The red-hot Brewers beat up on the reeling Nationals in historic fashion this weekend.
Sunday’s 14-3 rout capped off a three-game sweep in which Milwaukee posted the most hits in a three-game series in their franchise history, ringing up a grand total of 56 in 27 innings.
Those 56 hits were also the most by any team in Major League Baseball in a single three-game series since the Brooklyn Dodgers beat up on the Pirates back in 1950.
The Brewers collected 16 hits on Sunday, buoyed by a seven-run seventh, and that wasn’t the worst beatdown they delivered over the weekend. Milwaukee pounded 25 hits in Friday’s series opener for a 16-9 victory, the score much closer than the game really was considering the Nats’ nine runs in garbage time during the bottom of the ninth.
All told, the Brewers plated 38 runs in three games, beating up on a Nats pitching staff that is second to last in the league in team ERA (5.32), trailing only the putrid Rockies, who call the notoriously hitter-friendly Coors Field home.
Washington has lost seven of 10 and are 19 games back of first in the NL East, and are now 23 games below .500.