Can the Milwaukee Brewers start a new streak Aug. 18?

They'll get two chances in Chicago at Wrigley Field, where the Chicago Cubs are desperate to bite into the eight-game lead that Milwaukee built in the National League Central — a franchise-record 14-game winning streak certainly helped that cause for the Brewers. Milwaukee's nail-biting loss to Cincinnati on Aug. 17 ended the streak, but the team doesn't even get 24 hours to ponder what comes next.

The Brewers will send Freddy Peralta (14-5, 2.90 ERA) to the hill in the front end of Monday's doubleheader, and the first of five games at Wrigley during the week. The Cubs will counter with rookie Cade Horton (7-3, 3.07 ERA), who had a string of 29 scoreless innings snapped in his last start against American League power Toronto

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