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  1. BruisedCrew
    These are going to be three challenging innings for the Brewers bullpen.
  2. BruisedCrew
    Big fly from Santana.
  3. BruisedCrew
    Hard to shake the feeling that the Brewers have shot their wad offensively and are done scoring for the night.
  4. BruisedCrew
    Reds win 1-0 on Encarnacion-Strand HR in the 9th. Unless the Brewers can recover their lead will be down to 1 game.
  5. BruisedCrew
    Here come the Rangers. Danger time for Woodruff throwing so many pitches. And not having any outs.
  6. BruisedCrew
    Definitely. If they would have been playing with the playoff structure we have now they might have been in them every year from 78-83. I went to a lot of games in those days before kids came along, and it was always exciting when the bottom of the first came around and you could look forward to Molitor, Yount, and Cooper followed by 4 power hitters. If Larry Hisle hadn’t gotten hurt early in the 79 season and essentially had his career ended, that lineup would have been even more imposing.
  7. BruisedCrew
    How refreshing to see the Brewers string some hits together Big shutdown inning coming up for Woodruff. These Rangers aren’t going to give up because of a 3 run deficit.
  8. BruisedCrew
    First hitter of the game and Yelich reaches on a bouncer back to the mound that bounces off the pitcher and goes for an infield hit. I knew before he said it that Dillard was going to comment on how everything they put in play in LA went right into a Dodgers glove. He really needs to move past that. He’s sounding like a political candidate who’s been coached to get a certain canned line in whether it’s relevant or not.
  9. BruisedCrew
    Even with Jung out their top 6 hitters all have OPS over .800 and Martinez, playing CF for Taveras, has an OPS of .908 in his first 6 games with the Rangers. Like the Braves, no real soft spots.
  10. BruisedCrew
    Royals 4 Cubs 3 Final
  11. BruisedCrew
    Or maybe it shows how meaningless some of these stats can be when it comes to actually winning baseball games as long as winners are determined by runs scored instead of balls hit hard. It has never been unusual for teams to win games with fewer hits, but now we have these stats that don’t measure actual hits but balls that “should have been” hits that lead people to the non sequitur conclusion that the winning team was lucky. Of course a home run produces more runs than a handful of scattered singles that put runners on base who don’t advance. To me, that’s baseball not luck.
  12. BruisedCrew
    Ballgame. This series is a perfect preview of what I would expect if these teams meet in a playoff series.
  13. BruisedCrew
    It’s one thing to mention something, it’s another to harp on it over and over, even right after the Brewers got a hit of the kind that he gripes about when the Dodgers got them. To me the story of this series is that the Brewers have 3 runs on 9 hits in 24 innings, not that some of the Dodgers runs have come on soft hits or that the Brewers have had some hard hit outs.
  14. BruisedCrew
    Darn near every batter Levering whines about the Brewers bad luck. Very unprofessional in my opinion.
  15. BruisedCrew
    Only took 3 batters for Levering to start whining.
  16. BruisedCrew
    The subject of catcher’s interference reminds me of an obscure rule that I didn’t know about until about 10 years ago when I first saw it come in to play. The rule basically allows the batting team to “decline” the interference and take the result of the play. The interference does not immediately result in a dead ball. The time I saw this the batter hit a weak grounder that scored a runner from third while the batter was thrown out. The manager of the hitting team had to decide if he wanted to exchange the out for the run or give the hitter a chance to do better.
  17. BruisedCrew
    Again, there’s a lot more to baseball than “batted ball profile”. I’m not a huge disciple of things like exit velocity, launch angle, and xBA because I’m not sure if they can take into account how well a team positions its defense, executes its pitching game plan to get hitters to hit into the defense, and then makes the plays to convert batted balls into outs. But I do note that Baseball Savant lists the Brewers xBA last night at .204, which doesn’t sound like a great batted ball profile. While there is going to be some luck in every game, I’m not convinced that the Brewers luck last night was so bad that it would have turned a 7-1 loss into a win.
  18. BruisedCrew
    I did watch the game until the score got to 6-1, and we’ll just have to agree to disagree. I’m not going to argue about the two catcher’s interference calls because it was ridiculous the way Martinez swung at those pitches. I’m not sure if he was standing any further back than a lot of other hitters. For as long as I’ve watched baseball it has been common for batters to rub out the back line of the box and stand as far back as they can get away with. Other than that, though, I consider soft hits and hard hit outs to be part of the game. Smith’s dribbler was extreme but I don’t think there was anything unusual about some of the other “soft” hits. Sharp grounders hit right into the defense are not unusual either. Maybe what we need is to change the game from baseball to “Exit Velocity Ball” to cut down on some of the whining coming from the Brewers announcers the the last two days. When elite hitters like Betts and Freeman get their bats on the ball and drop soft liners into the outfield, to me that is good hitting, not pure, dumb luck. The Dodgers’ 2 HRs were not lucky either. I also consider the ball that Wiemer misplayed and dropped to be a significant factor in the game that cuts against the notion that the Brewers outplayed the Dodgers. I guess if every sharply hit ball the Brewers hit had gone for a hit, and every soft ball the Dodgers hit had turned into an out the Brewers might have won.
  19. BruisedCrew
    Both games have been decided by 10:30 so it hasn’t been an issue.
  20. BruisedCrew
    A few hard hit balls that could have been hits, but saying the Brewers outplayed the Dodgers is quite a stretch. Failing to make plays in the field is part of the game too. 3 runs on 5 hits in two games isn’t going to get it done against many teams. For the record, I see that the fly ball that Wiemer dropped was correctly changed to an error.
  21. BruisedCrew
    Levering’s whining is really getting annoying.
  22. BruisedCrew
    Very interesting. Being weak in both number of opportunities and conversion rate is a pretty deadly combination. Neither surprises me, though I often feel like a low number of opportunities is an even bigger problem than the conversion percentage. The number of runs per opportunity does surprise me. I wonder how many of the runs come in situations that are less critical, like in later innings with either a big lead or big deficit. A 3;run HR late in a 10-1 game would obviously have less impact on the outcome than a sac fly or single that breaks a tie in the last of the 8th.
  23. BruisedCrew
    Watching the game I wasn’t feeling like the Dodgers were that lucky until the game was pretty much out of reach. The first 3 runs in the 6th inning were a result of: Montaserio’s throwing error that opened the door. Muncy’s sharply hit ground ball into RF Martinez’s very hard hit RBI double into the gap in left center. Hernadez’s sharp ground ball through the drawn in infield that drove in 2 runs. That ball would probably have been an out with the infield back, but I give the hitter credit for getting his bat on the ball instead of producing a strikeout or popup like we often see from the Brewers in those situations. At that point the score was 4-1 and the Brewers were in deep trouble. The offense producing 2 hits and 1 walk in 9 innings is a bigger story to me than the Dodgers “luck”. We’d be doing cartwheels if the Brewers had an inning like that Dodgers 6th. I do agree about Santana. He has come tantalizingly close to having 4 HR in the last two games, and the 2 he got were no cheapies.
  24. BruisedCrew
    Really not this year against the best of the better teams. Against the 4 other NL teams currently in the playoff positions that they have played (Braves, Dodgers, Phillies, Giants) they are a combined 6-14. They haven’t faced the Marlins yet.
  25. BruisedCrew
    Bed time. Open the door for a team like this and they’ll drive a tank through it.
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