Brewers (Henderson) vs Dodgers (Skubal): 08/16/26, 3:10 PM

[Jim French Stepstool]

3 hours ago, LouisEly said:

The North Shore Adult Diapers club

Non-inclusive nickname.

How do you know that none of them are in Cudahy, St Francis or Racine?

[yourout]

3 hours ago, BCF said:

This series:

Ohtani: 3-15

Freeman: 0-11

Betts: 2-13

Tucker: 0-11

Pages and Muncy were basically the offense for them 

Wow.....Freeman usually feasts on us.

[jay87shot]

Great to see our pitching step up this weekend and the bats show at least some beginning signs of life (still a ways to go). I will say that that Dodgers team is likely a far cry from what they will be in the playoffs. However there offense does look older and not quite the same.

[Jim French Stepstool]

40 minutes ago, jay87shot said:

Great to see our pitching step up this weekend and the bats show at least some beginning signs of life (still a ways to go). I will say that that Dodgers team is likely a far cry from what they will be in the playoffs. However there offense does look older and not quite the same.

Not something that I think will be a detriment to them yet this post season (would love to be wrong about that), but moving forward it's something that's brought up from time to time. Muncy is 35, Freeman 36. Miguel Rojas is 37. Betts & Teoscar Hernandez are 33. Kike' Hernandez is 34. Will Smith is 31, not old but he's returning from a long layoff.

[adambr2]

5 hours ago, BCF said:

The Brewers matchup awful against them. Their pen is very lefty loaded  as well and the Brewers are very LH offensively (Mitchell, Turang, Yelich, Bauers) 

 

If you are going to put Yelich in the conversation to say the Brewers are LH offensively then I would counter with Chourio, Vaughn, Sanchez, and Ortiz. 

[liveforoctober]

3 hours ago, yourout said:

Wow.....Freeman usually feasts on us.

Have no idea if this played a factor but I imagine his swing had to be sore after taking that fall the day before the series started. I know it is an excuse he wouldn't use but he had to be feeling that.

[RWeeksFan23]

8 hours ago, adambr2 said:

IMO Henderson is the guy you give the ball to in Game 2 of a playoff series. 

No doubt. He's soooo much more consistent than Harrison. 

[yourout]

3 hours ago, liveforoctober said:

Have no idea if this played a factor but I imagine his swing had to be sore after taking that fall the day before the series started. I know it is an excuse he wouldn't use but he had to be feeling that.

Great point.

[SF70]

8 hours ago, jay87shot said:

Great to see our pitching step up this weekend and the bats show at least some beginning signs of life (still a ways to go). I will say that that Dodgers team is likely a far cry from what they will be in the playoffs. However there offense does look older and not quite the same.

Age-regression is a real thing. Almost their entire lineup is 31+ and one of the 2 that aren’t over 31, Kyle Tucker moves like an old man. 

The lineup is slumping over the last month plus so it looks worse than it probably is, but if they win another WS this year it’ll likely be because of their SP being healthy entering the postseason.

 

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

13 hours ago, LouisEly said:

The North Shore Adult Diapers club had a rough weekend.

Only 9 pages... they must be crying in their crying.

Well done!

[sveumrules]

After last night's start Logan Henderson is one of 197 starting pitchers with at least 80 IP over the last two seasons. Some of his ranks on that leaderboard...

126 LOB+ (1st) | 18.8 IFFB% (1st) | 22.9 LA (2nd) | 69 WHIP+ (3rd) | 216 K/BB+ (3rd) | 59 ERA- (4th) | 146 K+ (5th) | 78 AVG+ (5th) | 2.98 SIERA (7th) | 2.96 xERA (9th) | 49.3 FB% (9th) | 75 xFIP- (10th) | 78 FIP- (24th)

Pretty much his only blemish performance-wise is an elevated home run rate (113 HR+ | 132nd), but when you are thee best at stranding runners, and thee best at getting infield fly balls, and Top Three in limiting base runners to begin with, and Top Five in both getting strikeouts and limiting hits, and twelve of the thirteen HR you have surrendered were solo shots, it's a pretty live-with-able blemish.

[kestrel79]

Nice series win after a rough series in SD. It happens even to really good teams. I think we have the season tiebreaker now again LA too? So that was a huge win in that regard in case we tie with them record wise for homefield...not that it mattered much last year...or in 2018...or in 2021... :)

[Frisbee Slider]

Summary of the game thread, in song form:

https://suno.com/s/J818FgZWmuBQG0pu

[adambr2]

The White Sox catcher (Jake Rogers) passes on challenging a ball to Bregman that was a strike (he would have ended up striking out), challenges the very next pitch that was a ball, so they’re out of challenges, and then Ball 4 to Happ was actually strike 3 which leads to the tying run. Absolutely infuriating! Nice work Rogers! 

[adambr2]

Screw you Rogers, and always screw you Mets for your awful PCA trade,