Milwaukee Brewers know what’s ahead of them. They need to keep winning baseball games and tune out the noise around them. They cannot pay attention to what the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals are doing regularly. It helps when your game happens before the two teams get going for a critical series at Wrigley Field. San Diego Padres showed why they’re a bad team yesterday. They gifted the Milwaukee Brewers two runs, and Milwaukee added three of their own in a 5-1 victory. Brewers win their third four-game series in September. Brew Crew went 10-2 in three four-game series this month.

Player of the Game: Trent Grisham – You could maybe call this ‘Brewers center fielders’ considering Lorenzo Cain popped another home run, but Grisham gets the honor for his big two-out double in the sixth inning. He gave the Brewers some breathing room in the latter part of this game. The pitching staff didn’t exactly need it considering how they were mowing through the order, yet, it is never a bad thing to have insurance runs. As my guy, KFC from Barstool Sports says ‘Insurance runs are better than sex.’

Honorable Mention: Brewers pitching staff – This staff has been fucking fantastic in the last few weeks. I hope people are giving them the credit they deserve because they’re worth it. Last night, the Brewers struck out 16 Padres batters in nine innings. Jordan Lyles led the way with nine in almost five innings. Then you had Freddy Peralta, Drew Pomeranz, Ray Black, and Josh Hader all record strikeouts as well. Pomeranz struck out two more batters as he continues to be a goddamn machine.

The Thing I Liked: Got Grandal a full day off- Yasmani Grandal caught the last 13 games for the Milwaukee Brewers. It is important that Craig Counsell gave him a full day off on Thursday. He did not pinch-hit nor come in defensively late in the game. Brewers used Manny Pina at catcher who returned from his concussion, and Tyler Austin then Eric Thames at first base. Grandal needed a full day of rest to gear up for the remaining stretch run. You would hate to see him go cold at the wrong time.

Next up: Brewers stay home for their final homestand of the year against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Brewers will send Chase Anderson to the mound. Chase has not made it to the fifth inning since August 24th, so, we’ll see if he can do that versus the Pirates. He’s 3-1 against Pittsburgh this season. Pirates send Steven Brault to the hill. He’s been dominant against the Brewers this season. The wheels look to be falling off for him in his last two starts. Pirates are 6-11 for September and 22 games under .500 in the second half.

Charlie.