Brewers snap inauspicious streak in run parade against Diamondbacks

When the Milwaukee Brewers dropped four consecutive games to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series last October, the dominating rhetoric was that the scrappy Brew Crew didn't have enough power to win in the postseason. It's an argument that felt anecdotal at the time, especially given the fact that the Brewers did win a playoff series against the Chicago Cubs last year after securing the top overall seed in the postseason by compiling the best regular season record in all of MLB. However, recent history does suggest that a team needs a certain degree of slug to be successful in October, and when the Brewers' bats went cold for one week against Los Angeles, that fact became more frequently cited.

Fast forward to the first month of the 2026 season, and a similar lack of power plagues the Brewers. Though Milwaukee has managed to remain above .500 for the entirety of the 2026 season, their lack of "pop" on the offensive side of the ball, which is certainly impacted by the absences of Jackson Chourio, Andrew Vaughn, and Christian Yelich, all of whom currently reside on the injured list, is a cause for at least some concern.

Brewers fans are tired of watching their team find success during the regular season, when a lack of power can seemingly be mitigated by effort and relentlessness at the plate, only to falter in the postseason. This trend has led to just one postseason series win since 2018, despite the Brewers making six playoff appearances during that span. The Milwaukee faithful don't want a similar story in 2026, but a seven-game homer-less streak in April supports those with concerns over the Crew's lack of power.

That's right, the Brewers as a team didn't hit a home run for seven straight games. From Brice Turang's two-run jack against the Miami Marlins back on April 18, until last night's win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Brew Crew didn't slug a single longball. In the second inning of last night's series opener, Sal Frelick said "no longer" and sent a solo shot into the away bullpen in right-center field.

With reinforcements coming and the Brewers' homer-less streak now over, expect more power from Milwaukee's offense

After the game, Pat Murphy joked that he "ordered" Frelick's home run, suggesting that he has powers well beyond that of a typical MLB manager. Hopefully, those powers are real, because prior to the game, the Brewers' affable manager said that the Brewers' power issue will work itself out by the end of the year, and if he has the power to summon a homer from his right fielder, maybe he can summon a few more from his teammates before the end of the year.

In all seriousness, the Brewers' power will almost certainly improve in the coming weeks, simply by the team getting healthier. The returns of Chourio and Vaughn in the next week or so, and Yelich before the end of the month, will no doubt infuse a degree of power into the Brewers' offense.

A season ago, Yelich and Chourio led the Brewers' offense in home runs -- the former with 29 and the latter with 21 -- and Vaughn's nine homers from July 7 to the end of the season, were a huge part of the Brewers' second-half surge. Add that trio back into the lineup, and the Brewers' current "power issue" is bound to work itself out.

In the meantime, however, the fact that Milwaukee's frustrating homer-less streak, which could foreshadow a similar struggle to one they've had in the past, is over is a welcomed development. Without it looming over them, perhaps the Brewers' offense will play a little looser than they have over the last week.

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