The Milwaukee Brewers head to Cincinnati for the weekend riding a 12-game win streak, 76-44 overall with a comfortable lead in the NL Central division. They will have to do it with outfielders Isaac Collins (paternity leave) and Blake Perkins (bereavement), who have been key both in the field and at the plate, but this team has a chance to make franchise history over the weekend. That starts with an opportunity to tie the 1987 Brewers for the club’s most consecutive wins in a season.
Milwaukee Brewers have chance to make historic year even more so on Friday night vs Cincinnati Reds
In 2025 alone, Milwaukee has already compiled two of the organization’s top four longest streaks: the current one, plus their 11-game stretch last month. No NL team had enjoyed two streaks that long since the 1935 Cubs; in the AL, the Blue Jays did so in 2015. So far in August, the Brewers haven’t lost.
Playing as a member of the American League, the record-holding Brew Crew of yore strung together 13 straight wins from April 6 to April 20. That team, led in the field by Robin Yount and Paul Molitor, finished the year 91-71, third in the seven-team AL East. In those days, only the top squad in each division made the playoffs.
The @Brewers are flirting with a franchise record 👀 pic.twitter.com/Vcw8cibaOB
— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) August 15, 2025
The 2025 Brewers are positioned a bit better, ahead of the next-best team in either league, Toronto, by six games. To try and tie the franchise mark, they are slated to send Jacob Misiorowski to the mound for his first start off the 15-day injured list, where he landed after taking a ball to the shin.
In seven starts this season, the rookie All-Star is 4-1 with a 2.70 ERA and 0.96 WHIP. He has struck out 47 in 33.1 innings.
Missing Collins and Perkins, the Brewers will likely start Brandon Lockridge and Christian Yelich in the outfield. Then they’ll have to decide who gets Yelich’s usual DH spot.
The Reds, 64-58 and in the thick of the wild card chase, will go with right-hander Nick Martinez (10-9, 4.49 ERA). First pitch is scheduled for 5:40 PM CT.
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