The quality of this Milwaukee Brewers team has been tested across the last three weeks. Today concludes 18 games in a row against teams that have a combined winning percentage above .500, and 22 against contending teams now that the Cubs have found themselves within four games of the NL Central lead. To date, this is their most brutal stretch of the season.
To finish the tough stretch, the Brewers got to face the Atlanta Braves, the best team in all of baseball. Having faced the Braves in six of their last nine, they got to see what a World Series contender looked like up close.