There was a reasonable amount of concern heading into this week’s Brewers series against San Francisco. Even though the Giants have one of the worst records in baseball, it appeared Milwaukee could have their hands full considering the Giants’ ballpark is not conductive to what they want to do on a baseball field. AT&T Park yields the least amount of home runs in all of baseball, and while the Brewers didn’t hit one yesterday, they found a way to pull a win out of that ballpark in a bounce back from Monday.

It’s still crazy this morning that Eric Thames had a 431 foot triple. Yes, a triple. Thames hit an absolute rocket to right-center where it’s called triple alley, and he missed a home run by inches. In literally any other stadium, that’s a home run. Travis Shaw skyed one that looked home run worthy only to have the ballpark keep it in the park. Shaw got his redemption in the 7th with an RBI double to put Milwaukee ahead.

Jimmy Nelson struggled the last two times out, and he recovered slightly on Tuesday. Nelson had some great movement and ended up striking out six. Although, he could only go five innings and did surrender the lead by noted Brewers killer Brandon Crawford who hit a two-run dong in the fifth. Nelson looks like he regressed slightly, but the strikeout pitches are still working for him. It could be just a rough stretch of teams for Nelson’s strengths – Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and San Francisco all do not strikeout much. While Nelson scuffled at times, the Brewers received a major lift from their bullpen who was strong again last night.

Brewers wrap up this series this afternoon with Matt Garza heading to the hill to face Matt Moore. Gas Can central in a bad ballpark. Moore has been quite good at home on a few different occasions. We know Garza’s struggles, and this could be a big game for him considering there’s some thought of him losing his place in the rotation come September.

Charlie.