The Brewers lost game one of the NLDS but, after spending time in the clubhouse, there’s a confidence, believe it or not, from within this young team.  That’s an oddity coming from a team that’s been beaten by the Phillies 6 out of 7 times this season.  The confidence is 3-fold.  The fact that the bullpen did its job today, except for the 3^rd inning, the Brewers pitched a solid game.  The Brewers bats finally woke up and against Brad Lidge of all people.  This is the same Brad Lidge that converted 41 of 41 save opportunities and won the NL comeback player of the year.  Last, but not least, CC Sabathia’s on the hill tomorrow for this ballclub.
“Yeah, we’re confident, very confident”, Jason Kendall proclaimed, “We took the best closer in baseball this year to the mat.  We worked him into a corner and that’s something that a lot of people haven’t been able to do this year.  Brauny, Prince, JJ all worked him really well and solid at bats against him we just didn’t make the plays early to get the job done.  We’ll be back tomorrow.”
Craig Counsel reiterated Kendall ’s sentiments, “Sure, we got past the opening game jitters and then it was just baseball and I think that’s what a lot of these guys needed to experience.  We’re confident with CC on the hill tomorrow and these guys will know what to expect.”
The game was lost in the third inning; Cole Hamels dropped down a sacrifice bunt to move Carlos Ruiz over to second but Ricke Weeks dropped the throw from Billy Hall and that put runners at first and second with no outs.

Leadoff hitter, Jimmy Rollins, flew out to Corey Hart and Jayson Werth followed that up with a strike out.  At that point, the Brewers should have been out of the inning.  Chase Utley then lined a deep fly ball over the head of Mike Cameron, who originally broke IN on the ball, which drove in Ruiz and Hamels making it 2-0.  Ryan Howard drew the intentional pass then Gallardo lost Pat Burrell with a walk loading the bases.  With nowhere left to putem’ Shane Victorino worked Yovani for a base on balls and that forced in Utley.  By then the damage was done, 3-0 Phillies.
The rest of the bullpen (Stetter, Villanueva, Parra and Mota) threw 4 innings giving up 1 hit, 0 runs, a walk and 4 strikeouts.
Against Brad Lidge, the Brewers managed to plate a run but came up short and dropped game 1 of the NLDS 3-1.
Gallardo said after the game that he got away from his game plan, “I had good velocity and decent command today, I just got away from what we wanted to do with Utley, you can’t leave a fastball up to Utley, he’ll hurt you and Howard, Burrell and then Victorino, that was my fault.  I just didn’t get the ball over the plate and I was trying to make the perfect pitch.”
With everyone, including the veterans admitting that they were excited, nervous….call it what you will, all felt as if they settled down after the first pitch or two and it was just another baseball game after that.