Game Thread (7/13/2022): Brewers (Ashby) at Twins (Ryan) - 12:10 PM CDT

[brewers888]

Just now, markedman5 said:

Hader struggles continue 

He doesn't like pitching in non save situations and it showed.

[willie key]

This is so done if hader is bad

 

but of course we scored one run again

ridiculous 

[AKCheesehead]

If I were an MLB manager I would never use my closer in a tie game. 

[Robocaller]

Maybe Josh knows he didn't deserve to be an All-star.

[brewers888]

Just now, willie key said:

This is so done if hader is bad

 

but of course we scored one run again

ridiculous 

Its time to trade Hader this team just isn't good and letting him walk for nothing after next season would be stupid.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Ump had some iffy calls in the later innings though on both sides.

Miranda friggin’ crushed that ball.

A split is a pretty reasonable outcome for both teams. They’re pretty equally matched. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 minute ago, brewers888 said:

Its time to trade Hader this team just isn't good and letting him walk for nothing after next season would be stupid.

Probably not, no, and yes but very doubtful that'll happen.

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, willie key said:

but of course we scored one run again

Ryan has been VERY good this season, the good version of Jax showed up, and Duran is elite. The Brewers lit up lesser pitchers yesterday, is is about what I expected. 

[rondoman]

3 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Ump had some iffy calls in the later innings though on both sides.

Miranda friggin’ crushed that ball.

A split is a pretty reasonable outcome for both teams. They’re pretty equally matched. 

Yep. 2 mediocre at best teams. 

[folly412]

41 minutes ago, MoreTrife said:

No thread discussing Huira getting optioned? 

Especially when Rowdy has been atrocious over the past week, the timing is weird.  Guess they want to run him into the ground before the break instead of going with a day or two off now.

[Brock Beauchamp]

3 minutes ago, rondoman said:

Yep. 2 mediocre at best teams. 

Better than mediocre but quite a ways from elite. But I think the Brewers have a better path to improvement as the season progresses. 

[BruisedCrew]

Now the Brewers get to move on to face one of the top LHP in the NL in a park that isn’t homer friendly and with the back end of the bullpen likely unavailable. 

Burnes is going to have his work cut out for him. 6 or 7 shutout innings might not be enough, just like it wasn’t in his last start. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

46 minutes ago, MoreTrife said:

No thread discussing Huira getting optioned? 

Before long he'll be back up or traded. This certainly wasn't the day to have him off the roster, as it turned out.

[Pugger]

Perhaps it is time to have Hader go in the 8th and Williams in the 9th.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Both of these teams are the best in a bad division. That's really my takeaway.

The Twins can really hit. Baserunners all day today, even in a game where they struggled. If you could merge these rosters, you'd have a World Series favorite.

 

[Pugger]

2 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

Now the Brewers get to move on to face one of the top LHP in the NL in a park that isn’t homer friendly and with the back end of the bullpen likely unavailable. 

Burnes is going to have his work cut out for him. 6 or 7 shutout innings might not be enough, just like it wasn’t in his last start. 

Oh goodie.  Now we're off to SF.  

[Pugger]

1 minute ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Both of these teams are the best in a bad division. That's really my takeaway.

The Twins can really hit. Baserunners all day today, even in a game where they struggled. If you could merge these rosters, you'd have a World Series favorite.

 

It must be nice to have a team that can hit...

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 minute ago, folly412 said:

Especially when Rowdy has been atrocious over the past week, the timing is weird.  Guess they want to run him into the ground before the break instead of going with a day or two off now.

Counsell is pretty adamant about how he wants to do things. It's either having courage of his convictions, or being pigheaded & inflexible, depending on whether the team is winning or losing. This hasn't been an attractive stretch for him. Very interesting 2-and-a-half weeks coming up.

[Pugger]

21 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Hader struggles continue 

The first runner shouldn't have been on base.  Even the YouTube announcers thought he swung.  The next guy got a gift ball and got ahead in the at bat.   What are ya gonna do?

[rondoman]

2 minutes ago, Pugger said:

The first runner shouldn't have been on base.  Even the YouTube announcers thought he swung.  The next guy got a gift ball and got ahead in the at bat.   What are ya gonna do?

Not give up a homerun?

[Brock Beauchamp]

25 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Both of these teams are the best in a bad division. That's really my takeaway.

The Twins can really hit. Baserunners all day today, even in a game where they struggled. If you could merge these rosters, you'd have a World Series favorite.

Yep, two decent teams in bad divisions. The Twins can mash, the Brewers can pitch (particularly if Peralta comes back healthy). Both teams are flawed in significant ways. 

[mtrebs]

1 hour ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Both of these teams are the best in a bad division. That's really my takeaway.

The Twins can really hit. Baserunners all day today, even in a game where they struggled. If you could merge these rosters, you'd have a World Series favorite.

 

Maybe we should merge teams and play half the home games in Milwaukee and half in Minneapolis. At least we’d be able to claim a World Series victory in the combined franchise’s history.

[Nola Beery]

2 hours ago, owbc said:

Too many good hitters on this team, no room for a guy with a 1.100 OPS in July. 

Go figure. 

[Nola Beery]

2 hours ago, AKCheesehead said:

If I were an MLB manager I would never use my closer in a tie game. 

I can't explain this logically, but YES!  Hader is good for one thing, and ONLY one thing: getting a save in 1 inning. (And he's not perfect at it, but who is?) 

[Nola Beery]

2 hours ago, brewers888 said:

With this offensive juggernaut it makes complete sense to send Hiura who has been the best hitter on this team to AAA.

What happened top the irony font?