Brewce

I never expected them to do more than win the division and am not even convinced that they will do that. They just did not get enough offense in the offseason or at the deadline. What is so frustrating is they had their challenges offensively last year and they did nothing of substance to correct it.

And that's why you can't give up extra outs.

Reds lost and Cubs are losing. Let's do this!!!

Yelich can't lay off the slider out of the zone. Why do they even throw him anything else???

I was at the game tonight. I couldn't believe the lineup when I saw it. Counsell is getting lots of blame. I can see both sides of that. His lineup wasn't good. I mean someone under 200 batting cleanup??? Keeping your hottest hitter out of the lineup??? I have been a season seat holder in the past. I think 14 of the last 15 years I had some sort of season seat holder package. I didn't get one this year because I didn't think the Brewers did enough in the off season (and this is not on Counsell). They struggled to score last year and how did they fix it? Not by signing a big bat but rather by signing a couple of over the hill guys and hoping they could get the magic back. The most frustrating thing about all of this is we have one of the best pitching staffs in all of baseball and we are wasting it because we can't hit when we need a basehit. Counsell doesn't do the hitting but he can put people in the lineup who are our best hitters. What I predicted at the beginning of the year was going to happen is indeed happening. The Brewers are going to be enough in the race to keep it close and keep people interested but they will falter down the stretch because of an overused bullpen and an anemic offense. What a waste of a manager who could do wonderful things if ownership would pay for one or two better than mediocre hitters. Other than two games - 14-1 and 12-1 the offense has made very few games easy for the pitching staff. The mark of a good team is that sometimes the pitching carries it, sometimes the defense carries it, and sometimes the offense carries it. Other than the two games I referenced above, when has the offense carried this team? I'm frustrated but I shouldn't be because I saw it coming and I did not have high expectations.

Because they always play to the level of their competition or in some cases below it.

Another terrible AB by Adames.

It wouldn't be so bad if they were fastballs in the strike zone.

I have never complained about other people in the clean up spot on this board but it is ridiculous to have someone under 200 with one homerun as your clean-up hitter!!!