2020-09-30 (NL Wild Card Series): Brewers (Suter) at Dodgers (Buehler) [Brewers lose, 4-2 -- Suter’s early struggles prove too much for offense to overcome; Yardley and Topa combine on solid effort out of bullpen]

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Brent Suter: Batter (Dodgers) vs Pitching Stats

 

Walker Buehler: Batter (Brewers) vs Pitching Stats

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Via Robert Murray: Daniel Vogelbach will be on the Brewers’ Wild Card roster.

 

The complete Brewers Wild Card Roster should be announced later this morning, will post it here when it’s out.

 

Here it is:

 

 

Dodgers Wild Card roster doesn’t include Gavin Lux:

 

 

 

Brewers Lineup

 

[tigerbrew]

Must Win

 

Go Brewers!

[willie key]

Vogelbach watch.

 

You got to love it

[Underachiever]

Too bad Suter is pitching. As far as getting in the Dodgers' heads, he may be more valuable banging a garbage can lid in the bullpen.

[pacopete4]

Suter is already one of those staple Brewers players over the last few seasons. He has a chance here to really put himself in a place historically with fans if he can find a way to knock of the Dodgers.

[MrTPlush]

Suter has only faced the Dodgers once in his career (2018 Miller Park). He got mauled pretty bad partially in thanks to his defense, but his line was 6 runs/2 ER/3 Innings.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Suter has only faced the Dodgers once in his career (2018 Miller Park). He got mauled pretty bad partially in thanks to his defense, but his line was 6 runs/2 ER/3 Innings.

 

That may be in part because he was likely pitching with a torn UCL. That was his last outing before undergoing Tommy John surgery.

[owbc]

It would be huge to get an early lead and put pressure on LA. I’d love to see a crooked number in the top of the 1st.

[liveforoctober]

I guess I missed that Buehler had missed so much time. I hope if he comes out fired up/wild we are patient and can capitalize early.

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A few notes on Walker Buehler:

 

The most innings he went in a game this year was 6.0 IP, and he only did that once. As mentioned elsewhere he hasn't thrown more than 71 pitches in a game since August 21st.

 

His four-seam fastball (throws it 54% of time) has been nearly unhittable this year. Hitters have a .102 BA on it, just a .119 SLG against it, and a .165 wOBA. That's pretty bonkers for a starter.

 

Buehler's most hittable pitch has been his curveball (throws it 16% of time), which has actually been hit very hard this year. That includes a .750 SLG and hitters have hit his curveball with an average exit velocity of 94.2-mph.

 

The Brewers as a team saw a ton of curves from RHP this year (top 5 most in baseball which was partially because they weren't great against them). I would love to see Hiura get into a Buehler curveball tonight (although he'll probably see nearly exclusively high four-seamers).

 

Buehler does throw the pitch that was sort of the Brewers' kryptonite this year, a sinker (Brewers SLG % against RH sinkers was worst in the league by .116 points below the next worst team), but it's among his least used pitches (9%).

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Devin Williams has been left off the Wild Card roster due to an arm issue according to Jeff Passan.

 

Per Passan: Huge blow for the Milwaukee Brewers: Rookie right-hander Devin Williams, the best reliever in baseball this year, has been left off the roster for their wild card series against the top-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers, sources tell ESPN. He's dealing with an arm issue, sources said.

 

Per Haudricourt: Brewers put out playoff roster without Devin Williams. He has right shoulder soreness. Hearing it's not really bad but enough to keep out of best-of-three.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Devin Williams has been left off the Wild Card roster due to an arm issue according to Jeff Passan.

 

Well ... that's swell.

[long ball]

Dang. The Devin Williams injury news is a huge blow. Like a sinking feeling.

 

Probably going to need Houser or Knebel or Rasmussen to figure it out to have a shot here.

[wibadgers23]

What the front door?

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

No Brett Anderson on the roster either. Looks like it's gonna be Suter, Woody and pray.

[MrTPlush]

That pretty much blows one of the only things going for them in this entire series. The combo of Hader/Williams for a good 3-5 innings to help win two games was one of the only glimmers of hope. About the only way they were going to manage a hard fought series win...now we basically hope the Dodgers crap the bed.

 

More concerned about Williams arm for next year.

[wibadgers23]

My guess is it’ll either be Topa or Rasmussen in a tight game in place of Williams.

[wibadgers23]

That pretty much blows one of the only things going for them in this entire series. The combo of Hader/Williams for a good 3-5 innings to help win two games was one of the only glimmers of hope. About the only way they were going to manage a hard fought series win...now we basically hope the Dodgers crap the bed.

 

More concerned about Williams arm for next year.

 

According to Haudricourt, it’s not a serious injury. But yeah, anything with the shoulder is always concerning.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

That pretty much blows one of the only things going for them in this entire series. The combo of Hader/Williams for a good 3-5 innings to help win two games was one of the only glimmers of hope. About the only way they were going to manage a hard fought series win...now we basically hope the Dodgers crap the bed.

 

More concerned about Williams arm for next year.

 

According to Haudricourt, it’s not a serious injury. But yeah, anything with the shoulder is always concerning.

 

I did find it a bit odd that he didn't throw his change-up hardly at all in his last outing.

[ThisIsMyCrew]

Postseason Time! It’s time for someone to become a legend! Shock the world!

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

How much do you guys trust Houser in a late-inning relief role? Obviously the history is there. One of these games may just come down to that.

[MrTPlush]

How much do you guys trust Houser in a late-inning relief role? Obviously the history is there. One of these games may just come down to that.

 

I mean...do we really have a choice?

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Yeah, the Williams news is...not good. But good not to risk anything at this point.

 

I think it's Topa and/or Rasmussen, and we'll go from there. Give them a shot and hope.

[wibadgers23]

Best case scenario imo...Suter goes 5, Topa and Rasmussen for the 6th and 7th and then Hader for 2 if we’re ahead of course. Then hope for a long outing from Woodruff in game 2.