2020-09-14, Game 2: Cardinals (Ponce de Leon) at Brewers (Burnes) [Brewers lose, 3-2 in 9 innings]

[markedman5]

Walks and weak contact........man

[Eye Black]

Not much more room for error now. At least they get out of that inning still holding the lead.

[brewers888]

Have to shut them down the rest of the way unless Gyorko decides to hit one out

[BruisedCrew]

Feel bad for Burnes. He's been spotless for a long time and shouldn't have been forced to leave it in the hands of a scrub like Alex Claudio.

 

He put himself in that position. 100 pitches in less than 5 innings and you’re not going to get the best out of the bullpen to clean up for you.

[LouisEly]

Not much more room for error now. At least they get out of that inning still holding the lead.

Who now? Yardley? Rasmussen? Black? Topa? Knebel?

[brewers888]

Peterson should never swing at a 3-1 pitch

[adambr2]

Feel bad for Burnes. He's been spotless for a long time and shouldn't have been forced to leave it in the hands of a scrub like Alex Claudio.

 

He put himself in that position. 100 pitches in less than 5 innings and you’re not going to get the best out of the bullpen to clean up for you.

 

He didn't need them to clean it up. He was one out away from cleaning it up himself as he did in previous innings. 10 Ks and to that point had been scoreless yet again.

 

You're not going to be super efficient every outing but he was still fantastic and I'll take Burnes every time to get that final out over Alex freaking Claudio.

[brewers888]

I don't trust any of our options if we can't use Williams and Hader again

[LouisEly]

Burnes was over 100 pitches in the 5th. In a lost season, no need to tax his arm and risk injury.

[brewers888]

Its totally unfair to this staff to expect them to give up less than 2 runs every game

[markedman5]

Tough to win with no margin for error .......like every game

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Feel bad for Burnes. He's been spotless for a long time and shouldn't have been forced to leave it in the hands of a scrub like Alex Claudio.

 

He put himself in that position. 100 pitches in less than 5 innings and you’re not going to get the best out of the bullpen to clean up for you.

 

He didn't need them to clean it up. He was one out away from cleaning it up himself as he did in previous innings. 10 Ks and to that point had been scoreless yet again.

 

You're not going to be super efficient every outing but he was still fantastic and I'll take Burnes every time to get that final out over Alex freaking Claudio.

 

Counsell is super strict about not letting his starters get substantially more than 100 pitches. They get to the high 90s, and he gets super fidgety.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Sticking with Claudio here is a bold strategy.

 

 

I don't know about good ... but it's bold.

[LouisEly]

I think it would be fun to follow Claudio with Rasmussen or Black. Then Yardley.

 

Good luck being able to time those pitches.

[pacopete4]

I wonder if Arcia is ahead of Knebel out of the pen.

[brewers888]

Nice strike call

[markedman5]

Great job Claudio

[brewers888]

I think it would be fun to follow Claudio with Rasmussen or Black. Then Yardley.

 

Good luck being able to time those pitches.

 

I want no part of Black in a high leverage situation.

[Lostpawn]

I think it would be fun to follow Claudio with Rasmussen or Black. Then Yardley.

 

Good luck being able to time those pitches.

Well, you got Yardley 1st. Hope it works!

[markedman5]

I think it would be fun to follow Claudio with Rasmussen or Black. Then Yardley.

 

Good luck being able to time those pitches.

 

Black,has got about as much of a chance to pitch in this game as I do

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

I think it would be fun to follow Claudio with Rasmussen or Black. Then Yardley.

 

Good luck being able to time those pitches.

 

Black,has got about as much of a chance to pitch in this game as I do

 

Only chance of it happening is if the Brewers hang a crooked number in the bottom of the 6th.

 

 

 

So yeah, how's your arm?

[brewers888]

Why wouldn't they let Claudio pitch to Edman

[brewers888]

Well good job from Yardley

[markedman5]

Yardley impressive!

[pacopete4]

I’ve seen enough from Nottingham to have him be the RH part of the catching equation next year.