Pirates (Mlodzinski) vs Brewers (Harrison): 4/26/26, 1:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

That was not an awesome week of baseball. Hopefully, this week will be better.

	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	TOT
Trevor Megill	14	0	8	0	0	22
Shane Drohan	0	0	0	71	0	71
Jake Woodford	42	0	0	0	0	42
Grant Anderson	17	0	4	0	4	25
DL Hall	0	0	0	0	0	0
Angel Zerpa	0	0	25	0	16	41
Abner Uribe	0	0	8	0	8	16
Aaron Ashby	27	0	15	0	21	63

[BruisedCrew]

A baseball week runs from Monday to Sunday. Today's game will just determine how bad the week was.

[RobertCrawley]

A win today would be acceptable.

[trwi7]

Milwaukee Brewers: Where every lineup is a Sunday lineup.

[Brian]

Turang 2B
Contreras, Wm C
Bauers 1B
Sánchez DH
Mitchell CF
Frelick RF
Rengifo 3B
Hamilton, D SS
Lockridge LF

[Playing Catch]

If I'm looking for a silver lining in this stretch of play, I've felt good about what we've seen from Lockridge. Not in a starting capacity, but I like what he has to offer a playoff roster, although his inverse platoon splits are mildly annoying.

[adambr2]

Pat Murphy postgame presser last night:

”There’s no guarantee that we jump right out of this. This might be whatever it might be.”

 

Skip, if that rally speech doesn’t fire up the troops to start turning this around, nothing will.

[Bulldogboy]

19 minutes ago, Playing Catch said:

If I'm looking for a silver lining in this stretch of play, I've felt good about what we've seen from Lockridge. Not in a starting capacity, but I like what he has to offer a playoff roster, although his inverse platoon splits are mildly annoying.

Playoffs? Playoffs?

[Playing Catch]

Just now, Bulldogboy said:

Playoffs? Playoffs?

LOL, I know... I was thinking the same thing as I typed it.

[Playing Catch]

Just now, Playing Catch said:

LOL, I know... I was thinking the same thing as I typed it.

I'm still not worried, though. Speaking for myself, I think the long, boring offseason has made all of us overanxious about seeing the Brewers at the bottom of the standings. .500 is a perfectly acceptable winning percentage at this point of the season. Last year, the Brewers were 13-15 at this point, and were still over a month away from seeing .500 again.

I think most of us anticipated a divisional dog-fight all season in this improved division, but that doesn't change the fact that last place sucks.

[Jim French Stepstool]

9 minutes ago, Playing Catch said:

I'm still not worried, though. Speaking for myself, I think the long, boring offseason has made all of us overanxious about seeing the Brewers at the bottom of the standings. .500 is a perfectly acceptable winning percentage at this point of the season. Last year, the Brewers were 13-15 at this point, and were still over a month away from seeing .500 again.

I think most of us anticipated a divisional dog-fight all season in this improved division, but that doesn't change the fact that last place sucks.

Last year they were under .500 a third of the way through the season. If THAT team can stumble along you'd think the 2026 team w/o a few of their more important players might hit a rough patch w/o fans jumping off a bridge.

You'd think so, anyway.

[Jim French Stepstool]

49 minutes ago, Playing Catch said:

If I'm looking for a silver lining in this stretch of play, I've felt good about what we've seen from Lockridge. Not in a starting capacity, but I like what he has to offer a playoff roster, although his inverse platoon splits are mildly annoying.

The starting pitching has (mostly) been keeping them in games, too. Although a little more length is needed as we move forward.

Also, for all the railing about the 'pen, Ashby has been good, Megill has allowed one hit in his last four appearances, as has Uribe--unfortunately it was the walkoff HR in Detroit. I still think the BP is going to prove to be OK, although they have to figure out what they want to do with Zerpa.

[Jim French Stepstool]

41 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Pat Murphy postgame presser last night:

”There’s no guarantee that we jump right out of this. This might be whatever it might be.”

 

Skip, if that rally speech doesn’t fire up the troops to start turning this around, nothing will.

It's an odd thing to say, but I could easily see a line like that firing up a veteran-laden team. How this team takes it, or if they even paid attention to it, I have no idea.

[RobertCrawley]

Is the roof closed? Maybe that's the problem.

[folly412]

Better line for Priester today, though still only 18 of 45 pitches for strikes.  

[Gump]

4 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

Is the roof closed? Maybe that's the problem.

Problem with what? Us losing?

[RobertCrawley]

3 minutes ago, Gump said:

Problem with what? Us losing?

Yes. Maybe our bullpen needs fresh air.

[Brian]

51 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Playoffs? Playoffs?

LOL, Jim Mora Rant: "Playoffs?! Don't talk about—playoffs?! You kidding me? Playoffs?! I just hope we can win a game, another game"