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Lauer comes back out for the 7th and gets four outs via K, reach on Toro error, ground out and K to retire the side. Presumably ends his night at 7 IP | 4 ER | 6 H | 2 BB | 1 HBP | 10 K with 99 pitches (67 strikes).

Started off 143/333/250 (62 wRC+) over his first 8 G | 36 PA in Nashville. In the 28 G | 124 PA since he has hit 330/435/553 (150 wRC+).

Lauer struck out the first batter of the sixth on three pitches. Followed it up with a 104 MPH single, walk, HBP, mound visit. Struck out the next guy, but just surrendered a single to (who else) Austin Allen that plated two.

Darin Ruf singles Black home on a ground ball (97.3 MPH at zero degLA) to the left side. Now 7-1 Sounds heading to top of the sixth.

Tyler Black leads off the Nashville half pulling a triple to RF. 101.6 MPH exit velo x 21 degLA = 325 feet.

After sitting in the dugout for the long Sounds barrage, Lauer surrenders a lead off HR to Austin Allen. 91.3 MPH exit velo x 30 degLA = 337 foot wall scraper? Bounces back with a K, ground out, line out. Pitch count at 51 (39 strikes) through five IP.

And a Wild Pitch nets Nashville a sixth and final run bottom of four.

Chourio hits a first pitch cutter at 103.9 MPH exit velo x 30 degLA = 404 feet for a sac fly. 5-0 Sounds.

Take that back, bases loaded one out for Jackson as Jahmai Jones called strike three is overturned to ball four.

Nashville has gone off for four runs here bottom of four via Miller double, Wiemer single, Black single, Toro single, Ruf sac fly, Henry single, Devanney walk. Still runners on first and second and two out with Jackson stepping to the dish.

Kinda surprised BRef has the signing bonuses from back then but looks like BJ got 150K, Will got 160K, Barry got 125K and Bobby Witt Sr. got the biggest check at 179K.

Nothing nothing headed to bottom of three. Lauer gave up a single and fanned two more over the 2nd/3rd innings. A Jahmai Jones single is it for the Sounds offense so far.

Two of my favorites too. Hamilton was just so smooth. Surhoff going 1-1 over Barry Bonds and (my favorite player as a kid) Will Clark is pretty nuts looking back, but have to imagine both those guys essentially told Milwaukee not to draft them.

Almost, 13 back on July 8, 1990. Gantner went 3-4 with 5 RBI leading off. Darryl Hamilton (RIP) went 3-5 with 6 RBI. Deer 0-5 with 2 K.

Lauer goes 1-2-3 top of the first with two Ks, the second coming via manager challenge. Fastball sitting 92-93 MPH.

Said on the broadcast they scored 13 in an inning back in 1990.

I think it’s Brian Anderson proof. The third baseman or the announcer.

Great breakdown of the Brewers defensive prowess this year. Definitely a big reason they've been able to run a sparkling 3.76 ERA this year despite a more middling 4.21 FIP, essentially saving half a run a game via defense on balls in play.

Yeah, looks like we passed STL on April 4th at 48.4% to 44.1%. Cards got close a couple times following that, but after hitting 36.3% on May 27th their season was pretty much over as far as the computers were concerned. Looking at BRef, the last time they were over .500 this year was on April 2nd when they were 2-1, so their season has essentially been over from the beginning. Even when the Brewers had bottomed out at 34-34 on June 14th, they were still at 46.8% to win the division. Reds peaked at 36.8% on July 8th. Cubs hit 33.3% a few times - Aug 6, Aug 8, Sep 6 - but have seen their odds evaporate after going 3-10 over their last 13 while the Brewers went 10-4 over the same stretch. Ultimately neither the Reds nor Cubs were able to maintain their hot streaks long enough to overcome the surrounding mediocrity. Outside of a 49 game stretch from late April to mid June where they went 20-29, the Brewers have played at a 67-37 clip the rest of the season. The Cubs longest run was going 50-28 from 0609 until 0906, but they started the season ten under at 26-36 and have hit another rough patch recently with the aforementioned 3-10 rut they are in. Reds were just too streaky in general. W3, L3, L3, L6, W5, W3, L4, W5, L4, W3, W12, L3, W3, W5, L6, W5, L6, W3, L3, L3, W3. That's 91 total games (59% of their schedule) where they were embroiled in some kind of streak or another, going 50-41 while streaking with that twelve gamer putting them over the top. In the 63 games (41% of their schedule) where they weren't streaking they've gone 29-34.

NL Central Odds. Brewers = Gold Cubs = Blue

Kind of funny that Wiemer is DHing at Nashville tonight, but I guess stuff like that is bound to happen when the org is like five deep with legit young CFers. Obviously small MLB samples so far but the numbers are… Wiemer (1,026 inn.) +5 DRS | +6.1 UZR | +8 OAA Frelick (384 inn.) +6 DRS | +2.7 UZR | +6 OAA Perkins (349 inn.) +9 DRS | +4.8 UZR | +7 OAA Mitchell (304 inn.) +3 DRS | +1.7 UZR | +2 OAA Thats not even counting Taylor (who would probably get CF innings on a lot of other teams), and then there’s that Jackson kid too.

GameDay said 107.7 MPH for Garrett’s triple. Ripped indeed.

Looks like Boushley bounced back nicely after allowing that HR with 5 H | 1 BB | 4 K over 6.1 IP.

Liking for the in person reporting, not the Jumbo Shrimp web gems.

Mitchell reached on error, and Chourio followed up with another single (only 102 MPH this time), but the Sounds bats remain otherwise silent. Trailing 5-0 entering the seventh.