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]

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

The Brewers are in a 1 run playoff game and you two are arguing over the comedic value of movie spoofs.

 

.......

 

Good point ... I'm done. Just seemed like an unneeded low blow on Suter.

[trwi7]

I wouldn't call them high comedy, but they were cute

 

That must be the problem. You should see my YouTube comedy playlist. Not really into cute.

[adambr2]

Arcia was a pretty good hitter over the regular season also. There’s definitely been improvement with him.

 

Yep, and plays really high level defense. I’m in no rush to get rid of him.

 

Baseball reference had Arcia at literally replacement level in 2020, Fangraphs was a little more bullish at 0.7. I guess it depends what you go by. I won't say he hasn't improved at all, but the bar was pretty low.

 

His defense is a bit overrated. I think people just assume he's an elite defensive shortstop without really checking the metrics.

[DuWayne Steurer]

zone getting a little wider......

[folly412]

I've had no qualms about this zone. Called well, tight, consistent. I think there's one pitch he actually gave Suter low that was particularly bad and that's about it.

[adambr2]

Suter wasn't even really close. He wasn't squeezed. I don't know why we're playing this card that Suter got screwed. This umpire has been pretty good.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Did Arcia play CF once, or am I inventing that? His desire to get to everything would make that a total adventure, and it would be fun in a bad season.

[trwi7]

You let suter walk five guys and you ring up hiura on that pitch

 

Just because the dodger pitcher was complaining

 

Screw this ump. That’s bull crap

 

Suter deservedly walked 5 guys, that pitch to Hiura was a strike. What are we even watching?

 

What

 

What? Go back and look. Every ball on Suter's walks were out of the strike zone. The strike 3 to Hiura was in the strike zone. This isn't complicated.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

I've had no qualms about this zone. Called well, tight, consistent. I think there's one pitch he actually gave Suter low that was particularly bad and that's about it.

 

THis is the zone we should have seen all year. Perhaps it was just the crews assigned to the NL Central games this summer who were terrible?

[KeithStone53151]

The ESPN announcers were discussing Buehler appears to have some substance on his blisters, which isn’t allowed. Even if the Brewers questioned it, what would happen? Would he just get ejected? I doubt he’ll come back out now anyway.

 

This is one of those things that teams only call out other teams for if it's super egregious. Maybe technically they are breaking the rules but nobody really cares.

[Bulldogboy]

Yardley is a nasty cat. Williams took up the oxygen but dude is good.

[brewers888]

This is getting exciting. Never thought we would hang in this game.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Steady work from Yardley. Really good pitching.

[Eye Black]

The ESPN announcers were discussing Buehler appears to have some substance on his blisters, which isn’t allowed. Even if the Brewers questioned it, what would happen? Would he just get ejected? I doubt he’ll come back out now anyway.

It’s weird that people care about a guy using glue to keep a nasty blister together when the likely 2020 NL CY Young winner is literally using foreign substances to gain a substantial advantage.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

 

What? Go back and look. Every ball on Suter's walks were out of the strike zone. The strike 3 to Hiura was in the strike zone. This isn't complicated.

 

Agreed. I think we've gotten used to those balls 4-5 inches outside the zone getting called strikes because they were quite a bit during the season. They shouldn't be, though. Is this an umpiring crew that the Brewers had at all this summer?

[HarveysWBs]

Way to go, Yardley. If the Crew scratch this thing out, he is going to be exhibit A as to how they got there.

[FVBrewerFan]

Sure looks like Buehler has liquid bandaid or something on his blister. I didn't think anything of it, but if you guys are saying that's not legal then it's the story of the game isn't it?

[folly412]

Yardley was the best offseason acquisition. And a waiver claim even.

[liveforoctober]

Yardley, Vogey, Gyorko all deserve another run with us next year.

[trwi7]

 

What? Go back and look. Every ball on Suter's walks were out of the strike zone. The strike 3 to Hiura was in the strike zone. This isn't complicated.

 

Agreed. I think we've gotten used to those balls 4-5 inches outside the zone getting called strikes because they were quite a bit during the season. They shouldn't be, though. Is this an umpiring crew that the Brewers had at all this summer?

 

Suter also wasn't close to the zone on a lot of pitches. You just aren't going to get the benefit of the doubt when the catcher is consistently reaching and catching balls several inches out of the zone.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Yardley is a nasty cat. Williams took up the oxygen but dude is good.

 

Another good bullpen piece. There's a nice mix in there of the usual elite arms and guys that get outs with some wrinkle or deception.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Yardley is a nasty cat. Williams took up the oxygen but dude is good.

 

I really wasn't too excited about him at first because his stuff just doesn't seem that good. But his command has been spot-on all year.

[liveforoctober]

Sheriff hitting for Narvaez.

[mtrebs]

I have a feeling that Yelich will hit one out today.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Yardley was the best offseason acquisition. And a waiver claim even.

 

I don't know. David Phelps says "Hold my beer." Not only was Phelps pretty good while he was here, his implosion after he got to the Phillies is probably the reason why the Brewers have a spot in the playoffs.