This is pretty much it:
Austin Bond is throwing a 2-hit shutout going into the 9th inning against Phoenix. His team has only managed to give him 1 run at home and that on a
Joe McPhillips solo homer in the 7th inning.
Bond gets the first batter to groundout to second base, then walks the next batter. The Denver manager (that would be me) decides to leave
Bond in to face Phoenix first baseman Carlos Robles. A good hitter, not a great hitter. Of course, Robles triples to tie the game at 1 apiece.
Bond is done and
Dan Folk, who enters the game with an ERA of 0.00 over the course of 18 games out of the bullpen (he missed time earlier in the season with a sprained ankle) comes in.
Folk is the best reliever on the team and the guy most likely to get strikeouts when needed. He works former Brewer Victor Oseguera to a 2-2 count, then Oseguera singles in Robles. Luis Olivez, the 1983 MGL MVP, follows with another single and then power-hitting third baseman Jason Puglisi doubles. Because of course this would be the day that
Folk would implode. Naturally light-hitting great glove shortstop John Rains then triples (Oseguera had thankfully been thrown out trying to advance to third on Olivez single, so that keep one run off the board).
Austin Bond, having thrown his 20th Quality Starts in his 23 starts this season, suffers the loss when his team, who are now 3rd in runs scored in the MGL after being 1st much of the season, can't mount any sort of run support for him and the Brewers bullpen, 2nd in the MGL in ERA, falls apart when it counts most.
Chris Romines (.366/.399/.530) went 2 for 4 and
Javier Hernandez (.353/.427/.553) contributed a 2 for 3, 1 walk, 1 stolen base day because of course the Brewers 7th round pick of 1981 and 11th round pick of 1982 are actually getting the job done in 1985.
With the loss the Brewers sit at .500, tied with Phoenix for 3rd in the MGL West. And, from the looks of it, likely destined to fall behind Phoenix before the end of this season.
This is the 1985 Denver Brewers in a nutshell.
Oy vey!