Blue Jays (Kikuchi) vs Brewers (Rodriguez, Carlos F): 6/11/24, 7:10pm

[BruisedCrew]

I want to spit when Frelick swings from his heels. 

[kevinisaname]

Right down the middle to Blake and he fouled it off. 😭

[RobertCrawley]

We are a hot and cold hitting team.

[yourout]

Just now, RobertCrawley said:

We are a hot and cold hitting team.

Like Jerry Reed used to sing. When you're hot you're hot and when you're not you're not.

[82brewcrew82]

I wish I was disappointed.

[Bulldogboy]

Get Robert and give up Frelick Weimer and Black. We can't wait for these guys to get it together. We can make noise with a pickup 

[82brewcrew82]

1 minute ago, RobertCrawley said:

We are a hot and cold hitting team.

Not really.  They have a break out game every so often but the offense has been pretty bad for awhile now.

[nate82]

Frelick needs to go he is just absolutely horrible.  Offensively he is bottom of the league for everything other than speed. 

[kevinisaname]

Just now, Bulldogboy said:

Get Robert and give up Frelick Weimer and Black. 

I doubt that's even enough. Sounds like they want a better deal than what the Padres got for Soto.

[kevinisaname]

Just now, nate82 said:

Frelick needs to go he is just absolutely horrible.  Offensively he is bottom of the league for everything other than speed. 

And he rarely uses the speed on the basepaths.

[yourout]

I'm going to turn it off and see if I can break the mojo.

[RobertCrawley]

5 minutes ago, 82brewcrew82 said:

Not really.  They have a break out game every so often but the offense has been pretty bad for awhile now.

When we are cold, we are frozen stiff.

[kevinisaname]

Yep, that'll do it.

[kevinisaname]

Need another big start from Tobias tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

[RobertCrawley]

Why didn't we bring in Hoby against the left handed batter?

[Bulldogboy]

This game also is a reminder that Ortiz is huge. Without him against a lefty you are doa.

[Brian]

1 minute ago, RobertCrawley said:

Why didn't we bring in Hoby against the left handed batter?

I think they only use him when we have the lead.

[Bulldogboy]

Now I know Sanchez hasn't had a hit off the pitcher but who watching the Brewers all year had money on a clutch hit from Frelick over Sanchez? You have to have a feel of the game. Give me Sanchez all day every day.

[RobertCrawley]

2 minutes ago, Brian said:

I think they only use him when we have the lead.

He was warming up. 

[Brian]

Just now, RobertCrawley said:

He was warming up. 

I didn't see that I took out the garbage.

[kevinisaname]

Oh well. This loss is 100% on the offense (obviously). Ugly, ugly baseball. Go get 'em tomorrow, Tobes!

[yourout]

One run or less in 4 out of the last eight games.

[wibadgers23]

Are we still really really bad against LH pitching or does it just seem that way? I mean, this has been going on for years and years now.

[Oxy]

12 minutes ago, kevinisaname said:

Oh well. This loss is 100% on the offense (obviously). Ugly, ugly baseball. Go get 'em tomorrow, Tobes!

Not that it wasn't ugly, but the worst/ugliest baseball is bad defense, stupid baserunning and terrible situational pitching (walking guys that should be pitched to and grooving pitches to guys that should be pitched around).  It wasn't so much that tonight, it was just getting beat.

[Jim French Stepstool]

Ok, that was pretty ugly. In addition to somehow stranding all the runners early, I guess you can say Kikuchi was a little fortunate in that his early troubles, two of the ABs that really could've turned things early he happened to face the only two LHH in the lineup, and Yelich & Turang put up two of the uglier ABs of the entire game. Turang really needed to get the bunt down in the 2nd, Levering & Schroeders' excuses about bunting vs a lefty notwithstanding.

For the first time we saw the reasons Paredes has bounced around a little, rear its' ugly head. Walking Horwitz w/o a runner in scoring position, can't do it.

Eh, take the series tomorrow.