Also need a lot of runs because he isn’t going to have a lot of bullpen help behind him. Maybe someone can “accidentally” cut a power line tomorrow so they can play 2 7 inning games on Saturday and avoid the bullpen altogether. Sometimes we forget that the other team has a bullpen as well, and these days it's almost always worse than ours. Even if teams have bullpens that are worse than the Brewers, they also have offenses that are significantly better than the Brewers, and the result is that the Brewers have given up significantly more runs after the 7th inning than they have scored. In the 8th and 9th innings they have been outscored 46-32, with the 8th inning at 33-15 being the real culprit. With strong starters and a strong closer, I like the Brewers chances in 7 inning games. It’s that bridge from the 6th to the 9th that concerns me.