Brewers (Harrison) vs Nationals (Griffin): 5/2/26, 3:05pm

[HarryDoyle]

I'm sure that won't come back to haunt them. Ortiz should've taken that one.

[Bulldogboy]

Ortiz is out there for defense. Let him do it.

[Nola Beery]

When's the last time we had a triple play?

 

[Nola Beery]

Just now, Nola Beery said:

When's the last time we had a triple play?

 

OK. A double play would also work

 

[RobertCrawley]

Nice win!!

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Good job by Uribe pitching around the error for the save.

[Nola Beery]

Woot!

[HarryDoyle]

That pretty much clinches the Sunday lineup for tomorrow.

[folly412]

Stack those wins!

[adambr2]

Just now, HarryDoyle said:

That pretty much clinches the Sunday lineup for tomorrow.

At least the worst we will have gone is 18-15 without Chourio and Vaughn and Quinn. I’ll take it.

[willie key]

Freaking Harrison 

[RobertCrawley]

2 minutes ago, willie key said:

Freaking Harrison 

That trade worked out well. Drohan has some upside too.

[homer]

11 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

At least the worst we will have gone is 18-15 without Chourio and Vaughn and Quinn. I’ll take it.

I think we were 8-7 when Yelich went out.

[willie key]

Being in this division is getting annoying but brewers keeling head above water so far

[adambr2]

6 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

That trade worked out well. Drohan has some upside too.

15 years from now we may have a thread about the Devin Williams trade tree.

[rickh150]

Glad we kept the starter healthy for a change…or so we think.

Also, why Nationals are not challenging a couple of balls in 9th are pretty bad strategy…gotta use on anything close in 9th, especially when having 2 left and base runners needed.

[yourout]

Nice win.

Now its time to get greedy.

The Abner Uribe experience is never boring.

[TURBO]

1 hour ago, HarryDoyle said:

That pretty much clinches the Sunday lineup for tomorrow.

What's the difference these days?

[sveumrules]

10 minutes ago, TURBO said:

What's the difference these days?

Five Sunday Games so far with 31 runs scored equals 6.2 R/G when they should be resting.

27 Other Six Days of the Week Games with 139 runs scored equals 5.1 R/G on secular days,

MoAr SuNdAy LiNeUpZ pLeAze

[BruisedCrew]

The Sunday lineups have been helped by Yelich and then Sanchez coming off the bench to hit 3 run HRs.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

My ABS question is: will umpires now make more of an attempt to call the zone as it is electronically?

I actually think it's a fascinating question, mainly because "yes" isn't necessarily a good answer. I don't really want everyone sort of conforming to the same zone regardless of context (for example, I've already seen a few of those calls where the pitcher misses his spot by a foot-and-half, but the ball lands in the zone, and it gets called a strike, even though it wouldn't have been in previous years--I don't like that much). Of course, "no" isn't a good answer either. We definitely want umps to consider the input the ABS is giving them. It just shouldn't be as simple as "ABS called this a strike, and I didn't, and I was wrong."

The best outcome here is challenges as a useful check on umpires. I personally don't want hitters (or catchers) just saving challenges for late in the game just to challenge borderline leverage pitches. I think, obviously, your certainty level can go down as the game progresses, but if you're 90 percent sure a pitch is wrong in the second inning, you should probably challenge it. 

The worst outcome is everyone saving challenges until late, players challenging a bunch of borderline pitches, and ABS just becoming a late-game coin flip for pitches that can fairly be called balls OR strikes.

I will say that I'm way more into this system than I was at the beginning of the year. It's interesting, adds a strategic element, and mostly has seemed less intrusive as I've managed to get used to it.