The Milwaukee Brewers Keep Forgetting How to Lose

The Brewers will lose again.

Sometime.

Probably.

You will, however, be pardoned for thinking otherwise.

The world’s best baseball team did it again over the weekend, sweeping the New York Mets and running their latest winning streak to nine fun-filled games. Sunday’s coup de grace featured Milwaukee’s largest comeback of the season, a rally from 5-0 down in the fourth inning capped with a walk-off ninth-inning homer from Rookie of the Year candidate Isaac Collins.

“It’s just like magic in the air, almost. That’s how baseball is,” Collins said before noting just how much fun the Brewers are having.

He’s right about the magic part. But the Mets and Cubs and Yankees, a trio of big-market contenders paying full fare on the struggle bus, will disagree on the “how baseball is” part. Base