u25a0 The Brewers' bullpen entered the series on a roll with a 0.52 ERA (two earned runs in 342/3 innings) in its previous eight games. "The bullpen has been great," said manager CraigCounsell. "Despite kind of a short start (Sunday by Mike Fiers), we're in a pretty good place with the bullpen. You want to protect them because I really believe performance and usage is correlated."
u25a0 One never would have known shortstop Jean Segura missed two weeks with a broken pinkie. Entering Monday, he had hit safely in all nine games since returning, boosting his overall streak to 10 games (.