CINCINNATI -- With only 10 games remaining in the regular season and the team still out of a National League Wild Card spot, all the Brewers can do is take care of business on their end and hope the others ahead of them stumble.

Milwaukee moved to 1 1/2 games back of the third NL Wild Card on Saturday night, as the Crew notched its fourth consecutive victory in a 10-2 win over the Reds at Great American Ball Park.

Looking to make a late-September push, the Brewers have seen their share of individual heroics at the plate. On Thursday, it was Kolten Wong with three home runs; on Friday, it was Andrew McCutchen with three RBIs; and on Saturday, Hunter Renfroe broke out of his recent skid to pay his dues.

The 30-year-old outfielder powered up with his third multi-home run game of the season in a 4-for-5 performance, driving in a season-high five runs. It marked Renfroe’s fifth four-hit performance of his career and second this season.

“It felt good. I've felt pretty good the past few days,” Renfroe said. “I’m seeing the ball well. I hadn't had the results that I wanted, but I got some walks in there. [I was] able to get some barrels today.”

Renfroe’s first blast came in the top of the fourth inning, when he hammered a slider from Graham Ashcraft a Statcast-projected 419 feet into the second deck for a two-run homer. An inning later, Renfroe went deep again with another two-run blast, this time against Connor Overton, for his 27th home run of the season.

“Hunter Renfroe had a great game, a huge game,” manager Craig Counsell said. “I think for any home run hitter, it comes in bunches a little bit, but Hunter was a huge part of our offense tonight. He had a really, really big night. But it’s going to take different guys every night. We know that, and that’s what we’ve been getting.”

Renfroe helped open the offensive floodgates for Milwaukee, as the team knocked Ashcraft out of the game after trailing by a run through three innings. In the fourth, the Brewers tallied five hits after a quick first out.

“Ashcraft had good stuff,” Counsell said. “We put together some hits, and he made a mistake to Hunter the first time around, and as he got into the game, our at-bats got better.”

After a long first inning, Brewers starter Corbin Burnes completely turned around his outing to log 6 1/3 innings with two runs allowed, striking out eight en route to his 11th victory of the season. The offensive explosion in the middle innings allowed Burnes to pitch deeper into the outing, too.

“I think we swung the bat well today,” Renfroe said. “I think we grinded out at-bats today and did a great job of making sure we put the ball in play, and good things happened.”

Renfroe was traded to Milwaukee during the offseason with one year and $7,600,500 left on his contract. He has hit at least 26 home runs in five of his seven big league seasons, and he totaled a career-high 96 RBIs last season with Boston. The outfielder has had a difficult past month, but this breakthrough is an encouraging sign, as the Brewers need all hands on deck to close the gap.

Renfroe added that going through his ups and downs as a big league hitter has become easier as his career has gone along.

“The first few years in your career, it’s kind of aggravating when you want to get hits and are chasing hits and chasing results,” he said. “The older I get, it’s kind of like, ‘Well, I’m seeing the ball well, taking the pitches I need to take, [so] it’s going to eventually happen for me.’”

As for the bigger picture, the slugger is approaching the team’s postseason chase day by day as they play out the remainder of their schedule.

“I don’t really worry about that too much,” Renfroe said. “If we come in here one day and there’s champagne on the ground, we’ll know what happened. I don’t really look forward to that. I just [show up and] play baseball every day.”