MILWAUKEE -- How indescribably hot are the best-in-baseball Brewers?
So hot that not even the stingiest pitcher in the game could stand in the way of their latest winning spree.
Make it 11 consecutive victories and counting for the Brewers, who needed four innings to knock out Pirates ace Paul Skenes on the way to a 14-0 win on Tuesday night at American Family Field, with Sal Frelick denting Skenes’ MLB-leading ERA with a leadoff home run to start a huge night at the plate, Brice Turang going deep for the sixth time in August, and Christian Yelich, Andrew Vaughn and Caleb Durbin launching insurance homers.
That kind of firepower is not at all representative of how the Brewers have been winning ballgames, but who was complaining? They are riding their second 11-game winning streak in a