Pat Murphy didn’t need a long speech to capture what the Milwaukee Brewers just pulled off. He got right to the point after Tuesday’s division-clinching night, and the message was clear: this one mattered.
“We have 11 games to go, a lot of things to tighten up, but it’s just really gratifying to see the guys know what they’ve achieved and know that it’s never been done four years in a row,” remarked the Brewers manager via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Todd Rosiak.
That line says plenty about where Milwaukee is right now. The Brewers have turned winning into a habit, stacking four straight National League Central titles even while operating without the financial edge enjoyed by plenty of their rivals. Year after year, they’ve kept putting together 90-win seasons with a bottom-half payroll and a young roster doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
The part that still hangs over all of it is the missing championship. Milwaukee has not yet turned that consistency into a title, but the regular-season track record has become impossible to ignore.
On the field Tuesday, Jacob Misiorowski helped make sure the Brewers handled their part of the job. With a division crown within reach, the right-hander threw five scoreless innings, and Joey Ortiz chipped in three hits and two RBIs in a 5-1 road win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Milwaukee still needed a little outside help to make the clinch official, and it came later when the Chicago Cubs unraveled late in a 6-3 home loss to the Atlanta Braves.
For Murphy, though, the bigger picture was the part that hit him most.
“I’m just happy for them,” Murphy continued.
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