Brewers (Sproat) vs Reds (Lodolo): 6/23/26, 6:10pm

[BruisedCrew]

During the telecast last night, the announcers brought up how the sun was shining brightly on the batters eye and with the pitcher in the shade that made picking up the ball difficult for hitters. They said that the sun would be on the batters eye until much later in the game.

In his postgame comments, Murphy made a statement that it is difficult for hitters in this park at this time of year. He said that none of the hitters have said anything about this to him but that he “hears things through the grapevine”. 

The fact here is that four different starting pitchers, 3 who have struggled for most of the season and one who is coming off a rehab assignment where he struggled to get through the fourth inning of a Class A game, had dominating performances with a high number of strikeouts and a low number of hits.The two teams combined for just 12 hits in 38 half innings. 

Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but I find it easy to believe that the conditions have had a significant effect on the low number of hits and high number of hitters looking lost at the plate. It’s accepted that twilight is the toughest time to hit, and a park could have a configuration that makes it even tougher, especially on the longest days of the year when the sunshine is around longer. 

if we’ve never seen this in Cincinnati before it might be because  it seems like most Brewer games there in midsummer are played in cloudy conditions and are delayed by rain. 

It will be interesting to see if anything more is said about this tonight and if the dominant pitching continues. 
 

 

[Brian]

1 hour ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

I agree with this take

Miz
harrison
woody
henderson
gasser/drohan/sproat/crow

i still like Patrick better as a rotation piece than Sproat as well.

if Sproat could be another Patrick type weapon (throw heat and multiple innings with shut down control) that would take even more pressure off vulture/Abner/trevor

Half these guys listed would be very lucky to go beyond six innings. Some only 5, then what?  The bullpen would be bigtime short with a 5 man rotation.  Part of a rotation is not pitching in between starts. 

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

1 hour ago, Brian said:

Half these guys listed would be very lucky to go beyond six innings. Some only 5, then what?  The bullpen would be bigtime short with a 5 man rotation.  Part of a rotation is not pitching in between starts. 

I’m not sure what your point/suggestion is?  I agree that Henderson (when back from injury), and Gasser/Crow/Sproat/Drohan are likely to give us shorter starts, but realistically if Miz/Woody/Harrison can stay healthy, we only need 2 of those guys in a 5 man rotation.  The others would be in the 8 man pen.

unless your point is that it would be good to trade for another starter who can give us more length?