Corey Knebel has not been able to repeat his All-Star performance from last year in 2018. An injury in his third appearance of the season cost Milwaukee’s closer more than a month’s worth of action and he just hasn’t looked like his once-dominant self since returning to active duty in mid-May. After yesterday’s debacle where he faced four batters, walked three, recorded zero outs and was charged with four earned runs, his ERA on the season stands at 4.79 through 35.2 innings.
That outing, along with Knebel’s prolonged struggles dating back to the start of July (he’s allowed 12 earned runs in his last 17.