Brewers-Cubs NLDS Game Five Thread - 10/11/2025 @ 7:08PM - For those Assuming a WIN!

[formerlybis]

Prior to opening game 2, Ashby was arguably the best pitcher on the entire staff over the last two months of the season (with apologies to Uribe). People have micro-recency bias.
 

And I’d think that by now, all the amateur GMs around here would just concede that these guys have a pretty good idea what they’re doing.

[ClosetBrewerFan]

The post game interview with Vaughn and Miz was pretty funny.  You could not get two different personalities.  Vaughn looks and acts 10 years older than he is.  Miz looks and acts 10 years younger than he is

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

1 minute ago, ClosetBrewerFan said:

The post game interview with Vaughn and Miz was pretty funny.  You could not get two different personalities.  Vaughn looks and acts 10 years older than he is.  Miz looks and acts 10 years younger than he is

One other that stood out to me is just what a cool customer Vaughn is. His reaction on the home run about as ho-hum as it gets for a middle innings, postseason, go-ahead dinger. And then his post game was humble and appreciative and quietly excited and focused. Player of the season. There's some justice in him getting to GW homer while Civale watches from the losing dugout.

[TURBO]

6 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

What a win! I actually watched 8 full innings. Went for a walk, came back to a victory celebration. Glad I didn't have to watch Abner fall 2-0 behind to Suzuki.

 

Dude...

[Daubs]

6 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

6) Plenty of time to discuss the Dodgers. But my early vote is you roll out Priester and Freddy and say let's go. Two best guys all year, at home, and they're on full rest. 

 

I don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but Murphy handled the bullpen so well last night.  Not having to use Priester or Quintana last night set everything up for this series.  Didn't have to use Koenig or Mears either.

Swap an arm or two out and they're ready for tomorrow.

[sobomp3]

30 minutes ago, Smell the Glove said:

Tim Allen was on 920.  Should be available now on the iHeart app

Is this a newer/permanent development? Haven’t had a chance to listen in a few weeks and I know 97.3 is being phased out. 

[Daubs]

1 minute ago, sobomp3 said:

Is this a newer/permanent development? Haven’t had a chance to listen in a few weeks and I know 97.3 is being phased out. 

The Badgers had a night game last night and 97.3 is the flagship station for Badger football.

When there's a conflict with either the Badgers or Packers, the Brewer post game gets shifted to 920.

[sobomp3]

Good to know. I wonder where he will end up when 97.3 shuts down and “shifts to a music station”. Back to 1250 perhaps?

[owbc]

29 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Uribe giving us two innings in length is an underrated part of this win that he is not getting enough credit for.

Uribe is almost exclusively a 1 inning guy and has only gone 2 innings once since 2023.

But he took the ball with a slim lead and with reminders of last year in our head, he gave us no drama whatsoever, shutting the door soundly on the Cubs with two innings that were low stress enough that I would expect him to be available on Monday and Tuesday.

Two of our best teams in the past decade were derailed by closer meltdowns (maybe a third if you count the wall incident). Can’t say enough about how critical it was that Uribe took the unnecessary drama out of the late innings. 

[RWeeksFan23]

10 hours ago, RobertCrawley said:

I love that All Time Great Pedro Martinez likes the Brewers so much!

man he put on a ton of weight since his playing days. woof.

[RWeeksFan23]

10 hours ago, adambr2 said:

I still think Ashby will be on the NLCS roster. Gasser is almost certainly not going to be. 

idk man. the more lefties we have to throw at Ohtani and Freeman, the better.

[Team Canada]

4 hours ago, RWeeksFan23 said:

this is a great, underrated post.

No it's not, it's ridiculous. BA called a LOT of Brewer games this season.

[RWeeksFan23]

10 hours ago, adambr2 said:

I felt so relieved when they got out of it, but in the moment, Ashby down 3-1 to Tucker, one ball away from bases loaded nobody out, was the most dread and anxiety that I felt during this game.

same. what a swing moment that was...

[ClosetBrewerFan]

26 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

One other that stood out to me is just what a cool customer Vaughn is. His reaction on the home run about as ho-hum as it gets for a middle innings, postseason, go-ahead dinger. And then his post game was humble and appreciative and quietly excited and focused. Player of the season. There's some justice in him getting to GW homer while Civale watches from the losing dugout.

Now that's a contrast in personalities. Civale (trade me, I'm a starter), to Andrew Vaughn.  When Vaughn tailed off at the end of the season, I was thinking the Brewers might not retain him.  He's such a class act and team player.  He is the one who could be cocky (3rd overall pick in 2019, rocketed up thru the minors in one year), but not at all.  He is such a big game player.  I almost expect him to come through every time with an RBI.  The Brewers have to keep him for next year.

[RWeeksFan23]

10 hours ago, HarryDoyle said:

So does Hoskins make the roster over Lockridge?

hell no. he didn't make the NLDS roster in part because of his lack of ABs down the stretch in the regular season.

that's even more pronounced now that he wasn't part of the NLDS roster.

[RobertCrawley]

59 minutes ago, Daubs said:

They knew he had the stuff, but he needed to mature emotionally.

Also learning to control his stuff. Freddy walked a lot of batters when he first came up, but once he started using location to get on top of batters, he became a top pitcher in the league. 

[NeedMoreFans]

21 minutes ago, owbc said:

Two of our best teams in the past decade were derailed by closer meltdowns (maybe a third if you count the wall incident). Can’t say enough about how critical it was that Uribe took the unnecessary drama out of the late innings. 

I was texting my cousin after the game (he couldn't watch or listen until the 9th) and said the 9th was, strangely, the inning that was the least stressful in the game. Credit to Uribe.

[RWeeksFan23]

9 hours ago, markedman5 said:

Credit to Porter

 

that was the home plate ump in game 5?

I remember multiple bad misses by him in that one Turang at-bat off the top of my head.

[Playing Catch]

Just now, NeedMoreFans said:

I was texting my cousin after the game (he couldn't watch or listen until the 9th) and said the 9th was, strangely, the inning that was the least stressful in the game. Credit to Uribe.

The whole game, if one ignores the context, was pretty drama-free.

[Frisbee Slider]

21 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

No it's not, it's ridiculous. BA called a LOT of Brewer games this season.

The anti-BA sentiment is unfounded. Unless you prefer the television equivalent of Joe Block.

[adambr2]

27 minutes ago, RWeeksFan23 said:

idk man. the more lefties we have to throw at Ohtani and Freeman, the better.

Give me DL Hall then.

[adambr2]

8 minutes ago, RWeeksFan23 said:

that was the home plate ump in game 5?

I remember multiple bad misses by him in that one Turang at-bat off the top of my head.

Nah Porter didn’t call this game. This was Tigers/Mariners. The ump performance last night was about average.

[Brewluver]

1 hour ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

What a win! I actually watched 8 full innings. Went for a walk, came back to a victory celebration. Glad I didn't have to watch Abner fall 2-0 behind to Suzuki.

 

I walked down the street to a watch party.

10 minutes later the celebration was on.

Now my head hurts, but in a good way !!

[Jimbo]

Yes, a very enjoyable win.

I'm in the minority, that I'm neutral on the whole Counsel thing.  So beating him didn't matter much to me.  Just the psychological boost by snapping the series losing streak, and the regular season justified by taking advantage of the 1-seed.  And sending home a group of people who posses a high snootiness level.

As a child of the 70's, the LCS and WS really only matter to me.  To me LCS >> LDS.  The win was nice, but more important games to follow.

Prior to the game, I was resigned to prepare for the worst but hope for the best.  A loss would have sucked, but I would have been over it in a week.  The first post-season match up between the two clubs, but I'm sure more to follow in the next 25 years.  Future opportunities for revenge if it came to it.

I'm streaming the Chicago Marathon right now and thinking how cool it would have been to be there strutting around downtown in Brewers swag.

 

[adambr2]

7 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

The anti-BA sentiment is unfounded. Unless you prefer the television equivalent of Joe Block.

Same. BA still loves the Brewers and wanted to expand his horizons nationally. I have no problem with that. He’s one of the best in professional sports. Him and the organization are both fine with his part-time role here.

It's not like he left us to become the Cubs everyday play-by-play guy.