MILWAUKEE -- Good teams take what the opposition gives them, and after treading water throughout a turbulent early-season schedule, the Brewers are looking more and more like a pretty good team.

That’s how they earned a 5-3 victory over weary Washington on Monday at Miller Park, aided by four Nationals errors and a pair of wild pitches. The breakthrough came in the seventh inning, when Yasmani Grandal and Jesus Aguilar drove in a run apiece for a lead that helped seal a winning 10-game homestand for the Brewers with two games still to play.

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“You have to take what they give you,” said Aguilar, who continues to emerge from his season-opening slump. “You have to keep forcing. You have to keep going. You have to keep trying. I think that’s the game.”

Ben Gamel and Orlando Arcia each tallied three hits, Gamel scored a pair of runs and drove in another, and the Brewers, with their fourth straight victory, pushed them five games over .500 for the first time since just before they headed west last month and were swept by the Angels.

Let’s count the ways Washington lent a hand:

• Mike Moustakas’ run-scoring single off leaping Nationals shortstop Carter Kieboom’s glove in the first inning was hardly Kieboom’s fault, but his run-scoring error with two outs in the second certainly was. When Kieboom botched Gamel’s grounder, it handed the Brewers a 2-2 tie.

• Still knotted in the sixth, Travis Shaw blooped a single to snap an 0-for-18 funk before Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki committed catcher’s interference on Aguilar to help the Brewers load the bases on Eric Thames’ four-pitch walk. With Nationals starter Max Scherzer pushing up and over the 110-pitch mark, Milwaukee couldn’t capitalize. Arcia struck out on a 95 mph fastball right down Wisconsin Ave., and pinch-hitter Ryan Braun ended the threat with a first-pitch groundout that dropped him to 0-for-14 lifetime against Scherzer. No runs, but it was on to Washington’s bullpen.

“We made him work really hard, especially in the first two innings,” said Brewers manager Craig Counsell. “We did a nice job against their bullpen and caught some breaks. There were runners on base a whole bunch, we made them keep making pitches and were able to crack through for a couple of runs.”

• With the Brewers back at it again in the seventh after Adam Eaton’s home run had given Washington a 4-3 lead, Dan Jennings’ wild pitch and Suzuki’s error contributed to Milwaukee reclaiming the advantage, this time for good.

The inning began with infield hits for Gamel, who moved to second on Jennings’ wild pitch, and Christian Yelich, who hit a monstrous home run off some stadium signage high above right field during batting practice, tallied his only hit in the game on a check swing that rolled toward third base.

That put runners at the corners for Grandal’s game-tying single, and when Suzuki fumbled a Moustakas tapper in front of home plate, it put Yelich at third and extended the inning for Aguilar’s go-ahead sacrifice fly two batters later.

“They made a lot of errors today and we just put the ball in play,” said Brewers starter Jhoulys Chacin, who gave up Howie Kendrick’s two-run home run in the first inning but managed to grind four more scoreless innings after that. “Any time you do that, anything can happen. And it happened today for us.”

Aside from Eaton’s go-ahead home run in the top of the seventh inning off Alex Claudio, Chacin and four Brewers relievers finished the job. The relief work included perfect innings from Jeremy Jeffress, whose fastball touched a season-best 95.1 mph, and Junior Guerra, who logged his second save.

“I feel that everything is getting together now,” said Chacin.