Brewers (Henderson) vs Cardinals (Pallante): 7/9/26, 6:45pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

It's probably unreasonable to expect the Brewers to beat the Cardinals every time.

	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	TOT
Trevor Megill	0	16	15	0	0	31
Jared Koenig	26	0	0	0	16	42
Grant Anderson	0	16	0	0	26	42
Garrett Stallings	0	0	0	0	23	23
Drew Rom	0	7	0	0	0	7
Craig Yoho	27	0	0	10	0	37
Chad Patrick	0	0	20	0	0	20
Abner Uribe	0	23	0	19	0	42
Aaron Ashby	0	16	0	18	0	34

 

[CheezWizHed]

5 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

It's probably unreasonable to expect the Brewers to beat the Cardinals every time.

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

Welcome back Henderson.  LFG!

[BruisedCrew]

Except for the 7th inning in the second game on Tuesday the Cardinals pitchers have done a pretty good job containing the Brewers offense. 

The two pitchers the Brewers have faced in the series who are part of the Cardinals regular rotation (May and McGreevey) held them to 1 run in 11 innings.

Tonight the Cards start Pallante who (along with McGreevey) has been one of their best starters. Unless the Brewers offense can shake out of its recent malaise it’s going to be another grinder.

[BruisedCrew]

The Cardinals often play afternoon games on getaway days, but apparently that’s only when it’s a getaway day for them. Screw the opponent. 

This could be even more significant today because the forecast in St. Louis calls for a chance of scattered thunderstorms at times during the day and tonight. It might have been helpful to get the game in before any storms move in. 

[owbc]

52 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

The Cardinals often play afternoon games on getaway days, but apparently that’s only when it’s a getaway day for them. Screw the opponent. 

This could be even more significant today because the forecast in St. Louis calls for a chance of scattered thunderstorms at times during the day and tonight. It might have been helpful to get the game in before any storms move in. 

The Angels are notorious for this. They scheduled a game last year against Pittsburgh with a 6:29 start which is the latest they are legally allowed to start under the CBA. All the AL West opponents hate them because the flights home are all under 2.5 hours so they always schedule night games on weekday getaways. Even when they are forced to do a day game they will often start at 4. 
 

Since the STL to PIT flight for us is under the limit, the Cards can get away with a night game. 

 

[BruisedCrew]

The Cubs and Orioles were scheduled for tonight but they moved the start time up to this afternoon because of storms in the forecast.. 

Based on radar and comments from the announcers about the sky getting darker they might mot have started early enough. 

[markedman5]

Cubs give up 2 in the 8th and lose to the Orioles 3-2

[titanrick]

[BruisedCrew]

2 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Cubs give up 2 in the 8th and lose to the Orioles 3-2

The Orioles only had 3 hits in the game. Alonso had a HR early, and the tying and winning runs scored on back to back HBPs and a 2 run pinch hit double 

[willie key]

Is it me or am I wrong for thinking the cubs aren’t that good.    I can’t believe they are 12 games over .500

[markedman5]

 

[BruisedCrew]

1 minute ago, willie key said:

Is it me or am I wrong for thinking the cubs aren’t that good.    I can’t believe they are 12 games over .500

The Cubs have a potent offense that went through an inexplicable slump earlier this year. But their pitching has been scrambled by injuries. 

If they can get some pitchers back and add a couple others at the deadline they will be a likely playoff team and could definitely challenge the Brewers for the division.

The last time I looked at projections they had them with about the same record as the Brewers the rest of the way. The projections seem to recognize that the Brewers offense is more middle of the pack than elite.

[Jim French Stepstool]

5 minutes ago, willie key said:

Is it me or am I wrong for thinking the cubs aren’t that good.    I can’t believe they are 12 games over .500

They can score runs. But for me there's a difference between that, and HAVING to score runs. Unless their bats get & stay hot over a prolonged stretch it'll be a challenge for them to sustain.

So it'll be either a six-or seven game lead going into the final series before the ASB. Heading into this scary, Bataan Death March portion of the sked they were up 6.5 games. Devastating.

 

[willie key]

11 minutes ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

They can score runs. But for me there's a difference between that, and HAVING to score runs. Unless their bats get & stay hot over a prolonged stretch it'll be a challenge for them to sustain.

So it'll be either a six-or seven game lead going into the final series before the ASB. Heading into this scary, Bataan Death March portion of the sked they were up 6.5 games. Devastating.

 

I could see Pca going into a big slump after the all star break.  But Suzuki is having a nice year

[willie key]

40 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

 

Stallings actually looked good

[igor67]

Stallings definitely earned some more shuttle time this year, and with the way the Brewers work he can definitely feel like he's closer to getting off the shuttle and being a trusted guy. 

[Joseph Zarr]

4 minutes ago, igor67 said:

Stallings definitely earned some more shuttle time this year, and with the way the Brewers work he can definitely feel like he's closer to getting off the shuttle and being a trusted guy. 

Yeah. I think he leap frogged Easton McGee with his brief stint? I don't know what that even means but he made a very good first impression. He is likely going to need to keep proving himself in the pool of Rom, McGee, and Rodriguez to gain any headway at maintaining that spot, however. It's just the nature of fighting to stay on the Brewers 40-Man. 

[Team Canada]

Mitchell leading off, both Bauers and Vaughn in the lineup - I approve of this configuration.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, willie key said:

Is it me or am I wrong for thinking the cubs aren’t that good.    I can’t believe they are 12 games over .500

Piggy-backing off of @BruisedCrew's solid post, I'd say, if anything the fact the Cubs fought their way back to 11 over tells us quite a bit about the talent on their club. Their offense is extremely potent. That slump was really weird. Two 10-Game winning streaks isn't anything to scoff at. The 10-Game losing streak? I think that was more the anomalous stretch. The fact they've gotten to double digits over 0.500 with the way they've had to piece meal an actual pitching staff is pretty astounding. They've had to grab the Bryse Wilsons and Drew Pomeranz's off the DFA heap of the veteran world just to get through games. And, yet, even with the number of key losses and injuries on that staff, they've managed to stay above water with a middle-of-the-MLB-pack pitching performance overall. Their deadline will be key. What's wild, to me, is even with all the recent RISP woes the Brewers bats have experienced they have still scored the 5th most runs in MLB and only trail the Cubs by 3 total runs with the Brewers having yet to play today. I swear, the Brewers offense is the ultimate Master of Illusion. I think about their bottom of the order woes throughout the early season - the Rengifo quagmire; the Ortiz slump; having to call up Pratt etc - and their overall lack of HR power and consider their output pretty stunning overall. 

*** This is typically where I hope @sveumruleswows me with one of his HOF worthy stat compilation posts explaining to my old man brain how the Brewers have done it***

[Bulldogboy]

Give me Stallings over Koenig 

[Samurai Bucky]

1 hour ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

Heading into this scary, Bataan Death March portion of the sked they were up 6.5 games. Devastating.

I see what you did there.  Nice!  

[folly412]

33 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

Mitchell leading off, both Bauers and Vaughn in the lineup - I approve of this configuration.

Really nice lineup.  I just hope Chourio and Contreras can find it before the break.

[Brian]

Did the Cubs win today? 

[HarryDoyle]

Too bad we lost yesterday but pushing their stool in on their home field and winning 4 out of 5 against these turds would all but stick a fork in them. But then again, these are the Cardinals. They've caused me too much heartache for me to remember.