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May Days
LEE JENKINS
May 19, 2008
Ping-Pong, pool time and a humbling nine-game road trip for a team on the verge: SI went along for the ride and an exclusive inside look at the young and talented Brewers
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May 19, 2008

May Days

Ping-Pong, pool time and a humbling nine-game road trip for a team on the verge: SI went along for the ride and an exclusive inside look at the young and talented Brewers

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In the clubhouse afterward, players slowly started to chatter—about families, homes, familiar beds. The last bus left Dolphin Stadium at 11:30 p.m., bound for the airport. The team plane was due to land in Milwaukee at 3 a.m. Nine hours later the coaches would be at Miller Park reading scouting reports and watching video. The Cardinals were in town.

"When it's ready to turn around, it will turn around," Yost said of the team's slump. "And it will turn around in a hurry."

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