2020-07-29: Brewers (Woodruff) at Pirates (Musgrove) [Brewers win, 3-0 -- Pirates manage just one infield hit as Woodruff dominates]

[SeaBass]

Sogard has 7 walks this year.

 

What is Counsell thinking hitting the guy with the best batting eye on the team in the leadoff spot? Doesn't he remember 2018?!?!?

I feel like I should keep complaining about it so he doesn't go into a slump. (But I'm liking what I see. Just don't tell him I said so.)

[Eye Black]

Dovydas Neverauskas is a great name.

80 grade name. 20 grade control.

[MrTPlush]

I think I would have rather thrown 5M at a redemption shot for Travis Shaw than "blah' guys like Justin Smoak. Maybe the interest just wasn't mutual.

 

Our line up tonight is hard to look at. Honestly it looks like something we would employ in a rebuilding year trying to half-arse avoid 90 losses. Sogard, Smoak, and Morrison are a bunch of journeymen...even Gamel isn’t really a starter.

 

I know it is partially this way because of the match up, but half our line up is these type of guys nightly. We will see how it performs over 60 games, but it isn’t exactly pretty.

[B-Train]

Dovydas Neverauskas is a great name.

 

I am hearing Adam Silver in my head : “The 23rd pick of the 2nd round in the 2018 NBA draft... “

[PinaMadness]

If Pina had been in the lineup today, Woody would be working on a no hitter right now.

[adambr2]

I don't ever expect anyone to feel sorry for the salary of any MLB player, but Woodruff is one player who is really going to get the shaft relative to his comparable MLB pitchers.

 

Just got in too late, and had his service time jerked around just enough in his early years to ensure that he's an old man in baseball years by the time he ever hits free agency.

[PinaMadness]

Does CC pinch hit Arcia for Yelich here?

[MrTPlush]

This umpire is truly terrible.

[folly412]

This zone is abysmal.

[wildcat83]

Ouch, tough when your slumping and get that call.

[adambr2]

Yelich improving on his robust .237 OBP.

 

Wait, that's his OPS.

[pacopete4]

Yelich can’t be healthy.

[PinaMadness]

C.B. Bucknor, the worst umpire in baseball not named Angel Hernandez.

[adambr2]

Buckner really sucks and that was a crap call but Yelich could have easily been rung up on 2-2. Nothing much more to that AB than Yelich continuing to be miserable at the plate.

[B-Train]

C.B. Bucknor, the worst umpire in baseball not named Angel Hernandez.

 

Not coincidentally, he was voted worst umpire by players in 03, 06, and 2010.

[markedman5]

Yelich can’t be healthy.

 

I’m sure they wouldn’t be playing him,if he was hurt.......no indication that this is anything but a terrible slump.......kind of like Shaw.......

 

He will snap out of it but man it’s tough to watch right now

[phnxcrew]

When do we start blaming yelichs love life?

[PinaMadness]

When do we start blaming yelichs love life?

I hear Danica is available now.

[Zad Fnark]

He'll probably snap out of it right on top of the Cards.

[nate82]

Woodruff is looking like 2008 Ben Sheets.

[SomewhereInTime]

Not a fan of the super quick hook. If we're ever going to develop starting pitching, we need guys like Woodruff being allowed to pitch into the 8th and 9th inning.

[homer]

Not a fan of the super quick hook. If we're ever going to develop starting pitching, we need guys like Woodruff being allowed to pitch into the 8th and 9th inning.

 

2nd start of the year and 92 pitches. I'm ok with it.

[PinaMadness]

That's about as inexplicable a dropped pop fly you'll ever see.

[B-Train]

Not a fan of the super quick hook. If we're ever going to develop starting pitching, we need guys like Woodruff being allowed to pitch into the 8th and 9th inning.

 

2nd start of the year and 92 pitches. I'm ok with it.

 

July 29 of any usual season, yes he stays with him.

[SomewhereInTime]

Not a fan of the super quick hook. If we're ever going to develop starting pitching, we need guys like Woodruff being allowed to pitch into the 8th and 9th inning.

 

2nd start of the year and 92 pitches. I'm ok with it.

 

Nah, at least let him finish the 7th