Good starts are Milwaukee's specialty.
Discounting the strike-shortened 1995 season, the Brewers finished the first month of the season with a .500 record or better in seven of the past 10 seasons before this year. That includes a 16-9 April as recently as 1998, when the team went 21 games under .500 in the five months following. I won't even bother talking too much about the 18-3 April the team had in 1987. And if good starts are the Brewers' specialty, poor finishes are the inevitable dirty dishes at the end. In the seven times since 1990 that Milwaukee had a .500 record or better in April, it only finished above .500 twice, in 1991 and 1992.