When the Milwaukee Brewers bring Josh Hader into a game, they don’t lose. Well, that was the case prior to Monday’s opener. With the Cubs down 2-1, Milwaukee went to their hard-throwing lefty for his usual two innings of work in the seventh inning.
Milwaukee opponents were 0-21 in games in which Hader pitched. To-date, he’s struck out more than two batters per inning, a rate that would be an MLB record, if sustained over the course of the entire season.
Last night was different though. The Cubs tallied a run off Hader on a Jason Heyward RBI single in the top of the eighth inning, eventually forcing to extra innings.