Fear The Chorizo

I have bad feelings about this half inning...prove my gut wrong, please

Yelich missed that pitch by 2 feet

So not at all other than half the balls they hit in 3 innings

Both teams hitting the ball hard tonight

I'm referring to the fact that brewer hitters are getting themselves out swinging at balls when they should be trying to rack up Yamamoto's pitch count, and putting good swings on actual strikes. Nm, didnt take the time to read who posted this and then wasted more of my time responding to it.

Yamamoto will notch a complete game with 63 pitches at this rate

This compared to the Dodgers, who are forcing Peralta to come into the zone to get them out.

Those arent strikes guys

Game plan is apparently swing at will

Muncy on pace for 25 chances tonight

Freddy's breaking stuff is meat tonight. Going to have to get Yamamoto's pitch count up and have a big inning to win this game - Dodgers are going to hang 4-6 runs tonight just because

My post you quoted me had more to do with the decision on whether or not to start a defensive OF with Bauers at 1B and Vaughn on the bench against a righty starter, or throw Bauers in a corner OF spot with Vaughn staying at first - I get the idea of putting Mona in for Ortiz to start the game at SS...but I just don't see that dramatic an offensive upgrade between the two, and Mona could come off the bench later in the game to play other IF positions, too depending on how pitching matchups occur. It wouldn't be upsetting to me to see Mona starting in place of Ortiz tonight, but honestly if we're worried about what we'll get offensively from the #9 spot in the order between those two players the rest of the lineup didn't come through again. One think I'll add about the "run prevention" focus of the Brewers - it's long been something that's bothered me when it comes to how the Brewers build their postseason bench, and I think it really hamstrings them offensively when the pitching generally improves from the regular season marathon. They are a defense-1st everyday lineup in many spots (or at least "all-around player" for the regulars), and then most of their bench players are also utility-level players whose calling card is their glove, not their bat. I think the Brewers wasted a golden opportunity in September to get Hoskins a bunch more ABs than the 10 he got to try and get him in a good spot before the postseason. Hoskins was carrying this team offensively at times in April/May when they were really scuffling. A locked-in Hoskins on this playoff roster off the bench and even DHing against lefthanded pitching would be much more valuable than Lockridge, and the same argument could be made for him over Collins with how he's fallen apart late in the year at the plate. I get that the Brewers opted to "dance with who brought you" over the past 3 months of the season, but in a way they removed a potentially tough decision by not giving Hoskins a regular September role. It also stinks to me that the Brewers' primary RH bench bat with pop also happens to be their backup catcher, who essentially takes up a postseason roster spot and won't see the field unless Contreras gets injured in a game.

Snell won't get the ball again until Game 5, and he won't be starting Game 7 on two days' rest unless it's to give them an inning. But yeah, he's rolling right now.

True....but I still have zero idea what in the world Teoscar was doing at 3rd base on that play - as soon as the ball hits Frelick's glove he could have tagged and crawled home and made it safely in stead of going back to third, motioning to Smith to get back, and then heading for home. I was impressed by the left field ump's quick call of "safe" indicating it wasn't a catch, which would have been right in front of Will Smith, too. It took atrocious baserunning by the Dodgers for there to be 1 out recorded on that play, historically awful to turn it into a double play. No knock on the heads up defense by me saying that, either.

Its such a tough call, because the defense is the reason it was even a game into the 9th - Bauers has to be in the lineup against any righty starter, but I think he will be at 1st and they will have either Perkins or Collins in the lineup instead of Vaughn. Wishing Collins could get something going because he would be such a solid fit for what the lineup needs when he was going good, but he's done nothing offensively to inspire confidence lately.

Yamamoto has been on a run of great start, meh/bad start for awhile now...he scuffle against the Phillies last time out, so hopefully he isnt "on" tonight. Gotta make him throw strikes. Really need good Freddy for 6-7 innings tonight!

Did some minor digging last night after Snell reminded us that he is a 2 time Cy Young winner and essentially got 3.5 months of this season to rehab a shoulder issue so he is nice and fresh this postseason... The combined AAV contracts for the four starting pitchers the Brewers will face this series is roughly $170M once you take out the deferred money shenanigans....Dodgers essentially sport a top 10 MLB payroll, rougly $50M more than the Brewers entire team, for their postseason 4 man rotation. The absurdity of MLB's current financial playing field on full display - and that would be the same for the Dodgers vs just about any other NLCS opponent, not just the Brewers.

It looks way easier from the stands to hit that kind of stuff - Snell was electric and the best thing the Brewers have going is I dont think he will get his next start until game 5. Snell has made pretty much every team he's faced over the last month or so look this way, and as others said he basically got this season off while recovering from shoulder issues - so if he is healthy he's also not fatigued at all.

Oh for sure...I actually thought lefty hitters had a better chance of doing damage against Snell early tonight because he wasnt throwing his curve for a strike as readily as the change - so he was having to throw more fastballs to lefties since the change up really isnt in his arsenal to them. Yelich got his doors blown off his 1st two at bats, though. Once uncle Charlie started dotting the outside corner the left bats had no chance.

In a way I agree...but Snell wasnt your typical lefty tonight - that change up was used at will against Contreras, chourio, and vaughn. He didnt have to give in and offer up hittable pitches to those righties because his change was so good - both in the zone and out of it. Nobody had a shot against him Dodgers runs were scored off a moonshot HR by a great hitter with a season's worth of postseason at bats and walking in a guy during an inning full of walks. Betts took ball 4 and Turang couldn't get to that spot

That approach about getting hit on anything inside in that spot is a learned one and goes to your mindset before that specific at bat even begins - you've got to convince yourself mentally before the AB that you are not backing away for any reason on a pitch you arent swinging at heading inside because its a game-tying RBI in that situation. Turang didnt approach that at bat correctly.

Yamamoto probably going to pitch all 9 tomorrow after that farce of a 9th from the Dodgers pen, btw

Thats a natural reaction to the pitch before, realizing he just gave up a HBP to tie the game up and he's gonna make up for it with a hit. Not being patient. Could say the same thing with losing patience "in the moment" by getting out of the way on that pitch inside, too.

Man alive that sucks to lose on that 2 pitch sequence

Let that hit you....oof!