The Truth About the Brewers Was Just Revealed...

The truth was just revealed about the Brewers and that's that they cannot win a game on the road in the playoffs as Milwaukee is now 0-12 in their last 12 road playoff games. How concerned are we with that statistic knowing that this game tonight, game four, is on the road once more? Let's talk about all that and more on today's episode of Brewers Digest. I am your host, Taylor Brettel, and I got you covered on everything you need to know about the Milwaukee Brewers. It was a tough one, a 4-3 loss. The Brewers had a chance to sweep San Diego and put that series behind them. Looked forward to the NLCS, but Padre said, well, just one second. You're in our house. We are going to take this one. So let's take a look at what happened in yesterday's contest, a game that was very winnable for the Brewers, but shot themselves in the foot more than one or two times, three times, four times. I could probably make a list how many times they really did that. And when you just do that in a game, it's unlikely that you're going to win. We saw the Brewers strand a lot of runners in this one. This is what San Diego did to themselves in the first two games. And the Brewers had the bug, not able to drive runners in. Again, a 4-3 loss, a tough one. Another game where the Brewers started down early to nothing. They started down in the first two games as well, crawled back in both of those. I know they are the best team in Major League Baseball at coming from behind as a result of a win. But right here, I mean, a 4-3 loss for the Brewers, where they were down to nothing, tied it back up at 2-2. Then the Padres took a 3-2 lead off of Jake Cronenworth-Homer. And then they added another run on a defensive error between Cooper Pratt slash Jake Bowers. It was a hard pick for Jake Bowers. But all that stuff resulted in this 4-3 loss. One error resulted in one run, and the Brewers lost by one run. That is just not really ethical Brewers baseball. It's not what we're used to seeing. They had three errors in Game 2. They have one in Game 3. So four errors over the last two games, and it proved to be costly. But we take a look right here, and the offense was very good. They just struggled to drive runners in. 11 hits for the Brewers. The Padres used a lot of their bullpen, which is the good sign when you look at Game 4 tonight. Here's what the pitchers look like. Dustin May was only able to go three innings. I was kind of hoping he could, like, get into the sixth inning. But we know that he hasn't gone more than three, four innings this past couple of outings. He only had 50 pitches, so he could be available today. I thought Jojo Romero pitched very solid. He did give up that solo-Homer to Jake Cronenworth, but I still thought that Romero pitched pretty well overall. That pitch to Cronenworth wasn't too bad. Sensatella, D.L. Hall, Uribe did have to come in, but he probably only had, like, seven pitches in his outing. So will they use him for a fourth straight game? Not so sure. But you look at the San Diego Padres. Nick Pavetta opened it up. They used Jason Adam, Matsui, Rodriguez, and then Michael King. Their ace was the one to get the six-out save. So Michael King, I don't know how available he will be for the rest of this series. Their manager, Craig Stammen, said that Michael King basically said, I'll be ready for game three, four, and five. Easier to say that. Can he really do it? Clearly proved he could do it yesterday, but I would be curious if he is used in back-to-back days if the Padres need to do that. That'll be something to track on how they're going to use their pitching. But something that I really want to track is this Brewer's offense. This Brewer's offense just couldn't drive runners in. But there's some guys that really came up to the plate, and they didn't seem like they could get themselves on in general. Two guys that I'm going to be talking about are the, who was the birthday boy in Jake Bowers, and then also Garrett Mitchell. Two lefties in this Brewer's lineup. Bowers batting in the two-spot. Mitchell definitely lower in that order. But these are two guys that had some pretty bad at-bats. Did not really seem competitive at all. Two guys that seemed like they were sitting on off-speed, and they weren't going to see that off-speed because it seemed pretty obvious. And the pitchers knew that. I want to start off with Garrett Mitchell and really look at what he's done this postseason. And it has been a struggle fest right here. 0-4 yesterday. He went 1-4 in game two. And 1-4-3 in game one. The thing that I look at most though are the Ks. Yesterday, 0-4 with three Ks. The game before that, 1-4, but with two Ks. His best game was that first game. He only struck out once. But through three games, you have six strikeouts and only two hits. That is not a recipe for success. His two hits also, both just singles. None of them going for extra bases. That is not really what you like to see at all. Another guy though, Jake Bowers. This was a guy that looked even less competitive yesterday. He's had a decent series to start it off through those first two games. But Jake Bowers in this one, he looked absolutely lost at the play. I don't know what it was. But again, you can kind of tell he seemed to be sitting and waiting for that off-speed. And he wasn't going to get it. He took some fastballs, especially from Provetta, that were like right there in the zone for him. And he didn't want to give a hack at it. We take a look at Jake Bowers' game log from the postseason. In his three games yesterday, he had five plate appearances and four at-bats. He struck out four times. So he did get on base ones via a walk. But all the other four at-bats resulted in a K. The game before, 0-4 as well with two strikeouts. Game one, he did play solid. But over these last two games, I know it's a small sample size, but this is a best-of-five series. So you got to take every game very, very seriously. Jake Bowers, 0 in his last eight at-bats between those two games with six strikeouts. Again, it just didn't look competitive. I don't know if you say he looked lost. He just looked like he was sitting too much. And the Padres knew that, and they weren't going to give him what he wanted. Not really great. And then that last at-bat, I mean, couldn't catch up to a heater. He had a fight off like 96 inside, which that's kind of uncommon for Jake Bowers. But in my opinion, the bat that had the most struggles, who did get a hit yesterday, don't get me wrong, that was Bryce Turing. Bryce Turing in his postseason career has not been good at all, which has been a little bit disappointing. Bryce Turing, in my opinion, best second baseman in the league. 20 homer, 100 RBI season, platinum level defense with that glove at second base. But in the postseason, he has not looked great. He had a pretty bad error also in game two. Luckily, the Brewers ended up winning that. But he's not able to give them any offense. We've got Turing in the playoffs. And I look at this post here from Just Baseball Media. Bryce Turing in 12 postseason games since 2025. He's 5 for 46. He does have a homer, which was a huge one in that series against the Cubs last year. He's only driven in three runners, a 180 on base percentage. I mean, woof. And Bryce Turing's the guy that's been batting in that two spot, maybe a little of that three spot. Pat Murphy now moved him to the four. He had big chances in this game, moving him to the four spot. Guys got on in front of him. Turing had a chance with bases loaded here. You see it in the fifth inning. And he grounded out up the middle in the infield. And that is what killed a momentum swing. This was a chance for the Brewers. All you needed with the speed that was on the bases, all you really needed was a single. And this game is four to two. I mean, you have to tip your cap to Matsui, who was able to get out of the jam. But Bryce Turing, just uncompetitive when he's hitting it in play. It's not really hard. Again, this one went, you know, just kind of rolled on the ground up the middle, was able to get gloved and step on the bag. Turing did have a hit that was a bloop that fell in front of the left fielder because he wasn't able to get to it when diving. But the big thing about this, you look at this fifth inning, that's three runners left on base. That was the common trend for the Brewers from the fifth inning and on. Right here, the fifth inning, they left bases loaded. The sixth inning, they left second and third. Seventh inning, first and second. Ninth, first and second. So from the fifth inning and on, they left 10 runners on base. And that's not going to win you a game. And don't get me wrong. This is what we saw from the Padres in the first two games. The Padres couldn't drive anyone in. That's a huge reason why the Brewers won. I'm not going to act like the Brewers pitchers shut them down that fully. The Padres were able to get on base and not drive them in. So I think Padres followers are kind of realizing like, hey, maybe it wasn't us this time. It's kind of nice. It's not us this time. But the most concerning stat with all of these hitting stats that looked pretty brutal, the most concerning one, in my opinion, is the Brewers cannot win on the road in the playoffs. From Kurt Hogg on X, he put the final score of four to three. He says there will be a game four. Milwaukee has now lost an almost unbelievable 12 straight road playoff games, tying the longest streak in MLB history. I believe that's with the Twins from a very long time ago. It says they sure had their chances. So many chances in this one. They'll hope they don't rue it. The series is two to one. Yeah, I mean, the Brewers had an unbelievable amount of chances, and that is exactly what results in a score like this when you don't make things happen. But what we also have to look at is what are the Brewers going to do with their pitching? I mean, they used a decent amount of arms. They didn't have to use McGill in this one, which was big. They did use a rebate, but they didn't have to use someone like an Ashby. We haven't even seen Chad Patrick pitch, Harrison pitch, Dro and pitch. What are the Brewers going to do? Well, let's take a look at who their postseason roster is, because I think it's all hands on deck. You really do not want this series to have to go back to Milwaukee. We saw this last year with the series going back to Milwaukee after the Brewers lost two straight to the Cubs. Obviously, it ended in a positive manner getting a game five win, but I don't want to be thinking about a game five. I want to be thinking about winning it in four games. You look at the pictures right here. I'll go through all of them on who didn't pitch yesterday. Ashby did not. Droen did not. Gasser did not. He could be the starter tonight. It's still not announced by Pat Murphy. D.L. Hall did. He probably would not be in there. Kyle Harrison did not. Logan Henderson is probably going to be saved. Dustin May used only 50 pitches. We'll be curious if they would want an inning out of him. Trevor McGill did not. Mizorowski would be safe for game five. Chad Patrick did not. Romero probably will not be in there. Sensatella pitched an inning, could maybe give a second day out there. And Uribe, who knows? He's pitched all three games, but only, again, needed like seven pitches, I believe, to get those three out. So there's a lot of hands on deck that the Brewers could use. But again, talking about the starter, you see the names on there. Sophia Mennert said Pat Murphy was not ready to name a game four starter, but said Robert Gasser and Chad Patrick could be possible options. I think they got to go with Gasser. He has seemed like the way better pitcher out of those two. A lot of people viewed him better than Dustin May and the guy that should have got the start in game three. But with all of this, we've talked about the hitting. That's a little bit concerning. The pitchers that we don't know we're going to put out there, but we kind of know we have the names. And I know it's just one game, but hey, it's the playoffs and things can turn quick. Where's the panic meter sitting right now for you guys on a scale of one to ten? I think mine is pretty low. But when it's three out of five, if you lose today, you're like, oh my God, the series is tied and now it's win or go home. I'd put out like a four or five. I'm not going to overreact at all. The Brewers literally lost this game by one run. It's not like they got killed or they had a brutal error at the end to lose it. I'm only going to put it at a four or five. I think the big thing that is panicking for me is a lot of your stars are not showing up. Bryce Terank, Jake Bowers, Garrett Mitchell. Those guys got a they got a half show up. I mean, I'm not asking them to get two hits, three hits. I'm asking them to all get maybe one or maybe get on base twice a hit and a walk. So that's where I put it. You guys let me know where you put the panic meter. But again, the Brewers with a four to three loss in game three. They're hoping that that changes for game four. We will keep keep a watch on who Pat Murphy will put out there. I'll have a video after this contest, which is going to be past midnight again. So you guys got to make sure to maybe drink a late night coffee to be able to stay up for it. But I'll keep you posted on everything you need to know about the Milwaukee Brewers. I hope the next time that I'm talking to you guys, we are talking about a win. Hope we see Robert Gasser on the mound. Maybe it's someone like Chad Patrick should be a pretty interesting one in San Diego. Hoping the crew can get it done and win the series three to one.