2021-07-07, Game 1: Brewers (Burnes) at Mets (deGrom) [Brewers lose, 4-3 in 8 innings -- Hader blows save for 1st time this season]

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Corbin Burnes: Batter (Mets) vs Pitching Stats

 

Jacob deGrom: Batter (Brewers) vs Pitching Stats

 

 

Statcast Game Preview for Mets-Brewers

 

Statcast Game Feed for Mets-Brewers

[Eye Black]

Burnes and deGrom facing off in a 7-inning game is extra fascinating in that the bullpens may factor into it very little. If there was ever a game to find a way to scratch across a run first, it’s probably this one.

[Austin Tatious]

Glad to see Burnes is ok. He tweaked something at the end of his last start.

[IIAY]

I can see it now: deGrom retires the first 21 in order, notching 14 strikeouts. But Burnes is almost as good and we head to the eighth 0-0. With the ghost runner on second, Hiura drops down a sac bunt to move him to third. On an 0-2 pitch, a high fastball gets away from deGrom and gets to the screen, allowing the ghost runner to score. deGrom strikes out the last 2 hitters, but Hader comes in to strike out the side. deGrom's final line: 8 IP, 16 K, retires all 24 hitters, and loses 1-0.

[Eye Black]

Rowdy is in the house.

 

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Slightly surprised Hiura is in the starting lineup today just because I’d put the odds of him catching up to a deGrom fastball in the upper half of the zone at an extremely low probability.

[Jastro]

Slightly surprised Hiura is in the starting lineup today just because I’d put the odds of him catching up to a deGrom fastball in the upper half of the zone at an extremely low probability.

 

What has better odds Keston hitting a deGrom fastball in the upper half or someone on here winning the Powerball?

[JET15]

From a high level these two teams are close in profile to one another

 

Batting: 88 vs 91 OPS+ (MIL vs NYM)

Pitching: 118 vs 116 ERA+

Fielding: 30 vs 27 Rdrs

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2021.shtml#all_team_output

[BruisedCrew]

Brewers fans are well aware of the injury problems the Crew has had, but the Mets have possibly been hit harder. They are getting some of their injured players back and are going to be even more formidable the rest of the way.

[wildcat2237]

As others have lamented, a tough righty is on the mound so I am very surprised to see Hiura and not Tellez at 1B.

 

I figured maybe Tellez had not arrived, but that is not the case.

[Patrick425]

This is on BSWI and ESPN? Turned on BSWI expecting to see the pre-game. There is a golf program on and ESPN has Wimbledon until 3pm.

 

edit: actually ESPN2 has Wimbledon until 3, ESPN has it until 1:30. I'm assuming it will be on BSWI with no pre-game?

[JET15]

This is on BSWI and ESPN? Turned on BSWI expecting to see the pre-game. There is a golf program on and ESPN has Wimbledon until 3pm.

 

edit: actually ESPN2 has Wimbledon until 3, ESPN has it until 1:30. I'm assuming it will be on BSWI with no pre-game?

 

BSWI. Just came up on MLB.TV

[CheezWizHed]

Rowdy is in the house.

 

He should get a bobble head that looks like this:

[Eye Black]

Hahaha, ok Urias!

[JET15]

Luis... Nice... shake off that funk

[Underachiever]

Game over.

[markedman5]

Woah Urias!

[homer]

well that was unexpected

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Well that's one heck of a start! Maybe they'll hit well against deGrom because he isn't a nobody?

[JET15]

well that was unexpected

 

Who had a Urias leadoff homer on their bingo card?

[tmwiese55]

I thought this DeGrom guy was supposed to be good?

[Underachiever]

I thought this DeGrom guy was supposed to be good?

ERA of 9.00 today. Not sure what the big deal is.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Urias has shown a surprising amount of power this year. He just turned 24 last month. Could he be this team's 3B of both the present and future?

[BruisedCrew]

At least the Brewers have a chance for a 1-0 win. I’m not expecting any more runs.