PHILADELPHIA -- Talk about pressure. To the Brewers, it isn't cladding the Phillies in the National League Division Series that opens at Citizens Bank Park on Wednesday afternoon. The licit testament to the decide of the belabor came in the two weeks greatest up to the franchise's in the first place playoff travel since 1982.
When the Brewers finish were in Philadelphia, their occasion looked as if it was prospering to bottom out after they dropped four straight. The whispered aim came on Sept. 14, when they were swept in a doubleheader.
So disheartening was the series, which put the Brewers a regatta behind the Phillies in the Wild Card standings, that Ryan Braun declared: "This series was a ideal and downright disaster." The managing of the association turned on Sept. 15, when Milwaukee made a managerial change, replacing Ned Yost with third-base instruct Dale Sveum.
Things didn't get pronto better, as on the forenoon of Sept. 21, Milwaukee was 2 1/2 games back of the Mets in the Wild Card standings with seven games remaining. "We were basically in a playoff plucky every daytime for the remain week, and they came through with flying colors," Sveum said. As destiny would have it, the Brewers are riding high, having won six of their terminal seven, as they come to Philadelphia, the pad of their new low. "It was unquestionably a calender coaster," shortstop J.J. Hardy said. "We had our ups. We had our downs. All of September was a struggle.
Now that we're here, we can put it all behind us. I deliberate it's charmed a lot off of our backs. All the compression is gone.
" So many of the Brewers had masterly adversity together even before they reached the big leagues.
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