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Wong is 4 for 29 in the 7 August games, so, yeah, he has been scuffling a little.

I wish Contreras wasn’t due up this inning. Hope it will be with nobody on.

Have you been to any games at AFF recently? Brewers fans are terrible. Just hearing the sound of bat meeting ball can send many folks into ecstasy. .... which is still better than Cubs fans, who think a popup to shallow right field is a homerun. It’s been like that at AFF too.

At least that AB doesn’t affect Yelich’s solid OPS against RHP. No stats can overcome the eye test of how terrible Yelich looks at the plate on so many of his ABs.

A couple of runs would look good here. Save Williams for game 2 or another day.

Have you been to any games at AFF recently? Brewers fans are terrible. Just hearing the sound of bat meeting ball can send many folks into ecstasy.

Unless Freddy can stroll home on a HR I’d rather see him sitting on the bench than standing in the hot sun.

Now,if this isn’t Bad Freddy he needs a shut down inning.

Maybe Steele shouldn’t go through a lineup the second time.

Not the start the Brewers needed with 7 run Ashby going tonight (if the storms stay away).

If he’s higher than average, what’s that make him? …. Above average. If he’s that, I’m fine with his contract as expecting MVP numbers probably wasn’t realistic. Find a bit more power and hit a bit more against lefties and he will be alright. OK, your standards and expectations are substantially lower than the Brewers front office and Yelich himself. They didn’t give him the contract he’s getting to be slightly above average against RHP in the prime years of his contract.

How about MLB LH hitting corner OF vs RHP? That would probably bring Yelich even closer to average.

Steele is on pace to go 7 innings in both games. Another nondescript lefty starter mesmerizes the Brewers.

I wonder what league average is. I’d bet it’s lower. I know what you’re saying but I don’t thinks it’s nearly as bad as we all think right now. I think it is totally fair for fans to measure Yelich by a standard higher than “average”.

I guess we’ll have to wait a few innings for the Brewers to get a ball out of the infield.

Strike Four, you’re out.

Especially because the fat part of the OPS comes in the form of walks. Really need a lot more than that from him.

The Brewers offense hasn’t had a great last 10 days or so, and they’ve been especially ineffective scoring early runs to give the SP a little cushion. Would be nice to see that change in this series.

The point I'm making is most of the extra inning games before this rule change were resolved before getting to inning 12 and beyond, and took less game time to finish than the new extra innings format. With the extra roster spot and ability to shuttle arms off the back end of a team's 40 man roster, the wear and tear of marathon games on players is overblown considering the frequency of such games is about 1 or 2 per season per team. Does the new rule help prevent 50 games that go 12 innings or longer? Yes. Does the new rule make all the 10 and 11 inning games take less overall game time? No. And my point is that forcing the game to a conclusion is preferable from a fan’s perspective than the potential for the game to go several more innings. I know that under the normal rule, if a night game went into extra innings I would usually turn it off and go to bed. Now I will stick it out for extra innings because of the near certainty of the game being decided relatively quickly. As long as the rule doesn’t make things worse, it didn’t backfire. 50 games going 12 innings or more would average to over 3 per team, since each game affects two teams. Eliminating those is a positive result right there. IMHO, maybe or maybe not adding a few minutes to a 10 or 11 inning game is not very significant. You bring up Saturday’s bizarre game as an example of adding time to a game. But, what about Friday, when the Giants went out 1-2-3 and the Brewers won on a walk off single by the first batter. There have been several games like that this season.

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Yeah, that would be my recommendation too....at least get through 11 innings before starting with a runner on 2nd. With it going straight to starting with a runner on 2nd to start the 10th, it almost feels a bit like teams should be awarded points in the standings ala hockey, where wins count as two and getting into extras but losing still counts as 1. I get the reasoning behind trying to end extra inning games before they drag on past 12-13 innings....but then again I looked at a fangraphs article about this: During the 2019 season, only 8.6% of all games went into extras. 208 total games. 95 of those games ended after 10 innings, with 57 more ending in the 11th. That left just 56 out of 2,429 games that went 12+ innings. And thinking of how these revamped extra inning games go - I'm pretty sure they probably take just as long if not longer to complete each inning. So if MLB was hoping this was a way to reduce game times or wear and tear on players/pitchers, I think it has backfired. Sure, it's prevented marathon extra inning games from happening, but the format is how we go from a 2-1 score into the 9th with Saturday's game and wind up with a 9-6 final in 11 that still took 4.5 hours to complete. How did it backfire? Backfiring would mean that it made things worse, not that it hasn’t completely resolved a problem. The fact that extra inning games are now almost always completed in one or two innings that have action and scoring threats and don’t use up as many pitchers accomplishes something positive both for fans that don’t want marathon games and teams that don’t want to have to cover 15 or more innings. I’d rather have a 9-6 11 inning game that takes 4.5 hours than a 3-2 17 inning game that takes 6 hours. A lot more extra inning games now are like Friday’s with a quick resolution.

He's out of the game already after two innings. Looks like the Indians are having a bullpen game. The Indians starting rotation has been ravaged by injuries all season. The Reds were hitting liners all over the park in the first two innings but only managed one run. Hopefully the replacements can do better and protect what is now a 5-1 lead for the Tribe. Castillo is having a rough night.

I don’t know what Coach Cooper you’re referring to, but scoreboard watching is fun and harmless for fans. With access to all games on something like mlb tv, it’s fun to pay attention to games other than Brewer games either because they affect the Brewers standing or players on our fantasy teams.

That would be great if the offense can produce 5 or 6 runs against the likes of "No Hit" Mills.

That chance of rain might be in the form of severe thunderstorms. If that threat is there any time before 7 there's a good chance the start would be delayed or the game postponed. I would be in favor of an early cancellation, then go with Peralta and TBD spot starter tomorrow.