PHOENIX -- To watch the Brewers in 2017 was to be caught up in their joy and emotion. What if you went to a Major League Baseball game and a street party broke out in one of the dugouts?
Amid the bear hugs and dancing and laughter, there was an unmistakable vibe: These Brewers didn't just love playing the game, although that was obvious.
They cared about one another, and in a long season, a season when players and teams get tested and tired and beat up and beat on, this kind of thing matters.