For the second weekend in September, this was about as good of a weekend for Wisconsin sports fans as they could get with a Badgers win, Packers beating a top-tier team and the Milwaukee Brewers securing their first sweep against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field since 2002. Brewers earning a sweep after getting swept by Cincinnati is a huge bounce back for this team who now finds themselves two back in the NL Central and three back in the Wild Card. Milwaukee will not go down without a fight.

With Pittsburgh and Miami looming this week for Milwaukee, you worry a little bit. Part of the 2017 Brewers’ story is they’ve played down to the level of their competition especially in the last couple of weeks with a sweep in Cincy and losing two of three against San Francisco a couple weeks earlier. Pittsburgh played listless baseball over the weekend, and now have lost five straight games. Milwaukee should smell blood in the water this week, but this Pittsburgh team can be a little tricky.

The big question is who will pitch on Wednesday night for Jimmy Nelson. Brent Suter should be ready to go a full five or six for the team on Tuesday then it’s a best guess of who will toe the rubber for the team on Wednesday night. Taylor Jungmann could be that guy, and it would be an incredible story considering where Jungmann was a few years ago to come all the way back to pitch in a pennant race.

Milwaukee plays Pittsburgh twice in the next two weeks, and it can’t help but bring back memories of 2008 when Brewers swept the Pirates in the final week of the series with two walkoff homers from Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun. If you want to keep getting weirder, they won the division playing Miami, albeit at home, but still, it’s funny when things like this happen. I went into a rabbit hole of the Brewers classics, and holy shit was 2008 and 2011 great rides.

We haven’t had the dramatics as much this season, but I feel like these next 19 games are going to be as intense as anything we’ve seen this season.