Brewers Struck By Defensive Blunders

Struggles Continue Against Twins

Minnesota Twins' Francisco Liriano." class="size-medium wp-image-740" src="http://brewcrewonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/coreyhart20090623-285x300.jpg" border="0" height="300" alt="Corey Hart reacts to striking out against the Minnesota Twins' Francisco Liriano." width="285">

Corey Hart reacts to striking out against the Minnesota Twins' Francisco Liriano.

Is it just me, or do you also feel like running into oncoming traffic after watching the Brewers? There were at least five seperate occasions where I found myself physically capable of putting my head through a wall tonight.

The frustrations started early as the Brewers gave up a 3 run single to Joe Crede in the first inning, just moments after getting the third out on a strikeout, only to lose the ball—a wild pitch—allowing the batter to get to first.

The Brewers sloppy defensive play then gave up another run in the second to go down 4-2.

This theme continued throughout the night. In the third inning when an inning-ending routine double play ball was hit directly to J.J. Hardy, all he had to do was throw to second, but instead he dropped the ball. Both runners were safe. Instead of the inning being over there, three runs would score.

In fact, all seven of the Twins runs came off of or after blunders were made.

The Brewers on the other hand got a few runs early, including a double by McGehee  in the second inning that scored Jeff Suppan from first base. Suppan then proceeded to make his way to the oxygen tanks before going back out to pitch.

To put it in layman’s terms, the Brewers stunk tonight. They didn’t even look like they wanted to play.

It makes it hard to watch these kind of game. Thankfully, interleague is over soon. Unfortunately, the season is not. Hopefully the Brewers can salvage something in these next two games.

The loss, paired with the Cardinal’s win, moves the Brewers 2 games back of the division lead. Wednesday night the Twins send Nick Blackburn (6-2) to face Braden Looper (5-4).