals both lost. Given the Brewers’ comfortable lead in the division, it may be time for fans to start watching the scoreboards elsewhere.
Willy Adames led the Milwaukee Brewers to a victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Friday night.
The first inning of the Brewers-Guardians game on Friday night saw plenty of action. Jackson Chourio scored the team’s first hit of the game with an electrifying triple to left field. Unfortunately, he was caught in no man’s land when the next batter, Tyler Black, hit a return ball to the mound and Chourio was thrown out.
From there, the Brewers pulled within two outs of the deficit when William Contreras was hit by a pitch and then Willy Adames blasted a thunderous home run into Toyota Territory. The three-run home run was his 10th of the season, and Milwaukee maintained the lead from there, eventually winning by a score of 5-3.
The Cincinnati Reds are an American football team.On Friday, August 16, the St. Louis Cardinals suffered a defeat.
In the National League Central, the Brewers are trailed by the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals. Both teams are currently 60-62 and 10 games behind Milwaukee. The Reds lost to the Royals on Friday night by a score of 7-1, while the Cardinals lost their fifth straight game to the Dodgers.
At the bottom of the standings are the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates. The Cubs are 60-63 and 10.5 games behind the division, while the Pirates are 57-64 and 12.5 games behind. Pittsburgh snapped a 10-game losing streak Friday by beating the Mariners.
Milwaukee Brewers fans should focus on following the results elsewhere.
You never want to be comfortable in baseball, but with six weeks left in the regular season, it would be amazing to see a team come back and win the division against the Brewers. That said, it may be time to start watching the leaderboards of the Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres, as Milwaukee will be battling for the first and second spots in the playoffs with those teams.
The Phillies currently have the league’s best record at 72-70, but are only a half-game ahead of the Dodgers and two games ahead of the Brewers. The National League West division race is starting to heat up, as the Dodgers have a three-game lead over the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres (both 69-54).
The Brewers have seven games left to play this year against the Arizona Diamondbacks and three against the Philadelphia Phillies. Winning the season series against those teams will be essential for the tiebreaker, in which the Brewers and Diamondbacks have not met yet this season, and the Phillies previously defeated the Brewers in a three-game series. San Diego has the edge over Milwaukee, as the Padres have won five of seven games this year.
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