Guardians (Bibee) vs Brewers (Peralta): 8/17/24, 6:15pm

[markedman5]

Great job by Freddy and the pen……man Koenig, Payamps and Devin were just electric!

[willie key]

Peralta!

[HarryDoyle]

Peralta has pitched much better in the second half despite all the home runs.

[markedman5]

2 days without facing the best closer in the American League…….i like it…..lol

[areacodes]

5 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Getting Williams back fresh for the stretch run is incredible. 

Amazing deadline pickup without having to give up anything.

[folly412]

Fully expected it would take a few weeks of easing into closing for Devin.  With Megill's injury he had to go right away.  He's out there going through the heart of the order of the best teams in baseball every time.  That's incredible.

[RobertCrawley]

Dontrelle has a lot of good things to say about the Brewers and the fans on the postgame show on Fox. Nice.

[folly412]

Division lead stays at 10.  Which is ok, since the Cardinals winning puts us 1/2 game back of the Dodgers.

[markedman5]

6 wins on a huge home stand with 1 to go………team just finding ways to win.

[wildcat83]

Couldn’t remember how we acquired Koening so I googled it.  Found the MLB TR article on the signing and they referred to him as a “soft tossing” lefty.  Apparently he wasn’t hitting 99 then…

[wiguy94]

Hey if anyone wants a nice view of what could be coming to the Brewers bullpen in the next few weeks take a look at Craig Yoho courtesy of Josh Norris.

 

[wiguy94]

2 minutes ago, wildcat83 said:

Couldn’t remember how we acquired Koening so I googled it.  Found the MLB TR article on the signing and they referred to him as a “soft tossing” lefty.  Apparently he wasn’t hitting 99 then…

Yeah his velo is way up this year. He put a lot of work in where he trains in the offseason to focus more on creating velocity from his whole body and it's definitely worked. 

[yourout]

Is it too early to start a magic number countdown?

[folly412]

Just now, yourout said:

Is it too early to start a magic number countdown?

 

[Brian]

6 hours ago, TURBO said:

I'm benching his butt in both my fantasy leagues, so you can bet he throws a 6 inning gem, 8 K's, 0 runs...

You were rirght, you benched Peralta and though he threw a lot of pitches he only gave up 4 hits and 1 run. Keep doing it for the Brewer run to the playoffs. 

[markedman5]

1 minute ago, Brian said:

To bad you benched Peralta, even though he threw a lot of pitches he only gave up 4 hits. 

Didn’t really throw that many pitches except for 1 inning……..could have pitched the 7th but Murph went with the horses to hold the lead.

[Brian]

4 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Didn’t really throw that many pitches except for 1 inning……..could have pitched the 7th but Murph went with the horses to hold the lead.

I don't blame Murph, I thought Fred was at the end of his rope in shuch a close game.

[Brian]

20 minutes ago, yourout said:

Is it too early to start a magic number countdown?

Is Sept 1st to late?

[TURBO]

13 minutes ago, Brian said:

You were rirght, you benched Peralta and though he threw a lot of pitches he only gave up 4 hits and 1 run. Keep doing it for the Brewer run to the playoffs. 

Happy to take one for the team...lol

[markedman5]

 

[Jim French Stepstool]

2 hours ago, yourout said:

Really wasn't that bad a location on the home run it was probably up out of the zone.

In a perfect world you'd like it a little higher, which is ironic cuz Freddie's been the King of the Uncompetitive Pitch w/2 Strikes all season. But yeah, Naylor getting on top of that was pretty impressive. Not a bad pitch at all.

[wiguy94]

1 minute ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

In a perfect world you'd like it a little higher, which is ironic cuz Freddie's been the King of the Uncompetitive Pitch w/2 Strikes all season. But yeah, Naylor getting on top of that was pretty impressive. Not a bad pitch at all.

The fact it wasn't a bad pitch is kind of what scares me about Freddy this year. Even when he's executing pitches well he's managing to give up HR which is a scary proposition to think about for the playoffs.

[Jim French Stepstool]

It's been obvious for a long time the recipe for a playoff run for this team largely includes bullpen success from a number of people, probably 4 or even 5 innings many games. In that vein what we saw last night from Mears, tonite from Koenig & the re-emergence of Payamps is such great news. And, I'd love to hear from Cleveland folks that follow the team regularly, how often Ramirez & J Naylor have looked that hogtied in back-to-back ABs like they were in the 9th. Very impressive.

Note to American League: You play the Guardians in the playoffs, don't be trailing after 6. Heck, maybe after 5. That's some kind of wicked pen talent/depth.

 

[Jim French Stepstool]

7 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

The fact it wasn't a bad pitch is kind of what scares me about Freddy this year. Even when he's executing pitches well he's managing to give up HR which is a scary proposition to think about for the playoffs.

Yeah, it's been that kind of year for him. But in this case I think for the most part you gotta tip your hat to Naylor.

[nate82]

Only a .5 game back of the Dodgers and 1.5 behind the Phillies for the #1 and #2 spot.