There was a time when this series loomed as extremely important for both these teams.

With the Brewers on an historic run, and the Cubs treading water, it’s still important — for the Cubs to keep up their wild-card race lead. Barring a Cubs miracle run and epic Brewers collapse (and wouldn’t that be nice?), the Brewers are going to win the NL Central. Beyond that, perhaps after this week the two teams will meet again in October.

For more on the Brewers, here’s Harrison Freuck, manager of our SB Nation Brewers site Brew Crew Ball.

So here we are. It looked like the Brewers were no competition for the Cubs in the NL Central early in the season, with a big lead in the division for Chicago and the Cubs owning a +12 run differential in the first four games of the season series. Since roughly

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