2019-04-06: Cubs (Hamels) at Brewers (Burnes) [Brewers lose, 14-8 -- Battle of struggling bullpens]

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Sick of watching our 2 and 3 hitters refuse to pour it on.

[Eye Black]

Baez with his 5th strikeout in his 5 ABs during this series. Wouldn’t hate seeing that trend continue.

[adambr2]

We continue to serve up HRs on platters lately.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Burnes has to nip this HR problem soon. He's too good to do that.

[Harold Hutchison]

C'mon, Corbin...

 

Show us that ace stuff...

[OldHeidelberg]

Homers the achilles heel for this staff so far

[stoutdude04]

Interesting the 3-2 pitch was a ball....interesting.

[Eye Black]

Disappointing to give up the 2-run HR to Heyward, but thankfully there are eight more frames hitting against this Cubs pitching.

[trwi7]

It’s concerning how many homers our pitchers give up.

[adambr2]

I hope the youngsters in the rotation decision pays off down the road. Starting pitching has been awful this year.

[xisxisxis]

Did Burnes forget how many outs there were?

[FVBrewerFan]

I hope the youngsters in the rotation decision pays off down the road. Starting pitching has been awful this year.

 

Well they have an ace, two TOR starters, and another ace when Nelson comes back tomorrow. Or something like that.

[Eye Black]

Grandal has historically been a streaky hitter, hoping he is on the cusp of a serious hot streak. He is now 7-for-12 over the past four games.

[PinaMadness]

Heyward must really suck defensively. That was an out all the way.

[John Jahahaha]

Grandal coming on!

[topper09er]

Opposite field with authority from Grandal

[OldHeidelberg]

Heyward must really suck defensively. That was an out all the way.

 

It was worth a try that's for sure

[Eye Black]

Runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs and it feels possible they may not score a run here.

[OldHeidelberg]

oof

[topper09er]

This is so dumb to review, what is the catcher supposed to do? Wait in right field until he has the ball

[Eye Black]

Why aren’t they challenging??????

[PinaMadness]

It's all part of CCs master plan to run into an easy out on the contact play and not challenge the obvious block by the catcher.

[John Jahahaha]

Unreal, Counsell

[adambr2]

Why aren’t they challenging??????

 

Looked like his foot was in the air and not on the plate when he first crossed it.

[Lathund]

I hope the youngsters in the rotation decision pays off down the road. Starting pitching has been awful this year.

 

3.28 xFIP, 6th best in the majors. 3rd in K-BB%. That kind of ability to get strikeouts and limit walks is a lot more predictive than ERA when it comes to future run prevention. High BABIP and a high HR/FB rate will revert back to the norm, and with that so will the run prevention.