Cubs (Gausman) vs Brewers (Henderson): 09/09/26, 6:40 PM

[Brock Beauchamp]

Henderson gets the ball for the Brewers against Gausman and the Cubs at American Family Field tonight.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Trevor Megill	20	0	0	11	25	56
JoJo Romero	0	13	35	0	0	48
DL Hall	0	34	0	0	17	51
Chad Patrick	41	0	0	18	9	68
Antonio Senzatela	15	0	28	0	11	54
Abner Uribe	0	0	4	13	0	17
Aaron Ashby	19	23	0	20	1	63

[adambr2]

A sweep would be sweet. RIP to the Cubs in the division, they’re just hoping to hold onto a WC. 

Unfortunately, the Dodgers continue to win and are within 1.5 games. With really very little competition left on their schedule, it may be a daunting task to hold onto the 1 seed. 

The good news is, the far more important thing is holding onto a 2 to secure the bye, and while it’s not over, that lead is at a much more comfortable 4.5 games.

Others may disagree, but I see relatively little difference between the 1 and 2 seed this year. The 1 will likely host a Phils/Cubs winner, I’m not sure that’s preferable to hosting one of Braves/D’Backs/Padres. 

Something about the 2-3-2 NLCS format makes me not hate being on the road. You’d go into games 1/2 in LA just trying to steal 1 and if you can do that, you flip homefield and get 3 games back here. 

If you can push it to games 6/7 back in LA it’s anybody’s series at that point anyway. Maybe I am just rationalizing. But HFA did us no good in the NLCS last year.  

[OldSchoolSnapper]

There's less real difference between the 1 and 6 seed than people want to believe.

[long ball]

24 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

A sweep would be sweet. RIP to the Cubs in the division, they’re just hoping to hold onto a WC. 

Unfortunately, the Dodgers continue to win and are within 1.5 games. With really very little competition left on their schedule, it may be a daunting task to hold onto the 1 seed. 

The good news is, the far more important thing is holding onto a 2 to secure the bye, and while it’s not over, that lead is at a much more comfortable 4.5 games.

Others may disagree, but I see relatively little difference between the 1 and 2 seed this year. The 1 will likely host a Phils/Cubs winner, I’m not sure that’s preferable to hosting one of Braves/D’Backs/Padres. 

Something about the 2-3-2 NLCS format makes me not hate being on the road. You’d go into games 1/2 in LA just trying to steal 1 and if you can do that, you flip homefield and get 3 games back here. 

If you can push it to games 6/7 back in LA it’s anybody’s series at that point anyway. Maybe I am just rationalizing. But HFA did us no good in the NLCS last year.  

This is where I’m at. I wouldn’t advocate for trying to “manipulate” our playoff opponent like you sometimes see down the stretch of the NBA regular season, but I’m indifferent on the 1-2 seed. 
 

I am holding out slight hope for 100 wins just because it would be really cool, but we obviously shouldn’t go balls to the wall chasing that. 

[adambr2]

14 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

There's less real difference between the 1 and 6 seed than people want to believe.

Well the 1 and 2 skip an entire playoff round. That’s a very big deal. 

[Frisbee Slider]

23 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Well the 1 and 2 skip an entire playoff round. That’s a very big deal. 

I think home field advantage matters more to Milwaukee than any other team in the league, too.

[39Streak]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Trevor Megill	20	0	0	11	25	56
JoJo Romero	0	13	35	0	0	48
DL Hall	0	34	0	0	17	51
Chad Patrick	41	0	0	18	9	68
Antonio Senzatela	15	0	28	0	11	54
Abner Uribe	0	0	4	13	0	17
Aaron Ashby	19	23	0	20	1	63

I have to imagine, today is for Brandon Sproat out of the pen.