The Milwaukee Brewers offense could sink team’s playoff hopes

The Milwaukee Brewers went out to Los Angeles but did not bring their offense with them. Thankfully, it showed up in Texas.

The Brewers scored nine runs in Game 1 of a three-game set against the Texas Rangers. It was a nice offensive production after a nightmare series against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the week.

The Crew got swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers after scoring just three runs.

The Brewers showed resiliency at least for one night by scoring some runs. The Brew Crew keep proving all you need to do is win by one run.

The series loss to the Dodgers also showed that the gap between the Crew and the best in the National League.

Austin Barnes of all people scored the only run on Thursday. Barnes and the Brewers offense ruined a special outing by Corbin Burnes.

Now, the Dodgers are red hot, but the Brewers barely put up a fight with their bats. Before last night’s offensive outburst, the lineup went through a stretch where it is a chore to score runs—again!

The Milwaukee Brewers went 2-10 against the Dodgers and the Atlanta Braves. The irony is the Brewers scored some runs against the Braves, but the pitching could not hold up.

The club’s pitching gives some hope of October success. Corbin Burnes, Brandon Woodruff, Freddy Peralta, and Wade Miley is a starting rotation that can take a team to the World Series.

The issue is when they throw gems, the offense has issues providing run support.

With the Cubs and the Reds nipping at their heels in the division, the offense cannot afford to go through these dry spells.

The Cubs have a stretch where they play the Kansas City Royals (although they dropped the first game in the series), the Detroit Tigers, and the Pittsburgh Pirates before they square off with the Milwaukee Brewers at the end of the month.

Do not be too worried about the Reds though as they are entering a tough stretch in their schedule. They have shown recently that they struggle when playing other teams contending for the playoffs.

The Cubs are a different story as they have had no trouble scoring runs–they are fifth in the league in runs scored–and have been getting solid pitching lately.

The Brewers cannot afford to go cold at the plate when they take on the Cubs at Wrigley Field. They also end the season with three more at American Family Field when the division title could be on the line.

The batting order cannot repeat what happened in Los Angeles during those games with Chicago.

The offense has been Christian Yelich, William Contreras, or maybe Carlos Santana hitting a home run, and hoping someone else does something. That is not exactly a recipe for winning a division.

The power bats the team counted on at the beginning of the season have not produced.

The bats are in the league’s bottom five in batting average, slugging percentage, and OPS. They are in the bottom ten in on-base percentage and home runs.

That means the problem is the players are not getting on base consistency and the team is struggling to hit the ball hard (or at all). Producing with runners in scoring position has also been a problem.

Something has to be done to wake the offense up. Otherwise, the Milwaukee Brewers might miss out on October baseball yet again.