Brewed Daily with Heller

A daily Brewers post-game reaction.  Looking back on Milwaukee's  2-0 win in Houston...finishing the month of May with a record of 35-21

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Hey, welcome in. This is uh something I haven't done before, but we're gonna start doing it now. It's called Brew Daily with Heller. We're gonna do a recap of the Brewers game that day, within the hour or so after the game has come to a finish. And we'll start with today. We'll do it in about seven minutes or less. Uh today the Brewers win 2-0 in Houston and take the series. So a couple of notes on this one. It is an amazing run that the Brewers have been on. So we'll talk about the series play. They're 8-1-1 in their last 10 series. The only loss in that run is losing two out of three against the LA Dodgers. They tied that series in St. Louis. Remember, there was a raino. So they went one and one in St. Louis. Otherwise, they've won all the series, including sweeps. In the 8-1-1 of those 10 series, the Brewers are 21 wins and eight losses. They finished the month of May at 19-7. A 731 winning percentage in the month of May is the best May that the Brewers have ever had. They win 2-0 on Sunday afternoon in Houston. Despite only getting four hits, they only gave up three. And Jacob Mizarowski was the star of the game, but maybe not my player of the game. They win 2-0, 19-7 in the month of May. Ms. first 20 pitches today were all fastballs and all 100 plus. 24 of his first 26 were at 100 plus. The Brewers win today. They did not play Jackson Churio or William Contreras. So a day off because now they have a four-game home set. Night games on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Matinee on Thursday against the San Francisco Giants. So let's cut into what was going on a little bit in this one today. I think the storyline runs uh fairly significant. Jake Bowers played right field yesterday. He played left field today to give Churio a day off. You need Jake Bowers' bat in the lineup and Andrew Vaughn's bat in the lineup for that matter. And they both delivered. Vaughn had a double. The Brews didn't do much. Vaughn had a double in the eighth inning. I'll get to more on that in a minute. Jake Bowers had the home run, but he also made a diving play in left. He said after the game that Churio would have caught it without diving. Maybe true, but nonetheless, he got a very good first step jump on it and then laid out and made a catch to help Miz. Miz had good defense behind him today. That Bowers catch was in the second inning. Joey Ortiz made a play on a bullet of a line drive that is a short hop on him to his backhand side. He didn't have to take a step, but it's a bullet. And he had a short hop, but he got it right in front of him, got it up in the air, and pulled it down, made the throw to first to get uh the runner who was not uh fast. So that that worked. And then Bowers caught a line drive that went to the wall by Paratis in the seventh inning. That was a key inning, and it was the last for Mizarowski. And Hamilton got a short in-between hop at third base, one of those make or break plays, also in the seventh, and that was the end. It's the eighth consecutive, the end for Miz. The eighth consecutive game for Miz with eight or more strikeouts. That's a franchise record. How much fun is this dude to watch pitch? Every time he takes the mound, you have to make it appointment viewing or be in the stadium because he is spectacular. 88 pitches, seven innings pitched, three hits, no runs, eight strikeouts, lowers his ERA to 1.65 and has a six and two record, and likely won't win pitcher of the month because there's another guy out there that has uh gone uh no runs in the entire month. The Brewers only had the four hits. Vaughn with a double, Bowers with a two-run home run. Uh Ms. Abner Uribe and McGill retired the last 17 Astros that hit in this game. I also I think you if you're paying attention, you probably notice this that McGill is your closer right now. I think Yuribe, his reaction the other night played him out of favor a little bit with Murph, but you can win Murph's trust back. It's not the trust on the mound. It was, hey, we don't do that. But those three combined, that was it. And this is what you think of with playoff baseball with the Brewers. Miz seven, Kyle Harrison seven. If you can get those two guys to go seven, you turn it over to Yuribe and McGill. That's postseason type of baseball. That's what today was, even though you didn't get much or any offense. So let's go to player of the game. You would think it might be Ms. seven innings, three hits, no runs, eight strikeouts. But I'll go with Bowers, one for two, his ninth homer of the year. He only had seven home runs a year ago. He now has 33 runs batted in and the great play in left after playing right field yesterday. I think that's how Jake Bowers is going to have to be used. He's going to have to be used in that way. What needs improvement? Well, Perkins came in in the eighth inning after the Vaughn double. He's at second with one out in a huge insurance run. And he takes a walking lead on the second pitch to Jake Bowers, who had stung a couple of baseballs, including that homer, and he got picked off. He just can't do it. Can't have that, can't be picked off, and that's what he was. That needs to be better. I thought that Salazar, Houston's catcher, might have, he came out of his crouch quickly when Perkins was taking the walking lead, might have been the indicator for Nate Pearson to turn around. So the Brewers went 2-0 there now, um in a great place in the standings. They lead the division by four, pending the Cubs game tonight. Four and a half, I believe, is the lead over the Cardinals. And uh the Brewers are in a really good spot. 35-21, pending the Cubs Cardinals game on Sunday night, lead by four and a half over the Cubs. And the Cardinals and Pirates are five back, the Reds, six back. Everybody in the NL Central is over 500. San Francisco Giants come in. That's what's coming up next. Four games. Williad Damas is in. Four games set. Landon Raup, right-handed pitcher for San Francisco on Monday night, 640. He has a 3.3 ERA. Shane Drowen makes just his second start as a Milwaukee Brewer. He'll go. Tuesday, Trevor McDonald, Kyle Harrison, who gets an extra day in between starts. Wednesday, Logan Webb for San Francisco, undecided for the Brewers. And then on Thursday, former brewer Adrian Hauser against an undecided road trip starts in Colorado. Miz is scheduled to pitch Friday night in Colorado. On that road trip, the Brewers go from the Rockies to the A's. Pat Murphy said postgame. I thought this was important. I don't think we're playing particularly well, but I trust these guys. So do we. A lot of fun. That is uh the first edition of Brood Daily with Heller. I hope you'll tune in as we continue to do this on a daily basis. I say seven minutes or so. Today was 7 15. We'll talk to you after the Brewers beat the Giants on Tuesday. Let's go, crew, get it done. Brood Daily with Heller.