Every Milwaukee Brewers fan thought the same thing this afternoon…. ‘Don’t be a Cincinnati’, ‘Don’t be a Cincinnati.’ We documented this morning about how Milwaukee went 2-4 against two of the worst teams in the league in the past month. And how Milwaukee has been a psycho when it comes to series where they overperform against top competition and fall apart against less competition. Tonight, it stayed the same. Brewers suffer quite the letdown with a 7-0 loss to an absolute gas can who had the game of his life.

Steven Brault dominated the Brewers
Letdown life means you get to write sentences like this one. I thought for sure things might be different with Brault on the hill. He’s been horrible with a near six ERA and missed all of the bats. Apparently, Milwaukee forgot about Saturday where they produced run after run by not hitting a home run. Brewers took so many big swings in this game looking for the long ball. I have zero problem with going for the big fly, but holy shit, you have to realize at some point that things aren’t working.

Brandon Woodruff sees his first real struggle
We haven’t seen a rough outing from the Brewers rookie until tonight. Woodruff struggled mightily out there with Andrew McCutchen and Starling Marte. But the worst part of the whole thing was fucking Brault hit a double before the Marte dong then Craig Counsell walked Jordy Mercer to put the pitcher up who go a 2 RBI single to push out the lead.

Tomorrow is a massive game
I can understand a letdown on Monday night, even though it shouldn’t happen, can in fact happen. But tomorrow is crucial for Milwaukee. They cannot lose another series to a piss poor team. Brent Suter has a tough task with a Pirates team who loves lefties. It’s not going to be easy with Gerrit Cole on the hill for Pittsburgh. Brewers really needed this one today.

Let’s be better tomorrow.

Charlie.