Cubs (Steele) vs Brewers (Houser): 7/5/23, 7:10pm

[Jim French Stepstool]

5 hours ago, damuelle said:

So ya'all are saying that Houser and our defense need to limit the Cubs to 1-2 runs until we score 3 off of their bullpen. Got it.

That's more or less the roadmap to a win tonight, on paper. Of course we're talking baseball, so.................

[Jim French Stepstool]

So Tellez can return from the 10-day & miss one game after the break, right? Maybe the inflammation is "We expect to face three LH starters before the break"-itis.

[HarryDoyle]

3 hours ago, RobertCrawley said:

I still haven't recovered from that send from third last night.

Don't you mean those sends?

[Brewcrew82]

We can probably expect Tyrone Taylor to rejoin the team soon, perhaps as early as this weekend. Just homered again in AAA. 

[Pugger]

Just now, Brewcrew82 said:

We can probably expect Tyrone Taylor to rejoin the team soon, perhaps as early as this weekend. Just homered again in AAA. 

I forgot about him.  Can Perkins play 1st?

[jason21nl]

Damn. Some hard hit balls that inning

[HarryDoyle]

1 minute ago, jason21nl said:

Damn. Some hard hit balls that inning

Too much exit velocity.

[HarryDoyle]

Houser will never make it five at this rate.

[jason21nl]

Living on the edge right now 

[Brewcrew82]

I think the 6 man rotation is doing us more harm than good. 

[jason21nl]

Always playing from behind 

[BruisedCrew]

The Brewers starting pitching is starting to look pretty mediocre. 
 

Couldn’t afford to fall behind again tonight, but Houser wasn’t up to the task. A lot more innings for the bullpen to cover. 

[HarryDoyle]

7 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

I think the 6 man rotation is doing us more harm than good. 

It makes zero sense to only have a seven man bullpen when you're in the middle of 17 straight games in a row without a day off.

[Pugger]

4 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

The Brewers starting pitching is starting to look pretty mediocre. 
 

Couldn’t afford to fall behind again tonight, but Houser wasn’t up to the task. A lot more innings for the bullpen to cover. 

Thankfully they only got one run.  

 

[Brewcrew82]

Robots...

[jason21nl]

Just now, Brewcrew82 said:

Robots...

Wasn’t even close and turns the whole AB around

[yourout]

Holy crap thats a terrible strike call.

[Brewcrew82]

Houser is infuriating with his command sometimes.

[BruisedCrew]

13 minutes ago, Pugger said:

Thankfully they only got one run.  

 

That’s the good news, but it’s taking Houser so many pitches to grind through these innings that he’ll be lucky if he makes it through five.

More stress on an already overworked bullpen. 

[yourout]

1 minute ago, BruisedCrew said:

That’s the good news, but it’s taking Houser so many pitches to grind through these innings that he’ll be lucky if he makes it through five.

More stress on an already overworked bullpen. 

At least the 4th was fairly efficient.

Still has a chance to get to 6.

[yourout]

Amy looking good.

[BruisedCrew]

6 minutes ago, yourout said:

At least the 4th was fairly efficient.

Still has a chance to get to 6.

While Steele is looking like he might be able to go 8. 

[Brewcrew82]

2 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

While Steele is looking like he might be able to go 8. 

Unlikely considering he's never gone 8 in his career. Cubs don't like to let him run up high pitch counts. 

[Brewcrew82]

Delete

[yourout]

6 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

While Steele is looking like he might be able to go 8. 

Houser is toast now.