Disciples of Uecker

Yovani Gallardo didn’t throw a perfect game. Ian Kennedy and the Diamondbacks held the Brewers to eight hits on 31 at-bats. It wasn’t, at least technically speaking, a perfectly played game. I wouldn’t change a thing.

Despite a rough start, the Brewers recovered well before dropping an arguably even rougher series at the Washington Nationals. Let’s take a look at where Milwaukee stands early on. Record: 7-8 (T-14 MLB, T-8 NL, T-3 NL Central) Runs Scored: 56 (21 MLB, 11 NL,… [More]

If there was any doubt that Jake Odorizzi is the top pitching prospect in the Brewers system entering tonight’s start against Cedar Rapids, it should be gone now. Odorizzi threw the first eight innings of a combined no hitter tonight for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers,… [More]

It’s really unfortunate that the debacle that was the 9th inning of today’s game will go on to overshadow the excellent performance of Lorenzo Cain as well as the very solid pitching performance turned in today by Randy Wolf. However, if you look at the… [More]

There are a few other talking points from this game as well – particularly a solid start by Dave Bush and the solid offensive performances from Casey McGehee and Lorenzo Cain. However, one thing that I continue to be amazed by is the ability of… [More]

Barry Enright is an interesting pitcher. Entering tonight, he had a 2.81 ERA despite a wholly average profile. Tonight, he somehow limited the Brewers to only 3 hits on 18 balls in play. He didn’t look that fantastic, but the Brewers just couldn’t mount anything… [More]

If it seems to good to be true, it probably is. John Axford, entering today’s game, had faced 17 save situations. Despite one blown save, the Brewers had come away with the win in every single one of these situations. Indeed, Axford has been one… [More]

I have a final tomorrow, so here’s all I have to say about this game. Manny Parra pitched extremely well for 5 innings, then everything that could have gone wrong did. It wasn’t a fantastic start all things considered, but he certainly didn’t deserve to… [More]

This was an old school victory, or some kind of nonsense like that. The Brewers manufactured four runs in separate innings, thanks to ten singles and only one extra base hit, a Jon Lucroy double in the fourth. Lucroy’s double resulted in a run after… [More]

I’ll give up a sweep to the Astros if it means one of these any day. One of the great joys in sports is to beat your rivals, and although it’s nicer to do so in the context of a pennant race (see 2008), I’ll… [More]