As I mentioned in this morning's Mug, today features one of the Brewers' worst road days of the year. They're playing a night game in Los Angeles tonight (a 9:10 Central time start), then getting on an airplane and flying home to host the Pirates at Miller Park tomorrow night. In a roughly 25 hour stretch starting tonight they'll play two baseball games and log roughly 1750 air miles in between.

The Brewers have 26 days this season where they play in a city on one day, then a different city the next. This, as you might expect, is the shortest turnaround.

This chart operates under the following assumptions:

• A three hour baseball game in the departing city, which is roughly the median time of Brewer games in 2012.
• A two hour window between the end of the game in the departing city and the team flight taking off. This is probably optimistic.
• An average flight speed of 500 mph.

The best Brewer trip of 2012, by this measure, is their last one. They'll play an 11:35 am game in Cincinnati on September 27, then fly home for a 7:10 start the next night. Their estimated time between arrival and the first pitch of the home game is 25 hours and 57 minutes.