Brewers drop a series to the Pirates with welcome All-Star break looming

Paul the Pirate has made quite the impression.

This week brought a tough, but winnable, series to the Milwaukee Brewers as they battled their NL Central rival the Pittsburgh Pirates. Tuesday’s series opener was a slugfest. Well, it was a slugfest for the Pirates. They hit five homers in a 12-2 win.

Murph’s Mashers returned the favor in Wednesday’s contest. Nine runs and eight shutout innings from Tobias Myers evened up the series at one win each. Myers’ continued development (and dominance) remains one of the highlights of the first 94 games of the season.

Thursday’s afternoon finale gave the Brewers their first look at rookie sensation Paul Skenes. Despite the Brewers putting together some long at-bats early in the game, Skenes was as dominant as advertised.

He logged seven hitless and scoreless innings before giving way to Colin Holderman in the 8th inning. A Yasmani Grandal RBI double in the 7th was the only blip on the radar for Aaron Civale, but it was enough to give the Pirates a 1-0 win.

Next up, the Brewers will welcome the Washington Nationals to town before the All-Star break begins. The guys deserve some rest after a hard fought “first half”.

Master Brewer Leaderboard (through 94 games)

(The Master Brewer Leaderboard is a season-long leaderboard tracking and ranking exceptional performances from Brewers players in the form of Master Brew Points 🍺, which at the end of the season will tally up to crown our Crewsing for a Brewsing Player of the Year.)

Tobias Myers 🍺🍺

Aaron Civale 🍺

Bryan Hudson 🍺

Rob Zastryzny 🍺

Elvis Peguero 🍺

Christian Yelich 🍺

Willy Adames 🍺

Sal Frelick 🍺

Jake Bauers 🍺

Leaderboard through 94 games

William Contreras: 🍺x24

Bryan Hudson, Willy Adames: 🍺x21

Brice Turang, Christian Yelich: 🍺x19

Joey Ortiz, Jackson Chourio: 🍺x17

Trevor Megill: 🍺x16

Sal Frelick: 🍺x15

Jared Koenig, Colin Rea, Joel Payamps, Elvis Peguero: 🍺x14

Rhys Hoskins, Blake Perkins: 🍺x13

Hoby Milner, Jake Bauers: 🍺x11

Freddy Peralta, Tobias Myers: 🍺x10

Bryse Wilson: 🍺x9

Gary Sanchez: 🍺x8

Abner Uribe, Joe Ross, Enoli Paredes: 🍺x6

Thyago Viera: 🍺x5

Oliver Dunn, Robert Gasser: 🍺x4

Jakob Junis, Rob Zastryzny:🍺x3

Joey Wiemer, Kevin Herget, Elieser Hernandez, Tyler Black, Andruw Monasterio, Eric Haase, Dallas Keuchel:🍺x2

J.B. Bukauskas, Owen Miller, Aaron Ashby, James Meeker, Bradley Blalock, Aaron Civale: 🍺