By Jim Owczarski Sports Editor Published Apr 18, 2012 at 11:14 PM Photography: David Bernacchi

I'll be honest – I was a little taken aback by the Milwaukee Brewers' recent four-game losing streak.

Not that I suddenly felt the team wouldn't win the NL Central, or that they were a bad team – but simply that they had lost four straight. Not to discount Randy Wolf, Chris Narveson and Shaun Marcum, but with Yovani Gallardo and Zack Greinke I figured it'd be near impossible for this team to put together anything longer than a three-game skid.

Then I remembered I'm not good at math, so allow me a revision: A four-game losing streak is about as bad as it could be for the Crew this season. And it would have to fall just like it did this time, where one of the two aces faltering just after, or before, the other wins.

It's why they're here – to avoid prolonged losing streaks and give this team a great chance to reach the playoffs. Gallardo did that last night in a no-decision against the best team in baseball (by record), and tonight Greinke matched him with two runs allowed through seven innings on four hits with seven strikeouts.

Gallardo admitted he felt it was necessary to perform like an "ace", but of course said all of the pitchers in the rotation feel that way.

They may feel that way, but everyone knows the pressure, the hope, the expectation, fall on the right shoulders of Gallardo and Greinke.

And more often than not, they produce. See the last two nights.

Watching the two of them pitch-by-pitch brought me to this realization as well: Double Aces > Double Rainbow.

And no, this was not a cheap way to show this video. Seriously. Ask the tens of thousands of fans who filed through Miller Park the last two nights.

 They'll agree with me.

Jim Owczarski is an award-winning sports journalist and comes to Milwaukee by way of the Chicago Sun-Times Media Network.

A three-year Wisconsin resident who has considered Milwaukee a second home for the better part of seven years, he brings to the market experience covering nearly all major and college sports.

To this point in his career, he has been awarded six national Associated Press Sports Editors awards for investigative reporting, feature writing, breaking news and projects. He is also a four-time nominee for the prestigious Peter J. Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism, presented by the Chicago Headline Club, and is a two-time winner for Best Sports Story. He has also won numerous other Illinois Press Association, Illinois Associated Press and Northern Illinois Newspaper Association awards.

Jim's career started in earnest as a North Central College (Naperville, Ill.) senior in 2002 when he received a Richter Fellowship to cover the Chicago White Sox in spring training. He was hired by the Naperville Sun in 2003 and moved on to the Aurora Beacon News in 2007 before joining OnMilwaukee.com.

In that time, he has covered the events, news and personalities that make up the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Hockey League, NCAA football, baseball and men's and women's basketball as well as boxing, mixed martial arts and various U.S. Olympic teams.

Golf aficionados who venture into Illinois have also read Jim in GOLF Chicago Magazine as well as the Chicago District Golfer and Illinois Golfer magazines.