MILWAUKEE \u2014\u00a0I had a chance to ask some questions of Brewers first baseman and outfielder Jake Bauers. He’s an All-Star candidate and has had a great first half of the season. He leads the Brewers in home runs with 15.<\/p>\n
Dennis: For you personally, you’ve had so much success this season. Is it just freeing your mind as far as a different approach this season?<\/p>\n
Jake: “Yeah, I think that about sums it up. No, just try not to overthink it. I mean, really just trying to keep that mentality that I was talking about before where it’s, you know, day by day, good or bad, flush it and show up ready to work.”<\/p>\n
Dennis: What makes this such a good group together?<\/p>\n
Jake: “The chemistry in here is something that I haven’t experienced anyplace else. There’s no egos involved. Everybody wants to get better on a daily basis. Everybody wants to contribute and everybody wants to win. And so I think when you got 26 guys pulling on the same rope, that’s never going to be a bad thing.”<\/p>\n
Dennis: Is hitting contagious too, throughout a lineup?<\/p>\n
Jake: “I think it’s all contagious, positive, negative. I think everything’s a little bit contagious in this game, so I think it’s important that, you know, everybody’s trying to execute at a high level.”<\/p>\n
Dennis: Your starting pitching has been so exceptional all season long. Does that kind of free the offense to know that you don’t have to score 10 runs a night to win?<\/p>\n
Jake: “I don’t think so. I mean, obviously it’s great. You want to see them pitch well. I don’t, I think, More so when they’re pounding the zone and getting quick innings on defense, it can help you stay in rhythm offensively, I think.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014\u00a0I had a chance to ask some questions of Brewers first baseman and outfielder Jake Bauers. He’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2722,310315,363,3,99,452,1745],"class_list":["post-739023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-dennis-krause","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}