How Brewers Are Using Their Bye Week Ahead of NLDS

On the first workout day of their weeklong bye before the NLDS, the Brewers didn’t play a game-like scrimmage. That was by design. “Don’t try to contrive or recreate real at-bats, because you’re not going to get those,” Pat Murphy said on Tuesday afternoon. Instead of replicating a game, the Brewers held a specialty workout, deliberately dialing down the intensity to work on some of the basics. Even though September was the club’s winningest month of the regular season, Murphy felt his players were slipping on executing fundamentals. Outclassing opponents at the little things has been integral to their regular-season…