BruisedCrew

Big week to set up the showdown 7 against the Cubs. Would love to go into that with a lead of at least 7. The DBacks have to be looking at their series with the Cubs as an opportunity to improve their position in the wild card race.

OK. But even if that happens and he’s tagging up there would be a close play at second and you’d have runners on first and second instead of second and third. With both fielders that close instead of one backing up the other a ball hitting the wall might have bounced past both of them.

I’ll get over it, but it still bugs me that the Brewers had to give up a home game to play in this event. There’s obviously no guarantee, but I think the Brewers chances of winning would have been better playing on a familiar field (one without chunks of turf coming up on an infield grounder) in familiar surroundings with the home crowd behind them. If this game ends up costing the Brewers a tiebreaker against the Braves I’m really going to be ticked. The season series against the Braves might be a preview of a division series matchup and,, except for the one game the Brewers won in a rout, they were the type of low scoring games you would have to expect.

Turang was correctly going halfway. If that ball had hit the wall and bounced away he might have been able to score.

Disappointing that the Brewers couldn’t do anything with a pitcher with an ERA over 4

That takes care of the overcrowding in the outfield problem.

Dan Wilson is having a bad week leaving pitchers in too long. Now he wants to see Miller give up his second grand slam of the day.

The counter to that is that hitters that don’t hit HR often aren’t used to trying to hit the ball in the air. It’s not that they have warning track power, they just hit more line drives. But, looking at past results there the games haven’t been unusually high scoring.

It seems like a lot of these novelty games in non MLB parks turn into HR Derby slugfests. I hope this isn’t one of those with all of the home run hitters the Braves have.

I had a little league game on ESPN before and they showed a plane landing at the local airport. They announced that “the Brewers have arrived“.

I want the sweep if only to wrap up the tiebreaker against the Braves. You never know if that might come in handy

Phil Dunphy would be appalled if someone would contradict realty. Those Realtors can be vicious. 😃

I can relate to these comments. I am an even older vintage (current age 74) and now I have a lot more time to follow and stew on a baseball season than I did during those years when family and professional responsibilities were much higher priorities. There were years when my biggest sports related concerns were how to give 16 6 year olds equal time in a 4 inning tee ball game or how to get 3 girls to soccer games on time in different parts of the city. Before I had all of those responsibilities I had a much more optimistic outlook for the teams I rooted for. Maybe it didn't hurt that my Dad was a native New Yorker who rooted for the Yankees. So I rooted for both the Braves and Yankees during a period when both teams were regular contenders with multiple future Hall of Famers I am now several years past the point that I concluded that the chances of the Brewers winning a World Series in my lifetime is significantly lower than 50% because of the competitive disadvantage of the small market teams. Because the Brewers winning the division or just making the playoffs isn't as exciting as it was in 2008 and 2011 I am now focused on the next goal, and I critique the team from that perspective. I don't get into the daily bashing (often second guessing) of the manager and players. But I am scarred by the disappointments of the past and have a hard time getting past the "here we go again" feeling when things get rocky. It would be interesting to know the ages of some of the posters here and what life experiences they bring. Following baseball was a lot different when you didn't have every game on TV with dozens, if not hundreds, of statistics and measurements being thrown around telling you what you should think about what's going on. That stuff might be great for professionals trying to evaluate players for their organizations. But in the hands of young amateurs they probably make them think that they're smarter than they really are.

I’m sure they’re fine. Their fanbase isn’t as irrationally emotional as the Brewers fanbase. 🙄

Peter Crow Armstrong’s leap was only about 40 feet short.

Tough loss for the Cubs.

I I hope Bregman can get this outrageous hot streak out of his system before the Brewers faced them.

Dan Wilson is having a tough week of leaving his starting pitcher in a little too long

I’ve never dismembered a remote, but things significantly wordier than just spewing an expletive can be dictated in between batters or even in between pitches. Somtimes the spewed expletive can be followed by phrases like “swing the ****** bat“, or “get the ball over the ****** plate“, or “you ****** suck”.

No ego there.

There is a thing known as dictation.

Just out of curiosity, where else have you lived for any significant period of time that has a fan base that is less emotional than Brewefs fans?

I was at the game today and I thought that the ideal lineup for today would have been just what it was but with Sanchez at DH instead of Yelich.

Mitchell’s HR was very welcome. A goofy series but a series win

Seems like we always hear how bad a team’s bullpen is and then they shut the Brewers down When you score six runs in the first inning you hope for the game to be less stressful than this.