Brewers-Cubs NLDS Game Four Thread - 10/9/2025 @ 8:08PM

[kevinisaname]

Freddy just isn't locating at all.

[82brewcrew82]

1 minute ago, wildcat83 said:

Down 3 before I got home.  I know I was in the minority, but I will die on this hill.... Freddy should have started game 5 at home if needed.  If we lost tonight with our ace going at home in game 5 you still feel good about it.  Lose tonight with Freddy on the mound and that's probably the season.

Home - (9-1) 1.77

Road - (8-5) 3.71

 

Probably, that error will probably cost Freddy 15 pitches.  He's trending toward a short start and basically a bullpen day anyway.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Cubs are just sitting dead red and daring Freddy to throw any other offspeed for a strike...and he's not able to do it

[edfunderburk]

We look like the .500 team that we were the last 1/4 of the season 

We had a remarkable & memorable 80 game stretch in the middle of the season with a mediocre start & finish 

This lineup & injury impacted rotation is not World Series caliber 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

It's astonishing to me the number of complaints I've heard about our offense. This is 100% on the guys pitching out of the gate. They've been nearly the only thing catastrophically wrong with this series. Of course there's been bad swings here and there, but 9, 7 and 3 is fine. We'd have won yesterday without that suckfest from Preister. Our offense or lack of dingers isn't why the wheels are falling off. 

Four consecutive first inning bombs. Who the hell does that?

[titletownking]

Worst version of team showing up in Chicago. This 4 game series has truly been a microcosm of there season. Very very good, not good enough. Hope the good shines through in the end 

[BarremlensTSSC]

So fair to say that starting Freddy on short rest didn't work out.

[adambr2]

Just now, BarremlensTSSC said:

So fair to say that starting Freddy on short rest didn't work out.

He’s on normal rest.

[bm1090]

1 minute ago, edfunderburk said:

We look like the .500 team that we were the last 1/4 of the season 

We had a remarkable & memorable 80 game stretch in the middle of the season with a mediocre start & finish 

This lineup & injury impacted rotation is not World Series caliber 

And in game 1 and game 2 we looked like the best team in the field. It’s baseball.

[82brewcrew82]

Just now, BarremlensTSSC said:

So fair to say that starting Freddy on short rest didn't work out.

Not short rest, no excuses.

[BarremlensTSSC]

1 minute ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

So fair to say that starting Freddy on short rest didn't work out.

Don't know... do you bring Freddy out for a 3rd inning?

[adambr2]

By no means is this an insurmountable score, but you’ve got to start getting something going offensively, can’t continue to have all these unremarkable ABs with runners on.

[edfunderburk]

1 minute ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Four consecutive first inning bombs. Who the hell does that?

Milwaukee has exclusive rights to this ”first inning HR club”

[CheezWizHed]

Just now, BarremlensTSSC said:

Don't know... do you bring Freddy out for a 3rd inning?

Yes

[wOOgiE22]

Do you pull Freddy and see if he is available for an inning on Saturday if it gets there. He just doesn’t have it tonight

[adambr2]

Just now, BarremlensTSSC said:

Don't know... do you bring Freddy out for a 3rd inning?

Yeah. He’s already shot for this series and at the moment you have to start mapping out a bullpen elimination game.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Heavy pitch count again for Peralta in the 2nd, but at least it was a zero on the board. 

Brewers hitters need to make Boyd work in the 3rd.

[titletownking]

Good god

[MuckyFingers]

9 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

You want to mess with the lineup? How about splitting up Perkins and Ortiz so every rally doesn't die.

No because lefty/righty matchup has 51.3% chance of not succeeding in the 5th inning if the Cubs bring in a RHP or something.

[bm1090]

2 minutes ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

Don't know... do you bring Freddy out for a 3rd inning?

Yes. And a 4th and a 5th.

[kevinisaname]

I'm ready to start Mona. Yikes, Joey.

[adambr2]

Put Mona in. I am so freaking sick of Joey Ortiz and his worthless bat. You’re not coming back from 3-0 with freaking defense.

[MrTPlush]

Just now, bm1090 said:

For real? This is undoubtedly our best team since 2019, probably 2018

Based on what? Just because of the win record? Notably a single hot streak long removed from?

Their starting pitching is horrid without Woodruff. Peralta is the ace and doesn’t go 6 innings half the time. It leaves almost no room for error and we need Peralta to be good and win those games. 

The offense is good, but it also doesn’t exactly excel at the one thing that typically wins postseason ball, homers. Good hitters, pesky…but stringing a bunch of hits together becomes rare when you get to big boy pitchers (not what the Cubs have)

[titletownking]

Horrible. This lineup has an awful approach tonight. 

[titletownking]

Finally a base hit.