There wasn’t much difference between tonight’s game and this past weekend’s.
A few more runs were scored all around, and the in-game margins were comparably larger. Still, the makings of a third extra-innings loss in five game were all there, as Cincinnati had the tying run at second with one out in the top of the ninth.
Yet it never felt like doom was coming. Such is the advantage of playing at home, a luxury the Brewers unwillingly ceded in four games in front of a partisan crowd that not even the president could call friendly to the home team.