Brewers (Rea) vs Orioles (Burnes): 4/14/24, 12:35pm

[Brewcrew82]

Lol. Bill. It's fun being happy after a Burnes HR.

[Dragonbait]

Murph... the true genius on the bench of the last regime 

[HarryDoyle]

[sveumrules]

Hoskins ok in the two hole too

[Brewcrew82]

Brewers at least should know to not even think about the top of the zone today. Burnes still doesn't use it. 

[RedStickBrew]

The righties hit the ball pretty hard that first inning

[BruisedCrew]

9 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

I like Contreras leading off.

I like home runs and doubles with men on base even more. 

[homer]

5 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

I like home runs and doubles with men on base even more. 

You ask a lot of a guy leading off the game

[Harold Hutchison]

6 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

I like home runs and doubles with men on base even more. 

This. I never got why Counsell had Thames lead off as much as he did.

Ideally, a good line-up goes:

CF: Frelick

RF: Chourio

LF: Yelich

C: Conteras

1B: Hoskins

3B: Dunn

SS: Adames

DH: Sanchez

2B: Turang

[Harold Hutchison]

2 minutes ago, homer said:

You ask a lot of a guy leading off the game

I just want him to get on base, and have the speed to steal second (or turn a single into a double/double into a triple).

[sveumrules]

6 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

I like home runs and doubles with men on base even more. 

Me too, clearly should have gone Hoskins - Contreras instead.

[BruisedCrew]

1 minute ago, homer said:

You ask a lot of a guy leading off the game

If you saw my earlier post I was questioning having Contreras and Hoskins hitting 1-2 instead of having at least the chance of someone being on base for their first AB’s..

Going forward in the game it makes less difference with Perkins in front of them instead of Wiemer.

[willie key]

Damn frelick.   He needed to make contact there.   Got to get runs off of burnes when you can

[wildcat83]

Hope I’m wrong but this has the feeling of a blowout.  Burnes will settle in and Rea looks like he’s going to struggle with this Baltimore lineup.

[BruisedCrew]

If he’s not going to wear a cap, I hope for his sake that Ripken puts a lot of sunscreen in the top of his bald head. 

[yfinn6]

I hope the Brewers hold Holliday hitless this series. 

[BruisedCrew]

17 minutes ago, clancyphile said:

This. I never got why Counsell had Thames lead off as much as he did.

Ideally, a good line-up goes:

CF: Frelick

RF: Chourio

LF: Yelich

C: Conteras

1B: Hoskins

3B: Dunn

SS: Adames

DH: Sanchez

2B: Turang

I like Contreras second because he gets on base a lot and can advance a leadoff runner by hitting to right. 

Hoskins with his DP and base clogging potential is more of a number 5 hitter for me. 

[BruisedCrew]

That rarely works, but I’ll take the run. 

[Bulldogboy]

Good call. Nice work Murphy 

[duewizard]

Any runs against Burnes are good

[HarryDoyle]

5 minutes ago, duewizard said:

Any runs against Burnes are good

Good thing because Rea keeps giving them right back.

[sveumrules]

SMALL BALL BABY

[Bulldogboy]

Murphy computer is on fire

[Harold Hutchison]

Wonder if Corbin is wishing he'd worked out an extension with the Crew by now...

[Fear The Chorizo]

Can't believe the Orioles gave up 6 years of Ortiz plus a lotto ticket lefty arm and a comp pick for 1 year of this bum!