2020-08-14: Brewers (Woodruff) at Cubs (Chatwood) [Brewers win, 4-3 -- Yelich 3-run HR proves the difference]

[adambr2]

They take five minutes pumping up Sogard as a leadoff hitter because he sees a lot of pitches and draws a lot of walks. Then he proceeds to strike out on 3 pitches.

 

David Stearns is a pretty shrewd guy. Not many players are able to get David Stearns to drastically overpay for your services.

 

Eric Sogard has managed to do it twice.

[Eye Black]

Hoping the Brewers can start working these counts a little deeper even if they aren’t going to hit. I am starting to have déjà vu of the Kyle Hendricks start on opening day.

[PinaMadness]

Nine down, eighteen to go.

[stoutdude04]

They take five minutes pumping up Sogard as a leadoff hitter because he sees a lot of pitches and draws a lot of walks. Then he proceeds to strike out on 3 pitches.

 

David Stearns is a pretty shrewd guy. Not many players are able to get David Stearns to drastically overpay for your services.

 

Eric Sogard has managed to do it twice.

 

Haha.

 

I wonder how much the different ball helped some of these guys year. Obviously Sogard had a solid year. Did the ball make a difference? Is the hitting coach changing something? I mean, these guys looked awful.

[MrTPlush]

Woodruff’s strike zone is huge. Lol

[PinaMadness]

At least the game is moving along at a crisp pace.

[BruisedCrew]

They take five minutes pumping up Sogard as a leadoff hitter because he sees a lot of pitches and draws a lot of walks. Then he proceeds to strike out on 3 pitches.

 

David Stearns is a pretty shrewd guy. Not many players are able to get David Stearns to drastically overpay for your services.

 

Eric Sogard has managed to do it twice.

 

Haha.

 

I wonder how much the different ball helped some of these guys year. Obviously Sogard had a solid year. Did the ball make a difference? Is the hitting coach changing something? I mean, these guys looked awful.

 

Does the ball now turn invisible halfway to the plate?

[Eye Black]

Nine down, eighteen to go.

All told its eighteen up, eighteen down so far. [sarcasm]It’s exhilarating to see which team might manage a base hit first.[/sarcasm]

[pacopete4]

Games like this would be kinda fun if they were smacking the ball around other nights. But every night of just no offense has grown more than stale.

[BruisedCrew]

Sogard has now seen 8 pitches to rack up two Ks.

[folly412]

When's the last time Hiura made it two PAs in a row without striking out?

[PinaMadness]

I hope the only non out of this game is a Pina home run. In the ninth inning hopefully.

[markedman5]

Mills is painting........probably wouldn’t have to be with our offense but he’s pitching great

[PinaMadness]

When's the last time Hiura made it two PAs in a row without striking out?

Hiura is on Rob Deer levels of strikeout rates. And he's a second baseman, allegedly.

[pacopete4]

If I had to pick, Keston is the biggest disappointment. It felt like we had a RH star emerging. Plenty of time to get in gear though.

[MrTPlush]

Wow, thanks Smoak.....

[TURBO]

Smoak sucks. That is an error, and better be scored as such.

[wibadgers23]

Smoak has been just as brutal in the field as he has with the bat.

[TURBO]

Thankfully, that was scored correctly... I figured the Cubs scorekeeper would screw us over on that just to do it...

[MrTPlush]

The umpire is the worst I have seen in honestly a long time...this is just disgraceful.

[BruisedCrew]

I just looked this up because I was curious to see how badly the Brewers have been outscored in the early innings. Incredibly, in the first 4 innings they are being outscored 43-12.

[Eye Black]

1st and 3rd, nobody out. The Cubs have us right where they want us.

[folly412]

Smoak's only use is no hitter breaker upper.

[BruisedCrew]

That’s about as ugly a run as you can get.

[Underachiever]

Smoak's only use is no hitter breaker upper.

Too bad the team has needed someone to do that.