Author: Corey Kempf

Maybe in other years, playing an opponent with the worst record in the league would be welcomed by a struggling team. In the case of this year’s Brewers, facing the Pirates hasn’t been a blessing. It took a 6-5 victory in Monday’s series finale for the Brewers just to even the season series. The Pirates have been a thorn in the Crew’s side all season, even sweeping the Brewers in Pittsburgh just last week. Of the Bucs’ 10 wins, five of them have come against Milwaukee. But the Brewers’ bats woke up just enough to get the last laugh. The…

The Milwaukee Brewers split their series with the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday, dropping a doubleheader on Thursday that was necessitated by a historic boycott of Wednesday’s game. The Brewers took the first two games of the series behind solid pitching outings from Brett Anderson and Brandon Woodruff. But after the Bucks boycotted their first round playoff game on Wednesday following civil unrest in nearby Kenosha, the Brewers and Reds agreed not to play the third game of the series. The protests by the teams sparked similar walk-outs around both leagues in an effort to combat social injustice. The postponement led…

The Brewers finally gave a glimpse at the full potential of the offense on Sunday, as the team put a season-high nine runs on the board against the Reds. They’ll likely need that to continue as they face the powerful Twins this week. The biggest news from the weekend series was Christian Yelich, who appears to be busting out of his early season slump. Yelich smacked two homers against the Reds and went 2-for-3 with 3 RBIs in Sunday’s finale. His performance on Sunday alone raised his OPS from .576 to .754. It was a great sign for the Brewers’…

The Brewers coughed up leads in both games of the Milwaukee portion of the home-and-home series against the White Sox. They didn’t let it happen again in Chicago. With the offense still struggling to score runs, the pitching staff took care of business in the opener behind Adrian Houser’s gem. The following night, the Brewers’ bats finally busted out, tying a season-high eight runs to back a solid outing by Josh Lindblom. The pair of victories raised the Brewers’ season record back to .500 at 5-5 as they sit alone in second place in the NL Central. They are 3.5…

In any other year, the baseball season would be beyond the midseason mark. This year, however, the calendar may say August, but the season is just getting started, and there’s only one Brewers’ position player who looks in midseason form. His name is Ben Gamel. In an offense that has sputtered out of the gate, it might be easy to pick Gamel out amongst the crowd. But Gamel hasn’t just outpaced his teammates, he’s performing above anything we’ve seen from him up to this point in his career. And it couldn’t have come at a better time for he and…

It may have been against a less formidable opponent, but the result was much better, as the Brewers got their first series victory of the season. After a rough opening series against the Cubs, the Brewers put a few more runs on the board to take two of three over the Pirates. In sharp contrast to that opening series, the Brewers put a lot of runners on base via walk. Brewer batters took 20 bases on balls as opposed to just seven versus the Cubs. Eric Sogard and Avisail Garcia led the way with five free passes each. The two…

We got baseball back this past weekend, but the game could be facing larger issues. It took all of just one weekend. An already shortened 2020 season came under threat Monday when reports surfaced that a coronavirus outbreak had spread through the Marlins clubhouse. Following the news, the Marlins immediately postponed their series opener against the Orioles. The Phillies, who hosted the Marlins on opening weekend, did the same with their game against the Yankees. Nonetheless, a league-wide conference call to address the outbreak Monday morning yielded apparently no plans to cancel the season. Hence, the remaining 24 teams will…