It was 2014 all over again. After improbably leading the division all season, the Brewers dropped 19 out of 26 games, falling to .500 and turning a 5.5 game division lead into a three game deficit. It was more heartbreak for a fan base that has endured more than its fair share over the past several decades.
Then something happened that didn’t happen in 2014. They bounced back. This isn’t an aging team scraping the last gooey, rotten bits of contention out of the bottom of the barrel before a rebuild; it’s a rising pheonix with a fresh batch of home brewed playoff magic.