BruisedCrew

Request for someone with a ready supply of images to provide one of BJ Surhoff.

If so I’ll be celebrating in a pub in London. I would appreciate it if they could wrap it up over the weekend so I can ignore the games that start at 1 in the morning.

For an old guy who’s had a lot of injuries Donaldson still looks like he knows what he’s doing at 3B

Canha with what I like to call a grand slam double.

I hate these games that finish in the rain. The game can be decided by a pitcher or fielder who has trouble gripping the ball.

Very appropriate showing him against the team for which he played on 3 World Series winners. While his tenure as Brewers GM was not very successful, his signing with the Brewers as a free agent in 1977 gave the Brewers organization some credibility that opened the door to their success in the following years.

Someone has to have a good picture of Sal Bando (Captain Sal) who passed away earlier this year.

Maybe not a legend, but I loved that he liked it here so much that he kept coming back.

The one that gets me is the MLB TV ad featuring the Nico Horner walkoff: “Cubs win, Cubs win.”

64 Phillies I was around at the time and remember how shocking that collapse was. Baseball historians might enjoy this video. I went to college near Philly a few years later, and I can tell you that Phillies fans were as traumatized by 1964 as Cubs fans were by their collapse in 1969. When the Phillies got competitive again in the mid 70’s they were so “phatalistic” that they kept holding their breath until the magic number reached 0.

What were the Phillies odds with 12 games to go in 1964? I have no problem waiting until it’s official to pop the champagne corks.

I think you would be wrong.

I wonder what it would have been like to be a fan of the Phillies in 1964?

Like Wainwright, Rom had a good start against the Orioles last week.

The Cardinals might be a crappy team with crappy pitching in general, but they seem to know how to get the Brewers out. 7 games against them this season and the Brewers have scored just 14 runs and have been shut out 3 times. Whoever they throw out to the mound the Brewers have trouble scoring. With 6 more games left against them the Brewers better figure something out.

There were the 2 against the Reds in the games before and after the ASB. I think those are the only 2.

Non existent offense for the 4th time in 9 games.

Wainwright flashing a big middle finger to all of those posters who have made fun of him all season: ”I might be washed up but I can still shut down this sorry a** lineup.”

Should have known Viera would be “hurt”. It’s nearly impossible for a guy to throw 2 innings and emerge healthy.

18-1 games don't really bother me when the Brewers lose or impress me when they win. They have the same impact as a loss of about 8-1 where the team just loses and sends a few pitchers (or maybe a position player) out there to absorb the beating. Games like yesterday or last Sunday bug me more.

True enough, but they have been playing pretty well recently, including winning series against some playoff contenders (Braves, Reds, Orioles). they seem to be enjoying their spoiler role, and they have some hitters who can spoil things.

It will be interesting to see what the Brewers have planned for their SP in this series and the remainder of the season. Will they stick with the current 6 man rotation this week but then use the off day next Monday to skip the 6th man? Or will they start pitching the starters on 4 days rest like many other teams do routinely? Sticking with the 6 day rotation would produce the following starters: @SL- Peralta, TBD, Houser, Miley @Mia- Burnes, Woodruff, Peralta SL- Houser, Miley, Burnes Cubs- Woodruff, Peralta, Houser (or TBD or bullpen) The thing I like about this approach is that it keeps the starters on 5 days rest, and would set up Burnes, Woodruff, and Peralta to be the starters in the playoff games on 4 days rest. If the Brewers could clinch the division quickly enough, those last starts could be shortened to keep the pitchers in rhythm without overtaxing them. The only downsides to this would be (1) using a 6th starter for one of the games in this Cardinal series, and (2) having Houser or Miley or a combination of the 2 in the final game of the season if it becomes a winner take all battle for the division. With the lead the Brewers currently have, if the division race comes down to the last day the Brewers would be on the verge of a monumental (though not historically unprecedented) collapse. It doesn't make sense to me to tinker with things now to prepare for that possibility. If the Brewers do have the division clinched before the last game I would expect that game to be used to give several pitchers who might need it an inning or two of work.

When Wainright was getting batted around this season, I had a feeling he would be going for number 200 against the Brewers in this series. What could be more appropriate than going against a team that has been one of his favorite victims over the years (21-14 with an ERA of 2.74). Peralta is going to have his work cut out for him tonight. The Cardinals offense (which has been pretty good recently) is going to be focused on scoring enough runs to get Wainwright the win, even if he doesn’t baffle the Brewers for the needed 5 innings. Even though he’s had a couple of decent outings recently, anything less than 3 or 4 runs off of Wainwright and his ERA near 8 has to be considered a failure.

Rea was optioned to Nashville so unless they can cook up a fake injury I don’t think he can be back for this series.

I realize that the team is playing well. I also realize more than a lot of posters seem to that you can’t use the same relievers every game or even every other game. But when you are facing a pitcher with an ERA, over 5 and the relievers at the bottom of the bullpen pecking order do the job, that is a very disappointing loss. Especially this late in the season with an opportunity to wrap up the division with time to spare to set up the team for the playoffs. I’m not comforted by “you can’t win them all” or “they won the series” when playing against a relatively weak team.