Cool Hand Lucroy

Also, I have the Phillies broadcast, and they have no clue that Wilson is a starting pitcher. Lol. Maybe they're right?

Possibly bad take: I blame a lot of that on Bauers getting horrible read on Ortiz's base hit. But maybe I'm just looking for reasons to lose the guy 😄. Wheeler is a great pitcher because of innings like that. Just gotta keep at it. This is going to be a tough series, and I'd take 1 and get out of town if you offered it to me yesterday.

I largely agree with the critiques of the rotation. We know it isn't very good. Obviously, I'd rather have last year's rotation in a vacuum. That said, I'd rather have this year's team. It isn't so much that I think the roster is better as I just prefer this brand of baseball. It's nice to watch guys who can hit. It's nice not to be terrified every defensive half inning. I'm having way more FUN this year than in a long time. Probably the most fun since 2018, when we were all about Yelich, Cain, and bullpen. That team is my favorite Brewer club of all time, even though I think the 2011 Crew was probably more talented overall. Hopefully this team manages to win a few more October games than those two.

First pitch, no-doubter with a great swing. Love to see that.

Nastrini looks like a young guy with potential to me. Good stuff, inconsistent command. Being able to hit the bottom of the zone with fastballs is a good skill. I wouldn't be surprised if he put up a quality start. Well, Bauers needed that hit.

Freddy is not as consistent as elite aces. That's all. I'd put him in the next tier of guys, and that's great. As our number 3 starter, he was fantastic. As our number 1, he's a downgrade compared to what we are used to. Long way to go today.

Good point. These discussions are complicated. In some ways, the pitch clock seems to have partly diminished pitcher advantage, but at the potential cost of injuries. Do others see pitchers getting better at pitch clock gamesmanship? This is just a gut feeling, but pace of play seems a little slower this year (which I think is fine...pitch clock often feels too fast to me), maybe the result of guys getting better at strategically walking around the mound or asking for a new baseball? Fedde was very deliberate last night. Back on topic: thrilled with this offense's approach. For the first time in a long time, we are ANNOYING to pitch to. Long at-bats, more contact, always pressure on the basepaths. Love to see it. I'm not fully bought in on this team's ability to go far, but I will say that I'm having way more fun this year than in the past four or five. The style of baseball is just much, much more enjoyable to me.

It looked like he slid into 2nd funny on that steal late in yesterday's game. Dude wants to play every day, and I respect that, but I'd give him Friday off so he can get two days in a row.

"Subject to Review" is a great little 30 for 30 short on how this works in tennis. It makes the same point as you: it's surprisingly difficult to determine whether a fast-moving object fits within a particular boundary. Even in tennis, there's about a 4 mm margin of error with Hawkeye. That's often the difference between in and out. Soccer has also had instances where VAR has had to determine whether a ball was in or out or crossed the goal line (it happened in both the men's and women's World Cups, and to the US women's team). The reality is, it's just impossible to know for certain, and there are certain balls that can be thought of as BOTH in AND out. In baseball, with the variable strike zone, this gets even more complicated. Plus, you're dealing with a much more three-dimensional space than a tennis in/out line. The modeling just has to be very sophisticated, and it's not going to be perfect. I'm good with the challenge system because teams then theoretically have the ability to strategically call on the technology. I really don't like the idea of a full electronic zone, though. Some pitches are both balls and strikes (because you can't really know the precise dimensions of the strike zone and whether the ball passed through them), and I think it's better to have a human making that determination most of the time. Fix egregious errors, and use the tech strategically. That's the best you can do.

Early in the year, Jackson's strike zone discipline was really good. Not so mich lately. He's going to figure it out.

Glad White got an out before I had the chance to yell about him being bad.

Adames really making good contact.

I think that is one of the best catches I have seen this year. Paredes likely gets the 8th too? He was efficient.

Hilarious that going from Imanaga to Hendricks scares me so much as a Brewer fan.

Bauers absolutely killed us that inning.

Even at 7-1, you knew this one was going to be an adventure. Get a couple of tack-on runs, and hope someone steps up in the bullpen.

Two errors in an inning? Ouch.

Major baserunning blunder there.

I don't feel very confident, even at 7-2. Still a lot of innings to cover. Hope the offense continues to show give good ABs.

And here I was already cursing the missed third strike call.

Megill avoiding the worst is good. I really wanted tonight to guarantee a split. Hopefully they can get to Shota. Crazy thing is, Brewers will be done playing the Cubs by July.

I mean, if you'd have told me Megill was going to be the closer, I'd have said you were nuts. Payamps seems like the choice in most situations. But this is a next man up kind of bullpen.

Keep coming back to that Adames flyout. Totally thought that was a mile out off the bat.

That's because he was facing a bunch of no-name scrubs in the regular season and not a hall-of-famer in the playoffs 😉

Also, now that Yelich has come in to play the field, the Brewers lose the DH. Meaning, if this game goes ten, the pitcher might be hitting.