Brewers make MLB run-scoring history not done since 1939 Yankees

The Milwaukee Brewers are having quite the season.

And on Friday night, that meant finding their way to MLB history that hadn't been done since 1939.

It was the long-ago Yankees that the Brewers matched by putting up a 16-spot in a win at the Washington Nationals.

OptaStats shared that the Brewers are the first time in that 86-year time frame to score 16 or more runs on the road at four different ballparks in the same season.

The Brewers have spaced it out pretty evenly, too:

• April 9: 17 runs at Colorado
• May 31: 17 runs at Philadelphia
• June 20: 17 runs at Minnesota
• Aug. 1: 16 runs at Washington

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The 1939 Yankees actually scored 16 or more runs in five different road parks: Detroit, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Chicago.

The Brewers' history-making night Friday included a ridiculous 25 hits. 

Seven of the nine players in the lineup finished with at least two hits, and every player that started the game had at least one.

Blake Perkins hit two home runs, William Contreras went 5-for-7 and every Milwaukee player in the order improved their season batting average.

The Nationals used five pitchers, including starter Mitchell Parker, who gave up 12 hits and eight runs in four innings.

Somehow, Zach Brzykcy came in and threw a scoreless inning.

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If the Brewers are looking for a good omen, those 1939 Yankees won the World Series. They were led in batting average by a young Joe DiMaggio, who hit .381 and blasted 30 home runs. That was Lou Gehrig's final season in the major leagues, but even with him only playing eight games, the Yanks were carried by the likes of Bill Dickey, Joe Gordon, Red Rolfe and George Selkirk.

These Brewers may not be household names like that, not yet. But if they keep scoring this many runs, they'll keep getting noticed.

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