Game Thread (6/26/2022): Blue Jays (Berrios) at Brewers (Gonzalez) - 1:10 PM CDT

[Eye Black]

 

[Eye Black]

Last time Jose Berrios pitched at AmFam Field was opening weekend last season (April 3, 2021) and he went 6.0 innings giving up 0 hits, 0 walks, and struck out 12 batters.

So I suppose it can only get better this time around for the Brewers bats, right? The good news for the Brewers is for the most part Berrios has struggled so far in 2022…

[BruisedCrew]

Berrios has had a tough season, but he is capable of pitching effectively deep into games.

In the three starts before the poor start against the White Sox in his last outing, he went 7, 8, and 7 innings, allowing only 6 total runs and striking out 26.

The Brewers hope today has to be for the offense to push across a couple of runs against Berrios early, hope Gonzalez doesn’t give up too much, and turn the game into a 5 or 6 inning bullpen game. 

With Burnes going into the 8th yesterday, and Gott and Gustave joining the roster, the Brewers have a full arsenal in the bullpen. I expect to see  at least 4 or 5 relievers today unless the Jays turn it into an early blowout. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Berrios has struggled this season but his stuff is much better than his numbers. Hopefully the Brewers can get to him early and keep him off balance. If Jose struggles early, particularly with hitters laying off his breaking stuff, he tends to implode.

[folly412]

 

[phnxcrew]

7 minutes ago, folly412 said:

 

I think we’re past the “this is ridiculous” status on the injury front.  Is the brewers training staff from Saint Louis? Did Wes helms throw a tarp in the dugout?

[willie key]

Since the white Sox told their players not to run hard anymore, the brewers need to be more progressive and tell them not to run at all

its quite clear that baseball players bodies cannot take the strain of running around anymore

Lets just relegate baseball to playing slugger with ghost runners.   Or we could just put a keg on second base.  I mean if you are going to pay all these guys this much money it makes no sense to have them do anything that resembles strenuous activity and they shouldn’t train at all for any of that.  

[BruisedCrew]

41 minutes ago, phnxcrew said:

I think we’re past the “this is ridiculous” status on the injury front.  Is the brewers training staff from Saint Louis? Did Wes helms throw a tarp in the dugout?

I think if you go around MLB the Brewers overall injury situation is not far from the norm. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

47 minutes ago, willie key said:

 

Lets just relegate baseball to playing slugger with ghost runners.    

Please, don't give Manfred any ideas.

I just hope we don't devolve to the entire postgame spread being a salad bar, with Matt Wise passing out the tongs.

[BruisedCrew]

With Springer back, the Jays lineup consists of  9 hitters with OPS+ of 102 or higher, including 4 higher than Tellez, who leads the Brewers in that category. 

[CdrbrgMark]

Both team lineups look pretty strong regarding Hits, RBI's, and HR's. Might be up to the pitching staffs to decide this game today.

[willie key]

1 minute ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

Please, don't give Manfred any ideas.

I just hope we don't devolve to the entire postgame spread being a salad bar, with Matt Wise passing out the tongs.

Just think.  You could have different colored spots in the field.   If the ball drops here it’s a single.    Players move up one base etc.   just take out anything  resembling running

i guess you could still pull a hamstring on a routine fly ball or grabbing some sunflower seeds in the dugout.   But I have faith that shagging fly balls in batting practice should be sufficient enough to finely tune these great  athletes bodies to play more games

[Brewcrew82]

With Woody coming back and Ashby due to follow, this is hopefully the last start Chi Chi ever makes as a Brewer. I still don't get what Stearns saw in signing him as opposed to going with one of our AAA options such as Small, Lindblom, or Boushley. While it's not an assured loss due to Berrios also struggling this season, I don't think it'll be pretty against that stacked Blue Jays lineup. Anything like he did on Tuesday (4 innings, 3 runs) and I'll be ecstatic. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

...........And Small went yesterday, meaning he was more-or-less on sked. 

Personally, I'd love to briefly visit an alternate universe yesterday where Kirk had the exact same injury, except CC was his manager, just to see if he would've been allowed to DH. This thing about his being accused of slow-playing injuries, no one can prove or disprove whether he goes too far. It certainly can catch your attention though.

[AKCheesehead]

What is the story with this big glove thing?

[Brewcrew82]

Chi Chi Gonzalez is not a major league pitcher. The most un-Stearns like signing of his tenure....

[HarryDoyle]

Welp.

[Opening Day]

Unfortunately, this is the Chi Chi that I was expecting.

[titletownking]

Chi Chi and his dozen ERA can hit the road after today. Nothing he can bring to this team. 

[Brewcrew82]

Chi Chi being DFA'd needs to be the corresponding move when Woodruff is activated on Tuesday. There is absolutely nothing there with him. 

[folly412]

I'd expect to see something exciting about his stuff to explain how he's gotten 52 career starts over parts of six seasons despite no results.  

[Opening Day]

Hopefully we can tuen this into a slugfest, outs look like they are going to be tough to come by.  We’re lucky Bichette took those “strikes”.

[wildcat83]

I try not to add to negativity in the IGT but I’m at my limit of being able to watch Kelley or Chi Chi.  The numbers are brutal, they’ve been brutal for a large enough sample size that it’s obvious they are not MLB pitchers….  Beyond frustrating!

[Brewcrew82]

Stearns and Counsell totally whiffed on Chi Chi. There were better options out there. 

[jason21nl]

Right back in it!