Game Thread (6/22/2022): Cardinals (Wainwright) at Brewers (Lauer) - 7:10 PM CDT

[Brewcrew82]

Yelich, please please please please. I'll just take a slap hit right now. 

[Eye Black]

BA comparing Yelich to a kicker… lol

[yourout]

Have a chance at least.

[CdrbrgMark]

Damn, does Hiura suck. I've asked this before......why,why,why is he on this team??

[folly412]

[Eye Black]

Brewers 1-for-20 with runners in scoring position this series pretty much sums things up. 

[yourout]

Big fat hanging curve ball and a roll over to second.

We have seen that way to often from Yelly.

[mtsportsfan]

Didn't see there coming ! A roll over to second.  

[edfunderburk]

What a surprise … Yelich rolls over on one - routine ground ball to 2B

 

[yfinn6]

Two inning save. Interesting. 

[Sixtolezcano]

Yelich groundout……who would’ve guessed?

 

[edfunderburk]

Glad I’m working tomorrow … easier to check the score than to waste three hours

[willie key]

Brewers aren’t that good.    God

[BruisedCrew]

The Cardinals might not have a great bullpen in general, but in this series they have delivered somethjng like 13 scoreless innings while allowing just 3 Brewer hits.

It seems like either the Cardinals bullpen is pretty good, or the Brewers hitters are pretty weak, or both. 

[yourout]

Just now, willie key said:

Brewers aren’t that good.    God

Certainly not very entertaining.

Average and boring.

[Brewcrew82]

And that at-bat is the entirety of Yelich's issues over the past two years. 101 MPH but on the ground....ELEVATE THE DANG BALL

[Marc Newfield of Dreams]

Whoever said this team isn't enjoyable to watch had it dead on. 

Just so discouraging to see the same crap hitting every night, and based on Stearns' comments, nothing is gonna change. 

[Brewcrew82]

Counsell should've never let Lauer pitch to Goldschmidt and Arenado....

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, tmwiese55 said:

Both stars with good contact vs him in the game already too.   The old 3rd time through the lineup issue.  Fresh pen tonight, yea I could see the argument to go to the pen early and get this win locked in 

Key to the game. Not gonna be hindsight message-board guy, but Lauer should NOT have faced Arenado after walking Goldschmidt. Throw out past history, throw out analytics. All you had to see was the first two ABs between them tonite. The thing is, he's used Kelley in situations that weren't super-clutch, but semi-important, to the chagrin of some on here. The other option was Boxberger an inning early, but the way we roll it never even entered my thought process.

[CdrbrgMark]

Kelly with a good outing. Kudos to him. Too bad it didn't pay off in the end.

[LouisEly]

Should've used Kelley as an opener to get through Arenado.  Lauer isn't going to go 8IP against the Cardinals, and the HR in the first hurt them just as much as the HR in the 6th.