Dodgers (Snell) vs. Brewers (Ashby): NLCS Game One Thread - 10/13/2025 @ 7:08PM

[rickh150]

14 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

So you want to lead off with the guy who has a .511 playoff OPS. Against lefties.

He hit lefties well all year, and the next three starters are righties….and always have hated having him bat 5th….he’s an on base guy kinda asking him to slug more.

[Jim French Stepstool]

41 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Brewers simply need a SP to give them 5 or 6 innings at some point. We have asked our bullpen to go 5+ innings in 5 straight postseason games and tonight the 2 runs the Dodgers scored were off 2 relievers whose stuff was not as good as it was in the Cubs series in Patrick and Uribe.

Hopefully that's tomorrow w/Peralta. If so, a day off combined with Myers being fresh & I think we'll be OK pitching-wise heading west.

I imagine a save opp tomorrow would be Megill.

[BruisedCrew]

1 hour ago, Brian said:

He should have let it bean him.

He would have had to get his head down pretty low to get beaned by that pitch. He could have let it hit him in the foot, but I can't blame a hitter whose self preservation instinct takes over.

[Baldkin]

13 minutes ago, yourout said:

Yelich is 1 for 14.

If that doesn't change we have no chance

Yelich hasn't had a playoff RBI since 2018. 

[BruisedCrew]

The thing I can't get out of my head as I look at these teams is that the one that has 4 All Star caliber SP and 3 future Hall of Famers and 3 other All Star caliber hitters in their everyday lineup  is going to be tough to beat., 

[Jim French Stepstool]

41 minutes ago, jason21nl said:

At some point they might have to sacrifice defense for more offense.   Maybe consider playing Yelich or Bauers in the field and one or the other DHs.   They need more offense

We haven't heard anything re Yelich & keeping him away from the OF, but when Chourio re-dinged himself & they didn't just DH him & put Yelich in LF I started wondering if there might be a slight twinge, a shoulder or elbow, something.

You COULD see Bauers play LF but part of the blueprint for these playoff games is having someone available to hit for Ortiz late, if need be.

[bucks2281]

3 minutes ago, Baldkin said:

Yelich hasn't had a playoff RBI since 2018. 

14 playoff games and counting without an RBI 

[wiguy94]

6 minutes ago, bucks2281 said:

14 playoff games and counting without an RBI 

What's even more sad is he's only had RBI in 2 of his 24 playoff games as a Brewer. He hit a 2-run HR in game 1 of the NLDS in 2018 then had the HR in Game 7 of the NLCS in 2018. So he's had 1 RBI in his last 23 playoff games.

[Recovering Chicagoan]

12 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

The thing I can't get out of my head as I look at these teams is that the one that has 4 All Star caliber SP and 3 future Hall of Famers and 3 other All Star caliber hitters in their everyday lineup  is going to be tough to beat., 

Yes, it will indeed be difficult. Very difficult. No one will disagree with that.

[Recovering Chicagoan]

4 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

What's even more sad is he's only had RBI in 2 of his 24 playoff games as a Brewer. He hit a 2-run HR in game 1 of the NLDS in 2018 then had the HR in Game 7 of the NLCS in 2018. So he's had 1 RBI in his last 23 playoff games.

It would sure help if Yelich could somehow get hot. I'm not holding my breath, though. Same with Turang.

[thebruce44]

2 hours ago, adambr2 said:

We were so fortunate just to lose 2-1 tonight. This was a game we had to have to take this series.

Pack it in boys, no sense in even playing the next games.

[thebruce44]

Its playoff baseball and good pitchers can dominate a game. It doesn't mean our offense is falling apart, we just ran into a buzz saw...and yet still almost stole a win.

If we win tomorrow, in my mind its still a coin toss.

[Team Canada]

2 hours ago, BruisedCrew said:

 

I was at the game and am scrolling through the game thread. 
At the game with my old eyes I didn’t realize the ball had hit the wall so we didn’t know what had happened until we saw the replay on the scoreboard.

After seeing what happened I still couldn’t believe Hernandez didn’t tag up and score easily. When I got home and watched the play on the telecast, I could see that he tagged up, but went back when the ball popped out of Frelick’s glove and he caught it on the rebound.

That was Hernandez’s big mistake. It is a seemingly little known rule that a runner can tag up and advance once a fielder touches the ball, not when he “catches” it. So if he had just kept coming home, he would have scored. He did not have to go back and retag.

Same. It was not at all clear that the ball hit the wall - I thought it'd just popped up and he caught it again, and so was confused why Contreras caught it without attempting a tag. One of the guys behind me had the TV feed on his phone and that's how we figured it out.

Craziest thing I've ever seen.

[Jim French Stepstool]

43 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

Same. It was not at all clear that the ball hit the wall - I thought it'd just popped up and he caught it again, and so was confused why Contreras caught it without attempting a tag. One of the guys behind me had the TV feed on his phone and that's how we figured it out.

Craziest thing I've ever seen.

The part about the runner being able to tag up when the fielder makes contact with the ball, rather than when it's secured------I would be willing to bet there are MLB players who aren't even aware of that, or once knew it & forgot.

That's where your 3B coach comes in, but I'm guessing he wasn't even sure the ball hit the glove, then the wall.

[adambr2]

This was a tough one to swallow, because it would have been one of the most epic playoff wins in Brewers history.

We need 6 really good innings out of Freddy. I wonder if they’ll open with a lefty just to get through Ohtani and Freeman the first time or just go with a traditional start for Freddy.

[Bulldogboy]

7 hours ago, TURBO said:

Oh look, Murphy has his kids at the presser, just sitting there, for absolutely no purpose.  

Embarrassed 

[Craigilicious]

7 hours ago, Bulldogboy said:

Last thought. Turang should not ever be hitting cleanup in an nlcs. Ever.

Agreed, let's hope we've seen the end of the Turang batting cleanup experiment.

[adambr2]

5 hours ago, thebruce44 said:

Pack it in boys, no sense in even playing the next games.

You’re right, some more perspective is probably good. Freddy could come through tonight, we could swing the bats better.

Here’s hoping. Going into L.A. down 2-0 would be a pretty tough spot.

[Brian]

36 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

You’re right, some more perspective is probably good. Freddy could come through tonight, we could swing the bats better.

Here’s hoping. Going into L.A. down 2-0 would be a pretty tough spot.

Snell threw a 2 hitter, so we could swing the bats better but Snell was absolutely on point last night. We did get to see Contreras/Frelick/Ortiz make the heads up play of the year.  Abner was a dud when we needed him most.  Looking forward to seeing good Freddy tonight. 

[kestrel79]

Snell was on, he did the same to the potent Phils lineup last week. It seemed like any time we tried to take a pitch or two he would throw these perfectly placed curves or fastballs right on the corner. It felt like we were down 0-2 in the count almost every at bat. Just attacking the strike zone and leaving nothing over the plate that was hittable. 

Still fought and made it interesting at the end, and that double play with Sal was amazing. Still plenty of games left.

[Team Canada]

10 hours ago, adambr2 said:

I think lowkey one of the most disappointing things about tonight is that you had one of the most insane plays in MLB history occur and instead of it being an enormous part of our 2025 World Series story it’s just a footnote now.

There was serious Angels in the Outfield potential.

[The Beat Goes On]

One thing that a $330M payroll buys you, besides multiple MVPs in your lineup and Cy Young candidates in your rotation, is  playoff experience.  I think the truth is the moment was simply too big for Brice last night (as was starting a closeout game for Priester in G3).  These guys don't get exposed to these moments at nearly the same rate as guys on a roster like the Dodgers.  A game one in an LCS is barely more stressful than an afternoon game in July to a super team consistently in LCS’s and WS’s.  Even if they fell behind 0-2 in this series I am sure they’d feel just fine heading back to LA.  For the Brewers this is the biggest moment of their baseball lives and they are feeling that big time.  It’s just yet another way the field is imbalanced in this sport.

You can try to spin it positively and say at least this year they are all getting a feel for this and it’ll pay off in the coming years but we felt the same way about the ’18 team with all the young and up and coming pitching we had.  Never thought in a million years it would be 7 more years before we were back in the NLCS after we lost game 7.  Point is when you’re a “bite at the apple” team instead of a Baseball Avengers team you simply cannot count on being back again and have to find a way to make the most of it by winning games you shouldn’t, like last night.

[Fear The Chorizo]

12 hours ago, adambr2 said:

I think lowkey one of the most disappointing things about tonight is that you had one of the most insane plays in MLB history occur and instead of it being an enormous part of our 2025 World Series story it’s just a footnote now.

True....but I still have zero idea what in the world Teoscar was doing at 3rd base on that play - as soon as the ball hits Frelick's glove he could have tagged and crawled home and made it safely in stead of going back to third, motioning to Smith to get back, and then heading for home.  I was impressed by the left field ump's quick call of "safe" indicating it wasn't a catch, which would have been right in front of Will Smith, too.

It took atrocious baserunning by the Dodgers for there to be 1 out recorded on that play, historically awful to turn it into a double play.  No knock on the heads up defense by me saying that, either.

[brewcrewdue80]

Tough luck in running in to Snell when he was peaking as a pitcher this season. Going in to the game, his last 5 starts were 32 IP giving up just 3 runs. All 5 games Quality starts.

He's what Woodruff was supposed to be returning from injury to start August, and be prime come playoffs.  I cant see the Brewers winning the series due to Snell dominance  another game and 3rd start if a game 7.

Really poor scheduling in that the Brewers going 5 games left them with a bullpen Game 1 vs LA's current Ace starter.  Great advantage for being best team in the season.

[adambr2]

6 minutes ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

True....but I still have zero idea what in the world Teoscar was doing at 3rd base on that play - as soon as the ball hits Frelick's glove he could have tagged and crawled home and made it safely in stead of going back to third, motioning to Smith to get back, and then heading for home.  I was impressed by the left field ump's quick call of "safe" indicating it wasn't a catch, which would have been right in front of Will Smith, too.

It took atrocious baserunning by the Dodgers for there to be 1 out recorded on that play, historically awful to turn it into a double play.  No knock on the heads up defense by me saying that, either.

Yeah… to be honest, we had no business winning last night, we were outplayed in about every way.

Tonight is pretty big, so hopefully we can start swinging the bats. Any victory would do but a resounding 6-2 win or something would inspire some confidence heading to L.A.