Brewers (Civale) vs Nationals (Herz): 8/3/24, 3:05pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

[treego14]

Offense will have to RALLY for us to support Jeff Suppan-CIVALE!

And we will -- we will have big numb-HERS vs. HERZ !!!

[adambr2]

Perception seems to be that we've struggled since the AS break. Yet our record since the break is 7-5. 

I'm guilty of it too, watch us play a little, scoreboard watch, lose 2 games to the Cardinals in 2 days and thinking "welp, we're well on our way to blowing this division."

Look up at the standings 2 days later, and hmm, odd, we have the biggest divisional lead in MLB. 

Feels like it's gone that way all season. 

[sveumrules]

The annual pre-ASB swoon shrunk the Brewers division lead to 3.5 games over STL on July 13th.

The last time a team was closer to them in first place was when the Cubs were 2.5 back on May 24th,

They’ve had a five plus game lead for most of the last two months now.

A big part of that is for the season as a whole they have lost two games in a row twelve times. In the third game following those dozen instances they are 5 W - 7 L.

In the fourth game after their seven three game losing streaks they are 7 W - 0 L.

They say basketball is a game of runs, but baseball is a 162 game season of streaks.

(5) two-game and (7) three-game losing streaks (31 total losses) all year versus (8) two-game, (4) three-game, (3) four-game and (2) five-game winning streaks (50 total wins) on the season.

They’ve been a lot better at stacking wins than losses.

Outside of an 11 W - 12 L stretch when Yelich went down the first time and their 3 W - 7 L swoon into the break they have gone 48 W - 28 L over the remaining 70% of their schedule up until now.

[Devinep]

With Contreras slumping it sure would’ve made sense to catch Sanchez and let him DH 

[Brian]

Wow 93 in DC today and I thought 84 was hot. 

[brewers888]

Civale really sucks.

[HarryDoyle]

Great pickup, Arnold. Glad to see you're all in.

[brewers888]

We really struggle against trash teams.

[brewers888]

Looks like the usual 5 plus bullpen innings and people wonder why they are wearing down.

[Bulldogboy]

Contreras game calling has been trash.

[HarryDoyle]

1 minute ago, brewers888 said:

Looks like the usual 5 plus bullpen innings and people wonder why they are wearing down.

Oh, I don't think people wonder why at all.

[treego14]

We should have DFA'd Civale after his first 2 outings with the Brewers.  He obviously is little more than a batting practice pitcher!

[willie key]

I don’t understand why we didn’t get some hitters instead of these lame starters.    They can’t even get through the first inning

[Brian]

5 minutes ago, brewers888 said:

Civale really sucks.

And Contreras is catching like he is on valium. 

[Brian]

Ok so all we need more of is pitching, hitting and defense. Go Brewers.

[Sixtolezcano]

Come on everyone. We all knew they weren’t going to sweep the Nationals. Give our team a break, they’re still in first.

[willie key]

I would like to see the team compete this game like they were doing earlier this year and not just fold after one inning and lose 7-1

[RightFieldCoder]

4 minutes ago, Sixtolezcano said:

Come on everyone. We all knew they weren’t going to sweep the Nationals. Give our team a break, they’re still in first.

I was expecting 4 wins in this three game series.

[edfunderburk]

What an awful first inning for Civale 

He’s not the answer 

I hope we don’t keep him for the 2025 rotation 

Much like Wilson … I’m not a fan of overweight & non-athletic looking pitchers 

[adambr2]

Civale is absolute hot garbage. 

[HarryDoyle]

And Arnold gets an up close and personal look of one of his failures. It makes me sick listening to him talk now.

[Brian]

2 minutes ago, HarryDoyle said:

And Arnold gets an up close and personal look of one of his failures. It makes me sick listening to him talk now.

Matt Arnold is bringing Bartolo Colón out of retirement for next home opener. 

[Sixtolezcano]

And we were complaining about Frankie Montas yesterday!

[Pugger]

27 minutes ago, Brian said:

And Contreras is catching like he is on valium. 

nm