Brewers (Hall) vs Cardinals (Mikolas): 4/20/24, 1:15pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Last night wasn't pretty but it was a win. Let's do it again.

[treego14]

Cards bats will stall against Hall and they shall fall!

Brewers will have lots of smiles against Miles!

[Vgmastr]

Dunn in the lineup again, batting 5th.  I don't understand Murphy's obsession with him.  He's a fringe player who had a hot week and wouldn't have even been on the roster had Mitchell not gotten hurt.  Ortiz is a top prospect, he should be playing 3B everyday.

[jay87shot]

44 minutes ago, Vgmastr said:

Dunn in the lineup again, batting 5th.  I don't understand Murphy's obsession with him.  He's a fringe player who had a hot week and wouldn't have even been on the roster had Mitchell not gotten hurt.  Ortiz is a top prospect, he should be playing 3B everyday.

I feel like Ortiz has a great approach and should hit righties fine and there isn't the need for this platoon. A few starts here or there for Dunn would be fine but Dunn has 6 more PA's than Ortiz and that doesn't seem right since Ortiz his hitting .100 points higher (.150 on base) and is regarded as a better defender.

Same with Bauers getting the same ab's as Ortiz. Not that Ortiz would play 1st but our better bats need to play more than Dun , Bauers, and Sanchez at this point.

[treego14]

[willie key]

Yelich should be the mvp this year.   This offense with him and without him aren’t in the same galaxy. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

37 minutes ago, jay87shot said:

I feel like Ortiz has a great approach and should hit righties fine and there isn't the need for this platoon. A few starts here or there for Dunn would be fine but Dunn has 6 more PA's than Ortiz and that doesn't seem right since Ortiz his hitting .100 points higher (.150 on base) and is regarded as a better defender.

Same with Bauers getting the same ab's as Ortiz. Not that Ortiz would play 1st but our better bats need to play more than Dun , Bauers, and Sanchez at this point.

Along with the quality of his ABs, the underlined should (in my mind) clinch it. Dunn has been pretty good defensively. Ortiz is better.

 I can see Bauers, to a point. I think he's a better hitter than he's shown & he clearly has saved our brussel sprouts more than once this season with the glove. And with no clear-cut DH you're going to see Hoskins fill that role sometimes.

 

[Jim French Stepstool]

Watching Hall a few times, the missing 3-4 MPH he supposedly has on his fastball makes a big difference. Looking forward to him finding that as it should really help him work the breaking ball off it (provided he gets more 2-strike counts).

Pretty tough 2-3-4 RH gauntlet for him to work through today.

[HarryDoyle]

7 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

Along with the quality of his ABs, the underlined should (in my mind) clinch it. Dunn has been pretty good defensively. Ortiz is better.

 I can see Bauers, to a point. I think he's a better hitter than he's shown & he clearly has saved our brussel sprouts more than once this season with the glove. And with no clear-cut DH you're going to see Hoskins fill that role sometimes.

 

Ortiz's defense has been much worse actually and he may actually be the worst defender on the team up to this point. Have you not seen some of the balls he's air mailed over to first base?

[homer]

Rhys

[treego14]

I am hungry for some Rhys' Peanut Butter Cups!

[RobertCrawley]

7 minutes ago, treego14 said:

I am hungry for some Rhys' Peanut Butter Cups!

Those are the best.

[adambr2]

I feel like Burnes may have been better than Hall. 

[treego14]

Sanchez can hit!

[treego14]

Perkins continues to get on base ... not in a preferred way this time, albeit!

[Bulldogboy]

The constant platoons of young players is very annoying. 

[Jopal78]

That’s why teams don’t bunt anymore. Had Turang pushed it to the first base side it’s likely bases Loaded with nobody out.  Instead he makes a mistake and bunts it up third base side they likely get nothing from two on and nobody out

[adambr2]

Don't bunt guys. Ran yourself out of an inning. With a pretty hot hitter so far this year nonetheless. C'mon. There's a reason it's a dying play. 

[treego14]

So close to a grand slam for Contreras!

With 2 outs, too!

Uggh!

[treego14]

Hall looks like a left-handed version of Jeff Suppan ... a batting practice pitcher ... :'(

[BruisedCrew]

7 minutes ago, Jopal78 said:

That’s why teams don’t bunt anymore. Had Turang pushed it to the first base side it’s likely bases Loaded with nobody out.  Instead he makes a mistake and bunts it up third base side they likely get nothing from two on and nobody out

Bunting to third is the right way to do it. But you have to bunt hard enough to make the 3B field it. 

[umphrey]

I don’t like watching DL Hall games anymore 

[HarryDoyle]

9 minutes ago, Jopal78 said:

That’s why teams don’t bunt anymore. Turang pushes it to the first base side it’s likely bases Loaded with nobody out.  He bunts it up third base side they likely get nothing from two on and nobody out

It seemed to work for the Cardinals.

[Simba2020]

He just can't get that fastball past anyone and can't locate well enough overall. Just isn't much to like about him thus far. 

And now he can't even figure out when to field a bunt or not.

[adambr2]

I'm not quite ready to pull the plug on the Hall experiment yet, but a couple more starts like he's given would be enough for me to send him back to the pen. You can't trot out a 7+ ERA every 5th day and expect to contend.