Game Thread (7/24/2022): Rockies (Kuhl) at Brewers (Lauer) - 1:10 PM CDT

[Eye Black]

[Brock Beauchamp]

Hopefully the break allowed Lauer to get himself right. He has a 5.45 ERA over his past seven starts, the Brewers can't really afford to have a black hole of production in the rotation. Their offense doesn't score enough runs to keep themselves in those games.

[Eye Black]

For his career Charlie Blackmon has hit Eric Lauer very well with an overall line of 11-for-20 including 3 doubles and 2 home runs.  

The Crew hitter that’s proven to be a Kuhl customer is Willy Adames (3-for-5 with a double). On the other end of the spectrum is Kolten Wong and his lifetime 1-for-15 line against Chad Kuhl. 

[BruisedCrew]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Hopefully the break allowed Lauer to get himself right. He has a 5.45 ERA over his past seven starts, the Brewers can't really afford to have a black hole of production in the rotation. Their offense doesn't score enough runs to keep themselves in those games.

The worst part of the last 7 starts were the first four, and 2 of his last 3 were quite good, though he got no run support. 
 

My hope is that he was already returning to form before the break and will continue that going forward. 

[willie key]

Got to win this series now.   No more steps backward

[DuWayne Steurer]

2 hours ago, BruisedCrew said:

The worst part of the last 7 starts were the first four, and 2 of his last 3 were quite good, though he got no run support. 
 

My hope is that he was already returning to form before the break and will continue that going forward. 

 Yes, he's looked better the last couple times out.  Hopefully he hit a rough patch in June, straightened himself out, and it's smoother sailing for Lauer going forward.  If we can get Peralta back reasonably soon, the rotation looks solid-ish heading into September. 

[willie key]

Is it me or are the reds cubs and pirates playing better ball.  They don’t seem like a soft touch anymore    They’ve improved

 

they will probably gut themselves at the trade deadline though

[BruisedCrew]

33 minutes ago, willie key said:

Is it me or are the reds cubs and pirates playing better ball.  They don’t seem like a soft touch anymore    They’ve improved

 

they will probably gut themselves at the trade deadline though

They have their moments, and are better than they were in April, especially the Reds. But they still are at best inconsistent. The Cubs lost 9 in a row just before the All Star break.

[Brewcrew82]

Good to see Freddy get through 2 solid innings in Nashville today. Probably will want to get him at least 2 more rehab starts.

[BruisedCrew]

Lauer was continuing the string of rocky first innings but got a break on Blackmon’s liner. 

[BruisedCrew]

Yelich smoked that liner and Joe helped turn it into a triple. 

[markedman5]

117 mph……woah Nellie 

[Brewcrew82]

117.2 MPH off the bat. That will be among the hardest hit balls of the season. Good to see Christian can still get into one like that. Shows the ability is still there. 

[folly412]

It seemed ill-advised to dive for that.  Too bad it kind of died at the wall.  Any sideways roll and Yeli would have been all the way around.

[markedman5]

5 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Hopefully the break allowed Lauer to get himself right. He has a 5.45 ERA over his past seven starts, the Brewers can't really afford to have a black hole of production in the rotation. Their offense doesn't score enough runs to keep themselves in those games.

His last 4 starts have been pretty good

[Brewcrew82]

Thank you Joey Votto....

[willie key]

18 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Good to see Freddy get through 2 solid innings in Nashville today. Probably will want to get him at least 2 more rehab starts.

Whoa.    I didn’t know he was getting this close to coming back

[folly412]

Loading the bases and actually scoring...something feels off.

[BruisedCrew]

Just put Brosseau in already. Wong is obviously hurting. 

[stoutdude04]

3 weeeeak singles. Blah.

[willie key]

Don’t give it right back

[Simba2020]

Who's got 6:00 in the pool for when this game is ending?

[Brewcrew82]

Pheww...Makes up for the string of weak singles, though. 

[stoutdude04]

2 minutes ago, Simba2020 said:

Who's got 6:00 in the pool for when this game is ending?

Just said to my wife - this game is taking forever.

[BruisedCrew]

6 minutes ago, stoutdude04 said:

3 weeeeak singles. Blah.

Not all of those were that weak, and the Brewers have gotten more than their share of breaks in this game: the line drive DP, Wong’s strikeout, Urias’ ground ball double, and the 400 foot fly out to end the top of the second. 
 

The real problem is that Lauer isn’t locating his pitches well.