The Milwaukee Brewers offense continues to do nothing notable as they fell to the New York Mets in 10 innings.
The Milwaukee Brewers suffered an inexcusable 3-2 loss to the New York Mets in 10 innings.
Manager Pat Murphy decided to pull Cooper Pratt after his second at-bat in a move that will be critiqued for days to come, and rightfully so.
The man Murphy replaced Pratt with, David Hamilton, failed to come up with a timely hit in the ninth inning and committed an error that ended the game.
Trevor Megill suffered a rare loss, and the Brewers were stuck going to extra innings in a game they should've easily won in the ninth.
Brewers ninth-inning rally goes nowhere
Despite having runners on second and third with no one out in the ninth, all the Brewers could get out of that inning was one run. Obviously that run was a big deal as it tied the game, 2-2, but the top of the order failed to get anything accomplished in the 10th. Hamilton messed up a routine ground ball in extras to end it.
Megill is now 2-3 on the year in one of the most undeserving losses you'll ever see. The Brewers closer was asked to pitch two innings for only the second time all year, and he had things set up perfectly to record an out at home, but Hamilton double-clutched and messed up the throw.
While the Brewers offense did themselves no favors, there's simply no excuse to lose to a team like the Mets.
Thankfully for the Brewers, the Los Angeles Dodgers also lost on Tuesday night, so they still have a little wiggle room in terms of having the best record in all of baseball, but tonight's loss is going to sting for quite some time, and rightfully so.
Brewers were 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position
What's old is new again as the Brewers have once again entered a massive slump hitting with runners in scoring position.
Luis Lara, who couldn't come up with a great at-bat in the ninth, had one of the team's two hits with a RISP. The other came from Christian Yelich, someone who did his job with an opposite-field RBI double when he was asked to pinch-hit for the struggling Gary Sanchez in the ninth.
At the end of the day, the Brewers pitching staff gave this team every opportunity to win the game, but leaving nine runners on base simply isn't going to cut it.
Milwaukee now sits at 81-51 while the Mets improved to 60-72. Tomorrow, this team desperately needs Dustin May to get back on track as he goes head-to-head with Robert Stock.
