The Milwaukee Brewers struggled to get much of anything going offensively on Friday, losing 4-1 to the Washington Nationals. The Brewers mustered just three hits, one of which was a solo home run in the bottom of the seventh inning by Avisail Garcia. Washington scored two runs in the top of the fourth inning and then tacked on one more in both the sixth and ninth. With the loss the Brewers are now 74-49 and play the Nats again on Saturday at 3:05 PM. The game will once again be in Milwaukee. 

In other area baseball action, the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers lost on Friday to the Cedar Rapids Kernels by a 3-1 final score. They’ll play Cedar Rapids again on Saturday with the game starting at 6:35 PM.