Brewers know how to get to October. Do they have enough to finally conquer it?

Murphy, the Brewers' two-time National League Manager of the Year, is no Captain Obvious. He is simply breaking down the notion of competition into bite-size moments, be it a spring training conversation, or a teachable moment after a loss, or tossing a young player into situations they might initially find untenable.

Doing the hard things. And sometimes, the end result is making things look very easy.

Externally, the Brewers are a machine, taking a club-record 98 victories into the final six games of the season. For the second consecutive postseason, they're poised to seize the NL's No. 1 seed and a first-round bye in an attempt to reach the World Series for the first time since 1982.