Game Thread (6/21/2022): Cardinals (Flaherty) at Brewers (Gonzalez) - 7:10 PM CDT

[magnoliacrew]

42 minutes ago, magnoliacrew said:

Controversial take. I would have preferred Hiura to Renfroe at DH.

This time with feeling.

[Caswell]

23 minutes ago, edfunderburk said:

Batting practice 

Worst pitch of the game considering the count. Did well all in all. He needs to drop that sinker from his arsenal in my opinion from what I have gathered. His off-speed is good, but his sinker just gets slammed, can't reiterate that enough haha. First innings are his worst

[Underachiever]

This game has had a lot of popups, it seems.

[Caswell]

17 minutes ago, magnoliacrew said:

Can I still drink if someone else throws a scoreless inning? Like Suter for example?

Yes. Cheers!

[folly412]

Sanchez sure has been good.

 

 

[willie key]

Can this team score some runs for god sakes

[phnxcrew]

I think we can go ahead and pay almost any price for some hitting.  one “splash” and a few incremental upgrades.  There isn’t a ton out there, but we can certainly improve a few positions.

[gypcasino]

14 minutes ago, Caswell said:

Yes. Cheers!

Yes it's 5 O'clock somewhere according to Bill Schroeder. Odd thing to say at 9pm but whatever. 

[Brewcrew82]

If they don't come back in the last two innings, they need look no further than all the runners they left on base against a struggling pitcher in the first three innings. Oh well. At least they've hit Wainwright pretty hard lately and Goldschmidt is nursing a sore back....

[magnoliacrew]

24 minutes ago, gypcasino said:

Yes it's 5 O'clock somewhere according to Bill Schroeder. Odd thing to say at 9pm but whatever. 

Jimmy B and Mississippi approves tho...

[Brewcrew82]

Marmol and Counsell have such different bullpen strategies at this point. Cardinals look like they're about to burn their two best relievers for two innings each with a four run lead....You'd never see Counsell do that with Williams and Hader. 

[liveforoctober]

2 hours ago, folly412 said:

So, back to Small next? Or give Boushley a look?

I'm not sure what else Boushley has to do to be the next guy called. He has outpitched Small in the last 6 weeks.

[CdrbrgMark]

29 minutes ago, magnoliacrew said:

Jimmy B and Mississippi approves tho...

 

54 minutes ago, gypcasino said:

Yes it's 5 O'clock somewhere according to Bill Schroeder. Odd thing to say at 9pm but whatever. 

I think they were talking about the name of the bar that won the free 40 ticket drawing tonight.

[AKCheesehead]

Real glad I didn't go to this one, between how the game played out and the fact that it would be a sauna in there.  Thursday will likely be my one game of the summer while I'm back visiting in Wisconsin and I'm hoping for a better time than what the fans got tonight.  It at least will be cooler.

[CdrbrgMark]

Just guessing, but Brewers must be in the top 10 teams for men LOB.

[gypcasino]

6 minutes ago, CdrbrgMark said:

 

I think they were talking about the name of the bar that won the free 40 ticket drawing tonight.

Gotcha. Makes more sense then if it was a callback. I was working and had the game on in the background and was only half paying attention. 

[nate82]

1 minute ago, CdrbrgMark said:

Just guessing, but Brewers must be in the top 10 teams for men LOB.

Nope actually not even close.  The Brewers are at 6.48 and that is not even close to the top 10 teams with runners left on base per game.  Mariners (7.40), Cubs (7.19), Rockies (7.16), Padres (7.14) Red Sox (7.06), Cardinals (7.04), Royals (7.0), Mets (6.99), White Sox (6.94) and Dodgers (6.92).  That is your top 10 with runners left on base per game.  Actually a higher number of runners left on base is good as it means you are putting more runners on and increasing your chances to score.  A lower runners left on base is actually bad and you should really be looking at total number of runs scored and the runners left on base.  A lot of your teams that score a lot of runs leave a lot of runners on base as not every runner is going to score all of the time.  The more chances you get with runners provides a higher probability of scoring runs.  

[Jim French Stepstool]

45 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Marmol and Counsell have such different bullpen strategies at this point. Cardinals look like they're about to burn their two best relievers for two innings each with a four run lead....You'd never see Counsell do that with Williams and Hader. 

Actually, on June 21 I wouldn't want to see Counsell doing something like that. An interesting question is, would he do it in a crucial game the last week of the season?

Cards really wanted this one. Would be nice if it came back to bite them the next two days.

[SomewhereInTime]

13 minutes ago, nate82 said:

Nope actually not even close.  The Brewers are at 6.48 and that is not even close to the top 10 teams with runners left on base per game.  Mariners (7.40), Cubs (7.19), Rockies (7.16), Padres (7.14) Red Sox (7.06), Cardinals (7.04), Royals (7.0), Mets (6.99), White Sox (6.94) and Dodgers (6.92).  That is your top 10 with runners left on base per game.  Actually a higher number of runners left on base is good as it means you are putting more runners on and increasing your chances to score.  A lower runners left on base is actually bad and you should really be looking at total number of runs scored and the runners left on base.  A lot of your teams that score a lot of runs leave a lot of runners on base as not every runner is going to score all of the time.  The more chances you get with runners provides a higher probability of scoring runs.  

Yeah I was going to say, without looking it up, this Brewers team does not get on base nearly enough to have a high amount of runners stranded.  I've been more surprised throughout the year that they've scored as many runs as they have given the low averages and low on base percentages.

[CdrbrgMark]

20 minutes ago, nate82 said:

Nope actually not even close.  The Brewers are at 6.48 and that is not even close to the top 10 teams with runners left on base per game.  Mariners (7.40), Cubs (7.19), Rockies (7.16), Padres (7.14) Red Sox (7.06), Cardinals (7.04), Royals (7.0), Mets (6.99), White Sox (6.94) and Dodgers (6.92).  That is your top 10 with runners left on base per game.  Actually a higher number of runners left on base is good as it means you are putting more runners on and increasing your chances to score.  A lower runners left on base is actually bad and you should really be looking at total number of runs scored and the runners left on base.  A lot of your teams that score a lot of runs leave a lot of runners on base as not every runner is going to score all of the time.  The more chances you get with runners provides a higher probability of scoring runs.  

Thx for the info, I'm surprised by it.

[Pugger]

11 hours ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Marmol and Counsell have such different bullpen strategies at this point. Cardinals look like they're about to burn their two best relievers for two innings each with a four run lead....You'd never see Counsell do that with Williams and Hader. 

And hopefully those relievers won't be available tonite.