Pirates (Jones) vs Brewers (Henderson): 8/4/26, 6:40pm

[Outlander]

A 3 seed isn't necessarily bad if Dodgers are the 1. On the other hand getting the 2 seed and the bye isn't all that great if Dodgers are the 3 like the Phillies found out last year. Keep on grinding for the 1 seed, still best path to the World Series and hoping somebody takes out the Dodgers prior to the NLCS.

[Brian]

12 hours ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

Good start Henderson.  Let’s go offense, how about an early lead for a change?

caleb Durbin just hit a grand slam for Boston, continues to be red hot 

Caleb Durbin Recent Stats Breakdown (Last ~30 Games / 104 AB)

• Batting Average: .288

• Hits: 30

• Home Runs: 5

• Runs Batted In: 15

• On-Base Percentage (OBP): .393

• Slugging Percentage (SLG): .462

• OPS: .796
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[RWeeksFan23]

12 hours ago, jason21nl said:

It’s unbelievable how Yelich keeps getting penciled in to the DH spot.   I can’t stand Sanchez but he needs to be the DH.   This is bleeping ridiculous 

Yelich may suck, but Sanchez isn't the answer either. At least not against RHP. 

[adambr2]

6 minutes ago, RWeeksFan23 said:

Yelich may suck, but Sanchez isn't the answer either. At least not against RHP. 

Vaughn to me is pretty clearly the answer, at least for now. He is hitting just as well as he did for us last year and gets on base. An .874 OPS overall should be in the lineup most days. He is obviously better against LHP, but he is not a liability against RHP.

I'm not saying he needs to play every single day but there is no case for Yelich getting more ABs than Vaughn. 

This also keeps Bauers at 1B or DH and strengthens our outfield defense.

[Brian]

9 minutes ago, RWeeksFan23 said:

Yelich may suck, but Sanchez isn't the answer either. At least not against RHP. 

Did you know the two current oldest Brewers are: 

 

Christian Yelich 34  Born on December 5, 1991 

Gary Sanchez  33 Born on December 2, 1992 

 

Go Figure

[TURBO]

7 hours ago, baseball101 said:

How were you feeling about Ortiz two months ago? 

Why does that matter?

The guy has stepped up and become one of our best hitters.

[adambr2]

9 hours ago, BruisedCrew said:

Oops, I was thinking the score last night was 4-2. But, 9 runs or 10 runs the point is the same.

This was not intended to be anything other than using the last few games to illustrate how the Brewers success is based on exceptional run prevention and average offense. Many teams scoring just 10 runs in 4 games would be lucky to win 1, but the Brewers won 2. 
 

Are you cherry picking by only mentioning the prior 3 games instead of the prior 4 (which would include a shutout)? 😀

It’s getting past my bedtime. So, you and your gang of friends can pound away but I won’t be responding any more tonight. 

You missed my point. Yes, I was in fact cherry picking as well, to show you how easy it is to manipulate a small sample size of games to paint a narrative. Not to say that the Brewer offense is amazing.

You are well within your rights to your opinions and counterpoints. I don’t know why it needs to come with a dose of playing the victim or why you would feel attacked, though, when others counter your own points that yes, you have done this before.

Nobody is celebrating a division title on August 5th. Everyone is well aware that if you simulated the rest of the season 10,000 times, the Cubs will win the division in a handful of those simulations. I don’t know what else you want to say about it. When people speak of the postseason, everyone is operating within the framework of what is more likely at this point in time. At this point in time, it is more likely than not that the Brewers will win the NL Central. 

They have also not given you historical reasons to think they will blow it. They won the division the last 4 out of 5 seasons. It’s not like they blew a 6 game lead last year and we are just waiting for the other shoe to drop. 

[RightFieldCoder]

[willie key]

31 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

You missed my point. Yes, I was in fact cherry picking as well, to show you how easy it is to manipulate a small sample size of games to paint a narrative. Not to say that the Brewer offense is amazing.

You are well within your rights to your opinions and counterpoints. I don’t know why it needs to come with a dose of playing the victim or why you would feel attacked, though, when others counter your own points that yes, you have done this before.

Nobody is celebrating a division title on August 5th. Everyone is well aware that if you simulated the rest of the season 10,000 times, the Cubs will win the division in a handful of those simulations. I don’t know what else you want to say about it. When people speak of the postseason, everyone is operating within the framework of what is more likely at this point in time. At this point in time, it is more likely than not that the Brewers will win the NL Central. 

They have also not given you historical reasons to think they will blow it. They won the division the last 4 out of 5 seasons. It’s not like they blew a 6 game lead last year and we are just waiting for the other shoe to drop. 

Their pitching is good enough that they should hold the lead.    IMO 

 

[Fear The Chorizo]

The Brewers have the best record IN THE LEAGUE....not just in their division - the entire damn league.  But just because if the Cubs go on a week-long winning streak at the same time the Brewers lose 6 straight they will tie them in the standings, people are once again freaking out about not gaining more ground to them because the Brewers arent scoring 8 runs a game and winning by 6 every night.

 

I believe the Cubs trail the Brewers by the exact same amount of games in the loss column as they did at the AS break 3 weeks ago.  Around 17-18 games played, zero ground made up. Until the Cubs actually do win the division, or win a playoff series against this Brewers team, we should revel in them being this division's 2nd fiddle and mock them for not being good enough, not freak out every time they win a game regardless of what the Brewers do on that particular day.  This Brewers team shows no signs of winning fewer than 95 games this season since that would be them going just 0.500 the rest of the way, meaning the Cubs would need to finish 30-18 to just tie them in the standings.  

[willie key]

3 minutes ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

The Brewers have the best record IN THE LEAGUE....not just in their division - the entire damn league.  But just because if the Cubs go on a week-long winning streak at the same time the Brewers lose 6 straight they will tie them in the standings, people are once again freaking out about not gaining more ground to them because the Brewers arent scoring 8 runs a game and winning by 6 every night.

 

I believe the Cubs trail the Brewers by the exact same amount of games in the loss column as they did at the AS break 3 weeks ago.  Around 17-18 games played, zero ground made up. Until the Cubs actually do win the division, or win a playoff series against this Brewers team, we should revel in them being this division's 2nd fiddle and mock them for not being good enough, not freak out every time they win a game regardless of what the Brewers do on that particular day.  This Brewers team shows no signs of winning fewer than 95 games this season since that would be them going just 0.500 the rest of the way, meaning the Cubs would need to finish 30-18 to just tie them in the standings.  

The cubs are better than I thought a few weeks ago.   And they have added to their major weakness.   I thought the brewers were going to roll this division a while back

Now I’m not so sure

[adambr2]

39 minutes ago, willie key said:

The cubs are better than I thought a few weeks ago.   And they have added to their major weakness.   I thought the brewers were going to roll this division a while back

Now I’m not so sure

The Brewers are on pace for 100 wins. If you don’t really believe they are a 100 win team, that’s fine. If they win 95 games, that means going just 25-24 the rest of the season. The Cubs would have to go 30-18 the rest of the way, which would be a 101+ win pace for a full season. Possible? Sure. Worth worrying about? Not really, if it occurs then things we don’t know about yet clearly went wrong these last two months. 

IMO, adding Henderson to the rotation around the AS break, getting a healthy Harrison back in the rotation (he hasn’t pitched effectively since June), and replacing Sproat with May is more impactful than any moves the Cubs have made. 

[Trail]

This whole discussion points to the fact that we are just a little bit spoiled. Myself included. Thank you to Marc A and the staff he has put together for spoiling us!

[tmwiese55]

5 hours ago, Outlander said:

A 3 seed isn't necessarily bad if Dodgers are the 1. On the other hand getting the 2 seed and the bye isn't all that great if Dodgers are the 3 like the Phillies found out last year. Keep on grinding for the 1 seed, still best path to the World Series and hoping somebody takes out the Dodgers prior to the NLCS.

I've been thinking for a while that 2 seed is the best.  I'd much rather play ATL or whoever gets the last WC than Phi/Cubs who are very likely going to be the 4/5 seeds.    Obviously top 2 is wanted for the bye.  Sure you'd theoretically lose the home field vs LAD but no matter what you're a huge dog vs them and hoping for an upset before us. If that upset happens you still get home field.   I'd trade the risk of one less home gave in the NLCS in order to play Braves/Pirates/Pads/AZ rather than Cubs/Philly.

So its been an annoying last two days of Dodgers losing to Cubs for me