TORONTO – The off day is tantalizingly close, the end of a brutal 19-games-in-18-days stretch that has tested the Milwaukee Brewers in every way imaginable.
And by the looks of the performance they put forth on Sunday, Aug. 31, they need it – badly .
With a shot at sweeping a terrific Toronto Blue Jays team on their home turf, the Brewers instead stumbled their way to an ugly 8-4 defeat in which virtually every area of what's been an incredibly tight-knit, well-run unit betrayed them over the course of nine innings.
BOX SCORE: Blue Jays 8, Brewers 4
There was a two-run defensive miscue in the first inning that opened the door to three Toronto runs and an early deficit for Milwaukee.
There were bad baserunning blunders that short-circuited potential rallies that ended the third