MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers were already assured of reaching the mathematical midpoint of the season Thursday with the best record in franchise history.A tight win over the Rockies gave Milwaukee the most wins in baseball to boot.Rickie Weeks began a three-hit night with his 26th career leadoff home run, and Jonathan Lucroy and Khris Davis delivered RBIs in a go-ahead fifth inning that gave the Brewers a 7-4 win over the Rockies on Thursday.At 49-32, Milwaukee leads the Major Leagues in victories and is off to its best 81-game start in a franchise history that dates to 1969 -- two games better than the previous mark set in 1979 and matched in 2007. 
With 14 games to go before the All-Star break, the Brewers are five wins shy of another club mark. Their record for most wins at the break is 54, set in 1979.Weeks has not forgotten that most preseason prognosticators ranked the Brewers fourth in the National League Central."We felt good about our situation," Weeks said before Thursday night's game. "Obviously, a lot of the media didn't. That's one of the things that keeps us together in this clubhouse."Only Oakland (48-30, .615) has a better winning percentage than the .605 Brewers, who have beaten the Rockies four times in the past week. Weeks sparked a three-run first inning by hitting Colorado left-hander Christian Friedrich's first pitch for a home run, and Aramis Ramirez added a two-run homer later in the same inning.The Brewers were poised to add more when they put runners at second and third base with nobody out in the third inning, but Rockies third baseman Ryan Wheeler speared a Jonathan Lucroy line drive and tagged third to double up Weeks before Carlos Gomez struck out to end the threat. In the next half-inning, Wheeler gave the Rockies the lead with his first career grand slam.Milwaukee starter Wily Peralta was tough outside of that four-run, five-hit inning, holding the Rockies to no more runs on only three hits in five other innings of work. The Brewers rewarded him by scoring twice against Friedrich and reliever Rob Scahill in the fifth inning. Lucroy tied the game with a 400-foot single that nearly cleared the center-field fence -- and was nearly caught by Charlie Blackmon. Three batters later, Khris Davis hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly.Brewers reliever Will Smith escaped a bases-loaded jam in the seventh inning with two strikeouts, and Brandon Kintzler stranded a runner at third base in the eighth before a two-run homer by pinch-hitter Scooter Gennett to help preserve a victory for Peralta, who has won each of his past five starts.Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
With 14 games to go before the All-Star break, the Brewers are five wins shy of another club mark. Their record for most wins at the break is 54, set in 1979.Weeks has not forgotten that most preseason prognosticators ranked the Brewers fourth in the National League Central."We felt good about our situation," Weeks said before Thursday night's game. "Obviously, a lot of the media didn't. That's one of the things that keeps us together in this clubhouse."Only Oakland (48-30, .615) has a better winning percentage than the .605 Brewers, who have beaten the Rockies four times in the past week. Weeks sparked a three-run first inning by hitting Colorado left-hander Christian Friedrich's first pitch for a home run, and Aramis Ramirez added a two-run homer later in the same inning.The Brewers were poised to add more when they put runners at second and third base with nobody out in the third inning, but Rockies third baseman Ryan Wheeler speared a Jonathan Lucroy line drive and tagged third to double up Weeks before Carlos Gomez struck out to end the threat. In the next half-inning, Wheeler gave the Rockies the lead with his first career grand slam.Milwaukee starter Wily Peralta was tough outside of that four-run, five-hit inning, holding the Rockies to no more runs on only three hits in five other innings of work. The Brewers rewarded him by scoring twice against Friedrich and reliever Rob Scahill in the fifth inning. Lucroy tied the game with a 400-foot single that nearly cleared the center-field fence -- and was nearly caught by Charlie Blackmon. Three batters later, Khris Davis hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly.Brewers reliever Will Smith escaped a bases-loaded jam in the seventh inning with two strikeouts, and Brandon Kintzler stranded a runner at third base in the eighth before a two-run homer by pinch-hitter Scooter Gennett to help preserve a victory for Peralta, who has won each of his past five starts.Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
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