5-2 loss to San Diego, 80-60, 5.0 GB
It's officially a Skid
After dropping 3 in a row to the East leading Mets, bringing in the West's cellar dwelling Padres seemed to be custom made for a Crew turn around. Not so. The Brewers were 0-9 with RISP against a pitcher, Shawn Estes, making his first start since May. The Padres had lost 9 in a row on the road and got into Milwaukee at 5:30 in the morning, yet they did what the Brewers can't, peck away, get guys in, sac flies, timely hits. I'm not going to hang this one on Suppan, even though it fails to be a quality start and he loaded the bases in the 6th and needed Mota to bail him out (Mota only let one of those runs score, I'll count that as a success), but the Crew had bases loaded, 1 out in the 4th and NOTHING. Thankfully CC is going Friday and hopefully Sheets, whose tight left groin seems to be OK, can do better in outdueling Peavy on Saturday and what do you know, 2 game win streak. Cubs had the night off, so the Crew only lost ½ a game.