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Braun crushed that, yet made it look soooo easy.

Would love to see one of these top of the order bats have a feel good walkoff moment. Seems like they’re more than due.

That close to being out of this inning...

No, I’m not.

Well the offense hasn’t scored in something like 20 innings, but right now would be a great time to breakthrough.

Lindblom brought his best outing of the year to the table today, it would be excellent if the offense could make sure it doesn’t go to waste.

Now Goldschmidt basically just had a second at bat against him and will lead off next inning. One advantage to sending Burnes for the first game would’ve been if he lasted 7 innings you would have a good idea of how many relievers you had available to backfill the Lindblom start with.

My only guess is they prefer Nottingham with Burnes. I think that is probably it. Narvaez has hit LHP better than he’s hit RHP this year, but it’s a minuscule sample and not his career norm.

If the Brewers won both of their games today they would end the day currently in position for the #6 playoff seed. That seems wild.

Josh Lindblom: Batter (Cardinals) vs Pitching Stats

Regarding next year’s draft, there was an article by RJ Anderson (CBS) over the weekend suggesting that some team personnel do think the previous year’s records maybe incorporated in some way into the draft order: It's unclear how MLB will set 2021 draft order In my opinion it would be a really bad move if they just combined the overall records from this season with last season since that would give the 2019 season much more influence in the draft order for 2021 since many more games were played. It would significantly help a team like the Padres get a great draft pick despite having a legitimate WS contender this season. If they do use the 2019 records I think they have to somehow weight 2020 results more heavily so it has a larger bearing on determining the order than 2019. I still hope that ultimately they just use 2020 records and leave it at that. The Brewers are set to be one of six teams that’ll get a Comp A round pick this year. There don’t appear to be many free agents that play for revenue-sharing recipients who are expected to get qualifying offers (they’d turn down) and will sign for >$50 million in the offseason. That’s the threshold to get a compensation pick after the first round. Also, the Astros lost their first round pick for next year. This is a long winded way of saying the Comp A pick could fall somewhere between #30-#35 (maybe that moves down one spot if the Reds get a post round 1 compensation pick for losing Trevor Bauer). Assuming they don’t trade their Comp A draft pick the Brewers could end up with 3 draft picks in the top 50 this year. It is considered a very deep draft on the prep side, and I think we’ll see many college players rise in the rankings if a spring season is able to be held.

I don’t know where Sogard’s head is today, but it doesn’t seem to be at Miller Park. Such a lackadaisical play to allow Baez to score.

Some rough infield defense this inning, yeesh.

Sogard error costs them at least one run (and likely more)...

A win today would really help lessen the sting from last night.

Looks like a 9-7 squad to me, but I guess so did last year’s team. Curious to see if they miss Martinez on the defensive side this year. If the Packers win 10+ and the Bears suffer heartbreaking/crushing losses that I can enjoy the aftermath of by tuning into 670 The Score then I’ll be happy.

Adrian Houser: Batter (Cubs) vs Pitching Stats Alec Mills: Batter (Brewers) vs Pitching Stats

Here is Hader’s maximum velocity by month over his career... LINK. The fastest pitch he’s every thrown was in October of 2018 at 99.98 mph. Edit: That is MAX velocity, you can also click on average velocities in the column on the left of that page.

I’ll go on the record that I would much rather Hader was a multi-inning reliever that had nights off in between instead of a closer that is used on back-to-back nights.

I like the optimism. Honestly, I appreciate it.

Hayward should have been struck out before that pitch ever happened.

First pitch to Hayward looked like a strike to me.

This is very, very true. If the WS is the goal, and I'd think it is, you want to face LA right off the bat. Although with this roster I'll be happy with any playoff appearance. I think I would still prefer the #6 or #7 seed over the #5 or #8. The Dodgers are a lock to get the #1 seed and the Padres are a lock to get the #4 seed. Let those two teams battle it out in the second round and take your chances against the Cubs and then Braves (or whoever upsets them). I realize anyone can lose a 3-game series no matter how good. Edit: I’ll add that the Braves are low on quality pitching so facing them over a longer series wouldn’t be the worst thing.

No, that was rumored but never actually implemented.