BOSTON -- One toe tap at a time, Christian Yelich hopes he’s onto something.

With Brewers brass mulling adding a bat or two before next week’s Trade Deadline, the frustrated star took matters into his own hands this week by replacing his usual leg lift with a toe tap -- a minor change with magnified implications given Yelich’s oversized importance to his team. Since making the change, he’s reached base multiple times and logged RBIs in three straight games, including the go-ahead run in Friday’s 4-1 win over the Red Sox in front of a friendly crowd at Fenway Park.

“I’d had enough of what I was doing,” Yelich said. “It wasn’t fun [struggling] every night, so I was going to come up with something different to see if we could have better results.”

So far, so good, in a small sample. After two doubles against the Twins on Tuesday and three walks, two runs scored and a single on Wednesday, Yelich returned from the team’s off-day and kept producing in the Brewers’ first game at Fenway Park in eight years. He punched a double over third base to spark one go-ahead rally in the sixth inning, then greeted Red Sox reliever Ryan Brasier by lining a two-out, go-ahead single in the seventh to make a winner of Brandon Woodruff in a quality start and send the Brewers on the way to their sixth victory in seven games since the All-Star break.

“Look, hitters are doing this a lot,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said of Yelich’s mechanical change. “I think in this case we're able to see the adjustment. That stuff's going on every day, frankly, with every hitter. It's part of adjusting in the big leagues. Trying to get a feel, trying to get something you can be consistent with. That's what the hitters are all looking for.”

Yelich’s project began Tuesday when he reported to American Family Field, with three extra-base hits and no home runs in his previous 60 plate appearances. He set up a tee in the indoor batting cage -- something Yelich said he rarely does -- and went to work.

Much more quickly than he expected, Yelich said, the toe tap felt natural.

“I didn’t really know what [the mechanical change] was going to be, but since I had a leg kick, I’ve always had a movement for timing, so I felt like I had to do something to get that rhythm. Otherwise it wasn’t going to work,” Yelich said. “A ‘no-stride,’ I don’t think that would have worked for me. I asked one of the guys in here who I feel like knows a little bit about hitting and stuff like that, if he thought that would work or the sequencing would be the same or my body would move the same.

“I have some natural gifts as a hitter that I didn’t want to lose -- when I’m good. I feel like this still allows me to accomplish that while being a little more consistent. That’s what I’m trying for.”

Give Yelich credit for this: He’s been open to trying anything in an effort to rediscover his elite production from his first two seasons in a Brewers uniform, when he was the National League MVP Award winner in 2018 and the runner-up in ‘19. At age 30, he’s far from ready to give up trying. But he’s been open about his frustration.

“For whatever reason, I just can’t get my body to do what I want it to do,” Yelich said. “Bad habits-wise or whatever, it’s just not -- the movement patterns and the sequencing are just not the same. I don’t know why that is. No clue. Nobody can figure it out. I can’t figure it out. So I figured I would try something new to see if I could make things simpler and try and have a little bit more success and consistency.”

Both of Yelich’s hits came at the right time for Milwaukee. His double leading off the sixth was the Brewers’ first loud contact against young Red Sox right-hander Brayan Bello, who teamed with left-handed “opener” Austin Davis to hold the Brewers scoreless on only Willy Adames’ first-inning infield single through the end of the fifth. That led to a run on Andrew McCutchen’s groundout.

An inning later, Kolten Wong grounded into a double play before Tyrone Taylor tripled to chase Bello in favor of Brasier. Yelich lined the first pitch, a 97.6 mph sinker, into left field for a 2-1 lead. After Brad Boxberger helped Woodruff out of a jam in the seventh and Devin Williams worked through some soft contact for a 29th consecutive scoreless outing in the eighth, the Brewers scored twice in the ninth to give Josh Hader some breathing room as he logged his 29th save.

Will Yelich stay with the tap for a while?

“Yeah, I think it’s something I’m going to stick with,” Yelich said. “It’s been a little bit more comfortable than I was probably anticipating, because when you change your entire timing mechanism, your pitch recognition and all of that stuff can be a little tough. But I’ve actually felt pretty good with it. I thought it was going to be a little bit of a zoo for a couple of weeks, honestly.”