MILWAUKEE - There is an uncomfortable symmetry to Ryan Howard's first two games in the National League Division Series. Eight plate appearances. Four walks. Four strikeouts.
To say that the Brewers are being careful with Howard is to be guilty of gross understatement. Two of the four walks have been intentional. Very few of the pitches thrown in his at-bats have been what you would call hittable. He is being patient on the one hand and sometimes getting himself out on the other. It is all to be expected.
DAVID MAIALETTI / Staff photographer
Ryan Howard has yet to put a ball in play, which is just the way the Brewers apparently planned it.
