Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman discuss how sleepy the Milwaukee Brewers’ offense has been and question if they can pull off a game-5 win. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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The Chicago Cubs absolutely took it to the brew crew.
Here on Thursday evening at Wrigley Field, the Brewers’ offense was simply asleep.
If you were a brew crew doubter or hater, whatever, I know Lance Brozdowski’s sleeping good tonight, because if you were watching this Brewers’ offense, you said that’s what you can’t do.
This is the problem.
You can’t show up in the postseason if you can’t hit the ball over the fence, and the Brewers, they didn’t even come anywhere close.
To hitting the ball over the fence.
I don’t know, dude.
I don’t know.
I’m starting to sweat here about Milwaukee again.
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Well, how are you feeling?
I’m feeling similarly, because of how it went down today, right?
The biggest critique of this team is that they might not hit for enough power in October, because for whatever John Smoltz may say on the broadcast, home runs win in the playoffs.
The Brewers, compared to all the teams in baseball in the playoffs, don’t hit that many home runs.
And so if there was a way that they were going to get bounced, it was going to look like this.
They got one guy to third base all night, right?
And there wasn’t really that much traffic.
They ended up with three hits and four walks on the evening, seven base runners.
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And it’s like in a game five, if they can get more guys on, maybe they can create more pressure.
I know that there is real value to that with the Cubs, but this was a really yucky, gross, uninspired performance for the Brewers’ offense tonight.