(Sports Network) - The last time the Rockies were on a winning streak this long, its momentum carried them into the World Series. Colorado, winners of seven straight, wrap a three-game set with the Milwaukee Brewers this afternoon at Miller Park.

Colorado is on its longest winning streak since an 11-game run from September 16-27, 2007, part of a stretch that saw the club win 14 of its final 15 regular-season games that year, including a one-game playoff win to nail down the wild card. The Rockies carried that hot stretch into the playoffs and reached the World Series for the first time in club history, but got swept by Boston.

This current run has pushed the Rockies to within one-game of third-place San Diego. Colorado trails division leader Los Angeles by 12 games and is five back of the wild card spot.

Brad Hawpe has been key for Colorado on this run. The slugger is hitting .354 (17-for-48) over a career-high 12-game hitting streak and hit his third home run of the stretch in Wednesday's 4-2 victory over Milwaukee. Hawpe also doubled home a run and has nine RBI over his hit streak.

"The past six games, I've been feeling good on the fastball," Hawpe told Colorado's Web site. "All our position players and pitchers, everyone's come together on the road, which is historically a tough play for the Rockies to play."

Colorado, which got six innings of two-run ball from Jorge De La Rosa, lost the first three games of an 11-game road trip before its winning run, and ends that swing today. The Rockies are now 18-18 as the guest this year.

Hawpe has one hit in four career at-bats versus today's starter for the Brewers, Yovani Gallardo, but that hit was a home run.

Gallardo has allowed just one earned run over his last three starts, going 2-0 in that span. His latest victory came on Friday versus the Braves after he hurled eight shutout innings and allowed two hits and four walks while striking out six.

The 23-year-old righty is an impressive 6-2 on the season with a 2.84 earned run average, but has only faced the Rockies twice in his career and was hammered for 11 runs and 12 hits in just 2 2/3 innings against them on August 8, 2007.

That might mean the Brewers will need to score more than the four runs they have plated over the first two games of this set. Prince Fielder had two doubles and an RBI yesterday, while Ryan Braun knocked home the other run.

"We didn't have much offense. I'll have to give some guys a day off [Thursday]. We'll put some other guys in there to see if we can get going," Brewers head coach Ken Macha said.

The Rockies start Aaron Cook, who has sandwiched two great starts around a pair of losses. He beat the Braves on May 21 with a four-hit shutout, then allowed nine runs (8 earned) in back-to-back losses to the Dodgers and Astros. Cook got back in the win column on Saturday in St. Louis, holding the club to a run and four hits over eight innings, improving to 4-3 with a 4.50 ERA on the year.

The right-handed Cook is 4-2 with a 3.55 ERA in eight games (7 starts) in his career versus the Brewers.

Colorado won four of seven 2008 encounters against the Brewers, with the teams splitting a four-game series at Miller Park last July.