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Devin Williams to IL with hand injury
BruisedCrew replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
That does seem incredible. Not only would he have to be physically able to pitch, but he’d have to shake off the rust enough that you’d feel confident throwing him into a high leverage situation. If the Brewers can get to the World Series with other relievers serving as the bridge between the starters and Hader they might be better off sticking with that than gambling on someone who hasn’t thrown a pitch in a game for almost a month. -
At least the Dodgers get a shot at advancing in a wild card game. In some of those years in the 80’s when the Brewers won over 90 games but were several games back in the eastern division while the winner of the west had several fewer wins, they got no playoff chance at all. This kind of “unfairness” occurs in sports all the time, and any attempt to eliminate it is just going to move the complaints to a different level.
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2021 MLB Postseason: AL & NL Wild Card Games
BruisedCrew replied to Eye Black's topic in Archived Game Threads
I agree with the comment about the end of the regular season and the daily slate of games. I’m retired and have an mlb tv subscription so in addition to Brewers games almost every day I can watch or follow virtually any game I want with the teams’ local announcers to track division races and fantasy players. That is that much more enjoyable when the Brewers are in playoff contention so I feel like I have a stake in the games. Keeping track of those other teams and how they compare to the Brewers is how I “enjoy the ride” of the whole season. On tonight’s game I’ll be rooting for the Red Sox over the Yankees. -
Friday at 3:37 Saturday at 4:07.
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I was just going to post the same thing. I have tickets for Saturday and assume the game is going to be at 3:30. But, as a gift to her and as a birthday surprise for my wife, I would like to fly in one of our daughters who lives in Florida so she can go to the game and be here for her mother’s birthday. But, because of her work obligations, she would have to come in on Saturday morning, and we are reluctant to commit to the necessary arrangements until the game time is set. If they make a decision to start a game at noon to open a spot for a college football game or something later, our plans would go out the window. IMHO, the game times could have been established last week when they knew that the hosts of the games would be the Brewers and a west coast team. Even in the AL, where they knew the hosts would be the Rays and either the White Sox or Astros I can’t see anything that would affect the times. Failing to announce the start times to me shows complete disrespect for the fans who shell out the money and commit the time to attend the games in person.
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Devin Williams to IL with hand injury
BruisedCrew replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
We shall see... The thing about losing someone like Williams is that it only hurts in certain types of games because you know he wouldn’t appear before the 8th inning. So, unless the team gets into games that are close in the 8th inning, he would have no impact. If you give up late runs to lose a game that was close you will wonder if Williams would have made a positive difference. With a starter or important everyday player, you will never know if that player might have had a significant impact on the game. -
More of that Cardinal Devil Magic.
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My guess is that Anderson is an “opener” for what will turn out to be a bullpen game with maybe almost everyone in the bullpen getting an inning.
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So, Anderson gets his second “last” appearance for the Brewers in 4 days before he may or may not be on the playoff roster. I’m guessing he will be on the playoff roster as a possible long reliever or to be available in case a game goes deep into extra innings. I’m still surprised that the Brewers have completely abandoned the rotation that they followed all season once they clinched the division title, and will be going into the playoffs with the top starters having little or no game action for two weeks or more. I trust the Brewers believe they can have the starters as ready to go through non game throwing sessions, but their approach does seem unconventional. The team in the most similar position, the White Sox, has held to their rotation and has had Lynn, Rodon, Giolito, and Cease take starts and go about 5 innings. Maybe that’s what LaRussa has done in the past and he thinks the approach can be successful. The Braves have announced Morton as their starter for NLDS Game 1 but also have him listed as a starter for today, presumably for a relatively short appearance after going 7 strong innings in one of the Braves division clinching wins over the Phillies on Tuesday. If he makes that start he will be right on schedule with 4 days rest for Friday. Fried pitched 7 strong innings on Wednesday and will presumably throw some kind of simulated game tomorrow to be on schedule for Saturday. Their approach seems more conventional than what the Brewers are doing.
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I’ve also heard Counsell say that it’s important for pitchers to get into a routine. It seems strange to deviate dramatically from that routine just before the most important games of the season.
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I’ll give Counsell the benefit of the doubt for now, but if any or all of Burnes, Woodruff, and Peralta have poor outings against the Braves, I think it’s going to be fair to question whether giving them so little action for two weeks before the playoffs was a good plan. I actually thought he might have Woodruff and Peralta each throw a couple of innings tomorrow just to give them some real work before their playoff appearances. If Woodruff starts Saturday that will be 12 days after his last appearance. For Peralta it will be more than 2 weeks. Burnes will have had 2 innings in 13 days. That doesn’t seem ideal to me, but maybe they will be fresh and sharp and not rusty.
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Had a 5-1 lead yesterday in the 5th. Trea Turner ran into one and made it a completely different game. Stuff happens. They'll get over it. All Giants had to do is 1 of the last vs Padres to clinch it…..they have their best pitcher going tomorrow against sole nobody……if they don’t hold on they won’t blame the Brewers…..it’s all,in their hands, I meant “how they are playing” more from the standpoint of not using players that gave them the best chance to win. Like leaving Lauer in to face Turner last night, using Gustave in a tie game and leaving him in when he couldn’t get a pitch to the catcher, and pulling Burnes after two innings tonight. Yes, if the Giants lose again tomorrow they will have only themselves to blame. But I can guarantee you that if the Brewers were in the Giants position a lot of Brewers fans wouldn’t be happy that another team is essentially conceding games. At the end of the Giants telecast tonight the announcers said that “we’ll all be Brewers fans tonight” and mentioned that Burnes would be pitching. They seemed to be hoping the Brewers might help them out.
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.001% of the people in Milwaukee will hear about this comment and .001% of those who hear it will care about it. Big yawn.
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Giants fans probably aren’t real happy about how the Brewers are playing this series.
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Looks like Burnes is done for the night.
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Like last night I’m reminded why I’m glad the Brewers wrapped up the division before this road trip. If Counsell wanted to limit pitches for Burnes tonight he might be done after three.
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Maybe Hauser if they lose tonight and the NL West is still undecided. Otherwise a bunch of guys pitching 1-2 innings each. I’m surprised he wants to have Woodruff and Peralta go so long in between appearances.
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Red Sox win and will host the Wild Card game if they win tomorrow.
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Giants lose 3-2 in 10 so the Dodgers are still alive.
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Some good games going on now. Padres-Giants 2-2 in the 9th as the Giants try to clinch Red Sox-Nats 1-1 in the 9th as the Sox try to tie the Yankees in the WC race.
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What I have seen is the teams would select their spots in this order: 1. Red Sox 2. Jays 3. Yankees 4. Mariners. That would probably result in Mariners @ Red Sox and Yankees@Jays unless the Yankees decide they would rather play the Red Sox.
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The Rays are determined to make things interesting. 12-2 over the Yankees in the 7th. Jays up 6-1 in the third. The door is open for all four teams to still be in the running going into tomorrow.
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The way the Cardinals are hitting up and down the lineup it may take a torching of Wainwright just to stay in the game. Maybe Scherzer or Buehler can cool them off. I hope the Giants finish the Dodgers off this afternoon to remove the possibility of a Game 163 on Monday that could help the Cardinals out.
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Looks now like Kershaw may be done for the playoffs. The Cardinals Devil Magic is chipping away at all of their potential playoff opponents.
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Time to go to bed and see tomorrow what happened. This Dodger lineup is relentless. I’m reminded why I didn’t want the Brewers to need a win on this road trip to wrap up the division.