Brewers (Misiorowski) vs Marlins (Pérez): 4/19/26, 12:40pm

[Bulldogboy]

9th inning two strikes and down two you get caught looking at strike 3. How?

[Bulldogboy]

Just too bad that this team just never had a chance today from the time the lineup was made. It should not be this way in an mlb game. 

[CheezWizHed]

9 minutes ago, wildcat83 said:

Makes no sense to bat him leadoff, it just amplifies the K issues.  

Except for his MLB leading OBP... 

[jason21nl]

It’s pretty amazing they have the record that they do because half the line up absolutely sucks 

[duewizard]

Just now, jason21nl said:

It’s pretty amazing they have the record that they do because half the line up absolutely sucks 

If anything it gives me hope for the eventual return of Chourio, Vaughn and Yelich. 

[Bulldogboy]

It would help if Bauers could get at least lukewarm. The guy just gets worse the more he plays. 

[Bulldogboy]

Rengifo 167 Jones 111 Perkins 125 Hamilton 170 Matos 180 Frelick  190. How can Arnold look in the mirror?

[wiguy94]

Brewers will be much better off when guys like Matos, Jones, Perkins, and Lockridge are off the big league roster.

[wiguy94]

2 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

It would help if Bauers could get at least lukewarm. The guy just gets worse the more he plays. 

The guy had a wRC+ over 130 just two days ago. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

2 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

It’s like discussing pecking order for players who didn’t make the team out of ST and Perkins hasn’t done anything to change that with his play. As Chourio, Vaughn and Yelich return to health he’ll be shipped back to AAA along with Matos and Jones. 

It IS a pecking order, and as I said Perkins is ahead of both save for Matos doing enough in the coming games to give them hope for him being a RH bench/DH bat. So far he hasn't. But yeah, that doesn't mean Perkins will be on the team assuming they reach full strength.

[Jim French Stepstool]

Two big sequences today for me. Miz starts out his afternoon by walking a guy hitting .160, and two batters later Hamilton botches a grounder that looked like it came off the bat of a little league coach hitting pre-game ground balls. Statistically it was one earned run that inning but really those two things cost you all three. 

Then DL Hall enters in the 6th, starts out with a L vs L & walks the guy. Set the tone for that whole inning.

Still, a nice weekend. The way they set up the rally in the 8th inning was typical of what's led to success, but Perez never let that happen in the first six innings by locating really well on both edges.

[adambr2]

Nice to see Rodriguez pitch well.

Overall, though it was disappointing not to finish the sweep, we’ve had worse games. Hard to expect more than 3 with the lineup we put out today. Just really the one bad inning in the 1st and that was the difference.

[Jim French Stepstool]

2 hours ago, RobertCrawley said:

Does it matter if it's a K or ground out?

Mitchell has hurt them a # of times throughout his stretch here by not touching the ball w/a runner on 3rd, 2nd & 3rd, or 2nd w/zero or one out. It happened a time or two in the last homestand. So depending on the situation yeah, it can make a difference. He's a talent, and he seems to have developed a propensity to draw walks which helps alleviate the Ks somewhat. And the production he's shown in the face of a roster watered down by injuries has been important. But the swing-and-miss issues make what he's doing tough to sustain long-term IMO.

[liveforoctober]

19 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Rengifo 167 Jones 111 Perkins 125 Hamilton 170 Matos 180 Frelick  190. How can Arnold look in the mirror?

Vaughn, Chourio, Yelich, Black.

You are better than this! Even if just venting...

[Jim French Stepstool]

2 hours ago, Bulldogboy said:

He hasn’t been the same since personal absence. I wonder if that is still an issue. I think it was death in family. 

His mom IIRC. It was quite awhile ago, but you never know; we're all different in how stuff like that effects you.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Rodriguez did a nice job finishing this one. Felt to me like one of those you're just going to lose over the course of the year. Agree about Hamilton's error being the biggest play of the game.

After 21 games, being 12-9 is fine. Would we have liked to get one or two more, especially given the Red Sox and Nats series? Yeah. But we haven't played anyone from the Central yet, we're still banged up (missing probably our best player and best veteran). I've been a big believer in the "you can't win a pennant in April, but you can lose it" idea, and we haven't lost it.

Mixed reviews. Holes in the bullpen and in the bottom of the lineup. Not always sharp defensively. But getting some good starting pitching, scrapping out a few big innings, hitting the long ball at home, and generally playing tough and staying afloat. I'll take it, on balance.

[Jim French Stepstool]

42 minutes ago, wildcat83 said:

Makes no sense to bat him leadoff, it just amplifies the K issues.  

I think it hurts either way. K w/runners on, or trying to start a rally?

Years ago, Barry Bonds' dad Bobby was an immense talent, but had (for that era) a very high K rate. Often teams he played for settled on the idea of just letting him hit leadoff (he was fast) & do whatever damage he could do as opposed to him constantly coming up w/runners on and striking out. 

I guess it's sorta a chicken-egg thing.

[Jim French Stepstool]

34 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

It would help if Bauers could get at least lukewarm. The guy just gets worse the more he plays. 

Had a 3-hit day on Friday.

[Jim French Stepstool]

I think a lot of the b****ing on here regarding the lineups should be channeled towards yelling at Yelichs' hammy and Vaughn & Chouiros' hand injuries. That wouldn't make much sense either, but at least a little bit more.

I guess we could whine about Contreras sitting, but of course that would be the direct opposite of the complaining last year about how Murphy was never giving him any time off.

 

[Bulldogboy]

30 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

Vaughn, Chourio, Yelich, Black.

You are better than this! Even if just venting...

I get it but man it just seems like we should have a few AAA type guys you can plug in who can hit 200. I just think it's a hole they have to plug in the organization. You can't have an all star or prospect organization. You gotta have a few Tyrone Taylor types who can help you for a few weeks.

[Bulldogboy]

20 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

Had a 3-hit day on Friday.

Got him up to 225. Yea.

[Bulldogboy]

30 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Rodriguez did a nice job finishing this one. Felt to me like one of those you're just going to lose over the course of the year. Agree about Hamilton's error being the biggest play of the game.

After 21 games, being 12-9 is fine. Would we have liked to get one or two more, especially given the Red Sox and Nats series? Yeah. But we haven't played anyone from the Central yet, we're still banged up (missing probably our best player and best veteran). I've been a big believer in the "you can't win a pennant in April, but you can lose it" idea, and we haven't lost it.

Mixed reviews. Holes in the bullpen and in the bottom of the lineup. Not always sharp defensively. But getting some good starting pitching, scrapping out a few big innings, hitting the long ball at home, and generally playing tough and staying afloat. I'll take it, on balance.

The central is definitely better this year. They are not going to stay afloat long if they don't get some guys going. Lara should get a look. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

12 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Got him up to 225. Yea.

Not a good average. I was just responding to the 'gets worse the more he plays' line.

[adambr2]

6 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

I get it but man it just seems like we should have a few AAA type guys you can plug in who can hit 200. I just think it's a hole they have to plug in the organization. You can't have an all star or prospect organization. You gotta have a few Tyrone Taylor types who can help you for a few weeks.

Blake Perkins turning into a pumpkin hurt us more than people realize. We used to at least have a pretty reliable 4th OFer when we took injuries to the outfield. Without good Perk, we’ve been having to dig to the deep, deep options and it’s not pretty.

Jett has been hitting better lately in Nashville and it’s possible he gets a call sooner rather than later.

Aside from that, it’s going to be a lot of hoping that the status quo can hang in there until late May and at least have us within striking distance of 1st at that time.

[willie key]

This team is playing above their head with smoke and mirrors right now and still in last place.     It’s early

 

its just frustrating to hear about all these talented prospects and we can’t play any of these people in a major time of need.   Perkins.   Ortiz.   Hamilton    Rengifro.  Matos and on and on.