Brewers at Blue Jays; Sunday, August 31 @ 12:37 p.m.: Brandon Woodruff (3.10 ERA, 3.53 FIP) vs. Max Scherzer (3.82 ERA, 4.65 FIP)

[Brian]

Cubs vs Rockies 2-2 in the after 3. 

[Brian]

3 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Who the heck is Myles Straw

Myles Straw

https://www.mlb.com/player/myles-straw-664702

[Bulldogboy]

Siegler setting record for most strikeouts in pinch hitting appearance 

[bensheeps]

So were the 8th inning AB's for Siegler and/or Bauers their last appearances in 2025?

[kevinisaname]

Coming in, I would have happily taken two of three from Toronto. This game was disappointing, though. Defensive mistakes, baserunning mistakes, and mental mistakes made this very winnable game get out of hand. Let's beat the Phillies and hope the Rockies can help today. (as they take a 3-2 lead)

[82brewcrew82]

6 minutes ago, kevinisaname said:

Coming in, I would have happily taken two of three from Toronto. This game was disappointing, though. Defensive mistakes, baserunning mistakes, and mental mistakes made this very winnable game get out of hand. Let's beat the Phillies and hope the Rockies can help today. (as they take a 3-2 lead)

Exactly.  Bad game, good series.  On to Philly.

[HarryDoyle]

4 minutes ago, kevinisaname said:

Coming in, I would have happily taken two of three from Toronto. This game was disappointing, though. Defensive mistakes, baserunning mistakes, and mental mistakes made this very winnable game get out of hand. Let's beat the Phillies and hope the Rockies can help today. (as they take a 3-2 lead)

Was about to post something similar. I'm not upset about the loss as much as I am the way we played today. Just overall bad fundamental baseball played today. I won't complain about a series win though. Put this one behind us and get back to playing the way we were earlier this month. If we play error free ball, we're hard to beat.

[Bulldogboy]

Chourio back and hitting means this was a good weekend.  Could have been great but mental lapses kill

[HarryDoyle]

Plus I'm ecstatic to have Chourio back.

[Brian]

Cubs 2 vs Rockies 4

Top of 5th. 

[82brewcrew82]

Looked out

[sveumrules]

11 minutes ago, kevinisaname said:

Coming in, I would have happily taken two of three from Toronto. This game was disappointing, though. Defensive mistakes, baserunning mistakes, and mental mistakes made this very winnable game get out of hand. Let's beat the Phillies and hope the Rockies can help today. (as they take a 3-2 lead)

Yeah, there's this old saying in baseball that goes something like every team wins a third of their games and loses a third of their games so it's really only a 54 game season.

Considering the Brewers will still be the only team in baseball with 54 losses or fewer until at least Wednesday of next week they are still way ahead of the curve.

[AKCheesehead]

I’ll be sticking around to hear Murph’s thoughts on this game 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

We did what we needed to do, took a road series against a great team, may have possibly prevented the Cubs from picking up anything as they played the Rockies.  

We get to go home for 3 with Philly now.  Win another series and things soften up a lot on the schedule.  

Time is running out, it's a very tall order for the Cubs at this point. I don't think most realize how unlikely them taking it is. Holding on to #1 is a bigger worry for me.  

 

 

[HarryDoyle]

6 minutes ago, AKCheesehead said:

I’ll be sticking around to hear Murph’s thoughts on this game 

Yeah, I don't usually stick around for his postgame presser, but I'm definitely interested in his thoughts on this clown show.

[HarryDoyle]

6 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

We did what we needed to do, took a road series against a great team, may have possibly prevented the Cubs from picking up anything as they played the Rockies.  

We get to go home for 3 with Philly now.  Win another series and things soften up a lot on the schedule.  

Time is running out, it's a very tall order for the Cubs at this point. I don't think most realize how unlikely them taking it is. Holding on to #1 is a bigger worry for me.  

 

 

Phillies are playing a night game tonight so they'll get into town late as well. Every little bit helps.

[Jim French Stepstool]

This kinda backs up my adage about not so much who you're playing, but how. Overall an excellent series, they would've beaten just about anyone Friday & Saturday. Today it would've been hard to beat most teams.

I thought a big key was the back-to-back hits in the bottom of the 1st. You got the K from Bichette & you're on the cusp of stranding a pair in scoring position despite the error. Maybe get them in a little bit of a 'here we go again' mindset.

Little does a Bingo Long act in the fifth helping to load the bases, then makes a great play on the comebacker. Baseball. That followed by the strikeout really settled things down for the 'Jays.

Hard for me to critique Woodruff today. Definitely didn't get the best performance from his teammates, some lousy batted-ball luck, but never really looked in command, seldom if ever seemed to have an upper hand location-wise, missed badly with the changeup too often. Looked frustrated, understandably.

[yfinn6]

It has been said but it is so great to have Chourio back. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, yourout said:

That's probably a double play if it goes past him.

Quite possibly, yeah. Yet another gripe I have with announcers, Just about all of them do it. "If not for (blah blah blah), so-and-so is standing at 3rd base", or "he would've circled the bases", or "he had nothing but green grass in front of him, it would've been an easy pick six". Usually someone is backing up the play, or some WR has an angle & keeps the DB from going all the way. Frustrating thing about the Frelick AB, even if it's a DP it scores a run. Plus Brendon Little makes a terrific stop, when in the previous two ABs he was fielding his position like Stuart Little. A carom-off-the-glove, everyone safe play waiting to happen. Baseball.

[duewizard]

Bad loss today but overall good result this series. If we take 2 from the Phillies series I think we are in a great position. 3 vs PIT, 3 vs TEX, 6 vs STL, 3 vs LAA, 3 vs SD and 3 vs CIN is an ok schedule. As long as we don't implode things should be fine

[Brian]

Murphy said:  To many mistakes on defense, to many mistakes base running but Woody pitched ok except for a couple of things.  18 games in 17 days might be a reason but unacceptable play today. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, HarryDoyle said:

Vaughn has come back down to earth. I don't see him on the team next year and we will have to address first base again next year.

The reaction to his first months' success was overblown, but I think going totally negative on him is, too. Ask anyone who's seen him with the White Sox, his at bats from the neck up are so, so much better & it's paid off. Yeah, he's cooled off big time. But he's been out there almost every day & that might be wearing him down. I don't remember when it was but he recently had a day off & hit three balls really hard the next game.

Hoskins coming back will get Vaughn some rest, and if Hoskins is on one of his streaks & gets the majority of the time at 1B all the better.

[Brian]

September call ups tomorrow:  Yes Hoskins should be one of them to give Vaughn a break. Remember we wouldn't in the position were in now without Vaughn. 

[BCF]

If Rockies can hang on the Cubs not gaining anything on the Brewers would def stuff for them especially when they had 3 against Rockies and Brewers had the Jays 

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, bensheeps said:

So were the 8th inning AB's for Siegler and/or Bauers their last appearances in 2025?

Almost certainly one of them. With the roster expansion I don't see both of them going unless they want to add Black or Haase or something like that.