Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers played another classic in their recent rivalry on Friday night at Miller Park. Josh Hader came in the bottom of the 7th inning with two outs and the bases loaded to face Cody Bellinger. Other than Christian Yelich, Bellinger has been an MVP candidate to start the season off. Hader stares down the belly of the beast and struck him out in a dramatic, October-feeling at-bat. Hader didn’t get the last pitch he needed in the 8th inning though. Enrique Hernandez lashed a two-strike pitch over the left field wall for a three-run homer. Brewers fell 5-3 and lost their third straight game for the second time this month. When Hader gets a batter to 0-2, the batter was .043 until Hernandez did him dirty. This is the first gutting loss of the year for the Crew.

Player of the Game: Enrique Hernandez – Hard to think of another player of the game. Hernandez had the big hit of the game that broke a 2-2 tie. This game was fantastic, and the Dodgers utility player did the damn thing. He is everything that I wish Hernan Perez was and wish he played for the Brewers. Sadly, he is a member of the Dodgers. What a bomb by him.

Honorable Mention: Christian Yelich – No Brewers player really had a good game per say but we will honor Yeli. He tied Eric Thames’ home run record for the month of April with eleven days left in the month. The guy is incredible. I was at the game last night, and the buzz around when Yelich steps up to the plate is fucking awesome. When he came up in the 7th inning with runners on facing Pedro Baez, people expected greatness. Now, he flew out to center, but the reaction of the crowd thought the ball left the park. That’s the Yelich effect.

Thing I liked: Chacin had a nice bounceback – I liked the comment from JaymesL last night on Twitter, ‘Two runs allowed in five inning pitched versus the Dodgers should be a quality start.’ After Chacin got rocked by this same Dodgers team on Sunday afternoon, he did well against them on Friday night. It is encouraging to see that from him and hope this is the start of a good stretch.

Thing I didn’t like: Brewers did not manufacture any sort of action at all – Yelich’s homer was cool. Same with Eric Thames’ eighth inning blast. But the Brewers need to do more on the basepath. They only had two runners in scoring position all game. They scored a combined six runs in the last three games. That’s not going to get it done when your pitching has been as bad as it’s been this month.

Highlight of the night: Yes, Hader gave up a homer but the Bellinger strikeout was fucking cool.

Bases loaded. 2 out. Tie game.

Hader vs. Bellinger.

This alone is worth the price of admission. #ThisIsMyCrew pic.twitter.com/j4xbhIfUOz

— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) April 20, 2019

Next up: Man, the Brewers needed this one. Why? The next two games will be even tougher. Chase Anderson gets the ball for the Brewers on Saturday night. Anderson gave up more homers than anyone else in baseball last season. He is facing a homer-happy Dodgers team. This could be fucking ugly. Hyun-Jin Ryu is a damn good lefty. He has been much worse on the road in his career, but Ryu barely faced anyone on the Brewers. Yelich and Ryan Braun both have homers against him though in a very small sample size.

Charlie.