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Zona Crew putting on a very ACL sequence to take the lead top of seven. Angel Pereira single (wild pitch), Luiyin Alastre single & CF error (Angel scores), Alastre steals second (to third on throwing error), Filippo doubles (Alastre scores), throwing error by pitcher on pick off (Filippo scores). Now 5-3 Brewers.

Ismael goes 1-2-3 bottom of six closing the inning with a swinging strikeout. Pereira, Alastre, Bitonti due up top of seven.

Ismael puts up a zero bottom of five with a little help from an inning ending Edgardo Ordonez caught stealing,

Rivera retired the first two batters bottom of four (strikeout, fly out) then was relieved by Ismael Yanez who got the K for out number three.

Antony Gomez doubled and stole a bag to get to third with no outs. A pop out, strikeout and ground out later he was still standing there.

Rivera puts up a zero bottom of three striking out a pair after hitting the lead off batter.

Luiyin Alastre kicks things off with a triple and comes around to score on a Filippo Di Turi single to get the Brewers on the scoreboard, 3-1. Gery Holguin apparently enjoyed the sight of Alastre running 270 feet out of the box, because he just did the same to bring Filippo home, 3-2.

Rivera bounces back and has a much less eventful inning going strikeout, ground out, single, fly out bottom of two. Top of the order due up top of three for the Zona Crew.

Rivera finished out the first with a pop out, two RBI single and double play running the score to 3-0. Edgardo Ordonez opened the top of the second with a walk and moved to second on an Antony Gomez ground out, but then had to jog all the way back to the dugout from there to put on his chest protector and shin guards.

Tonight’s lineup for the AZ Brewers at AZ Cubs… Alastre 2B Bitonti 3B Di Turi SS Holguin 1B Ibarguen CF Ordonez C Gomez LF Walther DH Pereira RF Rivera P Crew got off to a good start with a Luiyin Alastre single and Eric Bitonti walk but things ended at second base. Bryan Rivera is on the mound & is off to a rough start at single, walk, double. Already 1-0 Cubs with runners on 2nd and 3rd no outs.

Nutting bought the team in 2007, since then the Pirates have gone 1,225-1,465, the 3rd worst record in MLB. Since 2007 the Brewers have gone 1,403-1,290, the 8th best record in MLB. Over the 17 years before Mark A bought the Brewers (1988-2004) they went 1,242-1,444, the 2nd worst record in MLB among non expansion teams. The main reason the Pirates have been irrelevant for 14 of the last 17 seasons is the same reason the Brewers were mostly irrelevant for two decades before Selig sold the team…the owner sucks.

About a quarter way into the season and I'd say most would agree that the bullpen has performed pretty admirably between the absence of Devin Williams and making up for a bevy of short starts from the rotation. Here are their rankings as a unit among all 30 MLB clubs... 158 IP (7th) | 98 K%+ (20th) | 97 BB%+ (6th) | 107 HR9+ (22nd) | 91 ERA- (11th) | 101 FIP- (18th) | +3.14 WPA (3rd) Despite not excelling at strikeouts or limiting home runs, the Brewers relief corps has come through nonetheless largely on account of limiting walks and inducing soft contact (20.2%, 2nd). There are currently five staples who have come in better than average by all of ERA-, FIP- and WPA... Bryan Hudson (22.1 IP) 20 ERA- | 61 FIP- | +1.34 WPA Hoby Milner (19.1 IP) 46 ERA- | 93 FIP- | +0.58 WPA Elvis Peguero (17 IP) 91 ERA- | 63 FIP- | +0.23 WPA Jared Koenig (15.1 IP) 72 ERA- | 87 FIP- | +0.40 WPA Trevor Megill (9.2 IP) 23 ERA- | 61 FIP- | +0.92 WPA After that, Payamps has struggled keeping runs off the board (130 ERA-), but his peripherals have been much better (93 FIP-) and he's still on the right side of the WPA scale at +0.18. Vieira hasn't been particularly good (120 ERA- | 155 FIP-), but he's still mostly done his job of eating low leverage innings with his 20.1 IP second on the team out of the pen and has barely cost the team anything from a WPA standpoint at -0.05. As far as future options go Uribe is a wild card in more ways than one, but his upside is a legit late inning arm as we've seen glimpses of. JB Bukauskas looked pretty nasty before he went down with injury and should hopefully be an option again at some point later on in the season. And then that Devin guy too. Also have two out-of-options possibilities down in Nashville that have been dominating International League hitters to start the season... Enoli Paredes (17.2 IP) 13.75 K9 | 3.06 BB9 | 0.00 HR9 1.02 ERA | 1.57 FIP Rob Zastryzny (15.1 IP) 13.50 K9 | 0.59 BB9 | 0.59 HR9 1.76 ERA | 1.65 FIP Among pitchers with at least 10 IP in the IL this season their 1.57 and 1.65 FIPs rank 2nd and 3rd, sandwiched between Cubs reliever Richard Lovelady (0.61) and some dude named Paul Skenes (1.67).

Just put in my ballot, and man, making the calls for the last few spots was TOUGH. If we went out to 25 my next five would have been Yujanyer Herrera, Daniel Corniel, Daniel Guilarte, Filippo Di Turi and Eric Bitonti.

Khrush Davis, Mister .247. During his four year run from 2015-18 his 160 HR were second in MLB behind only Nelson Cruz.

Whiting goes HBP, single, HBP to load the bases no outs bottom of nine then proceeds to strike out the next three batters. WOW. Carolina wins 6-5.

Whiting strands both runners going fly out, double steal, walk, pop out, fly out. 6-5 Mudcats heading to top nine.

Back to back three baggers from Kay-Lan Nicasia and Yhoswar Garcia have given Carolina an insurance run top of eight.

Mudcats two out rally top of six with a Kay-Lan Nicasia walk, wild pitch, Yhoswar Garcia single & stolen bag, and Miguel Briceno single running the score to 5-2 Carolina.

With Rhys Hoskins doing some major Win Probability Adding tonight (+.508) I was curious how that stacked up with some of the other top performances over the first not quite quarter of the season, so I clicked around and here was every instance I could find where someone posted a +.250 WPA or better for the day... 05/07 Willy Adames (+.645) 1-4, HR, 3 RBI in 6-5 win 05/11 Rhys Hoskins (+.508) 1-3, HR, 3 RBI in 5-3 win 04/25 Gary Sanchez (+.477) pinch hit two run HR in 7-5 win 04/19 Hoby Milner (+.443) scoreless 10th in 2-1 win 04/19 Freddy Peralta (+.385) six scoreless in 2-1 win 05/06 Bryse Wilson (+.373) six scoreless in 3-2 loss 04/19 William Contreras (+.370) 2-5, both RBI in 2-1 win 04/29 Sal Frelick (+.353) 9th inning lead off double, steal 3rd in 1-0 loss 05/01 Colin Rea (+.343) six scoreless in 7-1 win 03/30 Rhys Hoskins (+.324) 3 for 4, HR, 4 RBI in 7-6 win 04/14 Blake Perkins (+.307) 3-4, HR, stole home in 6-4 loss 04/26 Joey Ortiz (+.293) 2-4, HR, 4 RBI, walk off in extras 05/10 Robert Gasser (+.287) six scoreless in 11-2 win 04/13 Jake Bauers (+.286) 1 for 5 HR, 4 RBI in 11-5 win 04/26 Jared Koenig (+.266) scoreless 10th/11th in 7-6 win. 04/21 Bryan Hudson (+.250) 2.1 scoreless in 2-0 win So looks like sixteen individual instances from fifteen different players over thirteen different games with Rhys the only repeat appearance. He also had a just missed at (+.236) on 04/25 in the Sanchez pinch hit HR game. Nine position player games, four starting pitcher games, three reliever games and full season WPA contributors like Megill (+0.85), Yelich (+0.83), Turang (+0.42) and Peguero (+0.36) don't even show up on the list. Feel like that does a pretty good job illustrating the depth of contributions Milwaukee has gotten towards their current first place standing.

AZ Crew got trounced, but had a few standout performances on the afternoon… Aneuris Rodriguez went 3.1 scoreless with 1 H | 1 BB | 7 K. Thirteen of his sixteen outs have been recorded via strikeout on the young season. Luiyin Alastre (2-5, 2Bx2), Eric Bitonti (2-4, 2B, BB) and Filippo Di Turi (3-5, 2B) each doubled and reached multiple times out of the top three lineup spots.

Not too many highlights in the Nashville box. Owen Miller went 3-4 raising his average to .361. Rob Zastryzny threw another scoreless frame (1 K) lowering his ERA to 1.76 on the season (International League average is 4.90).

Carolina putting up a big rally top of six to go ahead 6-5. And it went a little something like this… Yophery Rodriguez double, Luis Castillo single, Blayberg Diaz double, Miguel Briceno single & steal, Reese Walling single.

Biloxi also marks the first tally of the evening on a trio of singles from Lamar Sparks, Mike Boeve and Brock Wilken in the bottom of the third.

Carolina up 2-1 early with another Miguel Briceno bomb plus a Yhoswar Garcia single, stolen base, passed ball combo and Daniel Guilarte RBI single accounting for the runs.

Wisco first on the board with another Dylan O’Rae triple followed by a Gregory Barrios sac fly. Cornielle also strong through his first three IP going scoreless with 3 K | 1 BB.