The Brewers walked into Wednesday night's game still riding the high of one of the most lopsided wins in modern baseball history. Milwaukee crushed Seattle 22-0 the night before, a margin that matched the largest shutout win since 1888, with Christian Yelich, David Hamilton, Jake Bauers and Luis Lara all going deep. Nobody figured Seattle would just roll over and take another beating, but the speed of the turnaround still caught people off guard.
Instead of licking their wounds, the Mariners came out swinging early and actually built a lead, which is exactly the kind of thing that had Barstool Baseball doing a double take on Twitter.
Mariners players in the dugout as the scoreboard shows Seattle up 4-0 on Milwaukee in the top of the 1st.
Seattle didn't stop there. According to game reports, the Mariners jumped Brewers starter Dustin May for seven runs across the first two innings, and that early cushion held up as the difference-maker. Naylor was part of the pile-on, and Barstool Baseball's cameras caught the Mariners tacking on more against a Brewers team that couldn't find the same magic from the night before.
A Brewers runner slides into third as the Mariners defense scrambles, with Seattle extending its lead in the field.
Milwaukee didn't just fold, though, and Joey Ortiz made sure of that. A night after playing strong defense in the blowout win, Ortiz turned in a huge night with the bat, driving in four runs and matching a career high in the process, a two-run homer among the highlights. It was the kind of performance that usually anchors a Brewers win, except this time the deficit Seattle built early was simply too much to climb out of.
Highlights of Joey Ortiz's night at the plate, including a baserunner scoring past Mariners catcher Dominguez with the scoreboard showing Brewers trailing 8-4 in the 8th inning.
Ortiz finished the night with a stat line that would headline most Brewers wins, but Seattle held on and beat Milwaukee 7-5, snapping right back after getting run off the field the day before. It's a reminder that even a record-setting blowout doesn't buy a team much carryover the next night — and for Ortiz, a four-RBI game in a loss is still a four-RBI game worth remembering as Milwaukee tries to reset heading into the rest of the series.