2018-10-01 (Game 163): Brewers (Chacín) at Cubs (Quintana) 12:05 PM CDT [Brewers win 3-1; 2018 NL Central Champs!]

[phnxcrew]

Why can’t we hit

This Chavez turd?

[SRB]

Only one batter in this entire stadium showed up to play today

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Only one batter in this entire stadium showed up to play today

 

Two. Rizzo showed up

[Oxy]

Rizzo sure seems locked in. Can't pitch around him though.

[SRB]

So we're wasting everybody in a tie game we don't need to win? Ok whatever

[liveforoctober]

Counsell throwing the big guns. Go get the division fellas.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

C'mon Corey ... hope he has that curve working.

[adambr2]

Schoop's ABs just terrible, This is worse than Arcia bad ABs. And just like that, inning over...think Braun/Jesus had poor ABs still?

 

What in the world are you talking about? Schoop has made hard contact every AB today.

 

The quality of an AB is not always directly related to the length of it.

[KeithStone53151]

Rizzo sure seems locked in. Can't pitch around him though.

 

Oh you can and you should. You're right, he is locked in. Belicheck style managing here...don't let Rizzo beat us today. Make someone else do it.

[SRB]

Only one batter in this entire stadium showed up to play today

 

Two. Rizzo showed up

 

Eh, he hit a terrible pitch

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Go shift!

[YelichPosse]

Thank god for the shift.

[MrTPlush]

So we're wasting everybody in a tie game we don't need to win? Ok whatever

 

It is 1-1 late in the game, who knows what tomorrow will look like. Could be us losing 5-0 with a nice bullpen saved up for nothing.

 

With our pen we won't get much better odds to win a game.

[KeithStone53151]

Excellent location on those curves. If Rizzo can reach out and hit one hard...tip your cap.

[WinkelsasVsSoriano]

Gotta call strikes strikes, ump. That first one was in the zone. Actually, all of these now, though the last one was borderline.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

So we're wasting everybody in a tie game we don't need to win? Ok whatever

 

Soria threw 6 pitches.

[MrTPlush]

Nice pitches to Bryant!!!

[TURBO]

No issues with using Knebel here. None!

[YelichPosse]

KKKKKKKnebel has his stuff today. so good to see. You can tell if he has his stuff or not pretty quick , and this is a good sign.

[TURBO]

So we're wasting everybody in a tie game we don't need to win? Ok whatever

 

Soria threw 6 pitches.

 

might have been an idea to use Soria another inning there. By not using him though, he is available tomorrow if needed.

[pacopete4]

Awesome inning Corey!

[Ennder]

So we're wasting everybody in a tie game we don't need to win? Ok whatever

 

Knebel and Soria both can pitch back to back days so this is fine. I'd imagine if it is 1-1 still next inning we see Burnes for the next few innings and only use Jeffress if we take a lead. Then tomorrow we have Soria, Knebel, Hader for 2 IP and Jeffress for 2 IP available. We can cover at least 6 innings if we lose today. You really can't use Hader in this game while tied and that is really the big difference. He is the guy that likely would have been the 6th and 7th and we couldn't afford to use him today.

[owbc]

They can't do anything either. Who will be the hero?

[OldSchoolSnapper]

This is it. We have to score here.

[MadScientist]

So we're wasting everybody in a tie game we don't need to win? Ok whatever

 

Soria threw 6 pitches.

 

Soria and Knebel can go back to back games just fine if they don't go 2 innings. There would be a day off Wednesday, if they have to play tomorrow.