Game Seventy One: Red Sox 10, Brewers 4

Box Score

That was pretty much what I feared would happened. The Red Sox scored a lot of runs and the Brewers needed to use a lot of pitchers to get through the game. The Red Sox have an absurdly good lineup and are going to do what they did to the Brewers to many more teams this season. Hopefully this is the only time the Brewers will be victimized by the juggernaut that is the Boston Red Sox lineup, but I have my doubts.

Other notes:

-Marcum left the game after throwing 44 pitches in the first inning. The preliminary report is that he has a hip strain, which we all hope is not serious. The lesson here: throwing a lot of pitches in an inning leads to injuries. It's not avoiding pitch counts that matters as much as avoiding high-stress innings.

-The Cardinals dropped their 7th straight to the Royals. Because of this the Brewers get to stay in first place for another day. I'm perfectly fine with other NL Central teams synchronizing their slumps with the Brewers.