Brewers at Cubs--Game 2 of Doubleheader --> Tuesday, August 19 @ 7:05 p.m.: Brandon Woodruff (2.06 ERA, 3.62 FIP) vs. Jameson Taillon (4.44 ERA, 5.19 FIP)

[BCF]

2 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Can’t let the whole inning fall apart just because of one single bad non strike call. As long as we still have human umpires, it’s still going to happen. Still gotta buckle down and make pitches.

He threw a good pitch to Cassie and hit a 65 mph EV flyball that dropped in

[kevinisaname]

Need to make Taillon work this inning and hopefully scratch out a few runs!

[82brewcrew82]

Taking a lot of fat pitches and then lazy swings when they do swing,

[kevinisaname]

Two quick innings have kind of let Taillon off the hook.

[BCF]

Ugh we went from making him work to swinging at everything 

[yfinn6]

Taillon throwing a lot of strikes with his offspeed stuff and locating his fastball. He's been fairly sharp the last two innings. 

Edit - and what the Brewers have hit, they've hit right at fielders. 

[CheezWizHed]

7 minutes ago, willie key said:

Pressure getting to the boys

And the fans...

[adambr2]

7 minutes ago, kevinisaname said:

Need to make Taillon work this inning and hopefully scratch out a few runs!

Or just, do nothing.

[Fear The Chorizo]

The book on Cassie should be hard stuff inside and up in the zone until he proves he can turn on a pitch

[BruisedCrew]

The Brewers have squandered the pitching advantage they had coming into this game. So they’ll have to come up with another way to win this one.

The big hits have not been coming so far in this series.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Get through this inning unscathed and go to the pen

 

Taffy pull of a start for Woody tonight

[yfinn6]

I like nibbling with the 9th hitter. 

[kevinisaname]

I'm surprised Ashby isn't in for Busch.

[82brewcrew82]

He's done.  Last hitter either way.

[BCF]

Just now, kevinisaname said:

I'm surprised Ashby isn't in for Busch.

Same 

[kevinisaname]

OK, keeps them at 2. Got four innings out of Woody. He obviously didn't have his best stuff, but he fought.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Woo seemed to really nibble those first couple innings. I know he's struggling with velo early on, but he has been so pitch to contact early on that it's odd on a night like tonight there wasn't more attacking hitters. Probably was trying to just couldn't locate. Between that and Caissie's lucky hit and a bad bounce/poor reaction from Collins, it's frustrating. 

On the bright side, it's still very early, and the Cubs have a lot of outs to get. Plus, realistically, we need one of the next couple. Getting it tonight just makes Wednesday and Thursday a chance to really extend.

[BCF]

4 IP, 2 ER with one those earned runs should have been a strikeout 

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Just now, BCF said:

4 IP, 2 ER with one those earned runs should have been a strikeout 

Cubs have gotten the breaks we've been getting for a month or so. That's the way it goes in baseball. More disappointed in the poor ABs in the 3rd and 4th.

[RobertCrawley]

Levering. 

[kevinisaname]

Taillon's mowing us down now. We have some hard-hit balls, but they're right at people.

[kevinisaname]

Oh wow, Woody's starting the 5th.

[82brewcrew82]

Cubs making the plays, Brewers pressing.

[yfinn6]

Cubs are doing to the Brewers what the Brewers have done to the Cubs. 

Also, this seems insane to me that Woodruff is coming back out. 

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

I blame BA for saying "it's definitely not going to be a long start" for Taillon in the 2nd inning.