JSOnline/Haudricourt - Hall running out of time

It sounds as if the leash on Bill Hall is getting shorter. Much shorter.

“His at-bats and what he has done over the last month, we’re down to the end there where other options are going to have to be explored,” manager Ken Macha said Thursday before the Brewers lost to Florida, 4-3, in the finale of the four-game series.

Macha had Hall in the lineup, primarily because he was 4-for-6 with two homers in two previous starts against Marlins right-hander Josh Johnson. But that match-up did nothing to perk up Hall, who went 0 for 3 with a strikeout and two groundouts to fall to .211 for the season.

Macha made it clear that Hall was running out of time to break out of his prolonged offensive skid.