MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers won 95 games during the regular season largely because of the strength of their starting rotation and its three All-Stars: Corbin Burnes, Brandon Woodruff and Freddy Peralta. Only the Los Angeles Dodgers had a lower earned run average than the Brewers’s starting staff.
But through two games of this National League division series against Atlanta, no starting pitcher has shined brighter than Max Fried. In fact, since the All-Star break in mid July, no one has been better than Fried — not Max Scherzer of the Dodgers, not Burnes, not Robbie Ray of the Toronto Blue Jays.