Brewers trade for Frankie Montas at the deadline, drop series to the Braves

The dog days of summer bite hard sometimes

It was another disappointing week on the diamond for our Milwaukee Brewers, as The Crew dropped two out of three games to the Atlanta Braves. The series got off to a promising start with Monday’s 8-3 Brewers win. Another solid start from Colin Rea and homers from Rhys Hoskins, Willy Adames, and Jackson Chourio helped seal the deal.

Tuesday’s game felt more like air being let out of a balloon. The bats fell silent against Bryce Elder, Waukesha’s own Jared Kelenic reached base four times for Atlanta (and homered), and the end result was a 5-1 Braves win.

The Brew Crew jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning against Chris Sale in Game 3, but Matt Olson and Travis d'Arnaud hit back to back homers TWICE to help Atlanta finish up the series win.

The Brewers also closed out the trade deadline by making one more acquisition. Milwaukee sent Joey Wiemer and Jakob Junis to the Reds in exchange for starting pitcher Frankie Montas. They’ll hope Montas can regain his early season form and give them a bit more length in the rotation.

Next up, the Brewers go to our nation’s capital to square off against the Washington Nationals.

Master Brewer Leaderboard (through 108 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.)

Jackson Chourio 🍺

Willy Adames 🍺

Gary Sanchez 🍺

Sal Frelick 🍺

Blake Perkins 🍺

Freddy Peralta 🍺

Colin Rea 🍺

Hoby Milner 🍺

Tyler Jay 🍺

Leaderboard through 108 games

William Contreras, Willy Adames: 🍺x26

Bryan Hudson, Jackson Chourio: 🍺x22

Brice Turang: 🍺x21

Christian Yelich: 🍺x19

Sal Frelick: 🍺x18

Joey Ortiz, Joel Payamps, Trevor Megill, Colin Rea: 🍺x17

Elvis Peguero, Jared Koenig, Blake Perkins: 🍺x16

Rhys Hoskins, Hoby Milner: 🍺x14

Jake Bauers: 🍺x13

Bryse Wilson, Freddy Peralta: 🍺x12

Tobias Myers: 🍺x10

Gary Sanchez: 🍺x9

Abner Uribe, Joe Ross, Enoli Paredes: 🍺x6

Thyago Viera, Rob Zastryzny, Jakob Junis: 🍺x5

Oliver Dunn, Robert Gasser: 🍺x4

Eric Haase:🍺x3

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

J.B. Bukauskas, Owen Miller, Aaron Ashby, James Meeker, Bradley Blalock, Garrett Mitchell, Devin Williams, Tyler Jay: 🍺