Brewers at Phillies; Friday, May 30 @ 5:45 p.m.: DL Hall (3.86 ERA) vs. Taijuan Walker (2.97 ERA, 3.76 FIP)

[treego14]

How many innings out of DL Hall tonight?

 

[treego14]

Taijuan is not from Taiwan

BUT

his pitches will be hit long gone to Saigon!

Quinn will be pitchin' us to another win,

AND 

for us, we get the big grin!  🙂

[Turning2]

Should tell us if this team can hang with the big boys to some degree or not. 

[Zad Fnark]

I hope the Philly-Atlanta game tonight goes 16 innings.

[Frisbee Slider]

17 minutes ago, Turning2 said:

Should tell us if this team can hang with the big boys to some degree or not. 

The next 22 games will be a challenge

[Austin Tatious]

Now they are listing Hall as the starter?  Did something change?

[Brock Beauchamp]

[Brewer77]

56 minutes ago, Austin Tatious said:

Now they are listing Hall as the starter?  Did something change?

Just going with an opener with the lefties atop their lineup 

Wouldn’t be surprised to see them do it a few times this series 

[CheezWizHed]

53 minutes ago, Brewer77 said:

Just going with an opener with the lefties atop their lineup 

Wouldn’t be surprised to see them do it a few times this series 

Piggyback starters have finally come to the MLB level.  It is an interesting idea. 

[Frisbee Slider]

Easier to find pitchers to get 12 outs per game than it is to find pitchers get 15+ outs per game.

Or, maybe that’s what 2025 has lead me to believe 🤷‍♂️

[treego14]

[BruisedCrew]

18 hours ago, Zad Fnark said:

I hope the Philly-Atlanta game tonight goes 16 innings.

The Brewers may have gotten a break because the Phillies were rained out on Wednesday and had to play 2 games yesterday. The Brewers will also miss Wheeler, who pitched yesterday.

The teams may have some rain issues this weekend as heavy rain is expected on the East Coast  

 

[BruisedCrew]

 

19 hours ago, Turning2 said:

Should tell us if this team can hang with the big boys to some degree or not. 

I was thinking about this because it seems that the Brewers schedule since they played the Cubs in early May has been light on series against the better teams in MLB.

I looked at MLB standings that ranked the teams  1- 30 based on their current W-L record and saw that the Brewers are 5–11 against teams in the top 10, 11-11 against teams in the middle 10, and 13-6 against teams in the bottom 10. 

The Brewers only series win against a team in the top 12 was the 2-1 series win over the Tigers in April. Their performance so far has really screamed “.500 team”. If they’re going to rise above that they’re going to have to start winning some series against better teams. They’ll get some shots at that the next few weeks. 

[Brian]

4 hours ago, Austin Tatious said:

Now they are listing Hall as the starter?  Did something change?

All just my guesses ONLY.

1) Chance of rain in Philly maybe is why??

2) Priester's blister aggravating him again.

3) Just the opener thing. The old Murphy "Shake and Bake."

 

[Oxy]

19 hours ago, Frisbee Slider said:

The next 22 games will be a challenge

I'll be satisfied if they are .500 going into the Pirates series on the 23rd.

[treego14]

Hourly Precipitation/Storm Forecast for Philadelphia this evening/night from the National Weather Service:

[Jim French Stepstool]

6 hours ago, CheezWizHed said:

Piggyback starters have finally come to the MLB level.  It is an interesting idea. 

I'll be interested to see what the plan is re Hall tonight. With Priester following him I'd like to see them try to get Hall at least once through the order.

Where is the line drawn? Does, say, three innings cause you to cross over from opener to piggy?

[BruisedCrew]

Looks like Harper might be out all weekend too. 

He says he is still “super sore” after being drilled in his surgically repaired elbow by Spencer Steider. 

[folly412]

I'll take an 8 foot RBI over another failure to bring a runner home from third with no outs.

[Oxy]

Sal Frelick is living up to his Lenny Dykstra comps from draft day.

[Gump]

They making me want a cheesesteak 

[Frisbee Slider]

DL Hall!

[yfinn6]

5 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

DL Hall!

Yeah he looks great early on. 

[yfinn6]

A couple of missiles from Yelich and Contreras and we've got a 2-out rally.

 

[HarryDoyle]

Willy is really knocking the crap out of those base hits.