Playing 16 games in 16 days is no easy feat, especially when it's the third stretch like this the Milwaukee Brewers have had since going into the All-Star break.

Despite all of the scheduling flaws, the Brewers still have the best record in baseball and just took two out of four from the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.

They'll still need one more win against the Cubs next week when they come to American Family Field to lock up the season series, but they at least knew they were leaving Chicago the same way they entered, and that's with an eight-game lead in the National League Central.

Brice Turang and Jake Bauers have both been struggling lately, and fatigue could definitely be part of it.

Both have been dealing with minor injuries, so that certainly doesn't help, and now manager Pat Murphy must figure out how he's going to get through six more games before the team finally has Thursday, Sept. 10, off.

The only two hits Turang had were in game two of the series, which saw the Brewers pick up a 9-4 win.

That game was a huge turning point as they had just lost 17-3 the night prior in a game that saw Turang go 0-for-4 with a pair of strikeouts.

In total, Turang struck out seven times across the four games in this series. His batting average is down to .250 this season, and that's a severe drop from the .288 it was a year ago.

Obviously, it's no secret that Turang is battling through some sort of knee injury, but he's stayed in the lineup and is doing everything he can to push through it, though that comes with a .176/.241/.264 slash line since August 1.

The biggest difference between Bauers and Turang is the fact that Bauers drew six walks in the series while Turang didn't draw a single one.

That sort of plate vision can't be undervalued, and he had a three-walk game during that 9-4 win.

Regardless, Bauers, who's been dealing with shin splints, had just one hit in the series. Not only that, but he's only had one multi-hit game going back to August 18 when his batting average was a comfortable .278.

Now, it's fallen to .268, and the 30-year-old has gotten off to a slow 0-for-9 start in the month of September, but again, that does come with five walks compared to only four strikeouts.