After a 7-1 victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night, the Milwaukee Brewers have won 10 consecutive games for the second time this season. At 74-44, they own Major League Baseball’s best record.
Since 1969, the Brewers are the 10th team to have two separate 10-game winning streaks during the same season. They’ve won 25 of their last 29 games and 49 of their previous 65 games.
But how much does their massive regular-season success matter? According to veteran outfielder Christian Yelich, not that much.
Christian Yelich Says Brewers Have ‘Bigger Goals’
Yelich played just 73 games in 2024 and is enjoying a resurgent season in 2025 with the Milwaukee Brewers. Amazingly, almost eight years have passed since the trade that sent the 2018 National League Most Valuable Player to Milwaukee.
Yelich finished 2-for-4 with a solo home run in the bottom of the second inning in the Brewers’ win on Sunday. His 22 home runs are the most he’s hit since his 44 dingers in 2019. Despite Yelich and the Brewers’ success this season, he knows their main goal is bigger than a winning streak.
“Honestly, nobody cares about what we have done the past month,” Yelich said after yesterday’s win, per ESPN. “It’s all great, but we have bigger goals than winning 74 games or whatever it is. That’s great, but that wasn’t really our goal going into the season. We have bigger aspirations than that.”
Milwaukee’s “bigger aspirations” likely include winning a World Series championship, something the franchise has yet to accomplish. As members of the American League in 1982, the Brewers lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games, marking their last appearance in the title round. However, a World Series cannot be won in August, and Yelich and his teammates recognize that.
“It’s hard to win just one game in the major leagues,” Yelich told reporters after the series opener against the Pirates. “We’ve done it just by being present, focusing on the current day and not thinking about previous days or what we have ahead of us. Staying present in the moment, talking about, figuring out what we have to do to win that night.”
Milwaukee Have Overcome a Slow Start
In late May, the Brewers sat three games below .500, and it felt that the Chicago Cubs were the clear favorites to pull away with the division.
âI think I said it was going to be all right, that it was all part of the baseball season,â Yelich told reporters on Monday about the Brewers’ early-season struggles. âThey werenât even bad team meetings, it was just like, âHey, guys, whatâs going on?â
âIt was talking, it wasnât anybody yelling or anything. We needed to play better,â Yelich added. âObviously, we knew we needed to play better, and we knew we still had a lot of time to right the ship. I donât know if we knew we were going to go on this kind of run, but we knew it was going to get better and we were going to be in it in the end.â
Under manager Pat Murphy, the Brewers have a tremendous opportunity to carry their momentum from the regular season into the postseason and use it as a guide to fight their way to the World Series. Until then, “nobody cares” about crazy long winning streaks. Just ask Yelich.
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