Brewers (Crow) vs Twins (Ryan): 5/15/26, 6:10pm

[willie key]

These are the games I want to see.    Holding a one run lead for a few innings.   Keep doing that consistently 

[willie key]

Megill back to closer role?     Maybe the flip flop is what both pitchers need

[yourout]

2 minutes ago, HarryDoyle said:

Ashby 8-0.

Jim Slaton has the Brewer record for a reliever with 14 wins in 1983 with 0 starts.

Brent Suter won 12 games in 2011 while working primarily in relief (with nine starts).

[Bulldogboy]

Ashby heading for the all star game?

[edfunderburk]

[RightFieldCoder]

4 minutes ago, Zad Fnark said:

Why is Megill's pitch labelled a "knuckle curve"?  It seems to have plenty of spin on it, where a true knuckle ball doesn't.

It's how he holds it. I think his index finger is gripping it as it would in a knuckle? It means that finger doesn't contribute (or hinder) the spin he wants to apply.

[willie key]

2 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Ashby heading for the all star game?

If he has double digit wins he’s going I bet

[duewizard]

7 minutes ago, Zad Fnark said:

Why is Megill's pitch labelled a "knuckle curve"?  It seems to have plenty of spin on it, where a true knuckle ball doesn't.

Nothing to do with it being a knuckleball. The baseball is gripped with a finger folded and a knuckle pointing out, hence the name

[edfunderburk]

You okay, Brock?

[sveumrules]

3 minutes ago, Zad Fnark said:

Why is Megill's pitch labelled a "knuckle curve"?  It seems to have plenty of spin on it, where a true knuckle ball doesn't.

It’s mostly based on the grip which features the index finger raised like a knuckle ball but with tip dug into the seam.

Believe it allows for a higher velocity, sharper break & has less visible “pop” out of the hand versus the traditional curveball.

[sveumrules]

Here are some of the Brewers rankings so far this year among the 30 MLB clubs for pitchers age 25 and under before Coleman "GRAVY" Crow went for 5 IP | 1 ER | 3 H | 0 BB | 3 K tonight...

148 IP (2nd) | 141 K+ (2nd)
80 ERA- (10th) | 81 FIP- (6th)
3.7 rWAR (1st) | 3.4 fWAR (1st)

 

[Jim French Stepstool]

It looked like one of those "we can't hit" days, but you wind up with 9 hits & 3 or 4 other well-hit balls that would be hits on another day. I'll say this---I would've liked a little more 'woodpecker' in a few of the ABs. Case in point in the 3rd inning. W/one out, Turang & Contreras both work the count full vs Ryan (who BTW was very good). Those are the situations where you wear a guy out, walk, make him throw eleven pitches---something. Both wound up as Ks. Bauers followed with a single. 

I don't know if I've ever seen someone score two runs, pick up a couple knocks & be this instrumental in a win offensively, and look as horrible at the plate as Chourio did tonite. Scale it back, pick up the ball, keep it simple.

Loved Crow tonite. He might be one of those 'third time through is an issue' guys but you gotta love his early work.

I'll give Perkins a little credit. PHing vs the lefty was a great call, he put up a great AB & drove one to the wall after working it full. Then forced to face a righty (who he's been horrible against), contact was imperative & after getting to 0-2 he puts it into play but right at the 2B vs the drawn-in INF.

After his name came up a time or three during trade deadlines, I'm fine with us not having Josh Bell (now watch him hit three bombs tomorrow😛).

[Jim French Stepstool]

16 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Ashby heading for the all star game?

Wouldn't be surprised. It's a game of numbers, and 8 or more wins out of the BP one-fourth of the way through the season is a big number.

[sveumrules]

6 hours ago, sveumrules said:

for a +368 run differential over that span.

Make that a +369 run differential now.

Feel like I remember hearing some dude named Tesla saying something about those numbers holding the key to the universe or some such nonsense.

Prolly didn't know ball anyway.

[Jim French Stepstool]

3 hours ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

 I also agree with "all managers do really dumb things". 

True, but I think often times it's more a case of "All managers manage games in which their teams lose, and therefore SOMEONE has to be blamed." IMHO there are probably some teams Murphy would be an average MGR for, but the Milwaukee Brewers aren't one of them.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

I haven't closely reviewed the Chourio play at 3rd, but first glance it looked like a bad beat for the Twins. I thought Jackson was out either way, but I've seen an argument to the contrary in this thread, and I'm not insanely confident in my initial read.

I guess, all that said, you can't block bases. It's a tough situation there because it certainly didn't seem intentional, but hey. Take it and move on because it'll happen the other way sooner or later.

Kind of felt like a nobody wanted to win too badly kind of game to me. Lots of mistakes on the bases, as well as poor situational hitting. Some great defense, though.

Uribe doesn't look right to me, but maybe tonight gets him going. Relief pitching is weird. Twins laid off some borderline pitches, but he still got the ground all he needed. Megill hopefully has settled. Need the back-end of the bullpen to be as close to bulletproof as possible because this pitching staff is going to keep us in a lot of games.

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

True, but I think often times it's more a case of "All managers manage games in which their teams lose, and therefore SOMEONE has to be blamed." IMHO there are probably some teams Murphy would be an average MGR for, but the Milwaukee Brewers aren't one of them.

I agree with this too. I think some managers are a better for fit some cultures better than others. You’ve seen managers that can win a World Series in one place and last a season or two elsewhere before getting fired.

[Brian]

Uribe doesn't look right to me either and I don't think having a 1/4 can of Copenhagen in his lip when he pitches is helping matters. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

7 minutes ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

I haven't closely reviewed the Chourio play at 3rd, but first glance it looked like a bad beat for the Twins. I thought Jackson was out either way, but I've seen an argument to the contrary in this thread, and I'm not insanely confident in my initial read.

I guess, all that said, you can't block bases. It's a tough situation there because it certainly didn't seem intentional, but hey. Take it and move on because it'll happen the other way sooner or later.

Kind of felt like a nobody wanted to win too badly kind of game to me. Lots of mistakes on the bases, as well as poor situational hitting. Some great defense, though.

Uribe doesn't look right to me, but maybe tonight gets him going. Relief pitching is weird. Twins laid off some borderline pitches, but he still got the ground all he needed. Megill hopefully has settled. Need the back-end of the bullpen to be as close to bulletproof as possible because this pitching staff is going to keep us in a lot of games.

I think Lewis definitely blocked the base. The Twins might counter with the argument that you never see that called, why pick on us? And they'd have a point.

Put another way, I don't think I'll ever see Max Muncy get called for it.

[willie key]

The central division is getting Kind of lame.      Everyone just wins every night.    

[wiguy94]

1 hour ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I think Lewis definitely blocked the base. The Twins might counter with the argument that you never see that called, why pick on us? And they'd have a point.

Put another way, I don't think I'll ever see Max Muncy get called for it.

Brewers deserved an obstruction call going their way after like 3 went against them last year 

[sveumrules]

22 minutes ago, willie key said:

The central division is getting Kind of lame.      Everyone just wins every night.    

Should get more interesting once they all start playing each other a little bit more.

So far NLC teams have only played 44 Divisional games, but have played 88 InterLeague games with a combined 56 W - 32 L record.

[Zad Fnark]

15 hours ago, sveumrules said:

It’s mostly based on the grip which features the index finger raised like a knuckle ball but with tip dug into the seam.

Believe it allows for a higher velocity, sharper break & has less visible “pop” out of the hand versus the traditional curveball.

Thanks, guys.  Very informative.

[da swedish german]

15 hours ago, sveumrules said:

Should get more interesting once they all start playing each other a little bit more.

So far NLC teams have only played 44 Divisional games, but have played 88 InterLeague games with a combined 56 W - 32 L record.

I like playing every team, every year. 

what I don't like is that it leaves gaps in division and in league games that can seem unfair.  teams have such ups and downs throughout a year that the division games at least need some sort of intentional spreading out.  

not to defend them, but I think we swept the dodgers last year solely because we played all six games in such a tight time period.  we were hot, they were cold(or just taking it easy until the playoffs)

5 division games played by mid May is ridiculous