They have been making history all month. Yet it seems like the Milwaukee Brewers re-wrote several chapters of the record books with their 10-1 rout of the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 3 of the World Series Monday, Oct. 27 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.
Milwaukee can sweep away the Rays and win its first championship in franchise history in Game 4 on Tuesday. There's at least nine more innings of baseball to pad statistics, re-set standards and get everybody's ring sizes.
But until then, a look at the Game 3 rout and the Brewers' epic October run, by the numbers:
8: Brewers' postgame winning streak
They haven't lost since Game 3 of the National League Division Series at San Diego, which seems like a lifetime ago. Now, the Brewers are shoulder-to-shoulder with the hottest October runs in this era of expanded playoffs.
Their eight straight wins tie the 2019 Washington Nationals, 2014 Kansas City Royals, 2005 Chicago White Sox and 2004 Boston Red Sox for longest postseason win streaks. All but the Royals won World Series titles.
And by winning Game 4, the Brewers would become the first team to sweep both the LCS and World Series since the former was expanded to a best-of-seven format in 1985. The 1976 Cincinnati Reds are the last team to sweep their LCS and World Series, going 7-0.
8: Runs scored with two outs in the fifth inning
Sure, you might have seen this fun fact, a World Series record for runs scored with two outs. Seems unlikely we will see this again in our lifetimes. And let's loop the seven consecutive hits in here, too: That's only happened twice before in postseason history.
For posterity, here are your seven consecutive two-out Brewers hits. Folks in Wisconsin may want to make a poster out of it:
William Contreras, infield single (with an assist to replay review and a sliding Christian Yelich).
Brice Turang, two-run single.
Garrett Mitchell, RBI single.
Cooper Pratt, two-run double.
Sal Frelick, RBI double.
David Hamilton, RBI single.
Chourio, RBI double.
Take a picture. You might never see this again.
0: Home runs hit by the Brewers in Game 3
Milwaukee became the first team since the 2014 San Francisco Giants to score at least 10 runs in a World Series game without benefit of a home run. The Giants did it in an 11-4 Game 4 romp over Kansas City, getting three hits and three RBIs from Hunter Pence.
29: Postseason hits for Jackson Chourio
Hey, we all know postseason stats - single-season, career, etc. - are slightly bogus given how long the playoffs are. But these Brewers did not play a wild-card series. And as we discussed, they're sweeping everybody in sight.
Despite all that, Chourio has 29 knocks - a run that began with a game-tying, two-run shot off Padres lefty Robbie Ray in Game 1 of the NLDS. He just hasn't stopped, ambushing first pitches, shooting balls the opposite way down the line or off the right field wall.
And lest we forget: Just 22 years old.
18: Batters faced in six innings by Robert Gasser
Yes, you guessed it: The minimum.
Gasser gave up just one hit - to leadoff man Yandy Díaz - but that was eventually erased when Chandler Simpson overslid the bag at second base on a steal attempt. He also walked Victor Mesa Jr. - but Nick Fortes bounced into a double play.
And so Gasser became the first lefty to face the minimum through six innings in a World Series game since Sandy Koufax in 1965. Sure, a bit of an esoteric stat. But Gasser was very good, and any mention that puts a modern player in the same sentence as Koufax requires mandatory printing in the newspaper.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Brewers dominance by the numbers: Historic postseason for Milwaukee