Brewers (Peralta) vs Cardinals (Mikolas): 8/22/24, 1:15pm

[Simba2020]

Elvis had big issues with inherited runners so learn how to use him. But in no way is he worse than Mears. Or Wilson for that matter but he serves a different role. Certainly not the way he had been pitching more recently.

[adambr2]

3 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

Prior to this game, Mikolas had a 6.75 ERA and .966 OPS-A vs the Brewers this season.

And yet 4.31 after today, which is well under his season average. You were quoting a 2 game sample size, most of the damage which came in one outing. So yes, they did get to him 1 out of 3 times this year. 

[adambr2]

It sure would have been nice to get anything out of our free agent class this year. Sanchez and Hoskins have not impressed. 

[wntrtxn21]

Mears as a Brewer:  11 IPs - 12 hits - 8 runs - 4 HRs....... Wilson has turned himself into the last-man-in-the-pen role. Neither of those two guys should be with Milwaukee next year. Brewcrew is right, no reason to keep Mears and Wilson and not bring up the young guys. 

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

12-7 in August if this goes in the "L" column. You're not going to lose the division playing like that.

I never really thought we had a shot at a bye, so that's why yesterday and today sting more than they should. Still.

Keep playing good baseball, and we'll be able to say we own the Central. I love that.

[adambr2]

That's not a strike, but hey, you do you, ump. 

[BCF]

Another blown strike call by this ump 

[Brewcrew82]

Well, we're certainly getting screwed by the umps on top of all of it. 

[adambr2]

1 minute ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

12-7 in August if this goes in the "L" column. You're not going to lose the division playing like that.

I never really thought we had a shot at a bye, so that's why yesterday and today sting more than they should. Still.

Keep playing good baseball, and we'll be able to say we own the Central. I love that.

Yeah, I'm not sweating the division. We got this. 

But I kind of had a fleeting hope that maybe, maybe we could compete for a top 2 seed. 

In the end I just don't think we'll be able to hang with Philly or L.A.

[82brewcrew82]

Don't worry, we got Oakland next.

[adambr2]

Just now, 82brewcrew82 said:

Don't worry, we got Oakland next.

Careful what you wish for, last time we saw those guys they swept us with a worse team than they have now. 

[wiguy94]

Here's kind of a dumb/fun baseball theory question.

Would the Brewers be more likely to win giving up a run here going into the 9th down 4-0 facing Fernandez or going into the 9th down 3-0 facing Helsley?

Obviously if Fernandez has issues they would bring Helsley in but feels like they would honestly have a better chance winning heading into the 9th down 4-0.

[yfinn6]

Hard to win ballgames when the offense is swinging a piece of cooked spaghetti. 

[Brian]

15 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

It sure would have been nice to get anything out of our free agent class this year. Sanchez and Hoskins have not impressed. 

Can't have one catcher, no one does and Hoskins has had 3 game winning homeruns. 

[treego14]

No sizzle ... just fizzle.

[adambr2]

4 minutes ago, Brian said:

Can't have one catcher, no one does and Hoskins has had 3 game winning homeruns. 

A few isolated nice moments aside, I think the Brewers were hoping for more than a .217 one trick pony when they signed Rhys. 

[treego14]

6 minutes ago, yfinn6 said:

Hard to win ballgames when the offense is swinging a piece of cooked spaghetti. 

Not fair to Freddy 

when we're

swinging with spaghetti!

[Brian]

14 minutes ago, 82brewcrew82 said:

Don't worry, we got Oakland next.

Hopefully Brewers reset time and Yankees kicking it into high gear. 

[TURBO]

1 hour ago, adambr2 said:

I said this in yesterday's GT, but one can think Murphy does a good job in general and still openly disagree with some things he does. It's not wrong to state dissenting opinions.

Plenty of folks would assemble this lineup differently. 

THIS-THIS-THIS!

Just because someone questions Murphy doesn't make them a Murphy hater.

That line of thinking here just has to stop.  It's asinine.  People come here to complain that people complain about Murphy, or that the board has a lot of complainers.  

[Brian]

Nick Mears looks like my pot dealer back in HS, 50 years ago. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

Sometimes you can generate enough offense to squeeze out a win w/o looking real impressive doing it. But chasing & soft contact is a bad combination & tough to overcome. The last decent shot was in the 8th. Ortiz is always good at extracting a walk, and did so as Romero wasn't real sharp. First & second w/no outs, except it wasn't because Sanchez decided to chase ball four.

Mitchells' last AB was significant in a diagnosis sort of way. He looks horrible in the 1st inning--this time with the platoon advantage--with runners on the corners & one out. Second AB, pretty much just as bad. In the ninth, no one on, one out, down three runs, very low pressure. And he smokes 100MPH for a solid base hit against a very good closer. You can see why they stick with him. Holes in his swing, especially up top, but improved plate discipline & not devoid of talent. But the bigger moments, how he tightens up compared to the other ABs, it's just so incredibly obvious it's painful. How they parse up the PT in CF & RF now that there are three for the two spots will be interesting.

[Brian]

3 minutes ago, TURBO said:

THIS-THIS-THIS!

Just because someone questions Murphy doesn't make them a Murphy hater.

That line of thinking here just has to stop.  It's asinine.  People come here to complain that people complain about Murphy, or that the board has a lot of complainers.  

The complaining mostly started after the All Star Game.  Brewers are - 18 and 12 after ASG.  10 teams are 18-12 or better after ASG.  A's will be tougher than you think. 

[wiguy94]

Just some notable AAA stats in light of this Brewers series.

Misiorowski - .205 xWOBA, 80 Avg EV, 12% hard hit hate, 31% K-rate, 9% BB-rate, 29% whiff rate

Yoho - .192 xwOBA, 84 Avg EV, 22% hard hit rate, 44% K-rate, 0% BB-rate, 39% whiff rate

[Jim French Stepstool]

55 minutes ago, willie key said:

Mears is crap too

He was hit pretty hard in the 7th, you'd have to say he failed. But he also didn't catch a break to save his life. I mentioned how we chased today at the plate. Contrast that to the Contreras AB w/the bases loaded. Mears got ahead 0-2 & IMO threw at least 2, maybe 3 pitches you could easily get a swing on on a different day. He laid off every one. Throw in the soft single to center & the apparent new rule that you aren't allowed to get two calls overturned in the same game. Needs to locate a little better & maybe mix the slider in more, but it's clear to me what they see in him.

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, Brian said:

You get a dozen people/managers you will get a dozen different lineups.  Counsell was same old same old every single stinking game and considered the GOD'S gift of managers and I never hated a manager as much as him. Now he is the highest paid manager history. Politics and opinions is all it ever is. 

There can be head scratchers--there always are when you play 162--but It's pretty obvious why they ran out the batting order today that they did. It didn't work, so yeah, maybe they should've put all the guys who made soft contact today & showed little plate discipline in a different order. THAT'S the ticket. 

Thing is, most of this revolves around Yelich in the 3-hole not being there.