The Brewers were in first place for something like five months. That and fifty cents gets them a bag of chips and a chance to watch everyone else in the postseason, because today they were eliminated.
The Reds beat the Brewers 5-3 behind six effective innings from a person named David Holmberg, who I am pretty sure is not a real baseball player as opposed to an elaborate put-on, but I can’t prove that. Jay Bruce went 3 for 4. Brandon Phillips homered. Yovani Gallardo gave up ten hits in five innings.
What’s worse: doing about as well as everyone expected you to do before the season, finishing in fourth place and never really contending, or doing what the Brewers did in defying everyone’s expectations and spending almost all of the season at or near the top of the division? Is it better to just miss the stars or never leave orbit? Better to burn out or to fade away?
Maybe it doesn’t matter. Either way, the Brewers will be home for October.
