Brewers at Rangers; Tuesday, September 9 @ 7:05 p.m.: Chad Patrick (3.60 ERA, 3.70 FIP) vs. Jack Leiter (3.74 ERA, 4.14 FIP)

[OldSchoolSnapper]

3 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Call me crazy, but I'd honestly rather have the two. Takes playing the Cubs before the NLCS off the table.

You're crazy. I want us at home as often as possible. The players do too. Your own bed, your own facility, your own routines. I couldn't care less who the opponent is if we are trying to win the whole thing. 

[kevinisaname]

Ugh, of course. A walk and then a homer to the MVP of the league.

[BarremlensTSSC]

4 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

You're crazy. I want us at home as often as possible. The players do too. Your own bed, your own facility, your own routines. I couldn't care less who the opponent is if we are trying to win the whole thing. 

Also, if one is worried about the Cubs at all, it's way worse to lose to them in the NLCS than the divisional round. 😅

[treego14]

Can we get this national announcer off of Brewers games?

He gets too excited for the other team too much!

Boo, BA!

[BruisedCrew]

5 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

I get the rule with < 2 outs as you can't assume Johnny Estrada is coming home. With 2 outs, that runner should not be stopped at 3rd. 

You really need an objective rule for balls going out of play like that with no kind of interference. 

There are some situations where the runner obviously would score, some where he obviously wouldn’t, and every point in between. 

You have to minimize situations where there is a judgment call on where a runner would have ended up. 

[BarremlensTSSC]

[Bulldogboy]

I can't believe what I'm seeing man.

[adambr2]

Have we given up a multi run HR this year in which one of the runs wasn’t walked on?

[kevinisaname]

Disaster.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

2 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

You're crazy. I want us at home as often as possible. The players do too. Your own bed, your own facility, your own routines. I couldn't care less who the opponent is if we are trying to win the whole thing. 

Fair. I tend to think that stuff is overrated, but I've never played big-league ball.

[kevinisaname]

Didn't help that Chourio spiked the throw back in.

[adambr2]

Pretty .500ish team over the last month or so. Really need to start playing some better baseball. 

[treego14]

1 minute ago, kevinisaname said:

Disaster.

Don't worry ... the Rangers we will master!

[BruisedCrew]

3 minutes ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

Also, if one is worried about the Cubs at all, it's way worse to lose to them in the NLCS than the divisional round. 😅

All of the teams in the playoffs  are going to be tough to beat with their $300 million dollar payroll players bearing down. 

The main reason I would want the Brewers to avoid the Cubs is to avoid having half of the crowd in the home games cheering  for the opponent.

[adambr2]

1 minute ago, kevinisaname said:

Didn't help that Chourio spiked the throw back in.

 

1 minute ago, kevinisaname said:

Didn't help that Chourio spiked the throw back in.

I also thought he definitely had a play on Smith’s single and hit the brakes and laid up pretty early. 

[kevinisaname]

1 minute ago, treego14 said:

Don't worry ... the Rangers we will master!

Yeaaaah, I don't think we're going to do that tonight with Ashby looking like this.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

1 minute ago, BruisedCrew said:

All of the teams in the playoffs  are going to be tough to beat with their $300 million dollar payroll players bearing down. 

The main reason I would want the Brewers to avoid the Cubs is to avoid having half of the crowd in the home games cheering  for the opponent.

I have no rational reason other than I don't want to beat them over 162 and lose to them in October.

[Nola Beery]

At least we have scored?

[BruisedCrew]

I guess being rested isn’t  necessarily the solution for the bullpen.

[Recovering Chicagoan]

1 minute ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

I have no rational reason other than I don't want to beat them over 162 and lose to them in October.

I agree.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

When you really needed a shutdown inning, that stings.

Two games in a row where the pitching was going great for 12 outs or so before the big inning.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I think the Cubs are getting bounced in the wild card so I am not thinking about losing to them. I want the 1 overall seed. I want to start every series at home. And I want to win the pennant and title in Milwaukee. 

[greenlawler]

I have more faith in our hitters than I do in their RP...I think we still win this game. 

[Recovering Chicagoan]

2 minutes ago, kevinisaname said:

Yeaaaah, I don't think we're going to do that tonight with Ashby looking like this.

Ah, so this is what it looks like to play a team that's been hot the last couple of weeks? I sure hope they play a lot better than this in October, or else it'll be another short post-season for the Brew Crew.

[AKCheesehead]

I did a little research and in case you were wondering- which I seriously doubt you were- Hoby Milner is not named after the kid from Baywatch.