Milwaukee Brewers do not have many devastating losses. It is not like the Green Bay Packers. We could pull so many Packers losses out of our hat as a Wisconsin sports fan. When you look at Brewers’ history, there is not much. Maybe, that’s why things hurt so much today. Brewers fans haven’t exactly been here. Sure, it is just a Wild Card game, and Milwaukee might have got shitpumped by Los Angeles later this week, but man, it is brutal. Because you do not have to, I went through recent Brewers history to find if this the worst Brewers loss.

2007: Cubs 6 Brewers 5 – Brewers had a six-game lead in the division with their young, promising team. Chicago Cubs were trailing the Brewers at the time, and Milwaukee went to Wrigley in late June. Brewers jumped out to a 5-0 lead that day. Cubs kept battling back and Francisco Cordero gave up a walk-off home run to Aramis Ramirez. Brewers went on for a 9-18 in August then the Cubs went on to win the division.

One thing to note here is Brewers didn’t have a bad loss in 2008 or 2011 playoffs. When Milwaukee lost games in those playoffs, they lost badly and early in the game. Looking at Baseball-Reference for those games, there were many random names involved in those games.

2014: Pirates 4 Brewers 2 – Milwaukee started very hot this season then lost nine straight games in late August, early September. They recovered with a chance to make some noise versus Pittsburgh who they were battling for a playoff spot. Yovani Gallardo struck out 11 batters through seven scoreless only to have Jonathan Broxton give up four runs. It was over from there. Broxton was the fucking worst.

2018: Dodgers 4 Brewers 3- Milwaukee had a chance to go up 2-0 in the NLCS where they were up 4-0 headed to the dominant bullpen. Jeremy Jeffress walked in a run then the next inning gave up a two-run homer to Justin Turner. People don’t talk about this when it comes to last season, but if you look back on that one, it’s brutal.

2018: Dodgers 2 Brewers 1 in 13 innings – Brewers could have been up 3-1 in the series with a chance to close out the NL Pennant at home. In one of the more intense games of Brewers history, Milwaukee could not deliver a bit him. Brewers did have no business winning this game. The only thing they had in that one was a leadoff double in the seventh. People forget that Junior Guerra had a wild pitch led to Manny Machado get to second base which he scored on Cody Bellinger single.

2019: Nationals 4 Brewers 3 – We all know the story here. Here’s the recap from the game. And I did a depressing podcast where I enjoyed a whiskey whilst taping.

Stay strong, Brewers fans.

Charlie.