CLEVELAND -- You know your season is going well when you can make two errors and allow six stolen bases in a game’s first four innings, and win anyway.

The Brewers did just that in an unusual series opener on Friday night at Progressive Field. Thanks to a grand slam from Lorenzo Cain, a homer from Luis Urías, two leadoff homers in consecutive innings (one from each side of the plate) from Eduardo Escobar and, incredibly, two runs scored on catcher’s interference calls, Milwaukee wound up waltzing to a 10-3 victory over Cleveland.

Milwaukee inched yet another step closer to clinching the National League Central and its magic number was nine at the conclusion of the game. The club’s record is now a franchise-best 32 games over .500. This 47th win on the road tied a franchise record set in 1982, and the Brewers still have 10 road tilts remaining.

“We're a very, very deep lineup,” Cain said. “In order to be as consistent as we have been all season long, you need that kind of lineup. We’re picking up each other, swinging the bat really well and just trying to keep it going.”

The Brewers did not take a conventional path to their latest ‘W.’

They got a run in the first when Cleveland catcher Ryan Lavarnway mistakenly used his mask to corral a loose ball – an interference infraction that allowed Avisaíl García to score from third. But Urías’ first of two errors at short in the bottom half of the inning paved the way toward Adrian Houser allowing a two-out, two-run single to Bobby Bradley in a 32-pitch frame. The Brewers had activity in their bullpen before the first was over.

“In my head,” said Houser, “I was thinking, ‘Just make the next pitch, get out of this inning and hit the reset button.’”

Houser survived to put up one of the strangest pitching lines you’ll ever see. He allowed those two runs, as well as five walks and six steals, but the Bradley hit was the only one against him in six innings of work.

“The first inning could have gone sideways pretty fast,” manager Craig Counsell said. “But he was brilliant after that; he really was. He pitched really well, the ball was on the ground. It was very, very solid.”

And the ball was not on the ground when the Brewers were up to bat. Urías atoned for his errors with a two-run shot in the fourth. And Milwaukee broke it open with a six-run fifth initiated by Escobar’s first leadoff blast and extended by yet another run-producing catcher’s interference call against Lavarnway on a Urías swing with the bases loaded.

“That turned out to be a huge play,” Counsell said.

Indeed, because up stepped Cain, whose majestic grand slam went halfway up the bleachers beyond the left-field wall. It was Cain’s third homer in his last eight games – an encouraging sign given the injury and performance issues he dealt with in the first half.

“I'm just trying to go up there and get consistent at bats, just contribute to this team as a whole,” he said. “I feel pretty good, as of late. I have my days but at the same time, I try to put consistent at-bats together and hopefully drive in some runs.”

Once again, the Brewers drove in a bunch of runs, more than making up for the awkward start to the evening and continuing their ceaseless push toward the postseason.