Stinging Loss

What a heart-wrenching defeat. Last night, the Milwaukee Brewers lost to the New York Mets in the last of a three-game series to be eliminated from the 2024 postseason.

After the Brewers took the lead with two dramatic back-to-back home runs by Jake Bauers and Sal Frelick in the seventh inning, Pete Alonso of the Mets hit a three-run homer in the ninth followed by an RBI single by Starling Marte. The final score was 4 to 2.

My wife and I have watched a lot of baseball this year. One highlight from this season was seeing the Brewers in person this past May.

We’re not done yet with watching baseball. There’s still a lot of baseball left to be played with some very interesting teams to keep an eye on.

Still, when your team loses in the postseason, it hurts. It hurts even more when your team has lost 11 of its last 13 postseason games. It hurts still more when your team’s hitters go quiet—you don’t win games very often by scoring only a handful of hits—and when your team’s big-time closers—yes, closers in the plural—blow it over the course of a number of postseason appearances.

It was a fun season to watch. But, man, it still hurts to see it end that way.