Padres at Brewers; Friday, June 6 @ 7:10 p.m.: Chad Patrick (2.97 ERA, 3.29 FIP) vs. Randy Vásquez (3.99 ERA, 5.34 FIP)

[nate82]

Just now, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Good AB from Yelich. Wild Bill probably should've hacked 0-0.

You can't swing at the first pitch it is forbidden you have to take it!!!!!!!!

[BruisedCrew]

Dagger

[Bulldogboy]

1 minute ago, nate82 said:

You can't swing at the first pitch it is forbidden you have to take it!!!!!!!!

Dumb

[kevinisaname]

Just an awful 0-2 pitch. Scoring 3 runs today seems like a longshot.

[nate82]

Just now, Bulldogboy said:

Dumb

I see you are finally coming around to swinging at the first pitch this is a good first step.  

[Bulldogboy]

4 minutes ago, nate82 said:

I see you are finally coming around to swinging at the first pitch this is a good first step.  

Dumb. This may be the only place where a guy with a 285 obp is being encouraged to swing the bat and work the count less. 😆 

[markedman5]

Contreras’s struggles against lefties really hurting an offense that needs him to be good

[edfunderburk]

6 minutes ago, kevinisaname said:

Scoring 3 runs today seems like a longshot.

Scoring one run is a long shot - three … nearly impossible 

[duewizard]

1 minute ago, markedman5 said:

Contreras’s struggles against lefties really hurting an offense that needs him to be good

I don't know how much of it can be attributed to the thumb issue. I still think a 10-day IL stint would have done him good

[HarryDoyle]

The putrid offense is certainly a product of those Jetson's jerseys.

[duewizard]

Cmon Daz if you're pinch hitting at least foul one off

[HarryDoyle]

Pinch hitting Cameron for Bauers is a stupid decision.

[edfunderburk]

Patrick pitched well again & deserved better from our anemic offense 

This looks much more like the Milwaukee offense we saw through the first 50 games of the season 

Here’s hoping the last few weeks weren’t a fluke & this is what we can expect moving forward 

Plenty of chances to score tonight - just terrible at bats

Let’s hire another hitting coach - in addition to the clowns we have now 

[nate82]

To expand on the seeing more pitches per PA does absolutely nothing.  From a Fangraphs article in 2015.  

https://community.fangraphs.com/does-seeing-more-pitches-lead-to-more-runs/

There is no evidence that seeing more pitches is good.  In fact it is probably going to lead to more strikeouts.  So seeing more pitches is just dumb.  If you are just seeing more pitches to see more pitches as your strategy then you are a dumb hitter.  There is no other way to put it.  It is just dumb to watch pitches just to watch pitches.  

If a pitch is splitting the middle of the plate and it is 0-0 or 1-0 or 2-0 or even 3-0 the hitter should be swinging at it.  This is the pitch you are waiting for you are getting a pitch put on a tee for you to swing at and you are more than likely not going to get a better pitch in the AB to swing at.  

A hitter should always be swinging at pitches they can do damage on not watching them just because it is the first pitch in the AB.  

[liveforoctober]

That was as filthy as we've ever seen Ashby I think. 99 with movement and that curve/off speed? Holy buckets. 

[Bulldogboy]

Whoa Ashby

[edfunderburk]

I’d rather lose 10-0 than 2-0

So many opportunities wasted  

We aren’t good enough to squander winnable games 

San Diego will be difficult to hold to two runs in the next two games 

[Bulldogboy]

5 minutes ago, nate82 said:

To expand on the seeing more pitches per PA does absolutely nothing.  From a Fangraphs article in 2015.  

https://community.fangraphs.com/does-seeing-more-pitches-lead-to-more-runs/

There is no evidence that seeing more pitches is good.  In fact it is probably going to lead to more strikeouts.  So seeing more pitches is just dumb.  If you are just seeing more pitches to see more pitches as your strategy then you are a dumb hitter.  There is no other way to put it.  It is just dumb to watch pitches just to watch pitches.  

If a pitch is splitting the middle of the plate and it is 0-0 or 1-0 or 2-0 or even 3-0 the hitter should be swinging at it.  This is the pitch you are waiting for you are getting a pitch put on a tee for you to swing at and you are more than likely not going to get a better pitch in the AB to swing at.  

A hitter should always be swinging at pitches they can do damage on not watching them just because it is the first pitch in the AB.  

Nobody said that. Chourio this season has not been swinging at strikes. Given his obp he could stand to be more selective. Now if you have a graphic that shows that all he does is swing at strikes this season let's see it. The idea of baseball is not to hit the ball hard to a fielder. It's to get on base. The fascination with he hit it hard but made an out is weird. 

[duewizard]

Oh well. Gettem tomorrow. Bad performance by the offense tonight

[Bulldogboy]

Frustrating loss. Arnold give this team a chance and find a bat. Rangers are frustrated with Garcia. Last year of his deal. See if you can catch lightning and get him hitting. 

[Brewer77]

Nobody wanted to be the hero at the plate tonight. Plenty of opportunities for it

[edfunderburk]

🤮

[wiguy94]

Pitching was really good today and Ashby is hopefully out of the doghouse which should boost the bullpen even more.

[Bulldogboy]

Adames down to 197 but looking like Gwynn compared to Ortiz. 

[RobertCrawley]

20 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

That was as filthy as we've ever seen Ashby I think. 99 with movement and that curve/off speed? Holy buckets. 

Holy buckets.