WASHINGTON -- Too often, August can slip away like a moment in time -- especially in baseball season, when the push down the stretch is what teams are playing for.

But for the Brewers, they’re savoring every moment of it. For the first time in club history, the Crew entered August with the best record in baseball. And the Brewers (65-44) only improved upon that record, matching their season-best 21 games above .500 (from three days prior, when they were 64-43 on July 29).

Milwaukee defeated Washington, 16-9 , to open the penultimate month of the season on Friday at Nationals Park, led by a five-hit game from William Contreras, a four-hit game from Andruw Monasterio and Blake Perkins ' first career multihomer game.

In the eighth month of the year, it was also the eighth game of the y

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