Brewers (Burnes) vs Nationals (Irvin): 7/31/23, 6:05pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Let's just put that Atlanta series behind us for now. It's time to take care of business against the Nationals, a team that has an annoying habit of winning games when teams take them for granted.

[treego14]

[Jake McKibbin]

He has a 1.59 WHIP in 2023, with 2nd percentile xBA and 1st percentile xSlg

His xERA is 7.45

We have a resurgent Burnes on the mound

Please dear Lord let us rack up a ton of runs

The only one of five pitches he throws that hasn't completely sucked is the curveball

[dlk9s]

Hey, at least the hitting wasn't the problem against Atlanta. Kind of refreshing.

[RobertCrawley]

We really got socked in the mouth. Time to get back and get better so we're ready when we see Atlanta again in the playoffs.

[treego14]

[StearnsFTW]

I love Counsell and think he may be the best manager in baseball, but can we please please try

 

Frelick

Contreras 

Yelich

Santana

 

?

 

Please?

[Brewin]

I've never understood why people get so annoyed by lineup construction. I understand Frelick isn't a "traditional #4 hitter", but having Yelich and Contreras 1 & 2 in the lineup at least gets your best two hitters maximum potential AB's. Also, the top 4 in tonight's lineup appear to be currently the best four bats in the lineup so I don't get the angst... 

[82brewcrew82]

8 minutes ago, Brewin said:

I've never understood why people get so annoyed by lineup construction. I understand Frelick isn't a "traditional #4 hitter", but having Yelich and Contreras 1 & 2 in the lineup at least gets your best two hitters maximum potential AB's. Also, the top 4 in tonight's lineup appear to be currently the best four bats in the lineup so I don't get the angst... 

This lineup being an extreme example.  There aren't a lot of options here.  Folks get all worked up over a hot stretch by this marginal player or that marginal player but this lineup really is the epitome of duct tape and bailing wire.  They just cannot string enough quality at bats together ("good" players included) to really worry about the lineup construction.

[82brewcrew82]

More nervous for this series than the Braves series.  Kinda thought we'd get thumped by Atlanta. Gotta show something the next few series.

[CheezWizHed]

20 minutes ago, Brewin said:

I've never understood why people get so annoyed by lineup construction. I understand Frelick isn't a "traditional #4 hitter", but having Yelich and Contreras 1 & 2 in the lineup at least gets your best two hitters maximum potential AB's. Also, the top 4 in tonight's lineup appear to be currently the best four bats in the lineup so I don't get the angst... 

Plenty of debate and no clear answer on what is "best", but I tend to be one that prefers high OBP/low SLG (Frelick) in front of high OBP/ high SLG guys (Yelich) so there are people in base to increase the value of their hits.  Then followed by high SLG/Low OBP and then low OBP/SLG guys at the end. (low and high being relative to whom you have of course). 

Going from 1st to 3rd in the batting order doesn't lose many ABs in a season

At least Adames is down at 6th now.  Hopefully he can snap out of his season long funk. 

[willie key]

Turing and wiemer in front of yelich seems kinda dumb.   He’s like the only good hitter we got

[RobertCrawley]

Mark Canha: .245  .343  .381

Should help!

[82brewcrew82]

Not too shabby for Irvin.

[82brewcrew82]

Tidy, Mr. Burnes, very tidy.

[82brewcrew82]

Frelick - Canha - Yelic - Contreras - Santana - Monesterio - Adames - Anderson - Weimer?

[82brewcrew82]

Well this is starting out fun.

[BruisedCrew]

Playing from behind. Not good for a bad offense. 

[BruisedCrew]

Why would Santana not step on the bag instead of tagging the runner?

[HarryDoyle]

What the heck, Santana?

[82brewcrew82]

3 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

Playing from behind. Not good for a bad offense. 

Well, playing from ahead didn't work out all the well yesterday so.....

[BruisedCrew]

Have to chuckle at Rotino breaking down the Nats offense and saying they don’t have a good recipe for scoring runs and are 22nd in MLB in runs per game.

 

Didn’t mention that the Brewers at 25th have a worse recipe. 

[82brewcrew82]

The numbers seem to not be in line with this kids ability.  Maybe we get him second time through.

[82brewcrew82]

Half way to the cycle......

[homer]

And Contreras is back over 800 OPS