The Milwaukee Brewers have another three games in their series against visiting Pittsburgh to prove whether they have figured out a way to solve the Pirates or whether Friday's 9-1 walloping was an outlier.
The Pirates swept a three-game series against Milwaukee last weekend and were 4-2 in the season series before the Brewers opened a four-game set Friday with the lopsided win.
Heading into the series, Milwaukee had lost six of eight, including the sweep last weekend, and manager Craig Counsell lamented that his club wasn't getting enough offense, wasn't scoring enough and was putting too much pressure on its pitchers.