Brewers at Reds; Wednesday, June 4 @ 11:40 a.m.: DL Hall (1.69 ERA) vs. Andrew Abbott (1.51 ERA, 3.15 FIP)

[treego14]

[treego14]

ERA's in the Ones!

But we will bring the big guns!

We'll knock the Reds on their buns!

Have a hot dog with some onions!

[treego14]

On a side note, can you believe it's been 50 years since the Big Red Machine tore up the MLB with the likes of Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Dave Concepcion, Ken Griffey, George Foster, Tony Perez, etc.?  My, how time flies ... kinda' like a Christian Yelich homerun!

https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1975&t=CN5

[Brock Beauchamp]

[Brewer77]

Just what we love to see, another lefty starter. We have seen 9 of the top 10 lefty starters by fWAR, only missing Gore because we haven’t played the Nats yet. After today we’ll have faced 7 of the next 10 as well

[Bulldogboy]

If Hall is official a tandem starter then you are basically one short in the pen which is a problem to me. Just bring Henderson back let him take the starts and get Hall in the pen to soak up some innings. 

[Brewer77]

19 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

If Hall is official a tandem starter then you are basically one short in the pen which is a problem to me. Just bring Henderson back let him take the starts and get Hall in the pen to soak up some innings. 

It’s only a problem if they don’t get enough innings out of their bulk pitchers, which would be a problem either way

[GoondockSaint]

Where do I find last night's game thread? 

[sveumrules]

6 minutes ago, GoondockSaint said:

Where do I find last night's game thread? 

If you click on the Forums tab and scroll down there is an Archived Game Thread forum.

Here is a direct LINK.

Last nights game thread should be the top one.

[Underachiever]

8 minutes ago, GoondockSaint said:

Where do I find last night's game thread? 

Forums>Archived Game Threads

scroll way down on the Forums page

[Underachiever]

Just now, sveumrules said:

If you click on the Forums tab and scroll down there is an Archived Game Thread forum.

Here is a direct LINK.

Last nights game thread should be the top one.

Damn it, Sveumrules! You’ve bested me again!

[treego14]

54 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

If Hall is official a tandem starter then you are basically one short in the pen which is a problem to me. Just bring Henderson back let him take the starts and get Hall in the pen to soak up some innings. 

Does it matter if he is soaking up innings to start the game versus soaking up innings at any other part of the game?

[wallus]

1 hour ago, Bulldogboy said:

If Hall is official a tandem starter then you are basically one short in the pen which is a problem to me. Just bring Henderson back let him take the starts and get Hall in the pen to soak up some innings. 

Not if Hall and one or two other pitchers can get through the game. I wish they would do this with Ashby too.

[wiguy94]

6 minutes ago, wallus said:

Not if Hall and one or two other pitchers can get through the game. I wish they would do this with Ashby too.

Ashby seems to be in Murphy's doghouse for whatever reason. He's been used 2 times in 11 games and hasn't pitched in a week.

[Frisbee Slider]

4 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Ashby seems to be in Murphy's doghouse for whatever reason. He's been used 2 times in 11 games and hasn't pitched in a week.

The Jakob Junis treatment 

[Brian]

8 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Ashby seems to be in Murphy's doghouse for whatever reason. He's been used 2 times in 11 games and hasn't pitched in a week.

He is 

7 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

The Jakob Junis treatment 

That's because there both hurt all the time.  Its got to be hard to run a team when your injured every single year throughout your whole career. 

[yourout]

Not very optimistic about this one.

[torts]

They're winning 

[formerlybis]

7 minutes ago, yourout said:

Not very optimistic about this one.

Yeah, and a lineup with Monasterio, Cameron, Hasse all in (and the usual Ortiz situation) doesn't inspire confidence against a guy who threw 7 innings of one-hit ball at the Cubs last time out.

But, it's baseball...

[adambr2]

If I was an MLB manager filling out my lineup card, my first thought would definitely be “how can I get Andruw Monasterio the most ABs possible?”

[Bulldogboy]

1 hour ago, treego14 said:

Does it matter if he is soaking up innings to start the game versus soaking up innings at any other part of the game?

My assumption is he needs more days off if he's pitching in this format. I guess it's possible that is not the case but who knows how Murphy is going to run this. 

[Bulldogboy]

Why is Ortiz in and Durbin out today? I hope it's not due to defense. It wouldn't hurt for Turang to play a game or two at short.

[Brian]

9 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Why is Ortiz in and Durbin out today? I hope it's not due to defense. It wouldn't hurt for Turang to play a game or two at short.

I think its just a second string game today. As Mona drives in a run. 

[treego14]

29 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

If I was an MLB manager filling out my lineup card, my first thought would definitely be “how can I get Andruw Monasterio the most ABs possible?”

Murphy knows what he's doing!

[Brian]

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