The Brewers are fucking with my emotions big time. Saturday night was one of the greatest comebacks of the year. Down 5-1 against Cole Hammels and the Phillies the chipped away to get it to 5-4. Then with 2 outs in the bottom of the 8th Prince Fielder crushes a Tom Gordon fastball 400 feet to give them the lead. Then in the top of the 9th Corey Hart leaps high above the right field fence to rob Taguchi of a game tying home run. Amazing...
Fast forward to Sunday. They jump all over the Phillies from the start, scoring 4 in the first and 2 more in the 4th. Staked to a 6-1 lead the Brewers coasted in, until the 9th... Matt Wise in to close it out gave up a runner and a 2 run homer to make it 6-3. He hasn't been the same since hitting Cinci's Pedro Lopez in the face a couple weeks ago. Yost summons Francisco Cordero from the pen to close it out. He gets 2 outs but then a couple hits. Ex-Brewer Wes Helms dumps one down the right field line for a double that makes it 6-4. A grounder that gets past rookie 3b sensation Ryan Braun (E5) ties the score. Cordero gets out of it but in the 11th the Phillies score twice off rookie Manny Parra with 2 outs. The Brewers get guys on 2nd and 3rd with 2 outs in the 11th. Yost goes to Estrada and he's intentionally walked to get to Craig Counsell, a career .411 hitter with the bases loaded. He smokes the first pitch he sees from Jose Mesa but it's lined directly into the Taguchi's glove at 2nd to end the game. A foot to the left and we're all tied up again. What a horrible way to lose.
Luckily Tom Glavine got his 300th win in Chicago as the Cubs stayed a game back. Now comes a tough stretch where the Brewers are back on the road (in Colorado to start tonight). The Cubs are going to have to deal with their own adversity as well as stud LF Alfonso Soriano injured his quad and is out 2-4 weeks. That won't help them any. It's going to be an interesting last 2 months of the season for sure.
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