The Milwaukee Brewers are now 17-19 after a two game series with the Detroit Tigers. It ends a 10 game home stand for Milwaukee.
Tigers 12, Brewers 1
There isn’t much positive to take from Tuesday’s game with Detroit. It was ugly all the way around. The Brewers struck out 14 times, and becoming a major problem for the offense.
Ryan Braun is still struggling with a bad back and Jedd Gyorko was put on the bereavement list, so Milwaukee is down another two solid bats.
It was also another night of the Brewers leaving dozens of runners in scoring positions stranded. It’s hard to watch this team barely ever come through with a clutch hit.
Christian Yelich hit a solo home run, but also had several ugly at-bats.
Pitching did not impress at all, giving up 12 runs on 14 hits. Josh Lindblom only went five innings after 100 pitches. He only gave up four of the 12 runs allowed, but it was not his best outing of the year.
With several days off coming up, there is a possibility Lindblom will not get a start for some time. Is he moved to the bullpen?
The Tigers made their hits count and ended with a victory and their winning streak at six. Sadly, JaCoby Jones was hit in the hand during Phil Bickford’s debut for the Crew, which left him with a fractured left hand. It’s never good to see stuff like that happen to a player.
Brewers 8, Tigers 5
Adrian Houser took the mound for the Brewers in game two. It didn’t start great. Houser gave up three runs in the first inning and another run in the third.
The Brewers were able to bounce back. Keston Hiura hit a three run home run in the third to bring the Brewers within a run.
Harold Castro got his second RBI of the night in the fifth to make the game 5-3 Tigers.
Omar Narvaez came up huge in the fifth inning for the Crew. After Christian Yelich, Justin Smoak and Avisail Garcia got on base after drawing walks, Narvaez hit a two run single to tie the game at five.
After the 5th innings, the Brewers by all means should have had at least 12 runs. Detroit gave up ten walks and two hit batters. Milwaukee once again had multiple innings with bases loaded and did not capitalize like they should have.
Eric Sogard did thankfully hit sacrifice fly in the seventh to put Milwaukee ahead 6-5.
Rising bullpen star Devin Williams pitched a perfect eighth inning for the Brewers.
Christian Yelich was walked in the eighth inning, which was his fourth of the night. He also had two stolen bases.
What happened after that? Jace Peterson hit a no-doubter home run to give the Brewers an 8-5 lead.
Josh Hader closed the door in the 9th inning and gets his ninth save of the season. The Brewers come back down 3-0 and pull off a 8-5 win.
They get Thursday off and head to Cleveland for a three game series against the Indians.
Series Take Aways
Starting pitching needs to improve. Milwaukee needs their starters to stop giving up early leads and go deep into games.
This offense is not consistent. We have been saying it since week one of the season, and at some point, consistent is going to change to bad. They did score eight runs on Wednesday night, but also benefited from walks, getting hit by pitches and a Detroit bullpen that did not perform well.
There is still time. The Brewers still have 24 chances to make the playoffs.
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