World Series Game 5: Brewers (Misiorowski) vs Rays (TBD): 10/28/26, 7:00pm

[thammondwis]

2 hours ago, MrTPlush said:

The silver lining for me was Martinez going multiple innings yesterday and Cash not pitching Rasmussen Game 1. They really should have Rasmussen in Game 5 and to make matters worse they had to burn their presumed starter yesterday to win.

I started to think they should start Rasmussen on short rest, but that just makes an ugly pitching situation in MIl. I think they have to just pray a horrible pitching situation today can eek out a win so they have Rasmussen/Peralta on normal rest in Milwaukee.

When you think about it, you see why teams just never come back when down 3-0.

Yeah TB has their own pitching woes which probably are worse than ours.  Not starting Ras in GM1 being #1 and using Martinez for a couple innings, and their closer for a couple puts then in a real pickle for today.  And if they use Ras or Peralta today, then that will have spill over consequences for potential Gm 6/7.

 I'm not feeling real good today, but still would rather be us than them.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Running on about 4 hours sleep and feeling like I went through all the stages of grief with this team after one World Series loss, which is obviously not the appropriate or emotionally healthy response. Yesterday, before the game, I posted about the dark part of me that I think will always exist until we win a World Series. Today I'm thinking about John Candy's great line in Cool Runnings: "A gold medal is wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it." Gotta remember that. This means a lot, but it can't mean everything.

I'm also trying to remind myself that this is supposed to be fun. That was a great baseball game last night. The Rays did enough to win. Both teams made mistakes. They punished us just a little bit more. I like that team, I like their fans, and they deserved it.

I don't know what tonight holds. Nobody does. I'm going to try not to think at all about baseball until first pitch. Hope we take care of business, but, if not, that's life.

[WilsonFanInWakeCoNC]

Fell asleep about 12:30 EST and got up about 9:30am EST.... Let's get it tonight!!

[thammondwis]

1 minute ago, Cool Hand Lucroy said:

Running on about 4 hours sleep and feeling like I went through all the stages of grief with this team after one World Series loss, which is obviously not the appropriate or emotionally healthy response. Yesterday, before the game, I posted about the dark part of me that I think will always exist until we win a World Series. Today I'm thinking about John Candy's great line in Cool Runnings: "A gold medal is wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it." Gotta remember that. This means a lot, but it can't mean everything.

I'm also trying to remind myself that this is supposed to be fun. That was a great baseball game last night. The Rays did enough to win. Both teams made mistakes. They punished us just a little bit more. I like that team, I like their fans, and they deserved it.

I don't know what tonight holds. Nobody does. I'm going to try not to think at all about baseball until first pitch. Hope we take care of business, but, if not, that's life.

Honestly I was cringing every time I heard someone talk about historical greatness yesterday.  The team played like that got in their heads a bit.  This is a really good team and good enough to win a world series. 

But so is TB.  So they need to play better than them (they didn't last night) or TB will be world series champs.

[82brewcrew82]

2 minutes ago, WilsonFanInWakeCoNC said:

Fell asleep about 12:30 EST and got up about 9:30am EST.... Let's get it tonight!!

LOL, got in about 4:30AAM EST and Up at 8 for work.

[MoreTrife]

Think it's going to be Rasmussen tonight, Cash said they're having "conversations" about it. 

[thammondwis]

1 minute ago, MoreTrife said:

Think it's going to be Rasmussen tonight, Cash said they're having "conversations" about it. 

They are going to have to make tough choices going forward due to a bad decision not to start Ras for GM1.  Need to take advantage of that.

[liveforoctober]

4 minutes ago, MoreTrife said:

Think it's going to be Rasmussen tonight, Cash said they're having "conversations" about it. 

I'm not sure what other choice they have. It is either throw the ace on 3 day's rest or pin your season on a bullpen game, which if it is close, you are probably bringing in Rasmussen anyway.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

2 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

I'm not sure what other choice they have. It is either throw the ace on 3 day's rest or pin your season on a bullpen game, which if it is close, you are probably bringing in Rasmussen anyway.

They've babied Rasmussen all season, with planned missed starts and longer rest between starts. And rightfully so, given his extensive serious injury history. He's NEVER started on short rest in his career. 

But this is the World Series, and they are facing elimination. And given the state of their pitching staff, they likely don't have a choice. But this decision probably stands a bigger shot of blowing up in their face than actually working out. 

[Team Canada]

24 minutes ago, Ron Robinsons Beard said:

They've babied Rasmussen all season, with planned missed starts and longer rest between starts. And rightfully so, given his extensive serious injury history. He's NEVER started on short rest in his career. 

But this is the World Series, and they are facing elimination. And given the state of their pitching staff, they likely don't have a choice. But this decision probably stands a bigger shot of blowing up in their face than actually working out. 

The thing is, their path to victory requires winning all 3 games, so either someone is going on short rest at some point or there's a BP game. It still may be the right decision to go Rasmussen now given the extra inning game last night, but even if you assume a Rasmussen and Peralta victory (which I sure wouldn't), you still have one more W to get somehow.

[82brewcrew82]

15 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

The thing is, their path to victory requires winning all 3 games, so either someone is going on short rest at some point or there's a BP game. It still may be the right decision to go Rasmussen now given the extra inning game last night, but even if you assume a Rasmussen and Peralta victory (which I sure wouldn't), you still have one more W to get somehow.

I would think Martinez would go in game 7 if it gets there but yes, they have some hard decisions.  I was talking to someone walking out the stadium that was adamant that Mis should have pitched and then start Harrison today.  I think Murph is doing a good job of putting the Rays in a position to make reactionary decisions rather than proactive decisions.

Really the Rays path to victory is four in a row.  Sure, they won the first of the four, but it took everything they had.

[MrTPlush]

1 hour ago, thammondwis said:

Honestly I was cringing every time I heard someone talk about historical greatness yesterday.  The team played like that got in their heads a bit.  This is a really good team and good enough to win a world series. 

But so is TB.  So they need to play better than them (they didn't last night) or TB will be world series champs.

The pitching yesterday was incredible and the offense obliterated like 12 baseballs for outs. 
 

I don’t know, they played a good game.