NL Central standings one month ago today

[NYChez]

The morning of July 21, 2011, we saw these standings in the morning paper:

1. Pittsburgh, 51-44, -

2. Milwaukee, 52-46, 0.5 GB

3. St. Louis, 50-46, 1.5 GB

4. Cincinnati, 47-50, 5 GB

One month later we go to bed with these standings:

1. Milwaukee, 76-52, -

2. St. Louis, 67-60, 8.5 GB

3. Cincinnati, 62-65, 13.5 GB

4. Pittsburgh, 59-66, 15.5 GB

The Pirates have lost 16 games on the Brewers in a month, but what's almost more unbelievable is that the Cardinals and Reds have actually played slightly better this past month than up through July 21 and have lost 7.5 and 8.5 games, respectively in the standings.

I've wondered what it would be like to go on an incredible hot streak like the 2002 A's and 2007 Rockies. Now we're witnessing this type of historic stretch in Milwaukee.

[tigerbrew]

Brewers lost just 6 games and won 24 games in the past month, a 80% win rate, wow.

[pretendastronaut]

The Brewers haven't lost consecutive games since July 23-24 to SF.