Brewers Near Sweep as Tampa Bay Seeks Historic Comeback

I'll try and be optimistic before we just get to reality. The Brewers are going to win, whether it's in 5, 6, or 7. But you're right about the sweeps. I looked that up. Surprisingly enough, at least to me, 25 teams, Craig, have been up three games to none. finished off the four-game sweep. Boy, I would have thought, you know, obviously they were going to win this series, but I figured there'd be a number of teams, you know, 10, 12 teams that at least got to game five, but only four, believe it or not. But the positive for the Brewers, or for the Rays, is we all want to compare it to the Red Sox versus the Yankees, right? It makes perfect sense. They're the only team that rallied from 3-0 down in the best-of-seven baseball series. Not only are they kind of parallel with them, but if you remember, and I do as a Red Sox fan, Game 3 at Boston, like Game 3 was last night, Red Sox get crushed to an 18-7, just like basically 10-1 last night for Tampa Bay. So if you want to, like, draw comparisons and find some hope for the Tampa Bay fan, as bad as it looks right now, this is the exact same scenario that the Red Sox had when they were able to come back. You know, all the bleak, you know, just dire situation, 3-0, getting embarrassed in Game 3. So maybe, just maybe, they at least win a game. Can we at least get a game out of them? Yeah, I mean, look, Scott, I hope so. I would say that I have very vivid memories of that 0-4 season and that Series too. and again uh yeah it's fun to paint that picture but i do feel a little a little bit like it's apples and oranges and i'll explain to you why not because i don't think that tampa bay can't win tonight and not because i don't think tampa bay can win the next game too scott but the brewers don't lose at home like like we're going on a lot of data here of seven months of not losing at home best home record not even close best postseason home record not close they basically refuse to lose any game in that park and whether they're and they've been trailing in seven games in the postseason they've won six so i i just can't get in the way of them right now scott but uh you know could i could i close my eyes as they say and dream up a scenario where this gets to six games yeah sure or seven yeah yeah of course i mean it's it's sports it's humans you have no idea i i gotta feel though that any shot to win is out the door now to get things extended yeah i would love to see that i would love to see tampa bay reward their home fans and get a win tonight or maybe get two wins and get back to milwaukee but i originally thought that that was my reasoning behind if scott would take milwaukee in six because i thought tampa bay would win a couple of their games at home but i didn't think they'd be down oh three and then get two to get it back there so i i don't know i'm not i'm feeling like we're gonna see Misurawski anyway you know in game five so it's it's gonna be tough they're up against it all right before we get to game four right let me ask game three right i'm doing some refereeing i do some local refereeing here AAU ball right so i'll go back in my car i turn the radio on and i'm listening to the football game almost forget there there's a world series game right so i get back home long story short by the time i get turn on the world series game it i look at the screen and it's 10 nothing i'm like what the fudge what the hell happened 10 nothing if you would have told me 10 nothing i would have swore it would have been tampa bay 10 nothing i thought for sure they were gonna win last night what happened i have a look the brewers are just just red hot hitting and and the and the thing that's even making them dangerous as we're seeing is that the game was nothing nothing for a while scott like it looked like this thing could go under it looked like first five under and and all those things coming into play but the brewers are not just a good hitting team third time through the order they're a great hitting team second time through the order it feels like the brewers can't hit whoever's pitching for about 35 minutes into a baseball game and then last night they just unleashed hit after hit after hit and you don't hear anything about any signs or anything like that i just think that their approach that the plate was so good and you know not a lot of deep shots just a lot of hits up the middle left right center i don't know how else to describe it scott they just couldn't they you know they just kept coming up and getting hits beyond that i got nothing for you all right how about the fact that they took uh peralta out of the game well let me set this up for you now listen i understand he was struggling right gave up seven hits walked three so he's given up 10 base runners and four and two third innings 87 pitches which you know which is not a lot, a lot, right? How about the thought, Greg, like I'm old school. If they score 10 runs or realistically if they get one more hit and it's 2-0 at that point, right? They got two runners on. There's two outs in the bottom of the – or top of the fifth inning. Why not let him finish? Why not get him out of the inning? And if he does, if he gives up a hit and it's 3-0 now, all right, you know what? I'll take him out of the game. But it's 2-0. All the bad stuff happened after he was taken out. And I'm just like, I'm old school. If I'm going to lose, and if I want to sleep well at night, I'll sleep knowing, all right, my starting pitcher didn't have it. It is what it is. I can accept that. But when you bring in the bullpen guys, who are all phenomenal, Tampa Bay's got as good a bullpen as Milwaukee. This guy, Bowser, last night, he's got an ERA of around one, right? So I understand these are all good guys, but I don't sleep well with the relievers screwing up. I'll sleep well knowing, all right, my starting pitcher didn't have it.