tomwopat

He appears to be in serious physical pain whenever he throws a baseball, so it checks that he's just undead Sergio Romo.

Realistically all Bauers needs to do here is draw a walk or lean into one.

Roberts IBB'ing Turang to get to Contreras, for him to walk to bring up Babe Bauers with the bags juiced is definitely a managing headscratcher.

BOO BIRDS

lol thank you Tommy Edman

They walk to get to William, then he pimps a single?

How many times are they going to let him go to the rosin bag? Seems like after every pitch.

Seems like Murph is setting himself up to play matchup with the guys who didn’t pitch in the NLDS in the next few if the game remains close. Or maybe he just rides Ashby’s arm until it falls off?

I’ve been disappointed in his performances even though he’s gutted through having suboptimal stuff which speaks to his quality in my perspective. But I’m not coming into the game expecting him to mow down hitters like midseason game against the Reds either.

Cy Young Miz didn’t have to face the postseason Dodgers in every single game in the regular season. I think he was missing some velo and zip on his fastball like he has in the postseason and some of his regular season starts, but I think you also have to take the opposition into account.

and just like clockwork, bizarro Brewers baseball scratches across a tying run

I don’t know what is more insane, bunting with two on nobody out or playing the infield in in the fifth inning.

butt clench engaged

It's hard to imagine how little interest there was in the Brewers in the early 2000s, even with the novelty the new stadium. You'd never see anyone wearing Brewers gear and the franchise was too cheap for standard things like pre and post-game shows on TV. Jeffrey Hammonds, the largest FA signing at the time was a colossal flop that made Suppan look like a minor bump in the road. Even the early Doug Melvin years when things seemed getting better, the team was pretty hard to watch at times, it took years to undo the rot of the years of negligence. The mid 2010's rebuild never had that feeling of hopelessness. 2007 was especially hard since the team seemed like it had the momentum to not only have it's first winning season since 1992 (!) which they narrowly missed in 2005, but also make the postseason for the first time since 1982. They had a commanding lead in the division early on and were leading as late as mid-September, but ended up losing the division by two games to the Cubs after fading down the stretch. Ned Yost was not a popular figure (https://web.archive.org/web/20071011113433/http://firenedyost.com/) which makes me chuckle a bit when I see the criticism of Murph.