Is it defensible to refer to the defending National League Central champs as "upstarts?" It is, and such is the state of the expectations -- and the baseball -- in Milwaukee these days. The Brewers on Saturday night in L.

The Milwaukee Brewers have made the Major League Baseball postseason in six of the past seven season. However, they have not won a playoff series since 2018, the year they took the Los Angeles Dodgers to Game Seven in the National League Championship Series.

In an odd twist that no one could have seen coming in the doldrums of April and early May, the Brewers could end tonight tied for the best record in the National League. Not to jinx anything, but a win over the Dodgers would give Milwaukee a better record by half a game,