State of the NL Central: June 26

Oof. That week could have gone better. While the status quo has stayed in place, nothing really went as expected for any of the NL Central teams. Since I don’t know anything about astrology I can’t blame Mercury being in retrograde or anything like that, but it really has been quite the week.

The Brewers maintain their hold on first place and the Cubs are still second, but now 2½ games back. They’ll need to pick up some momentum this week if they hope to gain that ground back again.

Milwaukee Brewers 45-32

The Brewers have held onto the top spot for several weeks now, but if we’re being honest, the only reason they’ve maintained their hold for another week is because the Cubs had an even worse…