Brewers (Gasser) vs Twins (Ober): 5/17/26, 1:10pm

[jason21nl]

Just now, Bulldogboy said:

Insane bunt. If that's the plan bench him.

Little league kids wouldn’t bunt there.  It’s truly unbelievable.   The guy is almost impossible to double up and he refuses to swing the bat.  

[Bulldogboy]

Chourio has to know Turang is behind him and take his walk.

[HarryDoyle]

To be fair, the bunt is probably the best percentage play with Hamilton.

[wallus]

Fine with the bunt idea but it needs to be a decent bunt or foul.

[BruisedCrew]

Just now, HarryDoyle said:

To be fair, the bunt is probably the best percentage play with Hamilton.

If he has to bunt, he could at least try to bunt away from and past the pitcher instead of putting it right in front of the plate.

[yourout]

1 for last 12 with RISP

[BarremlensTSSC]

Just now, HarryDoyle said:

To be fair, the bunt is probably the best percentage play with Hamilton.

I'd be interested to know if that was called from the dugout.  Frelick waited to see if the ball would get by the pitcher so neither the suicide or safety squeeze were on.

[BruisedCrew]

1 minute ago, Bulldogboy said:

Chourio has to know Turang is behind him and take his walk.

He also knows that he has been responsible for most of the Brewers runs in this series.

[yourout]

Just now, BruisedCrew said:

If he has to bunt, he could at least try to bunt away from and past the pitcher instead of putting it right in front of the plate.

Exactly.

[Yaz19]

You are all grousing about the punching judy with wicked speed.  Meanwhile, I am still scratching my head why Frelick did not have that EASY TRIPLE.  

[jason21nl]

1 minute ago, wallus said:

Fine with the bunt idea but it needs to be a decent bunt or foul.

No.   Just no man.  Swing the damn bat.  

[trwi7]

1 minute ago, yourout said:

Good call.

Pretty easy call.  I'm sure somebody else would have posted it because that's literally all he does with runners on base.

[adambr2]

I’ve just had it with David Hamilton. Get Jett up already. 

Your objective with a runner on 3rd and 1 out is to drive the runner on 3rd in. Not to sacrifice the guy on 1st to 2nd.

Terrible baseball. If you can’t swing the bat when the situation calls for it, you don’t belong in a major league lineup.

Murphy so desperately wants Hamilton to be good. He’s not.

 

[Jim Goulart]

1 minute ago, Yaz19 said:

You are all grousing about the punching judy with wicked speed.  Meanwhile, I am still scratching my head why Frelick did not have that EASY TRIPLE.  

 

[wallus]

1 minute ago, jason21nl said:

No.   Just no man.  Swing the damn bat.  

Bunt up the first base side scores a run and advances the runner into scoring position, nothing wrong with that

[RobertCrawley]

That ball sounded like it hit the bat. Foul ball.

[adambr2]

1 minute ago, Yaz19 said:

You are all grousing about the punching judy with wicked speed.  Meanwhile, I am still scratching my head why Frelick did not have that EASY TRIPLE.  

Didn’t see the play, just heard on the radio. Was Frelick dogging it or what happened?

[adambr2]

1 minute ago, Jim Goulart said:

 

In any event, the Brewers have had to work awfully hard to only have one run right now. 

[wallus]

3 minutes ago, Yaz19 said:

You are all grousing about the punching judy with wicked speed.  Meanwhile, I am still scratching my head why Frelick did not have that EASY TRIPLE.  

He wasn't sure if Bauers was going to be sent

[BarremlensTSSC]

1 minute ago, adambr2 said:

Didn’t see the play, just heard on the radio. Was Frelick dogging it or what happened?

Replay didn't really show Frelick so I'm not sure.

[yourout]

Way to many noncompetitive pitches.

[trwi7]

3 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Didn’t see the play, just heard on the radio. Was Frelick dogging it or what happened?

I think my answer a page ago was the most likely scenario but we've never seen any replay to confirm it.  Bauers held up and then got going, Frelick probably wasn't sure if they were going to send Bauers home from 3rd and didn't want to get caught between 2nd and 3rd in case Bauers was held up.

[jason21nl]

3 minutes ago, wallus said:

Bunt up the first base side scores a run and advances the runner into scoring position, nothing wrong with that

1st and 3rd with one out and you’re going to try to kill an inning by giving up an out?  Swing the bleeping bat

[HarryDoyle]

I doubt Frelick was dogging it. Probably just confusion on the base paths. I certainly didn't expect Bauers to be sent home.

[adambr2]

6 minutes ago, wallus said:

Bunt up the first base side scores a run and advances the runner into scoring position, nothing wrong with that

Yeah, I just don’t agree. If the squeeze is on, okay. But it wasn’t. 

At some point you need to be able to assume that an MLB hitter can hit a routine fly ball.