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

[adambr2]

Sal, it is the 9th inning. CHALLENGE IT.

[RobertCrawley]

Cripes.

[Bulldogboy]

Back leg collapse is so bad

[MilwaukeeBeers]

Sal is absolutely putrid. 

[BarremlensTSSC]

I'll take 2 of 3.  Let's go get the Cubbies.

[yfinn6]

This is a really frustrating loss and not sure what the deal with your worst reliever in the 9th was, Cubs series or not. 

[adambr2]

Horrible 0-2 mistake pitch right down the middle and Sal pops it right up.

The Brewers had to fall all over themselves to lose this game and managed to do just that.

[trwi7]

Great AB by Frelick, takes a ball that's called a strike and doesn't challenge it.  Swings at borderline pitch and then is way out in front of a splitter right down the middle and pops out.

[homer]

1 minute ago, adambr2 said:

Sal, it is the 9th inning. CHALLENGE IT.

Reminds me of MLF not challenging things before half time.

[RobertCrawley]

Just now, Bulldogboy said:

Back leg collapse is so bad

I'm no expert, but he always looks like he's overswinging to me.

[TURBO]

There's that patented bent back leg swing.

DO OUR HITTING COACHES EVEN CONSIDER WORKING ON THIS WITH FRELICK?

It is constant.

[yourout]

1 for 14 with RISP

[BruisedCrew]

To make things worse, the White Sox had the Cubs beat, but what would have been the final out of the game was thrown in the dirt and the first baseman whiffed on it. Conforto followed with a game tying three run homer.

[MilwaukeeBeers]

I think its time for some changes. This is a huge series coming up and will expose a lot. Rengifo is at the end of his rope. Ortiz is getting there. And Sal honestly deserves to be optioned. He has been that bad this year. 

[Bulldogboy]

This game was hard to lose but they did it. It felt like they were fine taking 2 of 3. Frustrating. 

[Underachiever]

2 minutes ago, trwi7 said:

I'll take "Things you could see coming from a mile away, Ken."

Woodford was good! Chourio coulda/shoulda caught the triple, Bauers looks like he never watched a Tom Emansky video with a terrible throw on a very medium fly ball, then two outs on a groundout and a K. Not like Woodford blew up out there. Tough crowd.

[Bulldogboy]

2 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

To make things worse, the White Sox had the Cubs beat, but what would have been the final out of the game was thrown in the dirt and the first baseman whiffed on it. Conforto followed with a game tying three run homer.

This is why Cubs series is scary. They have bats to play 27 outs. Brewers give you 9 outs auto every night. 27 v 18 is tough.

[trwi7]

14 minutes ago, Brian said:

Not when you start a series with the Cubs tomorrow. 

We could literally play 3 games against the Cubs that may not be within 5 runs.  Play for the game today.  If tomorrow's game is like 8-3 either way it's going to look pretty stupid holding our top relievers back today.

[yourout]

14 minutes ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

I'm surprised they didn't all get struck by lightning and die.  

They won the series because their pitching dominated the first two games.  The managed to lose one game because they didn't hit with runners in scoring position today.    Of the two teams in this series the one that was damn lucky not to get swept was the Twins.

Jesus ***** you guys. Lighten the hell up.

The twins gifted us runs late in both the first two games

[yourout]

8 minutes ago, RobertCrawley said:

I'm no expert, but he always looks like he's overswinging to me.

He is overswinging but his mechanics are messed up too.

[homer]

The Cubs don't scare me. Brewers are in their heads.

[Bulldogboy]

Mariners called up Colt Emerson. Everyone seems to be calling up the good young players to help move things forward except......

[trwi7]

This is pretty much the same Frelick as last year, he's just not getting lucky as hell.  Same thing is happening in Boston with Durbin.

[Sugarrayray]

Sal was one of my favorite players last year - it is jarring to me how bad of a baseball player he is right now.

As much of a gamer as he is, the fact that he didn’t even CONSIDER challenging it shows his head is not in the game. That is inexplicable and not tolerable. He then fouls off a borderline pitch that prevents the winning run from reaching second.

I remember Lorenzo Cain’s second year in his return to the Crew, he back legged a few homeruns and then it seemed like he was trying to do that the rest of the year, forgetting he was not a power hitter. Sal is doing that tenfold right now. His swing is one of the ugliest things I have ever seen and he is showing NO signs of attempting anything differently. 
 

He also is offering next to nothing speed wise right now. Right field cannot be a defense only position. Sal responded very well to being benched last year. That needs to be done again this year. He is not right and showing no signs of changing his issues and his head is not in the game.

[Jim French Stepstool]

I won't bother scrolling back into the thread, but I assume there's some ranting about Woodford pitching the 8th instead of Uribe or Megill (if not, apologies). If there is........yeah, sometimes you see an "A list" reliever late with a one-run deficit. But usually not, unless someone has been sitting for awhile. That's pretty much standard with most teams. The bigger problem IMO was illustrated by Perkins running for Bauers in the top of the 9th. Why not run for Contreras when he reached? Because after the previous half-inning, Murphy saw all he wanted to see of Bauers in LF & Chourio in CF & was changing that right quick if we tied or took the lead, so you might as well pull Bauers for a faster man.. MAYBE one or the other depending on who else is out there, but both was not a good combination.

After the Bauers double in his next-to-last AB you need something pulled, and Taylor Rogers vs Sal Frelick was a bad matchup for getting that done. Sal needed to bunt, and if he wasn't told to he should've done it on his own.

It'll be interesting moving forward to watch the Yelich-Vaughn-Bauers dynamic re playing time.