Here's some reasoning from national sites on why the Brewers remain the best team in baseball despite a crowded injured list.

With Chourio’s 20th home run, he joined elite company in logging multiple 20-homer years before their age-22 season. The list includes plenty of star power with Ronald Acuna Jr ., Juan Soto, Carlos Correa, Bryce Harper, Mike Trout and Giancarlo Stanton.

Pitchers Jesús Broca and Anthony Flores, both lefties, and righties Michael Fowler, Edwin Jiménez and Brett Wichrowski will participate. On the position side, there's corner infielder Luke Adams, catcher Marco Dinges and outfielder Josh Adamczewski.

Our latest power rankings take a look at each team’s most valuable player over the duration of the regular season. On contending teams, these are superstars who will have the opportunity to raise their status further in the postseason.

Christian Yelich scalded three baseballs in his return to the Brewers' lineup in the team's 5-0 loss to the Rangers at Globe Life Field on Monday, and characterized the recent angst about his five-game absence amid a flare-up of his surgically-repaired back as much ado about very little.

Though their division lead is down to five games, the Brewers' magic number to clinch the National League's first playoff spot is at nine. That's any combination of Brewers wins and losses by the San Francisco Giants or the Cincinnati Reds, the first teams on the outside of the National League playoff picture.

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