Playoff Bound

Lots of baseball for us this weekend. We had friends and family over on Friday night to watch the Brewers defeat the Cubs 5-1 and take a one-game lead in the wild card race. On Saturday, we were present to watch the Cubs win the second game of the series 7-3, putting the Brewers back in a tie with the Mets for the wild card.

To top it all off, we were also in attendance at today's game. The Cubs took an early 1-0 lead, but the Brewers tied it up in the 7th inning on a bases loaded walk. Ryan Braun smacked a home run in the eighth to put the Brewers up 3-1. C.C. Sabathia, who pitched amazingly well throughout the game, took care of business in the 9th. With the win, the Brewers clinched at least a tie for the wild card playoff spot. If the Mets lost today, the Brewers would win the wild card outright.

The Mets-Marlins game was in the bottom of the 8th when the Brewers-Cubs game ended. We stayed in our seats (along with pretty much everyone else) to watch the end of the game on the jumbotron. Chants of "Let's go, Marlins!" rung throughout Miller Park as the Marlins took a 4-2 lead into the bottom of ninth. To make a long story short, the Marlins won, and the celebration was on.

MOVIE of the celebration at Miller Park after the Brewers clinched the NL Wild Card!

We are now hoping for the Cubs to beat the Dodgers and the Brewers to beat the Phillies in the first round of the playoffs, which would result in a Cubs-Brewers NL Championship Series. That would be awesome.