2021-08-17: Brewers (Burnes) at Cardinals (Wainwright) [Brewers win, 2-0]

[PinaMadness]

(exhales)

[phnxcrew]

Great hader is back! 8.5 game lead with 40 to go!

[Underachiever]

Such good pitching. What a blast to watch.

[pacopete4]

Never a doubt. Better team continues to win.

[folly412]

More pitching excellence!

[owbc]

Too easy. Yawn.

[phnxcrew]

Sorry Bader. No big boy hit for you.

 

You mean, “sorry dumb

Looking gnome”?

[adambr2]

What a nice win. So many years a night like tonight would have ended up a loss with all the missed opportunities but our 3 aces are just that good.

[Underachiever]

Magic number 34

[IIAY]

At 41-20 with 20 road games left, the Brewers have now guaranteed a winning record on the road.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

So the Brewers beat the Cardinals, which reading some other threads sounded like something that was difficult to impossible. At the same time, the Reds lost to a depleted Cubs team, which a few of those same posters also indicated was impossible.

 

Sounds like a good night to me!

[willie key]

I know it’s august but this game has the feel of we got our foot on the neck of the nl central teams

 

 

Now is the time to crush it these next two games

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Don't expect a lot of scoring in tonight's game. Wainwright (even this older, junkballing version of him) has pretty much always had the Brewers' number. Recipe for success is going to be to hope to push a few runs across early, then hope Burnes is on his game.

 

While this is pretty much exactly what happened, I am far from Nostradamus. This is been the Brewers' recipe for success in low-scoring games all season.

[Eye Black]

The Padres are in the midst of quite the free fall against some bad teams lately.

[willie key]

The Padres are in the midst of quite the free fall against some bad teams lately.

 

 

I was just going to post this

 

What the heck happened to them. They are all in too

[owbc]

The Padres are in the midst of quite the free fall against some bad teams lately.

 

 

I was just going to post this

 

What the heck happened to them. They are all in too

 

You need the full 40 man roster to win over 162 games. A few key injuries and now they are toast.

 

Trying to be the 2010s-Mariners of the west coast isn’t working out for them.

[rickh150]

A Brewer could win the CY Young and not pitch the first two games of the playoffs.

[tigerbrew]

Bet the Cards regret letting Wong go, a huge mistake just to save some money. Looking at his batting stats this season, he'd be the 4th best hitter in the entire Cards team, not to mention his gold glove defense at 2B.

[Fear The Chorizo]

The Padres are in the midst of quite the free fall against some bad teams lately.

 

 

I was just going to post this

 

What the heck happened to them. They are all in too

 

They went all in, but key pieces are injured or underperforming - Tatis is always one check swing away from reaggravating his balky shoulder, Darvish is now on the IL, Clevinger is out the whole season due to TJ surgery, Blake Snell has frankly stunk compared to what they expected of him, etc....