CHICAGO -- Brewers coaches and front office officials have spent hours in meetings and Zoom sessions over recent days discussing how to get through this particularly burdensome stretch of the schedule without blowing out the pitching on the cusp of a pennant push. Nineteen games over 18 days can do that to a staff if you’re not careful.

So you can imagine everyone’s relief when the team’s No. 1 starter and MLB wins leader Freddy Peralta delivered just the sort of outing Milwaukee needed in Game 1 of Monday’s doubleheader and the fourth game of that grueling stretch, a 7-0 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

Peralta averted disaster after briefly losing his command in the fourth and managed to keep the Cubs’ slumping bats at bay for six scoreless innings, and Brice Turang and Caleb Du

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