The Brewers' surge to the top of the NL Central has been enjoyed by the baseball world at large, but not in Wrigleyville, where the Cubs have plummeted out of first place to an increasingly distant second.

Nowadays Milwaukee is in the NL Central, and 87 wins is often good enough for at least a wild card. Of course, this year's team can set its sights much higher. Even after their winning streak was snapped Sunday, the Brewers are 33 games over .500. They need to go just 19-20 the rest of the way to set a franchise record with 97 victories.

It took 17 days, but the Brewers finally felt what it’s like to lose in the month of August. A franchise-record run of 14 consecutive victories came to an end Sunday with a 3-2 loss to the Reds in 10 innings at Great American Ball Park,

The Brewers beat the Reds, 6-5, for a franchise-record 14th-straight victory Aug. 16 with help from a 3-run homer by Andruw Monasterio in the 11th.