Milwaukee Brewers
In a season derailed by injuries to the pitching staff, a reliance on the long ball and a shaky, post-Josh Hader bullpen, the Milwaukee Brewers were true to form in their final game of the disappointing 2022 season, falling to the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2 at American Family Field Wednesday afternoon.
Corbin Burnes, the rock of the staff, started his 33rd game and worked only three innings. He didn’t give up a hit and struck out five to become the first Brewer to lead the National League in strikeouts with 243. With the game tied at 1, Rowdy Tellez delivered a big swing in the bottom of the 8th inning, lifting his 35th home run of the year off the top of the right-center field wall for the 2-1 lead.
Trevor Gott was called in to finish and he couldn’t giving up three runs on three hits in Arizona’s 9th inning rally for the win. It was the Crew’s major league leading 16th blown save since Hader got shipped to San Diego.
The Brewers finished 86-76, second best in the National League Central Division, 7 games behind division winning St. Louis. They wound up just one game behind Philadelphia for the wild card and that ended the Brewers’ club record four straight playoff appearances.
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