Milwaukee Brewers could call the Reds their daddy this season. Cincinnati is one of the more average to below-average teams in baseball. They’re one of the more promising teams, and next year should be their year. But right now, they own the Milwaukee Brewers. Reds have won five straight games against Milwaukee after last night’s complete debacle. Brewers were down 4-0 through the first five batters of the Reds, and it did not get better from there. Brewers trailed by nine runs after 4.5 innings. They ended up losing 14-6 in one of their worst losses of the year. Brewers go from an encouraging week to a truly depressing two games.

Player of the Game: Phillip Ervin – You can give the player of the game to a variety of people in this game. I mean the Reds had 14 fucking runs. But the player that delivered the overall death blow to the Brewers was Phillip Ervin. The fourth outfielder for Cincinnati had a bases-clearing triple in the fifth inning to put Cincinnati up 8-0. That was a brutal inning in general as Tyler Saladino had an error that allowed a runner to stay on plus they gave up an infield single before Ervin hit the tiple.

The Thing I Didn’t Like: Brewers cannot seem to string a winning streak together – Part of me is wondering what the ceiling is for this Brewers team. They clearly play down to the level of their competition. Why that happens in sports, I’m unsure. I don’t get the sports psychology behind it, but it happens often. St. Louis Cardinals have actually figured it out in the second half. They’ve won nine of their last eleven and hovering around first place plus taken over the Wild Card position from Milwaukee.

What’s on my mind: Maybe, I need to reset expectations – I want to believe in this team so fucking bad. So bad. But every time that I get an ounce of hope, they shit on the doorstep. If they got blown out last night, but they won Monday, I’m not in a reactive state about this game. But I’m not sure how we can look at this and think this is a good ball team. I’m not sure if the right idea is to buy or sell at this point. The Chicago Cubs series will be a barometer of that, but the Cubs might not even be in first place.

Next up: Brewers will try to avoid the sweep with Jhoulys Chacin on the mound…. Yes! Chacin has been the worst starter on the team for a couple of months, and now Milwaukee is hopeful he can end the streak of losing to Cincinnati. I don’t feel great about that one. Reds send Lucas Sims to the mound. He is making his first start of his career, so, he’ll probably be excellent.

Charlie.