Brewers at Reds: Sunday, August 17 @ 12:40 p.m.: Jose Quintana (3.44 ERA, 4.73 FIP) vs. Andrew Abbott (2.41 ERA, 3.66 FIP)

[82brewcrew82]

Between the bunt and steal attempts lately, a whole lot of situation deafness.

[RobertCrawley]

Just now, BrewerFan said:

MAYBE losing after 14 straight wins in which they've manufactured numerous runs with the bunt?

Exactly. 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I highly doubt this goes to the 11th. I'm kind of OK with it.

[yourout]

1 minute ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Well going for Game 15 in a row we get that inevitable Murf Bullpen management question. I guess that's progress?

At least they don't happen as often.

It's still his weakest attribute.

[Bulldogboy]

Turang error really bad but man it just shows that pulling Ortiz in playoff games is going to be a non starter so he better bring a bat.

[BrewerFan]

3 minutes ago, ReverendBrewmeister said:

Need to play for more than one run anyway in extras on the road, not sure about bunting there.

This is more my issue. Not the bunt... you don't have Uribe, Megill, Mears... gotta play for more than one...IMO.

 

But it's REAL hard for me to question Murphy at this point. There's a long list of "I'd have done...and there's a drive to left by Mona-...."

[adambr2]

I was totally at peace with having the streak snapped losing 1-0.

Now between wasting the heroics of Contreras, a terrible error by Turang, a dumb decision to pull Tobias and a questionable bunt decision/bad bunt by Perkins, they’ve managed to make it annoying and burn more of the pen.

[Jopal78]

This loss is the byproduct of Misiorowski going less than 2 innings Friday. So clinging to a late lead two days later they’re forced to use the fringe roster guys out of the pen with the game on the line. Moreover, it’s a trade of Cortes domino effect of shortening rotation depth by one leading to this mess. 

[yourout]

Will be over in 5 pitches or less 

[Gump]

Just now, RobertCrawley said:

We have the best baseball record in all of MLB and we're still questioning Murph's decisions? How good do we have to be?

We could be 161-1 and people would still be like…. Murph should done better bullpen management to keep us undefeated 🤪🤪

[yourout]

That would have been worth the risk.

Should have thrown it 

[BCF]

Managers are too obsessed with bunting 

[82brewcrew82]

1 minute ago, Gump said:

We could be 161-1 and people would still be like…. Murph should done better bullpen management to keep us undefeated 🤪🤪

If he's bad at it, yes.  Every game counts the same.

[kevinisaname]

It's over, but what a ride that was! I'm so proud of this team.

[RobertCrawley]

Crap.

 

[BCF]

Streak is finally over 

[RobertCrawley]

Just now, kevinisaname said:

It's over, but what a ride that was! I'm so proud of this team.

Absolutely!

[HarveysWBs]

Flush it and move on. No hangovers tomorrow, boys.

[BrewerFan]

1 minute ago, Jopal78 said:

This loss is the byproduct of Misiorowski going less than 2 innings Friday. So clinging to a late lead two days later they’re forced to use the fringe roster buys out of the pen. Moreover, it’s a trade of Cortes domino effect of shortening rotation depth by one leading to this mess. 

It's not like they're lacking for starting pitching depth. They still have Patrick in AAA who has a better ERA in ~100IP. Then Henderson IL, Myers is being used out of the pen.

I don't really think this is the domino effect of the Nestor Cortes trade. 

[82brewcrew82]

They were gonna lose at some point. 

[adambr2]

4 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

We have the best baseball record in all of MLB and we're still questioning Murph's decisions? How good do we have to be?

You can be the best manager in the game, which he probably is, and that doesn’t mean individual decisions can’t be questioned and/or second guessed. Being good doesn’t mean being perfect.

[duewizard]

Oh well. Losing to Cincy isn't all that bad considering it puts further pressure on the Cubbies

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Cubs don't get to break the streak, and probably worse for them to have Cincy win a game. Now just hope they keep losing today.

[BrewerFan]

3 minutes ago, yourout said:

That would have been worth the risk.

Should have thrown it 

...not sure what risk you're talking about?

Going to 3rd? Because I think he was going to easily beat that, but I don't know what other risk there may have been. 

[Bulldogboy]

Great effort. Sucks to have to give a game away due to personal issues but it's a long season. Murphy still scares me with his decision making as crazy as it might seem.