CHICAGO -- It was at this ballpark in late August that the Brewers’ master of zen, Christian Yelich , urged calm. The Brewers were fresh off a franchise-record 14-game winning streak when they came to Wrigley Field to play five games over four days, and when they took the series opener from the Cubs, Milwaukee moved nine games up in the NL Central. Things were well under control.

But when the Cubs won the next three in a row, Yelich sensed tension out there in Brewerland. He urged calm, promised that no one within the four walls of the clubhouse was panicking, and made a prediction .

“We’re going to probably see them at some point during the postseason,” Yelich said, “and it’ll be a good series.”

Yes, these division rivals would see each other in the postseason. And yes, it is a ver

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