Offensive struggles

The Brewers' offense has been struggling as of late and costing them games, scoring more than 5 runs only once since April 13. The Brewers have lost 3 of their last 4 games and extra innings has been all too common and they lead the league in games going past 9 innings. We have lost only 3 series so far and stand in 3rd place in the NL Central at 14-11.



OFFENSE

Ryan Braun has been heating up as of late batting .333 over the past 7 games after a slow start along with Prince Fielder (.304, 3HR, 7 RBI) who is getting his power stroke back. I personally went to the 4/23 game against the Phillies at Miller Park in which he hit 2 blasts. Bill Hall has been having a powerful year with a .500 slugging percentage and 7 HR's already.



PITCHING

Mitch Stetter has been a beast for our bullpen since being called up from AAA Nashville, and has gotten us out of several jams and not allowing one run yet. Yovanni Gallardo has allowed only 1 earned run in two starts and 14 innings of work which is amazing for our staff. Manny Parra and Carlos Villanueva haven't had the best of success but should turn it around in the upcoming weeks. Eric Gagne has been overworked to an extent with all our close games and is 7 for 11 in save opportunities.



Mike Cameron will be returning to CF this week and hopefully will give a spark to our offense at the #2 spot in the lineup. Ben Sheets will be back too after missing a start last week and has been dominant this year. If our offense plays even to 3/4 of its potential we should really take off soon and catch up in the division race. The next month's schedule is brutal and will be critical to how this season will go for our team. GO BREW CREW!!!