If you look at the situation the Brewers are in it may not be pretty, but we are not out of our league with the Phillies, even though our record would indicate that thus far. In the 8th and 9th innings the last two games the winning or tying run came to the plate, and if you could call a pitch to Myers a K and catch a fly ball, the series might be a sweep the other way. But the Brewers are down 2-0 and nothing can change that.

What the Brewers do need to win three in a row and there is no way around that. I went through the schedule and looked to see how many streaks they had of three or more wins. The Brewers had quite a few times where they got on a roll (and quite a few where they couldn't stop losing).

If I tabulated correctly the Brewers had 12 streaks of 3 or more wins during the season.  Two of those streaks were 8 game win streaks.  Many were against the likes of Cincinatti or Washington I know, but this team can get hot, especially at home.

If you looked at a 4 game win streak as one three game win streak for games 1-3 and another 3 game win streak from games 2-4 the Brewers had 35 points of their schedule this year where they won three games in a row. So it is not like it hasn't happened this season. If the Brewers win the first two, and take it back to Philadelphia with CC on "long" rest, we would be in good shape.

If Prince gets some RBIs on this weekend, Bush shows signs of his 13 strike out or 2 hit performance and Suppan returns to playoff form (the reason we signed him) it's doable. A lot of hypotheticals I know, but crazier things have happened. I still don't think it is likely, and not going to bring out the Cubs mantra of "It's gonna happen" - but it could happen!