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Christian Yelich’s easy smile and champagne-soaked T-shirt said it all: A division title is much more fun than a Triple Crown.

Yelich collected three more hits as the Milwaukee Brewers won their first NL Central title since 2011, beating the Chicago Cubs 3-1 on Monday in a tiebreaker game. The slugger stalled in his bid for the league’s first Triple Crown in decades, but he starred once again as the Brewers captured the biggest prize of the day.

“I know how hard it is to get to this point and I’m proud to be a part of this group,” Yelich said as Milwaukee’s boozy party swirled around him, filling every inch of the cramped visitors’ clubhouse at Wrigley Field.

Lorenzo Cain hit a go-ahead single in the eighth inning to help Milwaukee to its eighth straight win and home-field advantage throughout the NL playoffs. The Brewers will host the wild-card winner — Colorado or the Cubs — starting Thursday in the best-offive Division Series. Chicago stayed at Wrigley for Tuesday night’s wild-card game against the Rockies, who lost in a second tiebreaker to the Los Angeles Dodgers for the NL West title Monday.

Yelich singled home Milwaukee’s first run and won the NL batting title with a .326 average. He had 110 RBIs, one behind the Cubs’ Javier Baez, and finished with 36 home runs — Colorado’s Nolan Arenado homered in the Rockies’ loss later Monday to finish with 38.

The Brewers’ Corey Knebel (4-3) extended his scoreless streak to 16⅓ innings with a perfect seventh, and Josh Hader worked two innings for his 12th save.

Dodgers 5, Rockies 2: Rookie Walker Buehler tossed one-hit ball into the seventh inning, Cody Bellinger and Max Muncy launched two-run homers, and Los Angeles beat visiting Colorado in a tiebreaker to earn its record sixth consecutive NL West title. The defending NL champion Dodgers became the first major league team to win six straight division crowns since the Yankees captured nine AL East titles in a row from 1998-2006. Los Angeles now hosts Atlanta in the best-of-five NL Division Series beginning Thursday.

Buehler (8-5) had his no-hit bid broken up in the sixth by Charlie Blackmon’s single, one of his two hits for the Rockies. Buehler even helped himself offensively, hitting a single in the sixth for his first professional RBI and extending the Dodgers’ lead to 5-0.