Mike Moustakas celebrated his 31st birthday yesterday. I’ll ignore the fact that Moustakas is younger than me by nearly a month because frankly, he looks older than me but maybe, I’m a geezer. Regardless, he did much cooler things on his birthday than I did. Moustakas returned to the lineup and belted two home runs including the game-winning shot to right-field in the ninth inning. I wondered to Twitter why Jose ‘Gas Can’ Urena was the closer, and I soon found out why I wondered such things.

As @Jared_Carrabis would say, this is a piss missile. pic.twitter.com/aXC4QLuKsR

— Charlie (@SnoTapWI) September 12, 2019

Moose coming through in the clutch is why he is here. Even though he doesn’t have a high batting average, Moustakas had six postseason home runs and 18 runs driven in over nine playoff series. The guy likes the big moment. We’ve seen it a couple of times this season, and he showed it once again tonight with his big blast to right-center. Moustakas is now at 33 home runs for the season, and he is inching closer to his all-time high of 38 which seems in reach for the final 17 games of the year. Brewers need this version of Moose, and hopefully, they get it for the remainder of the year.

Charlie.