In four of the last five series, the Milwaukee Brewers lost their opening game of the series. One of the things the Brewers were so good at last year was winning the first game of a series and not playing from behind all week or weekend. That hasn’t been the case in the month of June. Milwaukee lost their openers against Miami, Houston, San Francisco and now San Diego. In three of those four games, the Brewers offense didn’t really show up. They’ve been shutout twice and in the Houston loss, the eight runs are a bit misleading considering Yasmani Grandal belted a homer in the ninth inning. Brewers need to be more prepared to play in the first game of series.

Player of the Game: Joey Luchessi – I made a comment on the podcast that he sounds like a character from a mob movie with that name, and I mean it. But Joey meatballs delivered the noise in this game. He went seven innings, struck out five batters and only allowed three hits without a run scored on him. Brewers had zero answers for Luchessi throughout the game. Craig Counsell said after the game that Luchessi’s arm motion played a part in the potential struggle for Brewers’ hitters.

Honorable Mention: Freddy Peralta – Even though the Brewers offense didn’t cook, the pitching staff did enough to keep the Brewers in the game. One of the reasons was Freddy Peralta who pitched a strong 2 1/3 innings of shutout baseball. He allowed one hit and struck out two batters in his two-plus innings of work last night. If fastball Freddy can become a long man/spot starter for the Brewers, that would be a great thing to have for this team down the stretch run.

The Thing I didn’t like: Chacin did not give you any encouragement – Some may call bullshit, but Chacin seemed to get a few weeks off to reset himself. We call it the Suppan DL stint. It did not appear to work for him in his first game back. Chacin did not make it out of the fifth inning and had trouble locating his pitches walking three batters. I’m unsure how long Chacin’s rope is this season, but I cannot imagine it’s a long one at this point.

The Highlight of the Night: Ryan Braun with an awkward home run robbery.

RYAN BRAUN SAYS NOT TODAY#ThisIsMyCrew pic.twitter.com/WYv9kyYZHH

— FOX Sports Wisconsin (@fswisconsin) June 18, 2019

Next up: Brewers and Padres will get going for the second game of their series. Logan Allen gets called up from the minors to make his major league debut versus Milwaukee. Usually, those do not go well for the Crew. Brandon Woodruff gets the ball for the Brewers as he looks for his ninth win of the year. Woody has been dominant for the Crew this season.

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