THE FUNDAMENTALS.

After making history at Yankee Stadium for a number of the wrong reasons, the Milwaukee Brewers won their home opening series.

As the Royals gathered at the mound for a meeting with pitcher Sam Long, Brewers manager Pat Murphy walked out to the on-deck circle to chat with [Brice] Turang. The message clearly worked. On the first pitch he saw from Long, Turang dropped down a picture-perfect cue down the first-base line, allowing Dunn to scamper home without even a play at the plate.

Perfect craftsmanship – just like [Freddy] Peralta in the hours preceding it.

After surrendering more runs in the first four games than a football team with a weak defense, the past two games were a 4-0 shutout of Kansas City followed by that 3-2 win in eleven.  It's a long season, you don't give up on it after a week.