Even Skines couldn't prevent the Brewers from achieving their second 11-game winning streak in 38 days.

How difficult is it to describe the Brewers' current hot streak? It's so intense that even the league's best pitchers can't stop their latest winning momentum.

The Brewers have now secured 11 consecutive wins. In today's 14-0 victory at American Family Field, they knocked out Pirates ace Paul Skenes in just four innings. Sal Frelick's first-inning home run damaged Skenes' league-leading earned run average, kicking off a scoring night. Brice Turang hit his sixth home run of August, while Christian Yelich, Andrew Vaughn, and Caleb Durbin followed with home runs after Skenes left the game.

This offensive firepower doesn't fully represent how the Brewers win games, but who would complain? They achieved their second 11-game winning streak in just over a month, making the 2025 Brewers the 13th team since 1900 to have two such long winning streaks in the same season, and the first since the 2015 Blue Jays. Before this, you would have to go back to the 1954 Indians, and the last National League team to achieve this was the 1935 Cubs.

Even more astonishing is that the Brewers completed these two 11-game winning streaks in 38 days, which included four days off during the All-Star break.

“I can’t even describe it,” said starting pitcher Freddy Peralta, who became the first pitcher in the league this season to reach 14 wins with six scoreless innings, lowering his earned run average to 2.90 after 25 starts. “It’s just crazy; we’re enjoying these moments. We’re part of all of this.”

These two winning streaks are part of the team's 26-4 surge, marking the best 30-game stretch in franchise history and allowing the Brewers to go from being four games behind the Cubs in the NL Central when Brandon Woodruff returned to the rotation on July 6 (the start of the first 11-game winning streak) to leading by 7.5 games after the Cubs lost to the Chicago team (67-51) on Tuesday night.

The Brewers (75-44) are the 12th team in the expansion era (since 1961) to win at least 26 games in a 30-game stretch in a single season. This marks the third time in franchise history that their win total has exceeded a .500 record over more than 30 games, with only the 1982 Brewers (over 31 wins) and the 2021 Brewers (over 34 wins) having achieved this feat.

If they can save some runs for tomorrow's series finale, the Brewers will attempt to secure their first regular-season 12-game winning streak since the record-setting 13-0 start in 1987.

“We play the game differently, but it works,” Frelick said. “And we love playing this way. Every player we bring in enjoys it, which is why it’s cool to see guys like Brandon Lockridge or ‘Vaughner’ (Vaughn's nickname) come in and embrace it.”

“We have veterans like Yelich, who was an MVP and hit 40 home runs early in his career. If he faces a tough matchup, he’ll sacrifice bunt to advance a runner or find a way to get the ball in play with two strikes to bring a runner home. That’s something we take pride in, and we’ll always be proud of that instead of trying to hit home runs or show off.”

However, today they can boast a little.

It started with Frelick, whose home run marked the first time Skenes allowed a run in the first inning this season, having gone 24 consecutive first innings without allowing a score. According to Elias Sports Bureau, this is the second-longest streak of scoreless first innings to start a season in Major League history.

Since then, the Brewers have been unstoppable. Frelick reached base safely in his first four plate appearances, and after going hitless in eight previous at-bats against Skenes, he recorded two RBIs in this game and scored three runs before the sixth inning ended. Frelick, Yelich, and William Contreras all had multiple hits, with several RBIs and runs scored. Turang hit a home run in his fourth consecutive start before leaving due to a minor finger injury, and the Brewers' five home runs also set a new season high.

The game became so one-sided that both sides had position players pitching. After rookie infielder Anthony Seigler recorded the final three outs, his career earned run average stands at 0.00.

This can be considered one of the many things going smoothly for them lately.

“It’s fun,” Frelick said. “I think a lot of people in this room, credit goes to the front office and ‘Murph’ (manager Pat Murphy) and ‘Rickie’ (assistant coach Rickie Weeks) for understanding what kind of players are needed in this offensive system and on this team.”

“These players take pride in baserunning, defense, and pitching. They focus more on the details than on the numbers on the scoreboard when they step onto the field. If they go 0-for-4 but we win 10-0, they don’t care. If we lose, even if they go 3-for-3, they don’t care. That’s not the style of this team, and it’s really fun to be a part of it.”