Brewers at Pirates; Saturday, September 6 @ 5:40 p.m.: Brandon Woodruff (3.69 ERA, 3.57 FIP) vs. Mitch Keller (4.21 ERA, 3.80 FIP)

[adambr2]

1 minute ago, willie key said:

I’d pitch his ass 7 innings.   Pitchers need to pitch 

With all due respect Willie, thank heavens you aren’t running this baseball organization.

[Brian]

1 minute ago, adambr2 said:

With all due respect Willie, thank heavens you aren’t running this baseball organization.

Yup, thank GOD! 

[edfunderburk]

11 minutes ago, greenlawler said:

20 games left 100 wins is still a very real possibility, 

19 games left … need to go 12-7 while resting players in prep for playoffs 

[MaryvaleBrewer]

Smooth Brewers win tonight. Was hoping to see Yoho in the 9th or 7th. I think it's time for Murphy to ease up on usage of the leverage guys with the lead to 6.5 games with 19 to go. 

[Brian]

1 minute ago, Brian said:

Yup, thank GOD! 

Just like the insanity at the trade deadline. 

[RobertCrawley]

1 minute ago, edfunderburk said:

19 games left … need to go 12-7 while resting players in prep for playoffs 

That would be awesome if we could clinch early and rest the everyday players for a few days.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

7 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

The Brewers sorta opened it up over the last month to make things interesting by playing .500 ball, it’s just that the Cubs are not good enough to capitalize and go on the kind of hot streak that we did. 

They swept the Angels and then followed it right up by getting swept by the Giants. When they have had a chance to get sweeps against bottom feeders like the Rockies and Braves and Nats, they can’t do it. They need sweeps, not series wins and they just kind of fail to get it out of neutral over and over again.

Since the last victory of their season-long 5-game winning streak in July, the Cubs are 22-22. 

[82brewcrew82]

15 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Ah I remember being 6 up like 2 weeks ago and saying I'd be concerned if the lead shrank to 3 games. Someone said the lead would be 2 by that weekend. Good times. So much constant stressing about the Cubs schedule and they never got within 5 in that timeframe, and continue to drop random games to bottom feeders. 

Any serious schedule advantage has been wasted by the Baby Bears.  Its just not a factor the rest of the way and no more Nationals or Rockies for the them.

[Brian]

10 minutes ago, willie key said:

I’d pitch Miz's ass 7 innings.   Pitchers need to pitch

If he can,  6 would be great like Woodruff tonight. 

[willie key]

The brewers are far and away the best road team in the league.   I don’t know what that means come playoff time 

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, 82brewcrew82 said:

Any serious schedule advantage has been wasted by the Baby Bears.  Its just not a factor the rest of the way and no more Nationals or Rockies for the them.

Yeah, the really, really soft part of their schedule ends tomorrow. They go to Atlanta after that, host Tampa, go to Pittsburgh and Cincy, then finish with the Mets and Cardinals. Not brutal by any means, but not the cakewalk they’ve had. And the cakewalk stretch has been 9-6 or 8-7 depending on if they win tomorrow. That’s not good enough against your easy stretch when you’re trying to make up 6 games.

[Underachiever]

7 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

That would be awesome if we could clinch early and rest the everyday players for a few days.

Season ends September 28. NLDS begins October 4. If the Brewers clinch the bye, how much rest do you want them to get? 

[markedman5]

 

[willie key]

12 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

With all due respect Willie, thank heavens you aren’t running this baseball organization.

Even though it was tongue in cheek it would be nice to tell Miz we need 80-90 pitches from you and have him show some restraint and get some length.   Like actually be a pitcher and not a thrower

 

inatead of 4 innings 55 pitches of chaos.   I don’t know if that does anyone any good this year

[willie key]

2 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Yeah, the really, really soft part of their schedule ends tomorrow. They go to Atlanta after that, host Tampa, go to Pittsburgh and Cincy, then finish with the Mets and Cardinals. Not brutal by any means, but not the cakewalk they’ve had. And the cakewalk stretch has been 9-6 or 8-7 depending on if they win tomorrow. That’s not good enough against your easy stretch when you’re trying to make up 6 games.

They just better face skenes.   It seems like they always miss him

[brewcrewdue80]

42 minutes ago, folly412 said:

 

Yes, he's cooled a bit lately.  No, I don't care much about that.

Nice share. Just Quero playing games is great. Those were rockets off the bat.  Look forward to the day he joins the ML club.

[RobertCrawley]

2 minutes ago, Underachiever said:

Season ends September 28. NLDS begins October 4. If the Brewers clinch the bye, how much rest do you want them to get? 

Enough to go to Cancun and get some sun.

[Underachiever]

Just now, RobertCrawley said:

Enough to go to Cancun and get some sun.

Just make sure Jessica Simpson is not involved.

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, willie key said:

Even though it was tongue in cheek it would be nice to tell Miz we need 80-90 pitches from you and have him show some restraint and get some length.   Like actually be a pitcher and not a thrower

 

inatead of 4 innings 55 pitches of chaos.   I don’t know if that does anyone any good this year

I understand the frustration with the short outings, but it’s a different game these days. It makes you appreciate the 7 inning outings from Quinn these days, but the last thing they want to do right now is blow out arguably the most talented arm in their organization.

[willie key]

Just now, adambr2 said:

I understand the frustration with the short outings, but it’s a different game these days. It makes you appreciate the 7 inning outings from Quinn these days, but the last thing they want to do right now is blow out arguably the most talented arm in their organization.

I just find it crazy that a guy pitching 75-85 pitches would blow his arm out.      But that would involve discipline and actually being a pitcher.    
 

at some point pitchers need to pitch.   

[RobertCrawley]

5 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

I understand the frustration with the short outings, but it’s a different game these days. It makes you appreciate the 7 inning outings from Quinn these days, but the last thing they want to do right now is blow out arguably the most talented arm in their organization.

The young man is learning to pitch in the enormous pressure of the big leagues. Base runners seems to throw him off. He loses his form and can't fix it on the fly. He'll get there.

[wibadgers23]

I'm just going to assume will see the Miz pitch 4 or 5 innings at most and then we'll see Rodriguez come in.

[Brian]

2 minutes ago, willie key said:

I just find it crazy that a guy pitching 75-85 pitches would blow his arm out.      But that would involve discipline and actually being a pitcher.    at some point pitchers need to pitch.   

I said before this isn't robotics and nothing is ever equal with humans. 

[edfunderburk]

3 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

The young man is learning to pitch in the enormous pressure of the big leagues. Base runners seems to throw him off. He loses his form and can't fix it on the fly. He'll get there.

Eventually he will get there … probably not this season … surely not in the playoffs 

[brewcrewdue80]

Piling on the Miz talk. He's already eclipsed his innings thrown last season and I'd guess his season was finished at this point last season.  While they want to keep him at Starter, I believe his role is bullpen in playoffs. If he Starts its probably a bullpen game of 2-3 innings.