Uecker call of the Hoskins Grand Slam is pure magic.

I will never stop blogging awesome Bob Uecker calls. Never. The man is a treasure and I get goosebumps EVERY single time we get a call like this.

Related: I still don’t understand why my Uecker Bat Signal idea hasn’t come to fruition yet. Granted I haven’t done a single thing to push that idea to anyone who works for the Brewers, I just blogged about it on a country music website and assumed it would handle itself. That’s on me. But rest assured the apporiate people (whoever runs the Brewer Facebook or Twitter page) are about to get a daily message from me regarding just that. You can’t leave me on ‘read’ every single day!

Double Related: Rhys Hoskins NEEDED that bomb. I’m not going to say his season has been a disappointment because it hasn’t been. But I do think most fans would agree that he hasn’t had AS big of an impact in the middle of that lineup that we hoped he would when they signed him in the offseason. A part of his issue is injuries, certainly, but ever since he’s been back from the IL his at-bats haven’t generated a ton of power. He does have a modest 6-game hit streak going right now and maybe that moonshot last night will signal the start of a power hot-streak.

Triple Related: Freddy needs to be better in 2-strike counts*. He got ahead of so many hitters last night, but just couldn’t finish them off. His pitches once he gets ahead 0-2 or 1-2 are non-competitve at the moment. It’s been that way for the better part of a month and I think the scouting report is out. You could tell opposing batters weren’t interested in swinging at anything once they were down in the count to Freddy. That led to big pitch counts every inning and an early exit after 5-innings. We talked about it on the podcast last week, I feel comfortable saying that this is a playoff-caliber team, but if they have designs on making a legitmate run, they need Freddy to be ace Freddy. They need 2021 Freddy. He was that during the early part of the season, but from mid-May on he just can’t seem to put consistent starts together. He wasn’t bad last night, but just not ace-level.

*Take it from an internet blogger. I know what I’m talking about when it comes to what it takes to be a successful Major League Baseball pitcher.

PS: The Cubs blew another lead, you just hate to see it!