Kyle Harrison’s disastrous outing and a mounting injury crisis have left the Milwaukee Brewers reeling.
For the second time this season, Kyle Harrison has given up eight runs in a game.
The Milwaukee Brewers thought they could rely on a Jacob Misiorowski, Logan Henderson, Dustin May, and Henderson rotation in the postseason, but Harrison has once again proven that he isn't always as reliable as this team thinks.
Sure, the first time he allowed eight runs was in Las Vegas, so that could be taken with a grain of salt due to the elevation.
This time, though? He was simply outplayed by the San Diego Padres, a team that took down the team with the best record in all of baseball, 11-2.
Harrison allowed not one, not two, but three homers in this game, including a grand slam to the Brewers' former utility man, Luis Rengifo.
At the end of the day, losses like this are going to happen, but Milwaukee is in a big slump, and it couldn't have come at a worse time.
Harrison's dreadful 4.2-inning start
Harrison saw four batters in the first inning, but no damage was done other than a two-out single. Once the second inning came around, the runners he let on base would end up haunting him.
After back-to-back singles to start the inning, Harrison recorded the next two outs with relative ease. With two outs, he allowed a double, a walk, a grand slam, and then another single before getting out of the inning.
No one on this Brewers roster expected Rengifo to go deep, but his 366-foot home run put the Padres ahead by five runs in the bottom of the second.
Sadly, the Padres weren't done. Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a solo shot on the first pitch he saw in the bottom of the fourth. By this point, the Brewers had scored a run, but they still trailed 6-1.
Harrison came back out for the bottom of the fifth, and while he struck out the first batter he saw, he then allowed a single, home run, and walk before being pulled just one batter later.
Brewers scored just two runs on seven hits
This offense has been rather dreadful, to say the least, and that's why star players such as Christian Yelich and William Contreras have had to move so far down in the lineup.
Injuries to Cooper Pratt and Joey Ortiz had the team worried, but now they're going to need to evaluate the status of Contreras and Brice Turang, two players they absolutely cannot afford to lose.
