Now that I’ve had some time to decompress a tiny bit from the abrupt finish to the Milwaukee Brewers 2023 season that ended in about a 28-hour span, I’m going to blog my way through it.
After a 92 win regular season & a division title, the Brewers season came to an end in deflating fashion.
So the Brewers blew a 3-0 lead in Game 1 on Tuesday in a 6-3 loss & followed up by blowing a 2-0 lead in a 5-2 defeat in Game 2 yesterday with both games at American Family Field.
Once Arizona took the lead in the sixth inning of Wednesday’s Game 2, the air completely went out of the building & you knew that the game was over.
In the end, your aces have to produce. Corbin Burnes, Freddy Peralta & Devin Williams didn’t.
Milwaukee is now 1-9 in their last 10 playoff games dating back to 2018. In those 10 games, the Brewers have scored 17 runs. Averaging 1.7 runs per game won’t cut it in October.
During that span, Milwaukee had 98 runners reach base via hit, walk or hit by pitch. Just another brutal output from the offense again in the postseason, there’s no way around it.
Tuesday night sucked. I wasn’t going to guarantee a win in Game 2 Wednesday night, but I was still groined up, though, & “Brewed For Battle.”
We’re in the “Golden Age” of Milwaukee Brewers baseball. Making the postseason in five of the past six years, which is a cool achievement. But in that span they’ve won exactly ONE playoff series, & as mentioned above, since that 2018 NLCS, the Brewers have won exactly ONE playoff game.
Some people I know, some being family members, are content with this franchise making the playoffs & being close to making the playoffs. Winning the division & making the playoffs is a cool thing, but it’s a lot of low-to-mid level success.
Milwaukee has won a grand total of two playoff series in the last 40-years.
But hey, at least the franchise can hang their hat on the 1982 team & celebrate a loser every five years for the anniversary of that team. It’s genuinely comical to celebrate a loser.
It’s going to be a very interesting offseason for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Will Craig Counsell return as Manager?
I would like to see Mark Canha, Josh Donaldson & Carlos Santana to return in 2024.
What I imagine Craig Counsell would do to the Front Office as he leaves:
It was a wild ride in 2023!
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