Tue. 7/18 - Today's the Day (A DSL Brewers Team Beats a Dodgers' Squad)

[Joseph Zarr]

Holy hyeck, we have a legit chance at a 7-0 Affiliate evening. With the T-Rats stealing a 'W' late, we are 5-0. Sounds are tied 4-4 in the 7th. ACL Crew lead 7-0 in the 5th frame but a 1B Yeison Perez error just helped the bases load with nobody out. Lotttttta ball game left.

[Joseph Zarr]

We now have our second ACL Crew error of the 5th frame - this a throwing error from 3B Juan Baez. 7-1. Bases still dripping. Nobody down. 

[wiguy94]

Jake Cousins velo is down a ton...wow. His FB is sitting 92.4 today which is so far below his average last year and the year before. He really hasn't been the same since that elbow injury last season.

[Joseph Zarr]

After not trailing the entire game and stranding 13 men on base, RHP Jake Cousins' lead-off walk comes back to haunt him. Two very quality 'seeing eye' dribblers found the holes in the defensive alignment. These were warm burners but they found the holes. Sounds trail 5-4. And then Cousins hands an 0-2 slider right over the meat of the plate. That was his worst pitch of the inning - his only bad pitch beyond his five straight balls as he struggled to find the zone early. Ugh. 6-4 Jacksonville now. Only one down. That pitch can't happen. 

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, wiguy94 said:

Jake Cousins velo is down a ton...wow. His FB is sitting 92.4 today which is so far below his average last year and the year before. He really hasn't been the same since that elbow injury last season.

Yup. The velo is down indeed. And, after those two seeing-eye grounders he's falling apart. Ugly inning. He can't find anything consistently.

[wibadgers23]

Juan Baez is among league leaders in most offensive categories in the ACL and he continues to pad his stats tonight with a homerun and 3 RBI’s so far.

[Joseph Zarr]

GASP. INF Dylan O'Rae was (gulp) caught stealing a base. I will not believe it because I did not see it. 

1-for-2, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 CS (maybe)

[Joseph Zarr]

We've definitely seen this site before in Nashville tonight. Men on 1st and 2nd. Nobody down. They've already stranded 13 tonight. Can they finally get the hit they need here in the 9th frame? INF Mike Brosseau will get the first chance to try and inflict some damage.

[Joseph Zarr]

We've also seen this: both runners advance on a wild pitch. Nobody down. We saw it in the fourth frame the exact same way. Can they do it now? Big moment here. Brosseau is 0-for 4. Make that 0-for-5. He goes down swining on a 98 mph sinker low and just below the zone.

[Joseph Zarr]

Devanney pops up to the pitcher's mound. This is uncannily similar to their ineptitude at the dish earlier in this game. They just can't find a meaningful piece of wood in these spots. How frustrating. This just after a wild pitch careened to the back stop and right back to the Shrimp's catcher. Nobody could advance or score.

[Joseph Zarr]

And, on a 3-1 count, Urias pops out about 12 feet up the first base line. What an awful display of hitting with RISP tonight. Ugly ugly stuff. 15 men stranded in the end. Back at it tomorrow.

[Joseph Zarr]

INF Juan Baez continues to maintain a scorching pace at the dish in the ACL. BUT, let's also see the forest for the trees with this talented youngster:

He committed his 7th error in 23 GP and 174 innings played in the field. In the larger sample sizes at 3B and SS in 2023, respectively, he's fielding at an ugly 0.90255 clip (164 innings played). That is not a favorable look, unfortunately. 

[Joseph Zarr]

C Edgardo Ordonez alert @sveumrules: 3-for-5, 2 2B, 3 R, 2 K. Your guy continues to hit the white rat.

[Joseph Zarr]

Sal Frelick, like EBJ, is a very underrated defender. Proof is in the pudding. Two, count em, two web gems tonight:

 

[Joseph Zarr]

We'll just leave this here: