A few weeks ago, I had dinner with my parents. My dad is a diehard Brewers fan. He watches almost every game. At that point, they were really struggling. I expressed some frustration and mentioned to him that ‘They better figure this out because if the Milwaukee Bucks get hot in the playoffs, no one will care about the Brewers.’ He responded with an amazing spin zone as diehards do from time to time, “Maybe that’s the best thing for them, they can fly under the radar and be there for people after the NBA is over.” It turns out that older guys know best. Milwaukee Brewers are red hot. They’ve won 16 of their last 20 games.

In the last 10, they’ve won nine games, and this week, they’re 5-1 against rivals Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. They’re the third-best team in the National League at this point and doing it with pitching + more offense. The big hit in this one was Avasail Garcia going yard in the sixth inning to put Milwaukee up 4-2.

ℕ𝕆 𝔻𝕆𝕌𝔹𝕋 💥

Avi gives us the lead with an opposite field jack! #AllStarAvi | #ThisIsMyCrew pic.twitter.com/C2xKqclqeC

— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) June 13, 2021

Here’s the thing that happened twice in this series against Pittsburgh. They got down at some point. On Saturday, it was much worse being down 4-0 in the first two innings. That said, I still felt like Milwaukee was going to win this game. Then on Sunday, Pittsburgh went up 2-1 and looked like for the first time in a while, the Brewers’ offense did not have it. Now, Christian Yelich had the day off, so, maybe that played a part of it. But they got hot in the sixth inning and drove in four runs to take the lead. They added one more and won 5-2.

The Brewers will meet the Cincinnati Reds again at American Family Field starting tonight. Eric Lauer gets the ball for the Brewers. Lauer struggled in his last start but was good against Cincinnati in the four innings of relief. We’ll see if the Brewers can figure out Vladimir Gutierrez the second time around.

Charlie.