Brewers (Harrison) vs Cubs (Cabrera): 5/20/26, 6:40pm

[adambr2]

2 hours ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

To also be fair, missing Koenig, not having Priester thus far, and having a sort of shell of Woodruff to start the year, plus seeing one of their other primary late inning leftys in Zerba blow out his elbow (likely another WBC casualty) on top of aforementioned issues with Chourio, Vaughn, and Yelich more than equal any injuries the Cubs have sustained thus far.

Cade Horton's injury could be seen 10 miles away coming into this year after how much he pitched for the Cubs last season compared to prior years.  Same song and dance for Steele tearing his elbow early last season after being ridden to hard in 2024.

To me, the reason the Brewers are better than the Cubs despite those long winning streaks in the W/L column is depth.  The Brewers, despite the low payroll compared to the Northsiders, have an unbelievable amount of depth in their organization.  The Cubs are taking an all hands on deck approach to their pitching staff after losing Horton and Steele having a setback - meanwhile the Brewers have also missed two of their 5 perceived opening day rotation options and still have the luxury of shuttling Crow and Gasser between AAA and Milwaukee to give their other young starters an extra day here and there to manage their workload so they're not as burned out down the stretch.

I’m not really educated enough on the Cubs to say who has had it worse with injuries or anything like that. I think on our side we could also kind of see the writing on the wall that Woodruff was going to be a shell of his former self. Not sure that we really expected him to accept his QO.

If your argument is that the Brewers are a more well-run organization than the Cubs and able to sustain the hits better with their organizational depth, I certainly won’t argue otherwise.

[82brewcrew82]

Gonna lose this one too Craig

[HarryDoyle]

The umpires are earning their paychecks tonight.

[duewizard]

That catchers interference was so dumb lol

Glad it went our way though

[Zad Fnark]

Just now, duewizard said:

That catchers interference was so dumb lol

Glad it went our way though

Seems kind of whizzy to get it on the laces.  Oh, well...  It's the Cubs.

[HarryDoyle]

LOL PCA!

[RightFieldCoder]

Couldn't have happened to a better CFet.

[folly412]

Run Bunty, Run!

[82brewcrew82]

I love PCA

[MadScientist]

Hamilton!  Speed = Power.

[BarremlensTSSC]

Hey!  He swung  away!  PCA chokes again!  Little League  Home Run!  

[torts]

Couldn't have happened to a better player/team

[NewerBrewer]

You love to see it!

[Zad Fnark]

Hamilton is fast.

[edfunderburk]

I have never been so happy!

DFA PCA 😇

[homer]

PCA might cry

[trwi7]

They're not going to call that a home run but that would be the funniest thing if that was Hamilton's first home run as a Brewer.

[yourout]

Just now, torts said:

Couldn't have happened to a better player/team

That one will live in eternity.

[duewizard]

Lets go Bunty!!!!

[RedStickBrew]

[Underachiever]

I can’t stop laughing. My wife thinks I’m losing my mind

[duewizard]

3 minutes ago, Zad Fnark said:

Seems kind of whizzy to get it on the laces.  Oh, well...  It's the Cubs.

I would have been furious if it was us on the other side.

 

It wasnt though!

[Zad Fnark]

1 minute ago, RightFieldCoder said:

Couldn't have happened to a better CFet.

Wonder if he'll smash his helmet again in the dugout.

[BarremlensTSSC]

I hit one of those in 1978 for Bender Oil in what was then the "Minors" for Little  League in central Wisconsin.  There was only one error on Hamilton's LL HR.  There were three on mine (LF, 2B-throwing, 3B-throwing).

[liveforoctober]

PCA is my favorite.