Brewers (Sproat) vs Athletics (Perkins): 6/10/26, 8:05pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

So, Brandon Sproat will pitch in Las Vegas. This will be... entertaining? Is that the word I'm looking for here?

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Trevor Megill	18	0	0	0	0	18
Shane Drohan	0	0	83	0	0	83
Joel Kuhnel	0	0	0	20	23	43
Grant Anderson	0	19	0	28	0	47
Drew Rom	0	17	0	25	0	42
Coleman Crow	0	0	0	0	19	19
Chad Patrick	0	0	21	8	0	29
Abner Uribe	0	0	0	15	0	15
Aaron Ashby	18	0	0	36	0	54

 

[sveumrules]

Since Yelich returned on May 12th (giving the Brewers six players for five lineup spots) the Brewers are 19 W - 8 L.

Of those 27 games, 21 have been against a right handed starting pitcher.

With the Brewers going a perfect 6 W - 0 L against the six lefty starters they faced since 0512 (so much for those southpaw struggles) that leaves a 13 W - 8 L record in those 21 games against right handed starters.

Vaughn has started ten of those games versus RHP (with a 72 wRC+ vs RHP since returning from his hamate injury) with the Brewers going 5 W - 5 L in those ten games.

That leaves an 8 W - 3 L record in the eleven games Vaughn has not started against RHP since 0512.

[owbc]

There is a lot of speculation that MLB swapped in the juiced balls for this series (similar to Iowa, London, Mexico City, etc).

Hard to disagree after what we’ve seen.

I’m fine taking another L today and just getting the heck out of here. 

[sveumrules]

If the Brewers lose today it will drop them to 8 W - 5 L (.615 W%) on this dreaded 13 games in 13 days stretch (with three on a mountain and three on the moon).

That tracks pretty closely with the 33 W - 20 L (.622 W%) record they had entering the series.

Obviously would be great to win every game every day, but every team starts the season with at least fifty some losses guaranteed over the next six months and today is probably another one of those games.

[willie key]

This series is stupid.  It’s almost like it’s not official games

its hard to get happy or mad about anything that happens.    
 

as long as there is no knock on effect to this garbage just play and go home tonight

at least we won one of the games

 

 

[igor67]

23 minutes ago, willie key said:

 
as long as there is no knock on effect to this garbage just play and go home tonight

 

 

 

I mean one part of me looks at the HR disparity and go with this park everyone should swing for the fences. But as much as we worried about the pitching staff it's probably equally as important that guys don't screw up their swings for these few games and get into a 2 week funk.

[Frisbee Slider]

The other guy starting for the A’s is probably not as good as Sproat.

[BruisedCrew]

56 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

If the Brewers lose today it will drop them to 8 W - 5 L (.615 W%) on this dreaded 13 games in 13 days stretch (with three on a mountain and three on the moon).

That tracks pretty closely with the 33 W - 20 L (.622 W%) record they had entering the series.

Obviously would be great to win every game every day, but every team starts the season with at least fifty some losses guaranteed over the next six months and today is probably another one of those games.

I don’t think this stretch of 13 games was that “dreaded” given the nature of the opponents.

I was interested to see how the Brewers would handle the pitching staff with no off days for 13 days, both with SP and the bullpen.

The Brewers seem to be sticking with a 6 day rotation, even if that means using 6 different starting pitchers. They get a little bit of a reset with the off days around the Phillies series.
 

The real “dreaded “ stretch is the 19 games in 18 days, or whatever it is, leading up to the All Star break. With the new injuries to Hall and Fitzpatrick the challenge presented by that stretch got more complicated. Hopefully a couple of the pitchers on the IL can come back and be effective by then. 

[dlk9s]

Honestly, the Brewers' pitching last night was pretty ok. Really just couldn't hit. Can't hit dingers if you strikeout a ton.

And boy, is Yelich a fantastic baserunner.

[wiguy94]

1 hour ago, owbc said:

There is a lot of speculation that MLB swapped in the juiced balls for this series (similar to Iowa, London, Mexico City, etc).

Hard to disagree after what we’ve seen.

I’m fine taking another L today and just getting the heck out of here. 

I don't think this park needs juiced balls to play this way. It's 3000ft above sea level in a very hot/dry environment in a park where the wind consistently blows out and doesn't have the third deck to block out the wind. This park is one of the most hitter friendly parks in the PCL and the PCL is already the most (or second most) hitter friendly league in full season minor league ball. 

I think a good example that illustrates this is the foul pop up Rengifo caught yesterday. That ball was ticketed for the stands but the wind blew it like 20-30ft and into play and that was on a pop up going against the wind. Now imagine how that impacts any balls hit to CF/RF that are actually riding that wind.

[wiguy94]

57 minutes ago, igor67 said:

I mean one part of me looks at the HR disparity and go with this park everyone should swing for the fences. But as much as we worried about the pitching staff it's probably equally as important that guys don't screw up their swings for these few games and get into a 2 week funk.

Absolutely and it's a big reason why we should be thankful to have even won one game in this series. The A's offense is far more translatable to taking advantage of this park than the Brewers.

[CheezWizHed]

2 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

So, Brandon Sproat will pitch in Las Vegas. This will be... entertaining? Is that the word I'm looking for here?

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Trevor Megill	18	0	0	0	0	18
Shane Drohan	0	0	83	0	0	83
Joel Kuhnel	0	0	0	20	23	43
Grant Anderson	0	19	0	28	0	47
Drew Rom	0	17	0	25	0	42
Coleman Crow	0	0	0	0	19	19
Chad Patrick	0	0	21	8	0	29
Abner Uribe	0	0	0	15	0	15
Aaron Ashby	18	0	0	36	0	54

 

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, Frisbee Slider said:

The other guy starting for the A’s is probably not as good as Sproat.

Exactly. Sproat doesn't evoke much confidence & with good reason. But there's plenty of 'woe is me' to go around both fan bases looking at this matchup. Perkins threw as many as 75 pitches once this year (his last time out, and he wasn't effective), and when they need to go to their 'pen you'd think it would be lacking the two we saw last night who were actually pretty effective.

Flip a coin, roll the dice, turn over the hold card, or whatever it is they do out there. And I can't even imagine the over/under this weekend when Colorado comes in.