Health & Fitness
Rough Hour of Baseball (for this Brewers Fan)
A brutal baseball stretch hits an apex over an hour's time.
The Milwaukee Brewers walked off the field around 10 p.m. after showing a little life at the end of an otherwise meek loss to what appears to be a far superior team. Anyone checking the out of town scoreboard had to have had some sense of hope.
The Cardinals were down late in Atlanta. Arizona was trailing late against San Diego.
Atlanta may be better late than the Brewers with the only reason their closer Craig Kimbrel isnt approaching K-Rod's record is because their offense is better than ours.
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San Diego has Heath Bell, the closer that everyone but Milwaukee and Atlanta wanted at the trade deadline.
Then I switched to the MLB Network and watched the Cardinals rally to win in extra innings...right on the heels of my article about them not winning extra inning games.
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On my laptop was the Arizona game, no sound so I'm still not sure who got the hit but Arizona was taking the lead. I took the dog outside and by the time I got back the game was over.
Arizona is going to pass us this weekend and St. Louis is now back within seven.
Not a fun hour for this Brewer fan.
The good news is that slumps and streaks (good or ill) are a way of life in baseball. If you watched Wednesday's and Thursday's games you know the Brewers hit the ball hard and the itchers kept the team in the game. Last month everything went the Brewer way.
All of a sudden T-Plush is T-Hush. Fielder is no Pujols. Roenicke is too inexperienced. The pitching staff has no "big game" experience. Weeks is active but couldn't pinch hit in the 9th tonight? Carlos Gomez shaved his head and now takes bad angles?
RELAX!!!!
You want this to happen right now. Lull them into that false sense of security, steal one Saturday or Sunday and get on to the end of the schedule which could only be easier if all the games were against Houston.
A little humble pie was probably in order.
The coaching staff and leaders of the team will use this time to refocus everyone and I'd much rather see Prince and Braun flail away this month than next month.
St. Louis gets four IN Philly and two more with the Braves who suddenly don't have such a tight grip on the wildcard.
Go get some sleep and keep wtih them through this stretch and you will be rewarded in the coming weeks.
