Brewers (Rea) vs Cardinals (Gray): 4/21/24, 1:15pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Potentially a tough matchup for the Crew today. Gray has pitched well but against some bad teams.

[treego14]

Rea vs. Gray you say?

The ball we will spray

and afterwards champagne we will spray

as we sweep the Cards away this Sunday!

Hip Hip Hooray ... Let's Play!

This is the message we need to convey!

[Brian]

BREWERS INJURIES

POS	PLAYER	STATUS
LF	Christian Yelich (Back)	Out
RP	Ray Black (Personal)	Out
1B	Jake Bauers (Personal)	Out
RP	Taylor Clarke (Knee)	Out
RP	Devin Williams (Back)	Out
SP	Jakob Junis (Shoulder)	Out
SP	Brandon Woodruff (Shoulder)	Out
RP	J.B. Bukauskas (Lat)	Out
CF	Garrett Mitchell (Finger)	Out

[treego14]

23 minutes ago, Brian said:

BREWERS INJURIES

POS	PLAYER	STATUS
LF	Christian Yelich (Back)	Out
RP	Ray Black (Personal)	Out
1B	Jake Bauers (Personal)	Out
RP	Taylor Clarke (Knee)	Out
RP	Devin Williams (Back)	Out
SP	Jakob Junis (Shoulder)	Out
SP	Brandon Woodruff (Shoulder)	Out
RP	J.B. Bukauskas (Lat)	Out
CF	Garrett Mitchell (Finger)	Out

Let’s get these injuries out!

[Frisbee Slider]

I haven’t been paying attention. How are the Dodgers only one game over .500?

[sveumrules]

12 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

I haven’t been paying attention. How are the Dodgers only one game over .500?

They were five games over before losing five of their last six.

Offense has been fine, 112 wRC+ is 6th, 4.2 WAR is 5th, +0.68 WPA is 5th.

Starting pitchers are throwing even fewer IP/GS than the Brewers by a fraction, but are still middle of the pack by WAR, WPA, ERA- and FIP- so they’re at least pitching decent in aggregate when they’re out there.

Bullpen has been the drag so far with -0.4 rWAR (22nd) and -0.32 WPA (23rd) on account of a 107 ERA- and even less encouraging 114 FIP-.

[liveforoctober]

Winning the series early and getting a 'free' game is always so nice. Against a division opponent is that much nicer.

With that said, broomsticks.

[RobertCrawley]

We've had some success against Sonny Gray (hitting .282 against him), and his record is 4-3 against us. Let's even it up.

[yfinn6]

If Rea can go 6+ innings today I'll take that as a minor victory. 

[Brian]

8 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

We've had some success against Sonny Gray (hitting .282 against him), and his record is 4-3 against us. Let's even it up.

Yes and he is usually taken out in the 5th inning also. 

[treego14]

[young guns]

[RobertCrawley]

27 minutes ago, treego14 said:

Six Brewers batters in the line-up hitting over .300. Who woulda thunk it.

 

[Brian]

3 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

Six Brewers batters in the line-up hitting over .300. Who woulda thunk it.

Yes, we will need them to come threw again also since we are so short handed in the pitching department today.

6 in the 1st will help.

[markedman5]

Gray has pitched really well against us in his career and is obviously off to a great start…….going to be tough today. 

[edfunderburk]

2 hours ago, RobertCrawley said:

We've had some success against Sonny Gray (hitting .282 against him), and his record is 4-3 against us. Let's even it up.

Does he have reverse splits? 
Why some many RH bats in today’s lineup?

[edfunderburk]

5 hours ago, Brian said:

BREWERS INJURIES

POS	PLAYER	STATUS
LF	Christian Yelich (Back)	Out
RP	Ray Black (Personal)	Out
1B	Jake Bauers (Personal)	Out
RP	Taylor Clarke (Knee)	Out
RP	Devin Williams (Back)	Out
SP	Jakob Junis (Shoulder)	Out
SP	Brandon Woodruff (Shoulder)	Out
RP	J.B. Bukauskas (Lat)	Out
CF	Garrett Mitchell (Finger)	Out

Ray Black? Is he still a Brewer?

I’m most concerned with Junis - he should be back by now 

[treego14]

Rea looks shaky!

Perkins looks hall-of-famy!

[duewizard]

Bless you Blake

[BruisedCrew]

Rea escapes.

He’ll need to settle down to make it through 5 innings. 

[markedman5]

Perkins literally just saved 3 runs

[RobertCrawley]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I'm not that crazy about our second string tv crew.

[RobertCrawley]

5 hours ago, treego14 said:

Rea vs. Gray you say?

The ball we will spray

and afterwards champagne we will spray

as we sweep the Cards away this Sunday!

Hip Hip Hooray ... Let's Play!

This is the message we need to convey!

Let's see lots of hits from our Brewer Crew,

Let's turn Sonny Gray into Sonny Blue!

[RobertCrawley]

Sophia is wearing her detective coat.

[yfinn6]

Rea looks..   not great. Bummer.