The times are dark for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Maybe if they didn’t enter the season with such high expectations, things would be different. Maybe if this team — which was largely the same, except for one key guy — hadn’t been so good last season, things would be different. But right now, the Brewers simply cannot hit. In 15 games in May, they’re averaging 2.3 runs per game; if you exclude Wednesday’s 9-5 victory over Cleveland, they’re averaging 1.8 runs per game. They’ve been shut out six times. Curious about this offensive ineptitude, I checked: going into tonight’s game, the Brewers’ OPS in 14 May games was .