Brewers (Burnes) vs Pirates (TBD): 9/4/23, 5:35pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

A disappointing game yesterday but hard to complain too much about a series win against a postseason team.

[Jake McKibbin]

Maybe disappointing, but you have a series against the Pirates with the three aces going out and a struggling pitching staff where only Oviedo (who pitched last night and won't this series) showing above average straps as a starter in August

Another chance to build some real momentum here

[Frisbee Slider]

Four-way tie for the final wild card spot. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

12 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Four-way tie for the final wild card spot. 

The Cubs had/have the opportunity to control a lot of the wild card action. They just split a series with the Reds, which didn't amount to much because they blew a late lead in one game. Now they face the Giants, then they face the Diamondbacks.

[treego14]

[Fear The Chorizo]

One of those series where taking 2 of 3 is more than fine for the standings but might still feel disappointing...huge pitching advantages all 3 games.

[Brewcrew82]

1 hour ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

One of those series where taking 2 of 3 is more than fine for the standings but might still feel disappointing...huge pitching advantages all 3 games.

Eh. Pirates have been playing pretty good baseball lately. Mitch Keller going on Wednesday. I'd be fine with 2/3 regardless. It's tough for me to expect a sweep for any series. 

[willie key]

I don’t have a lot of faith I. The giants this week.    They seem to be on fumes.   The tough schedule has gotten to them

[Jim French Stepstool]

The thing I like is that you now have Burnes-Woodruff-Peralta going in 6 of the next 8 games. Unless we dick around with a 6th starter in the next week, which is always possible.

I hope Yelich is recharged from a couple days off. He's had a nice season, but sometimes goes in these stretches where he can make mediocre/average pitchers look pretty good due to the swing & miss.

Hope Contreras carries this through to the end. Looks really good at the plate. Just missed hitting one out yesterday to put them up late.

[treego14]

[Brewce]

It looks like we won't get any help from the Giants today!

[JefferyLeonard]

I'm so tired of this team playing such good baseball lately and not being rewarded for it. That's what's supposed to happen. Play good baseball and increase your lead.  A week or so ago I was HOPING for a 6-7 game lead with 20 to go, essentially putting the nail in the Cubs coffin. Yet, here they are STILL with only a 3.5 game lead. That's annoying for how well they have been playing. 

[willie key]

8 minutes ago, Brewce said:

It looks like we won't get any help from the Giants today!

The giants have hit the wall

[wibadgers23]

Justin Steele is annoyingly good.

[82brewcrew82]

40 minutes ago, JefferyLeonard said:

I'm so tired of this team playing such good baseball lately and not being rewarded for it. That's what's supposed to happen. Play good baseball and increase your lead.  A week or so ago I was HOPING for a 6-7 game lead with 20 to go, essentially putting the nail in the Cubs coffin. Yet, here they are STILL with only a 3.5 game lead. That's annoying for how well they have been playing. 

Rather be us than the Cubs who are playing just as well (including taking a series from us) and haven't really made up any ground.

[wiguy94]

44 minutes ago, willie key said:

The giants have hit the wall

They have just totally fallen off a cliff at the plate since the ASB. 

Pre ASB - 102 wRC+, 4.6 runs per game

Post ASB - 76 wRC+, 3.6 runs per game

Add them to the list of teams we played while they were hot and the Cubs are playing when they are ice cold.

[Jake McKibbin]

2 hours ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

The thing I like is that you now have Burnes-Woodruff-Peralta going in 6 of the next 8 games. Unless we dick around with a 6th starter in the next week, which is always possible.

I hope Yelich is recharged from a couple days off. He's had a nice season, but sometimes goes in these stretches where he can make mediocre/average pitchers look pretty good due to the swing & miss.

Hope Contreras carries this through to the end. Looks really good at the plate. Just missed hitting one out yesterday to put them up late.

Just did a piece on him, bad news is I don't think it's fatigue related. His stance has changed and his exit velo, which has always been upper tier, has stopped massively in August. I think it's a simple fix, but we'll see

[Sixtolezcano]

Counsell must be drunk batting Frelick in the clean up spot, or even playing him at all. Taylor would be a much better choice.
 

Last 7games: 0.167/0.200/0.208/0.408

Last 15 games: 0.200/0.273/0.220/0.473

Last 30 game: 0.198/0.304/0.319/0.623

[TURBO]

I've been saying this for a while.  Frelick isn't a clean-up hitter, and it's time our manager figures that out.

I'm wondering if hitting him #4 is messing with his mind a bit?

[trwi7]

Currently watching Aladdin with my daughter.  Better turn on the Brewers game because listening to Gilbert Gottfried is going to want me to play The Aristocrats joke.

[DuWayne Steurer]

27 minutes ago, TURBO said:

I've been saying this for a while.  Frelick isn't a clean-up hitter, and it's time our manager figures that out.

I'm wondering if hitting him #4 is messing with his mind a bit?

Why not? He hit Owen Miller cleanup for a while.... 

[wiguy94]

Yelich just has looked flat out bad at the plate over the last 4+ weeks

[HarryDoyle]

So if we miss out on the division title by one game we can blame Santana?

[kevinisaname]

Just now, wiguy94 said:

Yelich just has looked flat out bad at the plate over the last 4+ weeks

Yeah, any off-speed pitch low, he's just been swinging at it.

[kevinisaname]

1 minute ago, HarryDoyle said:

So if we miss out on the division title by one game we can blame Santana?

Him and Matt Bush. They were in cahoots.