Brewers drop Game 1 to the Dodgers, but turn one of the most extraordinary double plays in baseball history.

Sal’s, “what the f— just happened” was literally all of us watching this last night. Incredible!

Look, I’ve watched thousands of baseball games, I’ve called hundreds of baseball games, that’s a play that I’ve never seen before. Hell, baseball has been around for what, around 160 years? I don’t think ANYONE has ever seen that type of double play before. And if you lived for 160 more years, you’d probably never see it again. One of the reasons I keep on coming back to baseball, you literally never know what you’re going to see on a given night.

Now when that play happened, I thought, Angels In The Outfield. No way we lose that game after turning a grand slam into an inning-ending double play. But alas, it was not to be.

And the primary culprit last night? Blake Snell. I hate to admit it, but the guy was incredible. He looked like mid-90’s Tom Glavine over 8 shutout innings. Mixing pitches, mixing speeds, hitting the corners and edges, kept the Brewers off balance all night. I know there were some Brewer fans on Twitter that were lamenting how, “bad the at at-bats” were from the Brewers. Agree to disagree. Sometimes a pitcher, especially a pitcher who has won not one, but TWO Cy Young awards, will just make players looks foolish. And that’s what Blake Snell did. I’m honestly shocked they pulled him after 8 innings and went to their bullpen. He was only at 103 pitches, and it feels like a certainty that he would have only needed 8-10 more to mow the Brewers down in the 9th inning if he would have gotten that opportunity.

Speaking of that 9th inning: THAT is why you need to work counts as hard as you can and get into that Dodger bullpen. They are the weakness of that team. The second Snell left the game the Brewers got it going. 2nd and 3rd with one out after the Bauers pinch hit double, and the hit off of Chourio’s bat I thought was ticketed for the gap. Sadly, it resulted in a sac fly, but you got a run on the board and then set yourself up to be a hit away from stealing that win. Bases loaded, two outs, and Brice Turang at the plate:

Like every other Brewer fan, on that 1-2 pitch that almost hit him, I’m SCREAMING at Brice Turang through my TV to, “WEAR ONE FOR THE TEAM!” Easy for me to say sitting in my sweatpants on my recliner. Both Turang and Murphy said in the postgame, it’s instinct to move to move out of the way. And while that is 100% true, I do wonder if that affected Brice’s psyche on the next pitch that he swung at at his eyes. Almost felt like he also realized that the game would have been tied if he would have just stood in there, and then maybe got over-aggressive trying to compensate on the next pitch.

All in all: UGH. One hit away from stealing a game after you got dominated for 8 innings.

So, Game 2 tonight. My wife and I will be down there, and this team needs a win. We need good Freddy. We need aggressive in the count Freddy. And even though Yamamoto is a stud for the Dodgers, I’m hopeful that Brewer hitters seeing ANYONE not named Blake Snell will get the offense going a bit. Buckle in, this feels like it’s going to be a long series.

PS: You just knew Cubs fans on social media were going to be posting this in every Brewer comment section after last night went final:

I can’t believe how fragile that fan base is that an “L” flag has them so butthurt (medical definition). Too cute.