The Brewers’ loss Wednesday night combined with a San Francisco Giants win has the Brewers on the outside looking in at the NL playoff picture as they begin their season-ending 5-game set against the Cardinals in St. Louis tonight.
We’ve known for awhile that the season would ultimately comes down to how the 5-games-in-4-days stretch plays out, and Wednesday’s loss to the Reds doesn’t change a ton in the grand scheme of things, other than making it seemingly unlikely that 4 NL Central teams make the playoffs and drastically improving Cincinnati’s odds.