The road trip started off well, with the Brewers easily winning against the Pirates, which has been the norm the past couple seasons. With three games against the Nationals coming up you would believe the Brewers were ready to continue the winning but it was not to be.
The Brewers had a nice rally to tie the game up in the top of the ninth in game one against the Nationals but two errors cost us the game in the bottom of the 10th. Then the Brewers just collapsed the last two games. I didn't get a chance to watch those final two games and I don't really care to, I saw all I really needed to see in the box score. Getting swept by the Nationals is not a thing you want to see. I don't know what happened to the team in that series, but they got outplayed by a team they should have easily won two games out of three against. After getting swept I wasn't looking forward to playing the Phillies.
Game one was against Joe Blanton, a game the Brewers needed, especially because their next two games were against Halladay and Lee. The Brewers took game one but it didn't come easy. Axford blew the save in the top of the 9th and the Brewers took the lead for good with a 3-run 12th inning. The next game was probably the biggest surprise of the Brewers' young season. The Brewers roughed up Halladay and ended his night in the 6th inning. The Brewers won the game 9-0. The Brewers did the same to Cliff Lee, forcing him out after only 6 innings of work but were not able to hold onto the lead and lost 4-3.
So the Brewers took care of business against the Pirates, looked really bad against the Nationals, and looked real good against the Phillies. A 4-4 road trip is never bad but it should have been much better.
Wolf has looked stellar in his past two starts and so did Marcum. Narveson was back on track in the finale against the Phillies, he only made one mistake, the 3-run homer. The bullpen, minus those National games has continued to get the outs when it needed and the offense is still chugging along. We get a nice six game home stand against the Astros and Reds and hopefully the Brewers can duplicate the success they had in their last home stand.
The Brewers also look good on the injury front. Hawkins has rejoined the team and will be removed from the DL on Friday it sounds. Greinke pitched a rehab start in single A and looked good, his return should be soon, and Hart took batting practice and continues to feel good so he should hopefully return soon as well.
Hopefully the Brewers can get on a winning streak and let the injured guys return and give the club a big boost and we can finally get above .500 and stay there.
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