Brewers at Nationals; Saturday, August 2 @ 3:05 p.m.: Brandon Woodruff (2.01 ERA, 3.36 FIP) vs. Jake Irvin (4.69 ERA, 5.16 FIP)

[Team Canada]

7 hours ago, wildcat83 said:

PCA with his 4th strikeout of the day

Although to be fair, one of them was a truly atrocious call by the ump.

[StearnsFTW]

7 hours ago, willie key said:

The cubs fans must be beside themselves    The cubs have a legitimately good team and the brewers are still ahead of them

 

its still a 50/50 proposition who is going to win the division but it has to frustrating as hell for them

Why?

[BruisedCrew]

8 hours ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

To each their own. My own impression was that Murphy seemed more worried about Chuorio. I believe Curt Hogg asked him "spasm means worst case scenario avoided?" and Murphy firmly and adamantly said we have to wait and see. Intonation very much "I wouldn't say that, and I'm not going to comment further."

A bit different with Sal since Murphy offered day-to-day. 

But, yeah, this is all just searching for something to go on. We are still okay in the OF for right now, but hopefully Sal isn't out much longer than a couple days.

I should have been clearer about the comparison to the Chourio situation. I’m not saying at this point that I think he’ll be out as long as they expect Chourio to be out.

The similarity is that the original in game report sounds pretty minor. “Spasm” in Chourio’s case and “Precautionary” in Frelick’s case. 

In both cases right after the game Murphy is more vague and says they’ll have to see what the doctors say after they get more of a look.

Of course, two days later the outlook on Chourio became much more serious with talk of him missing a month or more. 

I went back and listened to Murphy’s postgame comments today. He said it was a knee problem “like he had a while back”. He said Frelick had surgery on the knee in 2019 and “The doctors will have to tell you what they think. It’s kind of day to day right now, which is a blessing, but there’s nothing to say it can’t keep coming up.Last time he missed 3 games, we’ll see.”

He went on to say”We can’t afford…we’ve got Chourio down, now Sal…we’ve got some position player depth but it’s not what we’d like but we’ll have to keep rolling”..

Maybe I’m being too pessimistic because of the past history with injury reports. But the words and tone made me think that Frelick being out a couple of days is a minimum and a trip to the IL is more likely.

Until we hear more I will consider a 10 day IL trip with a return after a minimum stay a positive. Missing fewer than 10 days would be dodging a bullet. 
 

 

[BruisedCrew]

7 hours ago, Team Canada said:

Although to be fair, one of them was a truly atrocious call by the ump.

No need to be fair when dealing with the Cubs or PCA.