Improbably, the Brewers are back in first place, confounding skeptics and offering a blueprint for success on a shoestring budget.

If there ever was a season for the Milwaukee Brewers to get over the hump and take home a World Series title, it very well may be 2025. Entering the season, most in the national media or across the baseball world openly speculated that this would be the year in which Milwaukee's dominance in the National League Central came to an end.

With all of that being said, this was probably the worst time for the Atlanta Braves to run into a team like this. Now granted, the Braves just got done lifting a piece of metal following their series win over Cincinnati over this past weekend so it’s not like Atlanta was exactly moribund in the immediate run-in to this series.