Giants at Brewers; Saturday, August 23 @ 6:10 p.m.: Freddy Peralta (2.78 ERA, 3.70 FIP) vs. Logan Webb (3.19 ERA, 2.56 FIP)

[treego14]

[treego14]

I like George Webb more than Logan Webb!

Fred will be the Giants' dread!

[wibadgers23]

Webb has a career ERA of 2.17 against the Brewers, which actually seems high because it feels like we've never scored a run off him.  Hopefully, we get good Peralta tomorrow night.

[BCF]

Pat Murphy said there’s a chance Frelick won’t be in the lineup tomorrow because he’s getting tasered after the game and he doesn’t know the recovery time on that 

[Brock Beauchamp]

[DesertBrew52]

Loving the irony last night…standing ovation for Adames, he hits two into the stands. Wild pitch ties it…Wild Bill ends it. 
 

everyone loves a walk-off but Megill blowing a save, especially at home, is concerning. Gotta get to Webb early tonight or hope a blast or two helps us win the pitchers duel. 

[Frisbee Slider]

15 minutes ago, DesertBrew52 said:

Megill blowing a save, especially at home, is concerning

Lockridge misplayed the initial hit. Perkins probably catches it. At a minimum, Lockridge needs to keep the ball in front of him to keep it at a single.

Dominic Smith hits the ball off Megill for infield single. If it doesn’t hit Megill, it probably is a ground out.

The only mistake I observed is Megill spiking a fastball for the wild pitch.

14 of 17 pitches were strikes. Megill was closer to ‘dealing’ than he was to struggling.

[Brian]

58 minutes ago, DesertBrew52 said:

Megill blowing a save, especially at home, is concerning

You have got to be kidding?  With an ERA 2.05 last 30 games and 1.26 last fifteen games is concerning?  You talk as if these guys are some type of repetitive precision robotc machine 1000 out of 1000 pitches. 

[Frisbee Slider]

2 minutes ago, Brian said:

You have got to be kidding?  With an ERA 2.05 last 30 games and 1.26 last fifteen games is concerning?  You talk as if these guys are some type of repetitive precision robotc machine 1000 out of 1000 pitches. 

In fairness to DesertBrew, no one likes blown saves. Last night’s was 95% bad luck, though.

[young guns]

I finally decided to check out the rest of the cubs schedule, knowing it was weak, but wow, it's like they could open a bakery with how many cupcakes there are.  The one silver lining is that with how the cubs have looked over the past month or 2 it won't be as easy as it looks for them.

[RobertCrawley]

10 hours ago, wibadgers23 said:

Webb has a career ERA of 2.17 against the Brewers, which actually seems high because it feels like we've never scored a run off him.  Hopefully, we get good Peralta tomorrow night.

He’s always been good against us. We’ll need to do some serious pecking tonight to win.

[RobertCrawley]

2 hours ago, Brian said:

You have got to be kidding?  With an ERA 2.05 last 30 games and 1.26 last fifteen games is concerning?  You talk as if these guys are some type of repetitive precision robotc machine 1000 out of 1000 pitches. 

A bad fielding error and some bad luck and a bad pitch.  
 

edit: I see Frisbee Slider said this is much more eloquently than I did in the previous post.

[willie key]

Maybe we shouldn’t let adames feel like this is a home game for him tonight either.      No more cheering and tributes.    We got important things to do

hes got a nice swimming pool and a 61-68 team he chose to go too in October 

 

 

[willie key]

6 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

He’s always been good against us. We’ll need to do some serious pecking tonight to win.

Our peckers have been bad at pecking lately

[adambr2]

Count me as being totally unconcerned about Megill’s blown save. 

If Lockridge doesn’t go all out for out #3 and just plays it safe and keeps the ball in front of him, no save is blown. If Contreras keeps the spiked pitch in front of him (although not his fault at all), no save is blown.

Megill looked good. He got the first two outs with ease and then baseball happened. 1 run save situations are always going to be dicier with no margin for error and no close is perfect. I’ll take him getting one of the way in a game we won anyway.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

McGill possibly never blows the save if the grounder didn't bounce off him and goes straight to 2B where it probably gets fielded cleanly. 

[adambr2]

Adames is really living rent free in some people’s heads here. He returned, got the nice ovation he deserved and then was appropriately treated like an opponent. He had a great game against his former team which he is paid to do and we won anyway. Not much else to it.

You would think he tore off his jersey, beat his chest and flipped the crowd off as he rounded the bases with how concerned some people are about it.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

1 minute ago, adambr2 said:

Adames is really living rent free in some people’s heads here. He returned, got the nice ovation he deserved and then was appropriately treated like an opponent. He had a great game against his former team which he is paid to do and we won anyway. Not much else to it.

You would think he tore off his jersey, beat his chest and flipped the crowd off as he rounded the bases with how concerned some people are about it.

It was an ideal night. He did his thing and they lost. There hasn't been a single day this season where I regretted him being gone. I was pretty vocal about letting him walk. He's a nice guy. He likes Milwaukee. Great. But he hasn't been good and it was kind of obvious to me that he was a prime example of a guy who was not going to be worth his deal. I don't know what anyone has to be upset about. 

[Frisbee Slider]

51 minutes ago, young guns said:

 

I finally decided to check out the rest of the cubs schedule, knowing it was weak, but wow, it's like they could open a bakery with how many cupcakes there are. 

 

Angels and Giants are somewhat competitive. The Rockies have actually won series against tough opponents this month too. (Colorado won 7 of 11 against Diamondbacks, Cardinals and Dodgers)

Braves won 7 of 10. Nationals won 6 of 10, including two against the Mets and last night against Phillies. 
 

I doubt the Rays and Pirates completely roll over in September. Cubs finish the season against Reds, Mets and Cardinals. 
 

I don’t expect Chicago will sweep many series.
 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Strength of schedule is such a phony thing in baseball. The best teams lose 70 games. A bunch of them to "weak" teams. I've never put any stock into how a schedule looks in baseball. 

[Brian]

54 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

In fairness to DesertBrew, no one likes blown saves. Last night’s was 95% bad luck, though.

I just hope Jacob Misiorowski can get in the mix soon and I am not a big fan of his water bag warm-up before every game, I think it's a little excessive on game day. 

[treego14]

1 hour ago, adambr2 said:

Adames is really living rent free in some people’s heads here. He returned, got the nice ovation he deserved and then was appropriately treated like an opponent. He had a great game against his former team which he is paid to do and we won anyway. Not much else to it.

You would think he tore off his jersey, beat his chest and flipped the crowd off as he rounded the bases with how concerned some people are about it.

Willy is the extreme enemy!  Boo him!

[willie key]

2 hours ago, young guns said:

I finally decided to check out the rest of the cubs schedule, knowing it was weak, but wow, it's like they could open a bakery with how many cupcakes there are.  The one silver lining is that with how the cubs have looked over the past month or 2 it won't be as easy as it looks for them.

They don’t have to play that well to win a bunch of series though.   Look at the pirates series.   Look at last night.   Just hit a random home run here and there and they win 3-2 or 4-3.   I’m just happy we beat them that last game.   That was a major regular season victory

[adambr2]

I wouldn’t really say strength of schedule is  “phony”. The records don’t lie, over the course of 162 games the good teams are winning a lot, maybe 100 games for the best, and then progressively less as you go down the line until you get to the worst teams at 50-60.

So logic follows that over the course of a seasons’ time, you’re going to have a higher percentage chance of beating poor teams, which will lose more overall, than the very good team who will lose less. 

Is it overblown? Sometimes, because it’s just one factor. How your team is playing at one particular time matters, how hot, how healthy, etc.  And obviously there are individual exceptions, some contenders have certain poor teams that they struggle with while some poor teams may have the number of a high end team. 

[edfunderburk]

3 hours ago, Brian said:

I just hope Jacob Misiorowski can get in the mix soon and I am not a big fan of his water bag warm-up before every game, I think it's a little excessive on game day. 

I don’t think Miz is a major league starter (at least - not yet)

He’s had a few great games, a few okay games, and several bad games

His greatest strength - he throws the ball really fast

I hope he’s not in the playoff rotation UNLESS he shows drastic improvement in consistency between now & then

His wildness (too many walks) has been on display at every level of pro ball