Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy’s gamble to preserve the bullpen backfired in the eighth inning.
The Milwaukee Brewers' three-game winning streak came to an end thanks to the Philadelphia Phillies.
Jhoan Duran gave up a two-out run to rookie Luis Lara, but in the end, he netted his 33rd save of the year.
Ultimately, it was a three-run eighth inning that turned out to be the difference in this one.
Philadelphia got a pair of runs off Dustin May in the second inning, and then they got another off Kyle Harrison in the third.
Milwaukee answered with a run of their own in the top of the fourth, later adding two in the sixth to tie things up, 3-3.
Sadly, the wheels fell off Colton Gordon during his fifth inning of work. This is a guy who's been on the Brewers roster since Friday, Sept. 25, just patiently waiting to hear his name called.
After four stellar innings of work, the Phillies finally got to him late in this one, and that was all she wrote as they pulled out a 6-4 victory.
Gordon takes an undeserving loss
The 27-year-old had a horrendous 11.57 ERA coming into his Brewers debut, but he pitched an absolute gem up until that eighth inning.
Manager Pat Murphy knew he wanted to keep some of the bullpen fresh as the first-round bye may not have been locked up tonight, so he risked it by having Gordon go out for a fifth inning of work.
The Florida native is now 0-1 this season despite all four of his hits and two earned runs coming in the eighth frame.
Gordon needed 70 pitches to get the job done, so one can only imagine how long he'll be out for, as he hasn't thrown that many pitches in a big league game since Sept. 5, 2025.
Brewers committed two errors
It's unlike the Brewers' defense to commit an error in a game, let alone two of them.
No one is perfect, and Garrett Mitchell's throwing error was also incredibly undeserved as it was potentially purposely kicked by Alec Bohm.
Cooper Pratt also had a fielding error go against him, and while Mitchell's "errant throw" turned into a run, Pratt's tough time fielding a grounder didn't harm the team.
Obviously, the Brewers offense didn't have enough left in the tank come the ninth inning. They made Duran throw 24 pitches, so that could put him out of action in at least one of the two remaining games in the series.
