DuWayne Steurer

Almost guaranteeing that Severino will start today.

While Laureano isn't a defensive whiz, we'd still have Davis as a late inning replacement. Laureano isn't having a great season at the plate, but he's got a recent history of having some pretty good offensive numbers, and a history of being better than Taylor. If he can be had for a price that doesn't include any top 7 - 10 prospects, I'd be willing to roll the dice.

While Laureano isn't a defensive whiz, we'd still have Davis as a late inning replacement. Laureano isn't having a great season at the plate, but he's got a recent history of having some pretty good offensive numbers, and a history of being better than Taylor. If he can be had for a price that doesn't include any top 7 - 10 prospects, I'd be willing to roll the dice.

Good game. Good pair of wins over a good team.

Yelich is a sunk cost at this point. It might not be what the team thought they were paying for, but he costs what he costs whether he doesn't play a game, or if he hits .320 with 30 homers. If he can hit leadoff and OBP .350 and steal some bases, that's *something*, and it's more than he was doing last year.

I've accepted that decent OBP/no power Yelich hitting leadoff is what the Brewers have going forward. These little teases and "maybe he'll get back to being as good as he was with the Marlins" teases are just giving glimpses of hope where none exists. If he goes on a 2-3-4 month tear where he hits 10 - 12 homers and a bunch of doubles, I'll reconsider, but until then, I've 100% accepted that what we have is what we have, and I'm not going to be disappointed or hope we can trade him or any of that.

Lol a li'l pop down the RF line turns into a homer for Urias.

ring the bell

Regardless of what anyone thinks Small's ceiling or floor is, 6 innings isn't enough to come to any kind of conclusion yet. Like most young guys, he'll probably flame out, but given the Brewers recent track record of success with developing their pitching, I'm not ready to write Small off yet, either.

I just caught the Buxton homerun on Twitter...... migosh they called that 448? I think they might have underestimated the distance on that moon shot.

Come on Rowdy. You have a chance to bust this one wide open guy.....

I definitely wish the dude could slap a double down the line or something once in a while, but he plays good D, can draw walks, and steals bases. I'm really hoping the Brewers find an upgrade at the deadline, but given Taylor's really poor OBP, I have no issue right now with Davis getting the lion's share of playing time as long as he keeps getting on base at a .350+ rate.

I'm super glad we moved on from Garcia. He was nice last year, but I just had a feeling that power surge he had last year wasn't gonna last. Sucks to see him doing so poorly. He seemed like an alright guy.

The Brewers came back from the break looking to hold on to first in the NL Central with a four game series against the Colorado Rockies. With a 1 1/2 game lead over the Cardinals and the trade deadline looming, the Crew had to make this home stand count. The Brewers came back from the break looking to hold on to first in the NL Central with a four game series against the Colorado Rockies. With a 1 1/2 game lead over the Cardinals and the trade deadline looming, the Crew had to make this home stand count. Game 1 -- Brewers 6, Rockies 5 (13) It took a while, but they got it done. All-Star starter Corbin Burnes wasn't sharp, using 108 pitches to get through five innings. He gave up only a pair of runs, but just didn't seem to have his command. He struck out five and gave up a two-run dinger to Charlie Blackmon in the third. The Brewers offense gave Burnes the lead back quickly in the bottom of the frame, with Willy Adames hitting his 20th home run of the season, and Andrew McCutchen hitting a two run shot with Rowdy Tellez aboard. Burnes left the game with the lead but Trevor Gott got into two-out trouble with a walk and a double and the Rockies tied the game in the sixth. The score stayed 3-3 until the 10th when the Rockies scored two with the Manfred man and a sacrifice fly. With two outs in the bottom of the tenth, it looked like the Rockies were about to put the game away when Hunter Renfroe tied it back up. Both offenses were held in check until the bottom of the 13th, when Luis Urias sent the few remaining faithful fans home happy with a little flare basehit to score Jonathan Davis from second base for the walkoff winner. With his two innings of scoreless work, Brent Suter vultures his way to 2-3 on the season and the Brewers open up after the break with a win. Game 2 -- Brewers 9, Rockies 4 Box Score The Rockies tagged starter Brandon Woodruff with a run in the first, and after that he continued his recent run of excellent work, pitching six, striking out eight, and giving up just that one run. On the other side of the ledger, the Brewers gave Woody all the run support he needed and then some, tallying three times in the fourth, and then putting up a five spot in the sixth inning to basically cement the game away. The three runs in the fourth came courtesy of another tater off the bat of Renfroe. Renfroe has been exactly as advertised, and just what the Brewers need in the middle of the order. Hopefully he stays a little more healthy in the second half, because his big bat was clutch in this series. The Brewers knocked around former teammates Jose Urena for five runs, and then hit another former Brewer, Jhoulys Chacin , for a pair in the sixth to run the score to 8-1. The Rockies scored three in the ninth off of Connor Sadzeck , who has since been moved down to Nashville, but never got close enough to threaten. Woodruff moved his record to 8-3 with the victory. Game 3 -- Brewers 10, Rockies 9 Box Score What didn't happen? Lead changes, late rallies, pinch-hit homers, you name it. Anyone that turned this one off early missed out. The Crew hopped out to a 5-2 lead after four innings, with Urias hitting a two-run double in the first, and Renfroe hitting his third homerun in three days. Eric Lauer wasn't exactly cruising, but had worked through four, and had a comfortable lead. With one out in the fourth, he walked a man, gave up a two-run homerun to Kris Bryant, and walked another. Jandel Gustave came in to relieve and got out of the inning with the 5-4 lead intact. The Rockies struck again in the sixth, getting a pair of runs off of Gustave before manager Craig Counsell replace him with Hoby Milner who worked out of the jam. The Brewers came right back in the bottom of the frame when Tyrone Taylor pinch hit a solo homerun and tied the game back up at six. The tie was short lived as the Rockies Elias Diaz slapped a two-run single off of Brewers reliever Brad Boxberger to push the lead back to 8-6. In the bottom of the 7th, Mike Brosseau double home McCutchen to pull within a run, and then the big inning came for the Crew. Victor Caratini and Taylor started the 8th inning with ground outs. WIth two outs and no one on base, Christian Yelich drew a walk. Adames followed up with a single. Tellez singled to score Yelich and pull the Crew once again back within a run. This all brought McCutchen to the plate. It's entirely arguable that ball could have been caught, but it certainly was scorched. Rockies centerfielder Yonathan Daza got a bad read on it, broke in, and realized right away he was burned. With a better read, maybe he catches that ball and we have a completely different outcome, but that's baseball. It's possible he didn't realize how hard the ball was smoked right off the bat. Either way, it was a huge moment and the Brewers headed to the ninth with a two run lead for closer Josh Hader . Hader gave up a triple and a single, but struck out two and got the save. He's clearly still working through some issues, but had enough going today to get the job done. Suter gets yet another win in relief, and moves to 3-3 and Hader gets save 28. Game 4 -- Rockies 2, Brewers 0 Box Score The offense just shut it down Monday. But we can talk about newly signed Aaron Ashby pitching what was probably the best start of his MLB career to date. He went seven strong innings, struck out nine, gave up five hits and one walk, and just two runs. This is what the Brewers thought they were getting when they committed five years (and a few team option years) to him, and this is hopefully a glimpse of the future for Ashby if he can reign in his talent and become more consistent with location. Unfortunately for Ashby, Rockies starter Kyle Freeland was just as good and then some, completely shutting down the Brewers on four hits through seven innings. The Crew mounted a late rally, getting a pair of runners in the ninth, but Rockies closer Daniel Bard shut the door and the Brewers weren't able to complete the four game sweep. View full article

Back and forth game today.

Nobody up in the pen yet. Counsell is really slow to respond this year to pitchers getting in trouble when the game is on the line, and it's kind of a problem.

The Kolten Wong 2 home run game, he hit the 2nd home run that day off the facade of the Dew Deck in RF, and the XBA was (per baseball savant) .790 on that ball. I'm sure there's a reason it wasn't 1.000, but a ball smoked 30 rows out of the park shouldn't have anything less than "automatic hit" attached to it.

statcast will give you the data. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_search I prefer to not follow the data on a batter-by-batter basis. It doesn't add to the enjoyment of the game for me. I love breaking the data down every now and then, but during the game, this information doesn't really have predictive value. It's just data. It's just telling us what happened.

Yes, he's looked better the last couple times out. Hopefully he hit a rough patch in June, straightened himself out, and it's smoother sailing for Lauer going forward. If we can get Peralta back reasonably soon, the rotation looks solid-ish heading into September.

Benintendi has a career .352 OBP, so if he does regress, it's not likely to be much. He hasn't been good in CF, but he's been serviceable when he plays there. We're talking 50 - 60 games at this point, so the run diff between him and an average CF (Taylor) would be 3-4 runs maybe. Taylor's carrying a .275 OBP. Just not good enough to be playing every day for this team that's struggling to score runs. Benintendi fits the profile perfectly (Like JFS says above) of what the offense needs..... literally just a guy to not make outs. Get on base, move the order to the next guy, and move runners around.

Burnes has gone over 100 pitches in like 7 of his last 8 starts, and he's better than just about everyone in the bullpen. He's good for another batter or two.

We've played McCutchen in CF in a pinch, and Benintendi's a good defensive LF. Let's not pretend that Benintendi's defense won't be passable for 60-ish games to get that .400-ish OBP in the lineup. We've been playing Jon Davis and his .250 slg percentage out there for the last 3 weeks after having Cain and his .450 OPS out there for the majority of the first 2 months. Benintendi would have to be a near butcher in CF to not make the upgrade to the offense worth the risk at this point.

that would be ceiling. and that's being mighty ambitious.

No prob, just make sure you mention it's from ESPN (or whatever source) from an earlier post.