So much irony in last night’s Milwaukee Brewers 4 – 3 loss to the Washington Nationals!

An eighth inning error by rookie Trent Grisham — a ball that rolled under the glove of the right fielder — scoring what would be the game winner.

Grisham was playing right field replacing MVP candidate Christian Yelich –out on season ending injury after fracturing his right kneecap on Sept. 10.
Grisham was Milwaukee Brewers Minor League Player of the Year.
Grisham was 1st batter in the game and scored the 1st run.

The press mobbed the rookie afterwards – flashes going off and microphones jammed in his face. Seriously? Give the kid a break. If it hadn’t been for a sloppy performance by Josh Hader — All-Star lefty who saved 37 games this year – Brewers would have been on a flight to Los Angeles!

Hader loaded the bases with two outs —allowing a broken-bat bloop single —hitting one batter with a pitch (a strange HBP — getting both batter’s hand and the bat — Brewers challenged — wasn’t “clear and convincing evidence to overturn the call.”), and a walk.  A 96 mph fastball and that’s all she wrote…

Brewers had their chance in the top of the 9th.  Daniel Hudson on the mound for the Nats.  Hudson who wouldn’t have been there had it not been for a phone call at the trade deadline.

A soap opera writer couldn’t have scripted it any better.