Milwaukee Brewers are red hot. The Pittsburgh Pirates are not. Pirates are in a bad spot, and Milwaukee dominated them throughout the weekend. This is par for the course this season when it comes to Brewers-Pirates. Milwaukee won 15 of the 19 games against Pittsburgh this season. That’s pure domination. Brewers have done in the past against the Pirates, and they took advantage of Pittsburgh’s deficiencies all season including this weekend. Brewers were able to sweep the Pirates leading to being three games up on the Chicago Cubs in the Wild Card and taking over the top Wild Card position.

Friday: Milwaukee 10 Pittsburgh 1 – Brewers started the party early in this game with three runs in the first inning. They held that lead throughout the game. Brewers added to it with three more runs in the sixth inning with Trent Grisham breaking it open late in the game. Chase Anderson pitched well in this game. Another thing good to see in this game was Corbin Burnes finish this game for the Brewers with a perfect ninth inning. Milwaukee took advantage of Pittsburgh’s mistakes all-game long.

Saturday: Milwaukee 10 Pittsburgh 1 – There cannot be a more kick in the dick feeling than getting beat by nine runs in back-to-back games. Pirates took an early lead in this one with a 1-0 advantage in the first inning but after that, it was all Brewers. Keston Hiura hit a two-run home run and it was all gravy from there. Brent Suter continued his great pitching in the month of September with two innings, one hit allowed and one strikeout. He received the win in this one.

Sunday: Milwaukee 4 Pittsburgh 3 – While the Brewers did not win in the same fashion they did the first two nights, they won again on Sunday. Milwaukee carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning against Pittsburgh before the wheels came off for a quick second. Josh Hader shut the door in the final four batters. Brandon Woodruff is slowly getting back to form. I’m not sure if he’s your Wild Card starter, but he could contribute in that game if need be. Eric Thames went deep twice in this one providing a majority of the offense. Thames has been special this season for the Crew.

Next up: Brewers get a day off, their first in 18 days, on Monday before heading to Cincinnati. This hasn’t been a place of happy memories this season. Reds will look to play spoiler as they did with the Cubs last week. They have a good pitching staff, and they’ll have two of their big guns pitching this week with Sonny Gray and Luis Castillo on the mound.

Charlie.