2019-08-09: Rangers (Allard) at Brewers (González) [Brewers win, 6-5 -- Bullpen struggles resurface; Thames walk-off HR in 9th]

[Fear The Chorizo]

yay

[adambr2]

This bullpen is an absolute joke. It's the main reason the answer to the "will we win the division" thread is a resounding "No".

[phnxcrew]

THROW

THE DAMN SLIDER!!!

[trwi7]

Hader tater.

[Fear The Chorizo]

it's almost like a reliever that is constantly relied on to get 4+ outs to close games out could use a 2nd pitch after facing the league 2+ seasons...

[markedman5]

What a brutal game ........did nothing well other then Gio's start.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Gross ... really gross.

[bucks2281]

Yeah, if I’m Stearns, I’m definitely taking calls on Hader this winter

[willie key]

Can’t hader just give up a single. How can you give up this many homers.

[Brew crew 92]

Should have sold high at the deadline. Wow. Disheartening.

[BruisedCrew]

Can someone look this up

 

Has Grandal ever scored from first on a double in his life? High school? Little league? Whiffle ball?

 

I’m sure he has, but even healthy Yelich wouldn’t have scored from first on Pina’s hit.

 

ETA: According to Baseball Reference, Grandal has scored from first on a double 7 times in his career, including once this year. That’s out of 56 times that he has been on first when a double was hit.

 

 

That wasn’t a double. Pina essentially took second because nobody was covering

 

Right. Not the play to use as an example of how slow Grandal is. Regardless, it’s hard to criticize the speed of a guy who’s caught as many games as Grandal has this year and in his career. Those catchers get slower as the season wears on and from one year tomthe next.

[trwi7]

Movie quotes not about Josh Hader.

 

"He's afraid of his fastball."

[HarveysWBs]

This is madness. How will this team beat contenders in the next couple weeks? I know it’s baseball and it can turn around, but the bullpen is just a nightmare top to bottom. There’s no sign of life out there.

[Eye Black]

The two, 2-strike HBPs aren’t much more fun to watch than the HRs.

 

The Brewers need to win this game.

[Brewcrewin07]

Not just Hader, but the entire staff...is it just me or do the Brewers Pitchers seem to be hurt more by the juiced ball this year than any other staff in baseball??

[HarveysWBs]

Can’t hader just give up a single. How can you give up this many homers.

 

They had to ask the same thing about Burnes. This is becoming a disturbing organizational trend.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Grandal sets up 5" off the plate on an 0-2 count...Hader grooves a fastball middle middle and gets lucky there

[Brew crew 92]

it's almost like a reliever that is constantly relied on to get 4+ outs to close games out could use a 2nd pitch after facing the league 2+ seasons...

 

Very astute take. Nailed it. Hopefully can be sold for 74 cents on the dollar this offseason.

[markedman5]

Not just Hader, but the entire staff...is it just me or do the Brewers Pitchers seem to be hurt more by the juiced ball this year than any other staff in baseball??

 

It's just you

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

it's almost like a reliever that is constantly relied on to get 4+ outs to close games out could use a 2nd pitch after facing the league 2+ seasons...

 

Very astute take. Nailed it. Hopefully can be sold for 74 cents on the dollar this offseason.

 

You want to trade Hader. Point made.

[Eye Black]

Not just Hader, but the entire staff...is it just me or do the Brewers Pitchers seem to be hurt more by the juiced ball this year than any other staff in baseball??

The league is on pace for 2,400 more HRs this year than just five years ago (2014), so I think it’s safe to say most pitching staffs have been affected.

[Brewcrewin07]

This is madness. How will this team beat contenders in the next couple weeks? I know it’s baseball and it can turn around, but the bullpen is just a nightmare top to bottom. There’s no sign of life out there.

 

It's not just you, but when anyone asks "how can the Brewers do it"?? Because...baseball. Look at what the Mets are doing..2 weeks ago...2 weeks! they had the 2nd worst record in the NL...now...tied for the 2nd wild card and have won 14-15. Just an incredible tear. Look at the Streak the Giants went on earlier...got themselves into the wildcard picture...it's baseball, anything can happen, and it's not like the Crew is talentless.

[Brewcrewin07]

Oh great, so he's going with Jeffress next?? Great call Craig! GO WITH POMERANZ dammit!

[Fear The Chorizo]

Your 2019 Milwaukee Brewers - proof that bullpenning as an organizational philosophy is a terrible idea. LOL'ing at all those spring training threads about our bevy of out getters right about now...

 

Hader has to come out of this game because he can't throw strikes...good God

[trwi7]

Somebody threw a strike to Odor. I say we just stop the game now and call it a win.