Ryan Braun Makes Biggest Brewers Mistake of the Year
For those who have been around for a while, this blog is a Ryan Braun fanboy station. If that bothers you, there is the door. It should not, but people are still hung up like Braun is their ex who fucked their best friend. That said, I cannot defend what he did last night in the Brewers’ second straight loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. In the sixth inning with the game tied at two, Dexter Fowler hit a Texas Leaguer to left. With Braun playing no doubles, he had to sprint in leading to Hernan Perez and Orlando Arica running out there. Brewers left fielder pulled up for some reason leading to mass confusion and the ball fell. St. Louis scored three runs and changed the entire game.
— VHS (@VanHicklestein) August 21, 2019
Look, I don’t want to say Braun pulled a ‘Roger Dorn’ but he did. Braun did not want to collide with the two guys and made a business decision. He should have called Perez and Arica off in the first place though. No reason for them to be close to the ball. If the former MVP yells “I GOT IT, BACK OFF” or the other side of that, it needs to happen there. If that ball gets caught, the game is tied at two heading to the seventh. Who knows what happens the rest of the way. Instead, Brewers’ bullpen crumbled like a house of cards.
Charlie.