MILWAUKEE – No team builds the best record in baseball on luck, not 116 games into a season. The Brewers, who weren’t supposed to be in this position based on the preseason projections, have earned every one of their 72 victories with good pitching and better defense and the sort of offensive approach that reminds manager Pat Murphy on a near-daily basis of the woodpeckers inhabiting the trees outside his suburban Milwaukee home.

But how can one watch this team night after night, win after win – eight in a row and 23 of the last 27 with Saturday’s 7-4 win over the Mets in front of another sellout crowd at American Family Field – and not at least acknowledge the presence of good fortune?

Take the seventh inning of what was a back and forth ballgame, with the Mets taking the lead three t

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