Life is good for the Milwaukee Brewers offense right now. Just don't ask them about it.

Jackson Chourio is belting out lyrics to Bad Bunny’s “Fina” to nobody in particular. From across the room comes lively shouting out of the team dining room. Life is good inside the Milwaukee Brewers clubhouse right now.

And they’re doing everything – and we mean everything – to keep it that way. Including not talking about the offense.

After the latest offensive onslaught and drubbing of an opponent, an 8-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds to push their scoring total to 42 runs over a four-game win streak that has them a season-high 17 games above .500, the men in the electric blue and yellow uniforms so badly want to keep the vibes rolling that they will suggest to reporters not to interview the hitting coaches about the offense’s explosion, lest it jinx the current aura.

BOX SCORE: Brewers 8, Reds 3

“Just hold it as long as we can,” shortstop Willy Adames, who was not among the forewarning players, said of the offense’s groove.

What happens the rest of the regular season – as well as the postseason that seems more and more like an impending reality by the day – is undetermined, but not this: Milwaukee’s offense has cruised this week. And, speaking of warnings, the signs are foretelling of potentially good things to come down the road.

Unlike some recent years, including the Brewers’ last two playoff appearances in 2021 and 2023, the bats are not a glaring question mark in the Menomonee Valley.

This is an offense that, entering Friday, ranked seventh in Major League Baseball in runs per game and was ninth in weighted runs created plus (wRC+). They’ve endured some valleys along the way but are on pace to get career years – or at least something close to it – from a couple of their best hitters, William Contreras and Willy Adames, while seeing Jackson Chourio and Joey Ortiz break out, and Brice Turang, Garrett Mitchell and Sal Frelick turn into formidable bats. And that doesn’t even get to the power potential Rhys Hoskins could bring in a short series or the possibility of Christian Yelich returning.

“I feel like we’ve been doing a good job the whole year,” Adames said. “We’ve had some stretches where we didn't execute but that’s part of the game. That started happening now in August, that’s when teams get hot going into the postseason. That’s what we want.”

Things will not be this good for the Brewers the rest of the season, no matter how many superstitions are upheld the rest of the way; that much can all be guaranteed given the chaotic nature of baseball.

But, 120 games in, the story of the Brewers’ offense is not one that’s about what they have done in small samples. They’re not defined by four good games, even if it’s the best four-game stretch in terms of scoring runs the Brewers have had since 2010. They won’t be defined by their next bad stretch of four games with the bats, either.

This is a team that chases less than anyone else in the National League. They own the strike zone.

Milwaukee may not own the top average exit velocities in the league or lead the way in hard hit rate. But the offense is one that knows what it does well and sticks to that identity far more often than not.

And without any real holes one-through-nine in the batting order – the owner of the lowest OPS in the lineup Friday was Brice Turang, who had a .682 mark that is merely a tad below league average and also plays Gold Glove defense – they present no real breaks for pitchers.

It’s a unit that has manager Pat Murphy excited.

“You try to not get too crazy about the results and numbers,” Murphy said, “but I know what we’re capable of. And hopefully this is an indicator of what we’re capable of. Hopefully, that’s an indicator to them that we can do a lot of things. We can beat number one (pitchers).”

As Murphy later reminded following the 8-3 win, his team is always one inch from the bottom and one inch from the top. The margins in this league are quite thin.

Because of that, he and the Brewers coaching staff will preach the same process they have for four-plus months now.

“What’s the difference?” Murphy asked. “Can it be your mindset? Can it be the angle of your swing? The precision? All that stuff. It all comes down to being ready for that moment. Having everything lined up in your process.”

The process right now is sharp for the Brewers.

It doesn’t take a hitting coach to see – or say – that.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brewers offense on a roll after latest win over Reds