2018-10-17 (NLCS Game #5): Brewers (Miley) at Dodgers (Kershaw) 4:05 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 5-2]

[82brewcrew82]

Why would the team wait until the NLCS to go into its biggest offensive slump of the season?

Yelich being uber locked in covered a lot of flaws.

[shanedog19]

What is going on?!?!

[bigredrobbo]

Feelin' a Jesus jack.

 

...or not...

 

*sigh*

[82brewcrew82]

IF we lose this series (no im not announcing it’s over), everyone will obsess over Counsell’s bullpen strategy and completely ignore our offense being the clear reason for our struggles.

Just thinking the same thing.

[yfinn6]

Yuck.

[Brewcrewin07]

I just have NO idea what Aguilar sees with those pitches that tells him to swing...they aren't even close...he does that more than anyone.

[Eye Black]

Aguilar just swung at a pitch that was 55 feet. Yikes. This teams offense is just gross right now.

That was the pitch where it was clear he had no chance that at bat. He is literally just waving the bat around up there.

[bm1090]

Why would the team wait until the NLCS to go into its biggest offensive slump of the season?

 

Maybe the Dodgers having 3 elite starters has something to do with it. Just maybe.

[owbc]

Why would the team wait until the NLCS to go into its biggest offensive slump of the season?

 

Maybe the Dodgers having 3 elite starters has something to do with it. Just maybe.

 

[sarcasm]No that can't possibly be it.[/sarcasm]

[WinkelsasVsSoriano]

Kershaw looks like he could very well go eight innings. He's on, and the Brewers are swinging at the pitches he needs them to swing at. I'm not liking this.

[pacopete4]

IF we lose this series (no im not announcing it’s over), everyone will obsess over Counsell’s bullpen strategy and completely ignore our offense being the clear reason for our struggles.

 

Hopefully Stearns doesn’t. He’s the one that matters.

[jason21nl]

Even though they have a couple of guys that have won the WS...this looks like a team that just isn’t ready yet

[bigredrobbo]

Why would the team wait until the NLCS to go into its biggest offensive slump of the season?

 

Maybe the Dodgers having 3 elite starters has something to do with it. Just maybe.

 

So what you're telling me is that playoff games might be a little harder than regular season games? Crazy talk!

[Craigilicious]

Man, 1-6 of this order has just fallen off a cliff.

[PinaMadness]

Why would the team wait until the NLCS to go into its biggest offensive slump of the season?

 

Maybe the Dodgers having 3 elite starters has something to do with it. Just maybe.

Agreed. Their starting pitching is the reason I thought they would win this series.

[WinkelsasVsSoriano]

This really has a similar feeling of last night's game where the offense needed to do something, but just couldn't. Hopefully this time it's different. Let's go, guys!

[82brewcrew82]

Even though they have a couple of guys that have won the WS...this looks like a team that just isn’t ready yet

This. Too many little mistakes.

[Ennder]

I visit quite a few fan forums due to fantasy baseball and I've never been to one that doesn't think their manager is an idiot for how they run the bullpen. It is just something every fanbase complains about.

[TURBO]

I visit quite a few fan forums due to fantasy baseball and I've never been to one that doesn't think their manager is an idiot for how they run the bullpen. It is just something every fanbase complains about.

 

That's because the fanbase has hindsight to fall back on, managers do not.

 

I admit I am guilty of this often.

[bigredrobbo]

60 pitches for Woody. 3 hits. I say pitch him until he gets runner(s) on.

[WinkelsasVsSoriano]

Come on, Brandon. Clamp down.

[coolhandluke121]

60 pitches for Woody. 3 hits. I say pitch him until he gets runner(s) on.

 

Let him get the double play from Machado and call it a day.

[owbc]

This is probably going to be a pivotal half-inning. Need another DP.

[bigredrobbo]

Is there any recorded history of two double plays and a triple play in the same game? I'm getting prepped for Machado as a coping mechanism. This tension stuff is hard work.

[MrTPlush]

Counsell going against his word of 4-5 innings for Woodruff. A lot of pitches and innings right here for a guy who isn’t used to it lately.