brewer bullpen rocked again for the second straight game california scored a ton of late runs to crush the brewhas it was six runs in the th for a win monday and five in the th and six in the th for a win yesterday jamie navarro pitched seven strong innings but orosco austin manzanillo and lloyd all took part in the mockery of a bullpen yesterday how s this for numbers maldanado has pitched three scoreless innings and navarro s era is the next lowest on the staff is wegman at ouch it doesn t look much better for the hitters hamilton is batting while thon is hitting and has seven rbi the next highest is three the next best hitter is jaha at and then vaughn who has the team s only hr at another ouch looking at the stats it s not hard to see why the team is in fact doesn t sound bad when you re averaging three runs game and giving up game still it s early and things will undoubtedly get better the offense should come around but the bullpen is a major worry fetters plesac and austin gave the brewers great middle relief last year lloyd maldanado manzanillo fetters austin and orosco will have to pick up the pace for the team to be successful milwaukee won a number of games last year when middle relief either held small leads or kept small deficits in place the starters will be okay the defense will be alright and the hitting will come around but the bullpen is a big question mark in other news nilsson and doran were reactivated yesterday while william suero was sent down and tim mcintosh was picked up by montreal today s game with california was cancelled salty
