Game One: Brewers (Patrick) vs Cubs (Boyd): 8/19/25, 1:20pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Okay, let's do it again!

[Joseph Zarr]

RHP Chad Patrick gave up 5 long balls in his last two Nashville starts. Lotta hangers. Not wall scrapers. Here's hoping he was just 'working on things' and he gives us an 2025 MLB Logan Henderson type performance. 

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Weather looks dicey, but I'm betting the league and the Cubs really want this one in tonight. We'll see if they can push through. Radar seems to clear up around 9-10 (meaning only rain and not thunderstorms), so I suppose they could start then if the Wrigleyville rules allow. 

Honestly, a PPD is not the worst thing in the world from a Brewers perspective, especially with G1 in the bank, although a later in the week DH does not sound that fun either.

[Brewcrew82]

3 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Weather looks dicey, but I'm betting the league and the Cubs really want this one in tonight. We'll see if they can push through. Radar seems to clear up around 9-10 (meaning only rain and not thunderstorms), so I suppose they could start then if the Wrigleyville rules allow. 

Honestly, a PPD is not the worst thing in the world from a Brewers perspective, especially with G1 in the bank, although a later in the week DH does not sound that fun either.

Not sure the Cubs actually have an incentive to get this one in tonight given their bullpen situation following the shortened start. 

[crossface2311]

I can't believe the game hasn't been called yet. The tarp was just pulled onto the field. They start letting people in soon and also gotta pay vendors for what I'd say is 50/50 chance at best to get the game in. And with the Cubs history of calling games vs us, this is very odd. But I got nothing to do tonight, so I'll wait it out as long as needed!

 

[RobertCrawley]

Those thunderstorms look fierce on the radar.

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

Yeah.... this is for about 8:15pm tonight...

[BarremlensTSSC]

34 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Weather looks dicey, but I'm betting the league and the Cubs really want this one in tonight. We'll see if they can push through. Radar seems to clear up around 9-10 (meaning only rain and not thunderstorms), so I suppose they could start then if the Wrigleyville rules allow. 

Honestly, a PPD is not the worst thing in the world from a Brewers perspective, especially with G1 in the bank, although a later in the week DH does not sound that fun either.

I'm sure MLB will do whatever the Cubs ask them to do.*

 

*Just kidding.**

 

**Sorta.

[yfinn6]

I would like the Brewers to step on the Cubs' throat tonight but a rainout wouldn't be the worst thing for the Brewers, either. Selfishly I just want to watch more baseball but I doubt it. 

[BruisedCrew]

What is the deal with Shelby Miller?

I know he was horrible in his last outing but as far as I know he is still on the roster. But it seems like he wasn’t a candidate to help out yesterday. 
 

Are they afraid to use him or saving him for something. 

[willie key]

I live in Chicago.   The weather looks pretty bad.   And I don’t think it’s supposed to stop all night

[owbc]

Assuming they are going to play, they might be able to get 60-90 minutes in, then have a rain delay, and then resume after that. Plan pitching accordingly...

[willie key]

Just now, BruisedCrew said:

What is the deal with Shelby Miller?

I know he was horrible in his last outing but as far as I know he is still on the roster. But it seems like he wasn’t a candidate to help out yesterday. 
 

Are they afraid to use him or saving him for something. 

He’s coming off an injury so im sure they don’t want to overwork him.   Yesterday was just a debacle because meyers should have just finished that game.   He was doing fine.     When you are up 7-0 you use Anderson and save miller for the next game?

[willie key]

Just now, owbc said:

Assuming they are going to play, they might be able to get 60 minutes in, then have a rain delay, and then resume after that. Plan pitching accordingly...

That’s just dumb.  We have another theee days here.  Just move it to Tuesday or Wednesday 

[BruisedCrew]

13 minutes ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

I'm sure MLB will do whatever the Cubs ask them to do.*

 

*Just kidding.**

 

**Sorta.

The home team makes the decision whether or not to start a game.

Once it starts it’s in the hands of the umpires. 

[willie key]

It’s pouring now

[HarryDoyle]

42 minutes ago, crossface2311 said:

I can't believe the game hasn't been called yet. The tarp was just pulled onto the field. They start letting people in soon and also gotta pay vendors for what I'd say is 50/50 chance at best to get the game in. And with the Cubs history of calling games vs us, this is very odd. But I got nothing to do tonight, so I'll wait it out as long as needed!

 

Though there's only a 10% chance of that.

[BruisedCrew]

10 minutes ago, willie key said:

He’s coming off an injury so im sure they don’t want to overwork him.   Yesterday was just a debacle because meyers should have just finished that game.   He was doing fine.     When you are up 7-0 you use Anderson and save miller for the next game?

I’m not talking about any specific situation, but they said yesterday that they only had 2 pitchers available in the bullpen. 

Maybe they wanted him to be available to pitch in the Cubs series so didn’t want to use him yesterday. But if he can only pitch an inning a week he’s not helping anything. 

[markedman5]

18 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

What is the deal with Shelby Miller?

I know he was horrible in his last outing but as far as I know he is still on the roster. But it seems like he wasn’t a candidate to help out yesterday. 
 

Are they afraid to use him or saving him for something. 

According to Murphy they are being careful with him on back to backs with him just coming back from injury..

That is why he wasn’t available yesterday.

im sure that limitation won’t be on going for all that much longer but they know what they are doing.

I wouldn’t worry about it.

[Jim French Stepstool]

6 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

According to Murphy they are being careful with him on back to backs with him just coming back from injury..

That is why he wasn’t available yesterday.

im sure that limitation won’t be on going for all that much longer but they know what they are doing.

I wouldn’t worry about it.

 I agree with this. Everyone on Sunday was talking about the BP being Myers, Anderson, and ???????????. If they needed to use a 3rd arm I suspect it would've been Miller.

 

 

[sveumrules]

20 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

What is the deal with Shelby Miller?

I know he was horrible in his last outing

Miller's last outing was three up three down with two strikeouts on Saturday.

His horrible outing was two appearances ago on August 13th.

His first two outings with the Brewers went seven up, six down with the only batter reaching via dropped third strike.

11 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

But if he can only pitch an inning a week he’s not helping anything. 

He pitched 3.2 IP over the eight days between 0809 and 0816.

 

[Jim French Stepstool]

Also for anyone interested CC said after game 1 that Kyle Tucker would be sitting tonight. Sounds like it may be for more than one day, too.

[Jim French Stepstool]

Game has just been postponed. Split DH tomorrow.

[kevinisaname]

Game's been postponed officially.

[Fear The Chorizo]

This game should get postponed and have a dh rescheduled later in the series

Should have been made official hours ago

 

I see they made it official just now