Brewers (Montas) vs A's (Estes): 8/25/24, 3:07pm

[LouisEly]

Hang the L on CB Buckner, but about the best possible outcome for a loss - starter goes 6 IP with 5 very good innings, one reliever for the final two, Ashby looks great. 

[folly412]

The Mason Miller experience is a rough one.  Yeesh.  

[markedman5]

The bad……sucks to lose the last one of the road trip…….not much offense and no love from Buckner as usual.

 

the good……a 500 road trip is just fine at this stage and Ashby looked good

Day off and back home to face the Giants 

[Joseph Zarr]

Just now, LouisEly said:

Hang the L on CB Buckner, but about the best possible outcome for a loss - starter goes 6 IP with 5 very good innings, one reliever for the final two, Ashby looks great. 

I see Ashby is the same Ashby we saw over the past 3 weeks in Nashville. This is a massive development. So stoked for Ashby and the org for sticking through an extremely challenging and arduous last year. We aren't out of the weeds yet but dang if that rough just went to the short cut.

[BCF]

CB Bucknor scorecard 

19 missed calls, 14 of those went against Milwaukee 

[BCF]

Average umpire accuracy in 2024 was 94% for reference. Angel Hernandez was around 91% 

Bucknor today was 87% 

[LouisEly]

MLB needs a system like the European Premiere League where the bottom graded umps get sent to AAA and the top graded AAA umps get called up.

[yourout]

Traveling on the northwest coast so could not follow the game but looks like the bats got the day off and CB Bucknor was in fine form as usual.

[yfinn6]

9 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

MLB needs a system like the European Premiere League where the bottom graded umps get sent to AAA and the top graded AAA umps get called up.

Agreed. If only MLB had a system where the best performers were performing at the highest level. 

;) 

[Brewcrew82]

10 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

MLB needs a system like the European Premiere League where the bottom graded umps get sent to AAA and the top graded AAA umps get called up.

MLB Umpire's Union is the real enemy of the people.

[BruisedCrew]

1 hour ago, Brewcrew82 said:

In the end, I'd like to think I know what I'm thinking better than you do. And that you asserting otherwise does ironically reek of the very superiority you're supposedly calling out. 

Regardless, nothing "failed" because Montas was screwed over by CB Bucknor. 

Never mind.

What I wanted to say about the first sentence of this post is better left unsaid. 

[BCF]

How much does race have to do with it? Angel Hernandez for instance sued MLB for “discrimination” 

[yourout]

Ruby Beach Washington.

[yfinn6]

8 minutes ago, yourout said:

Ruby Beach Washington.

The song in The Goonies (by Cyndi Lauper) just came into my head. 

[markedman5]

11 minutes ago, BCF said:

How much does race have to do with it? Angel Hernandez for instance sued MLB for “discrimination” 

MLB has to get tougher with the union during next round of negotiations……….there has to be an objective criteria that they can both agree on to judge if an umpires performance is acceptable………. like every other business. 
 

Otherwise mlb is just at the mercy of the union as they protect incompetent umpires because they can.

I’d rather put up with replacement umps for awhile if I had to in order to get some control over the process.

its just ridiculous that everyone knows who the worst offenders are yet nothing is ever done about it.

[Brian]

20 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

MLB Umpire's Union is the real enemy of the people.

There were sure some terrible calls by C.D. Buckner when Montas was pitching.

Also, Brewers looked listless today, at least we have a day off tomorrow to recharge the batteries. 

[yourout]

31 minutes ago, yfinn6 said:

The song in The Goonies (by Cyndi Lauper) just came into my head. 

Started checking my pocket for a  doubloon when I got there.

[RobertCrawley]

2 hours ago, BCF said:

CB Bucknor scorecard 

19 missed calls, 14 of those went against Milwaukee 

Sounds about right. A couple were instrumental in scoring.

[RobertCrawley]

2 hours ago, yourout said:

Ruby Beach Washington.

Been there. It is gorgeous.

[yourout]

3 hours ago, RobertCrawley said:

Been there. It is gorgeous.

Might catch the Rays vs Mariners on Wed.

The Mrs even brought it up.

[SF70]

13 hours ago, Joseph Zarr said:

I see Ashby is the same Ashby we saw over the past 3 weeks in Nashville. This is a massive development. So stoked for Ashby and the org for sticking through an extremely challenging and arduous last year. We aren't out of the weeds yet but dang if that rough just went to the short cut.

Massive development indeed, and not just for the rest of this season and the playoffs, but also next season and beyond.

Another offseason past his surgery, and with his current trajectory, I think we see AA in the ‘25 rotation.

[dlk9s]

 

[Stealofhome]

1 hour ago, dlk9s said:

 

The only worse game this year according to umpscorecards was this one from last week, which was actually in Milwaukee's favor. So just Bucknor making the score even.

You could also look at totRI, which shows these top 5.

The game vs the Cubs gave the Brewers the edge by about 1 run, but it was more even in impact.

[titanrick]

20 hours ago, markedman5 said:

MLB has to get tougher with the union during next round of negotiations……….there has to be an objective criteria that they can both agree on to judge if an umpires performance is acceptable………. like every other business. 
 

Otherwise mlb is just at the mercy of the union as they protect incompetent umpires because they can.

I’d rather put up with replacement umps for awhile if I had to in order to get some control over the process.

its just ridiculous that everyone knows who the worst offenders are yet nothing is ever done about it.

If only we had the technology to get every single ball/strike call correct.  Alas...

[yourout]

Mount Rainier.