Counting down the minutes to the end of the season.

The first time I moved away from home and got a nice job something dreadful dawned on me. At the time, I was working a lot and only had two weekends off a month. That meant I'd only have 26 weekends, or 52 days off a year. It wasn't how much I worked that bothered me. It was how little I'd see my friends and family back home. I couldn't visit them every weekend I had off. Even if I wanted to, I probably wasn't going to go back home once a month either. And even if I did, it would be driving into town Friday night and driving back Sunday afternoon which further limited the quality time I could spend with all of my friends and all of my family. It was really depressing to think about and I truly and strongly warn anyone else against counting the minutes of their life. With that in mind, here are the minutes left in the Brewers regular season!

Romanticizing the unromantic

The game of baseball is fascinating and endearing. But it does not last forever, which is why you ought not tune it out before it is too late to go back.

• There are 4 different series and 12 games left in the season.
• If we assume that each game goes the regulation 9 innings, we have 108 innings of regular season baseball left.
• There are only two more weekends left in the regular season.
• There are 3 home games left: The Cubs series to end the season.
• There are also only three more day games: Sun, 21st vs PIT; Thur, 25th vs CIN; Sun, 28th vs CHC (final game of the regular season).
• Not counting today, the Brewers have 1 more day off.
• If this schedule is to be believed (and take it with a grain of salt because it still lists John Lackey as tomorrow's starter which isn't true) then the Brewers face only 3 more lefties: Fri, 19th Pirates John Locke; Thur, 25th Reds David Holmberg; Fri, 26th Cubs Felix Doubront
• Three more lefties means only 3 more Rickie Weeks starts in the regular season, which almost certainly means only 3 more Rickie Weeks starts as a Brewer (not counting any postseason games).
• Three more lefties also means only 9 more Scooter Gennett starts.
• Finally, three more lefties means Matt Clark would probably only have as many as 9 more starts.
• As many as 9 more Matt Clark starts would mean at least 9 more Matt Clark home runs! There's fool proof math behind this one people!
• If the rotation remains the same from here on out, Wily Peralta will make 3 more starts.
• If Peralta makes 3 more starts and we take his IP average from this year, that means we can expect approximately 18.1 more Wily Peralta innings.
• If the rotation remains the same from here on out, Mike Fiers will make as many as 3 more starts. His last start comes in the final game of the year. It's possible, if a wild card spot is locked up, the Brewers skip his regular season start so that he can pitch in the wild card play-in game.
• We could expect approximately 20 more Mike Fiers innings.
• Kyle Lohse should make at least 2 more starts.
• We could expect approximately 12.2 Kyle Lohse innings.
• Yovani Gallardo should make 2 more starts.
• We can expect approximately 12 more Yovani Gallardo innings.
• Matt Garza should make 2 more starts.
• We can expect approximately 12 more Matt Garza innings.
• If we assume those innings pitched totals are accurate, and each game goes 9 innings, that leaves 33 innings for the bullpen to throw.
• If we assume Jonathan Lucroy plays in all 12 games, using his average plate appearances, he should get 51 more plate appearances.
• Furthermore, if we take the average rate at which Lucroy hits doubles and factor that across 51 plate appearances, it tells us he should hit 4 more. That gives him 55 doubles and the franchise record.