What nobody put a number on was just how lopsided it would get. Milwaukee owns the best record in baseball this year at 77-48, and Tuesday snapped a 2-game winning streak Seattle had carried in, turning a promising week sour in the worst way for a Mariners club trying to stay in the thick of a crowded AL playoff race.
David Hamilton went 5-for-5 with 2 home runs and 4 RBI, and Christian Yelich added a homer and 4 RBI of his own as Milwaukee strung together back-to-back 5-run innings in the fifth and sixth before a 9-run eighth put it out of reach for good. Seattle was shut out across the board and committed 4 errors, the kind of night where absolutely nothing broke right.
For a Brewers team trying to hold off a surging Cubs team in the NL Central, results like this are exactly the kind of workload-saver Milwaukee wants — Harrison cruises, the bullpen mostly rests, and the lineup does the rest of the work. For the Mariners, it's another data point in a stretch that's turned an interesting summer into a lost one.