Brewers at Blue Jays; Saturday, August 30 @ 2:07 p.m.: Quinn Priester (3.44 ERA, 4.37 FIP) vs. Kevin Gausman (3.87 ERA, 3.77 FIP)

[willie key]

1 minute ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I was one lobbying for IKF, but in my world he would've replaced Seigler, with Monasterio still here. I can see why the team may have balked at that & rather had a LH bat to share 3B with Durbin. But to me the experience/INF versatility from IKF would've trumped that.

Bottom line, Monasterio has been an absolute revelation.

Mona should play third if ortiz is back full time 

[82brewcrew82]

1 hour ago, yourout said:

Odds of a walk here are about 80 percent

OR not.

[young guns]

1 hour ago, HarryDoyle said:

A Brewers World Series win and a Packers Super Bowl 60 win.

This is the kind of sloppy wording that gets you a 4-1 world series loss.

[homer]

16 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I was one lobbying for IKF, but in my world he would've replaced Seigler, with Monasterio still here. I can see why the team may have balked at that & rather had a LH bat to share 3B with Durbin. But to me the experience/INF versatility from IKF would've trumped that.

Bottom line, Monasterio has been an absolute revelation.

At least we didn't end up with Willi Castro. He's got a line of 173/189/269/458 since joining the Cubs.

[Bulldogboy]

1 hour ago, folly412 said:

Rob Z, Miller.  Koenig and Mears could go again.  Myers perhaps ok for a shorter outing.  Not all available, but we've been in many worse states lately.

Fedde wap 

[Jim French Stepstool]

Lots of things to like about the last two days. But perhaps my favorite is that we played a very good team in their place, they got 5 excellent innings from their starter yesterday & 6+ terrific innings today-----and Peralta & Preister matched it, and then some.

Very rare tough day for Turang. I wanted to see Durbin bunt after Collins reached when it was still a 1-1 game, but that's where thinking 2-3 moves ahead comes in. If there was a RISP w/two outs they had the lefty all warmed & ready to face Turang, who just wasn't seeing the ball today. That might've played in.

Wow, adding a potent bat in the top third of the order really fleshes the lineup out.

Looks like 2nd wind time for Koenig. Very impressive inning.

[Jim French Stepstool]

6 minutes ago, homer said:

At least we didn't end up with Willi Castro. He's got a line of 173/189/269/458 since joining the Cubs.

Wow. Didn't realize that.

"But.....but......he's such a bigger name than Monasterio!!!!!"

[hoosier]

This is maybe going to sound picky and ungrateful, but I did not like the passive approaches by Yelich and Contreras after Churio gets on and advances in the fourth. Gausman pitched a great game today, and when the opp pitcher is that on, you have to capitalize on opportunities. Both of them took passive approaches early in the count, let fastballs go by or fouled them off and then looked horrible on the inevitable two strike diving splitter. With a runner on second and nobody out, back to back non-competitive ABs ending in whiffs is a killer. I get that the Brewers approach is to make the opposing pitcher work, drive up pitch counts, but when the guy on the mound is as on as Gausman was, you need to be ready to go early in the AB. Yelich looked more passive, Contreras just couldn't time him up. I am glad Priester was able to keep them in the game after Turang's errant throw led to a run, and happy with the outcome. But for a while I was expecting the top of the fourth to be the story within the story.  

[adambr2]

1 hour ago, willie key said:

Mona should play third if ortiz is back full time 

He will play some of both 3rd and short. Durbin doesn’t just get benched. Seigler is pretty screwed at this point though.

[82brewcrew82]

3 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

He will play some of both 3rd and short. Durbin doesn’t just get benched. Seigler is pretty screwed at this point though.

And potentially some second.  He'll get at bats.

[yourout]

1 hour ago, 82brewcrew82 said:

OR not.

Your welcome

[Underachiever]

58 minutes ago, hoosier said:

This is maybe going to sound picky and ungrateful, but I did not like the passive approaches by Yelich and Contreras after Churio gets on and advances in the fourth. Gausman pitched a great game today, and when the opp pitcher is that on, you have to capitalize on opportunities. Both of them took passive approaches early in the count, let fastballs go by or fouled them off and then looked horrible on the inevitable two strike diving splitter. With a runner on second and nobody out, back to back non-competitive ABs ending in whiffs is a killer. I get that the Brewers approach is to make the opposing pitcher work, drive up pitch counts, but when the guy on the mound is as on as Gausman was, you need to be ready to go early in the AB. Yelich looked more passive, Contreras just couldn't time him up. I am glad Priester was able to keep them in the game after Turang's errant throw led to a run, and happy with the outcome. But for a while I was expecting the top of the fourth to be the story within the story.  

I don’t know man. Are you confusing results with the approach? It’s getting harder and harder for me to question what this team does. Not everything works out, but if each post on this site were a wager, many posters here would have busted months ago. Priester? Most hated the trade, or at least ***’d it. Same with the deadline. Daily lineups get side-eyed. Read the Season Wins thread, the April, May, June, July and especially August Prediction threads. The IGTs are a collection of bad takes. The Brewers are going to approach each game, inning, at-bat and pitch the way that has gotten them the best record in baseball. And I think that’s great.

[hoosier]

44 minutes ago, Underachiever said:

I don’t know man. Are you confusing results with the approach? It’s getting harder and harder for me to question what this team does. Not everything works out, but if each post on this site were a wager, many posters here would have busted months ago. Priester? Most hated the trade, or at least ***’d it. Same with the deadline. Daily lineups get side-eyed. Read the Season Wins thread, the April, May, June, July and especially August Prediction threads. The IGTs are a collection of bad takes. The Brewers are going to approach each game, inning, at-bat and pitch the way that has gotten them the best record in baseball. And I think that’s great.

I posted after the game and based on my recollection of those two ABs (Yelich and Contreras in fourth with one on). I remembered them as being too passive early in the count. Went back and looked at them just now and they didn't go down quite as I remembered. Yelich swung at two fastballs in the zone and fouled them both off, in between was the splitter in the dirt that moved Chourio up to second. Then, down 1-2, he struck out on a splitter that dipped below the zone. Contreras took one fastball for a high strike, then fouled one off and then whiffed. So I guess I need to amend my complaint: the only approach I can find fault with is Contreras's, and even that is a little picky, the called strike was at top of zone and if he had swung there's a pretty good chance he wouldn't have caught up to it or would have fouled it off. My revised take is that Gausman was really dealing and made Brewers hitters look bad. Tip my hat to Gausman and move on. 

[yourout]

Every season there's several memorable games and this season has had plenty of them and I would add today's game to the list. 

[brewmann04]

Love see the Starters going at least 6 innings 

[Jim French Stepstool]

4 hours ago, hoosier said:

This is maybe going to sound picky and ungrateful, but I did not like the passive approaches by Yelich and Contreras after Churio gets on and advances in the fourth. Gausman pitched a great game today, and when the opp pitcher is that on, you have to capitalize on opportunities. Both of them took passive approaches early in the count, let fastballs go by or fouled them off and then looked horrible on the inevitable two strike diving splitter. With a runner on second and nobody out, back to back non-competitive ABs ending in whiffs is a killer. I get that the Brewers approach is to make the opposing pitcher work, drive up pitch counts, but when the guy on the mound is as on as Gausman was, you need to be ready to go early in the AB. Yelich looked more passive, Contreras just couldn't time him up. I am glad Priester was able to keep them in the game after Turang's errant throw led to a run, and happy with the outcome. But for a while I was expecting the top of the fourth to be the story within the story.  

That's fair. Runs were tough to come by, and w/a runner on 2nd & no outs you needed your 3 & 4 hitters to turn in something better than they did there. Fortunately the pitching & 9th inning bats overcame it (along with both of them coming through effectively for the run that tied the game).

[Playing Catch]

15 hours ago, edfunderburk said:

Why can our starters only pitch six innings? That frustrates the stew out of me. I honestly don’t understand why you pull a pitcher who has only thrown 85 pitches & allowed one unearned run … especially in a tie game with a taxed bullpen. 

One can argue about the efficacy of monitoring pitch-counts, workloads, leverage innings, pain thresholds, etc., but I believe the Brewers DO CARE about trying to keep everyone healthy for the stretch run (and coincidentally, they care about winning, too... just like us.). He's now at 134.1 IP. November 1st is two months away. It isn't just the bullpen they have to think about.

I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about it, or talk about it. Heck. I was worried about bringing in Ashby. I'm just saying there is a lot of things the organization considers other than what is happening in the moment, in one game.