Game Thread (8/23/2022): Brewers (Burnes) at Dodgers (Gonsolin) - 9:10 PM CDT

[yourout]

Bad pitch there.....right down the middle.

[BruisedCrew]

Don’t have to worry about staying up late tonight.

[yourout]

Just now, BruisedCrew said:

Don’t have to worry about staying up late tonight.

+1.....Not going to be their night.

[LouisEly]

Burnes has been struggling to hit his spots all game.  Came back to bite him big time.

[yourout]

I really hope we have a new catcher next year.

Need to upgrade.

[Pugger]

5 hours ago, Robocaller said:

Be an ace, Burnsie!

I was listening to the Dodgers' radio broadcast on Sirius on the way home tonight and they said Burns has a high ERA against LA.

 

[willie key]

Our ace got smoked tonight.    

[yourout]

This feels like a 8-0 butt kicking coming.

[yourout]

Just now, willie key said:

Our ace got smoked tonight.    

His ERA over the last 7 starts is 4.38

[willie key]

Maybe the Padres will end up being terrible and keep us in the race 

 

but this team needs to start winning multiple games in a row.   Like 4 or 5.  

[BruisedCrew]

12 minutes ago, Pugger said:

I was listening to the Dodgers' radio broadcast on Sirius on the way home tonight and they said Burns has a high ERA against LA.

 

He isn’t helping it tonight, but he had only pitched 14 innings against the Dodgers coming into tonight. 
 

There was the start last week where he gave up 3 runs in the sixth after 5 scoreless innings. Last year he only faced them in a tune up start the last weekend and he gave up 3 runs in 2 innings, and in 2019 he gave up 5 runs in a start when he was pretty much getting pounded by everyone. 
 

So, his performance against the Dodgers has been very poor, but in a small number of appearances. 

[yourout]

It was a shot in the Dark but McCutchen is done.

The day they are eliminated he should be DFA for a callup.

[BruisedCrew]

3 minutes ago, willie key said:

Maybe the Padres will end up being terrible and keep us in the race 

 

but this team needs to start winning multiple games in a row.   Like 4 or 5.  

The Padres struggling is starting to look like the Brewers only chance to slip into the final playoff spot. Have to hope that their offense doesn’t start to produce the way everyone expected after they got Soto, Bell, and Drury to help out Machado.

The Phillies schedule is almost as soft as the Cardinals’ and they have been scoring a lot of runs and piling up wins against the weak teams. Harper hit 2 HRs in a rehab start tonight and should be rejoining them soon. 

[yourout]

Bad defense in this one.

[willie key]

8 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

The Padres struggling is starting to look like the Brewers only chance to slip into the final playoff spot. Have to hope that their offense doesn’t start to produce the way everyone expected after they got Soto, Bell, and Drury to help out Machado.

The Phillies schedule is almost as soft as the Cardinals’ and they have been scoring a lot of runs and piling up wins against the weak teams. Harper hit 2 HRs in a rehab start tonight and should be rejoining them soon. 

I’m guessing the padres  will figure it out enough to put us away

I just can’t believe how bad we have been against the pirates cubs etc.    

[AKCheesehead]

I'm not one to give up on a game but this doesn't seem to be our night.  I hope Burnes is pulled after the 4th, and I wonder if Reyes gets in to pitch the 8th. 

[willie key]

Just take burnes.    Why risk anything with him in this game. 
 

put in our sacrificial lamb pitchers.    Whoever those are

[willie key]

Burnes got his rear end handed to him tonight.      Maybe he can beat the pirates next week

[Guest]

Giving the Dodgers 5 + outs in an inning isn't working out. What a shock.

Brewers continue to fail at fundamental parts of the game such as defense.

[KeithStone53151]

Not to take anything away from Freddie on that hit. Nice work with the wrists to serve it out to left, the announcer was like "not many left handed hitters can handle a fastball up and away out of the zone". Should anything suter throws really be classified as a fastball? 

[KeithStone53151]

3 minutes ago, timpep said:

Giving the Dodgers 5 + outs in an inning isn't working out. What a shock.

Brewers continue to fail at fundamental parts of the game such as defense.

Care to back that up? It looks like the brewers as a team rank 8th in baseball in DRS with 30. That includes obvious weak spots like yelich. We aren't going to play perfect defense, we aren't going to get a hit every at bat, we aren't going to beat every team 10-0, especially the dodgers

[yourout]

1 minute ago, KeithStone53151 said:

Care to back that up? It looks like the brewers as a team rank 8th in baseball in DRS with 30. That includes obvious weak spots like yelich. We aren't going to play perfect defense, we aren't going to get a hit every at bat, we aren't going to beat every team 10-0, especially the dodgers

They sure don't pass the eye test. That ground ball to third that Urias threw in the dirt should have been an error.

[narwhalattack]

Feels like a lot of things are going wrong all at once as of late. Burnes doesn’t seem as sharp in the 2nd half of the season, we still can’t seem to hit consistently, and the bullpen is more shaky than it used to be.

[KeithStone53151]

1 minute ago, yourout said:

They sure don't pass the eye test. That ground ball to third that Urias threw in the dirt should have been an error.

They certainly do to me, and defensive metrics back them up. Yes, urias should have gotten an error on that one bad play he made. Im sure that will factor in to the team defense on the season and we'll remain a very above average defensive team...

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, KeithStone53151 said:

Care to back that up? It looks like the brewers as a team rank 8th in baseball in DRS with 30. That includes obvious weak spots like yelich. We aren't going to play perfect defense, we aren't going to get a hit every at bat, we aren't going to beat every team 10-0, especially the dodgers

I just watched Urias throw a ball away, Adames completely wiff on a grounded and the catcher missed a called strike 3. Gonna go ahead and just say that's bad defense.