The Blue Jays closed out their August schedule by welcoming the Milwaukee Brewers to the Rogers Centre and gave the major leagues’ best team all it could handle, for the most part.

Two bullpen stumbles — a five-run seventh inning on Friday, a three-run ninth on Saturday — wound up being the difference in what was just the Jays’ second home series loss since June.

After back-to-back bullpen blow-ups led to a pair of Milwaukee wins, they salvaged the finale by getting back to the things that propelled them to first place in the American League East.

The relentless, opportunistic offence was back in Sunday’s 8-4 win and the relief corps was close to perfect in bailing out Max Scherzer, who left after four innings with upper-back tightness.

But five shutout innings from Brendon Littl

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