Brewers Bullpen Holding On To Lead, Milwaukee Still On Top, 9-4

This is noteworthy because LaTroy Hawkins is 59 years old and smells like epsom salt. In the top of the seventh inning, Hawkins struck out Sean Burroughs -- oh, hello there, sentence from 2003 -- before walking two straight hitters. With a five-run lead, that's completely unacceptable. Then Justin Upton lined a shot to right field that was hit directly at Corey Hart, and then Miguel Montero hit a laser beam right to Prince Fielder.

Being effective is overrated. Being lucky doesn't get nearly enough credit. And being unlucky, which the Diamondbacks certainly were in that half-inning, isn't helping their desperate attempts to avoid an 0-2 deficit in the NLDS.