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2018-10-12 (NLCS Game #1): Dodgers (Kershaw) at Brewers (González) 7:09 PM CDT [Brewers win, 6-5 -- Bullpen Survives; 12th Straight Win; Burgers for Everyone]

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adambr2 MVP

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Three innings for Hader?

 

I think CC is just saving a pinch hitter. Hader won't pitch the 7th.

 

Why? Granderson, Kratz, Schoop, all still available. Not the pitcher I'd like to even take a chance at getting hurt on a pitch inside. You could put any pitcher in to bat there.

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Cain refreshed!
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No, Smoltz. Hader is clearly batting to save a PH.

 

I’m with you. I figured he’s saving his bullets on the bench, but who knows. CC is the mad scientist.

 

Hader is at 27 pitches. I have to think he'll be out.

 

Still, odd to let him bat there. Are they really gonna need Schoop and Granderson later in the game?

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Love Counsell but I'd like to see the analytics that say leading off an inning isn't an important at-bat. He seems to wait to use a PH until they have a leverage at-bat, but you're much less likely to have that if you lead off with a pitcher. I think leading off before the top of the order hits is high leverage by definition.
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Yelich has struck out three times and we're up 5-1. Go figure.

 

A couple of those AB were really good. I think his AB in the first set the tone that Kershaw was going to have to work. Was a 10+ pitch AB

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Hader for three means we won’t see him until LA.
"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
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Wow - I was totally wrong on Hader not pitching another inning.

 

To me it just wouldn't make sense otherwise. 3 pinch hitters available and leading off. Why would you risk injury to Hader there batting him if you didn't plan to use him?

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Hader can't go tomorrow, but literally everyone else can. Fair trade.

 

I can live with it but with the RHB's at the plate this inning, I don't know. Someone might have scored on Cain's double if they had used a PH.

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