Let the Patheticness Continue
So here we are, after four games against the dregs of the NL, and the Brewers have one lousy win to show for it. Tonight’s loss is just as egregious as the one I posted about last week. The Brewers wasted the best pitching effort out of Chris Capuano since April. Two men on, two out in the 9th. two men on one out in the 10th, and the bases loaded with nobody out in the 11th, and not a single damn run produced. I can take the 9th and 10th, when they had faced an equally stellar pitching performance by Aaron Harangl but the way they went scoreless in the 11th was truly awful. After their three star infielders did what they had to do (Hardy reached on a bad error by the Reds shortstop Pedro Lopez, Braun singled again, and Fielder singled), Johnny Estrada in finishing out his amazing 0-5 night, grounded into a 3-2-3 double play. What was especially troubling about the play was that he didn’t even run hard out of the box, thereby making his already slow ass even easier to throw out. If I am Ned Yost, I bench him for a week. It’s not like we would be missing anything useful anyway. Damien Miller has been an adequate replacement for Estrada. To top it all off, the Brewers are carrying an unusually robust number of pitchers (13) and they still manage to give the ball to this Balfour guy. His ERA is now a lofty 20.25, which is almost as difficult to achieve as a sub-2.00 mark. If the Brewers are to survive the regular season, they absolutely must beat teams like the Reds, especially when they get a pitching performance from their starting pitcher as they did tonight. Losses like this are simply unacceptable. Enough said.