Wild card

Milwaukee needs to gain ground while getting through eight straight games against three of the top six teams in Major League Baseball.

“You need the adrenaline to get you through a lot of these games,” Williams said. Milwaukee has a chance to be a team that both gets hot at the right time and was really good in May. So we’ve got to make the most of all the opportunities that we have while we have them.” It's mostly a topic of the past in the Brewers clubhouse now, but Williams hadn't since expounded on his reaction since the day of the deadline in Pittsburgh. It’s not the team that was really good in May.” The Brewers came into 2022 with World Series aspirations and got off to the best 50-game start in franchise history but have been nothing more than a .500 team on the field over the past 3½ months. The only thing I can think of was, from the top down it seemed like there was a weird behind-the-scenes message that was sent that a lot of people didn’t jive with. [Tuesday's win](https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/mlb/brewers/2022/09/14/milwaukee-brewers-beat-jordan-montgomery-and-st-louis-cardinals-behind-strong-bullpen-game/10360689002/) was one to write home about, an 8-4 victory in which the offense came through in multiple key spots and six relievers threw the final 7⅔ innings without allowing a run. “I don’t know, it was just kind of like I felt we had a good base, you know?” Williams said. [How close are the Brewers to a wild card spot? We can be in it by next Wednesday at the end of the day, or we could probably be completely out of it with who we’re playing over the next week. For those last 13 games to matter, Milwaukee needs to get through these eight straight games against three of the top six teams in Major League Baseball.