Milwaukee’s recent streak calls to mind the Brewers’ 1987 season, which was quite a roller coaster

The Milwaukee Brewers have been the talk of baseball recently because of their 14-game winning streak.

That run also gives us a chance to appreciate a particularly unusual big league season — the Brewers’ super streaky run through 1987.

It was those ‘87 Brewers who won their first 13 games of the season, triggering the same free burger promotion by a local chain that went into effect when this year’s streak hit 12. That 13-0 start — which included Juan Nieves throwing the first no-hitter in team history in win No. 9 — stood as the franchise’s longest winning streak in a season until this year’s Brewers surpassed it Saturday.

Milwaukee was 20-3 in 1987 before crashing back to earth with alarming quickness. May had barely begun when the team lost 12 in a row. The Brewers snuck in another losing streak of six games before the month was over — only to follow with an immediate six-game winning streak.

It wasn’t just team streaks that made that season notable in Milwaukee. Hall of Famer Paul Molitor produced a 39-game hitting streak that year, a run that hasn’t been matched since.

By the time the season was over, Milwaukee was 91-71, finishing third in the AL East in an era when you had to win your division to make the playoffs.