When you get into late August, just about every stretch of games is The Most Important Of The Season for a team with playoff aspirations.
But for the Brewers, this next stretch of games probably actually is The Most Important Of The Season. A total of 13 of their next 18 games come against the Cubs and the Cardinals, the two teams ahead of them in the NL Central (and also the wildcard standings, if you figure only one team from the Central is making the wildcard game).
This is going to be one of their best chances all year to make up ground and/or leapfrog at least one of Chicago or St.