The worst thing to happen to Milwaukee Brewers was the All-Star Break. The second half start isn’t a nightmare per say, but it’s getting ghoulish with losing five straight games tying a season-high. This included a four-game sweep by the hands of division rival and new enemy, Pittsburgh Pirates. People are losing their shit because they feel it’s the beginning of the end with Chicago Cubs surging with six straight wins plus Pirates being the hottest team in baseball. So are these two weeks do or die or can they maintain in choppy waters?

These next two weeks feature the weak Phillies team this weekend who Milwaukee had great success against last week and in the past few years going 11-3 in their last 14 games. After that, it gets real with Washington Nationals, Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals. That’s not an easy stretch for Brewers. Thankfully for Milwaukee, they’ll only see Max Schrezer and not the Schrezer-Stephen Strasburg combination next week.

Philadelphia can either cure this team a little bit or completely wreck them. Brewers haven’t scored more than three runs since last Friday against this Phillies team. They need to better in clutch hitting situations going 5-for-37 with runners in scoring position this week. Brewers were so good at certain points of this season with the big inning. This type of thing needs to start happening again. Milwaukee will benefit from having a small ballpark this week, but home runs are not everything.

A part of me thinks Brewers are going to make a move this weekend. This happened before with the team where things are looking down, and suddenly, they make a trade to quote ‘go all in.’ Could it be Sonny Gray? Ken Rosenthal spoke last night to there being a ton of noise around it. He doesn’t pitch this weekend, and it could be the time to strike before a huge week for the team. I would not be surprised if a move was made given Mark A’s track record.

Charlie.