Brewers 12, Mets 3
My lord, is JJ Hardy on fire. I don't know which alien body-snatcher has taken over his body, but I like this new version of JJ Hardy just fine, thank you. It's almost gotten to the point where his numbers are just silly. No scouts looking at Hardy expect him to hit more than 15 homers in a season, yet already he's at 11, tied for first in the NL (with Prince Fielder, of course). His grand salami today couldnt' have come at a better time, as the Mets had chipped away at our 4-run lead and we had Matt Wise and his changeups on the mound. Between him and Prince, they've carried the team in the early run, although it was nice to see Bill Hall finally get some hits and get that anemic average up to .273.
Just imagine, if the Brewers can get Weeks and Hall going while Hardy and Fielder are still hot (they have to slow down sometime, don't they?) the nos. 1 through 4 in our order would be absolutely devastating. Then throw in another home-grown Brewer in Geoff Jenkins (who's having an underrated season so far), and you have one of those rare line-ups that's totally home-grown. Contrast that against some teams like the Mets or Yankees, and you can see firsthand how good of a job that the Brewers are doing in developing players. Still'd be nice to see Melvin add a bat or two to the lineup, Counsellino isn't getting the job done lately, although today they worked pretty well.
Anyways, the Cubs predictably lost (again) and so our lead's up to 8 games now. We're pretty mcuh guranteed of having at least some share of the NL Central lead until the end of this month!
Go Crew!
posted by Andrew @ 5:55 PM
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