Brewers' Eric Thames: Playing time dwindling

Thames is out of the lineup Tuesday for the seventh time in the Brewers' last nine games.

It's possible that Thames is still battling the knee injury which caused him to miss the first three games of that aforementioned stretch. All nine games have come against righties, against whom Thames rarely sat earlier in the season. He's hit just .103 in his last 17 games, however, so it's possible that his dip in playing time in also performance related. Ryan Braun, who's hit .350 in the month of August, will start again in left field, bumping Christian Yelich over to right.