The Rays are making too many mistakes to stand a chance against the relentless Brewers

Give the Brewers so much credit for their inevitability, but the Rays are handing them every opportunity They did it again. The Brewers fell behind early and came back to win. This time around, the Rays scored four runs in the first inning and the Brewers just chipped away until they finally (inevitably?) took the lead in the bottom of the seventh inning. They won, 5-4. They are masters of the comeback craft. It all started in Game 1 of the NLDS. The Padres took the early lead. The Brewers came back to win. It happened again in Game 2. They did it in all four games of the NLCS against the two-time defending champion Dodgers, including a four-run comeback in the Game 4 clincher.

And now they've done it again. The Brewers are now 9-1 in the playoffs, and they've come from behind to win seven times. If that's not enough, some of the other numbers are downright staggering. The Brewers this year, regular season and playoffs combined, are now 41-37 when the other team scores first. That's a mind-boggling stat. The last team to finish a season with a winning record in such situations was the 2009 Yankees (via Sarah Langs). Or how about this one? The Brewers just became the fifth team in MLB playoff history to