BruisedCrew

Looks about right.

I turned on the Spectrum app and it’s running fine there, though about 30 seconds behind.

Same here. Still waiting for Taylor’s fly ball to come down.

At least the current version of a Getaway Day Lineup is better than the June version. The Brewers have an opportunity to pick up a rare series win in Atlanta, though the pitching matchup is not the best. I have Morton on my fantasy team, and I would gladly accept a fantasy loss in exchange for a Brewers win.

Hopefully there aren’t any more coming in the next couple of days. This already cuts into the depth in the bullpen that we thought they had after Friday’s acquisitions, and the bullpen has been used more the last two days than I would have hoped with Burnes and Woodruff starting. I also hope we don’t find out that this originated from some players going to the final Bucks game and bringing it to the team. There’s likely no way to establish that, but the timing is about right.

Maybe that will help mollify the Braves fans who were whining about the Brewers paying off the umpires after Friday’s game. I have become so accustomed to awful umpiring, especially on balls and strikes, that I do my best to ignore it as much as I can and hope that they even out.

My confidence after that Cubs series, and then the first three games of the Pirates series that completed the 11 game winning streak, was shaken by the last 8 games before the AS break in which they went 2-6 while scoring just 19 runs. The series in Cincinnati, the White Sox series, and Friday’s comeback win, provide some more solid evidence that the offense can produce runs against teams other than bottom feeders.

That makes me feel better. I get a win for my fantasy team and another day is off the calendar without the Brewers losing any ground.

Votto will get another shot at keeping his HR streak alive. He hit one off the top of the wall earlier. If 1B is open when he comes up you have to walk him.

Mets need Good Diaz tonight. I have him on my fantasy team and he’s a human stress test in the KRod tradition.

Doesn’t really matter any more.

Never seems to take long for playing a player out of position to be costly.

By what standard would you say the Brewers offense was good or very good in May? This is why I’m bringing up May. The statement that “outside of April, this team has been good to very good in that department” (offense) is patently false. My point here is that at the end of May the Brewers had a decidedly below league average offense. Their runs per game were WORSE in May than in April, so there were still no signs of improvement then. After two bad months it’s going to take more than two better weeks for fans to determine if an offensive spurt is a just a good streak that even bad teams have, or a sign of longer term improvement. If you want to do a reset and discuss whether or not the Brewers have a good offense now, we can do that. But, putting out false statements to try to make the point that other people’s opinions are unreasonable shouldn’t be necessary.

Yes, after the Reds completed their string of 6 wins in 7 games over the Brewers at AFF, I expressed the opinion that, at that time, the Reds looked like the best team in the division. If someone who doesn’t like to hear opinions that differ from his interprets that as “anointing them as division champs”, that’s his prerogative.

The moral of the story is that someone with an agenda is putting out false facts to support that agenda. In May the Brewers scored 100 runs in 28 games. I don’t consider that good or very good. There were some good signs in June as the Brewers started scoring runs against the league’s worst pitching teams. It isn’t May anymore, but it takes awhile to remove the stench of the bad first two months, especially when that stench kicked up again while the Brewers were losing 6 of 7 home games to the Reds, four of them by scores of 2-1, 2-1, 2-0, and 3-1.

The bad offensive games are more frustrating when they waste well pitched games. When the Brewers have allowed exactly 2 runs, their record is just 11-9, meaning they have lost 9 games by a score of 2-1 or 2-0. The league winning percentage when allowing exactly 2 runs is about 75%. The records for the top offensive teams in these games are: Giants 12-3 Dodgers 11-5 Padres 16-3 Reds 11-1 Those 2-1 and 2-0 losses are going to stick in people’s heads as offensive failures more than 6-1 losses, especially when several of them come against the team’s closest division competitor.

By what standard would you say the Brewers offense was good or very good in May?

It went away because we improved our offense. The people calling for changes got them, I'm sure not everyone is satisfied but the subtraction of Shaw, Hiura, Reyes, Robertson, McKinney and whoever else I'm missing combined with the addition Adames and the surges that Peterson and Urias had arund the same time really changed the offense quite a bit. I don't think it was an agenda, the offense stunk, Stearns did some great work making it not stink. And the moves to get Tellez and Escobar make it pretty consistent 1-8 once Yelich is back and JBJ isn't starting quite as much. Exactly. The comments about the Brewers offense were not an “agenda”, they were based on fact. We don’t have to go back any farther than June 16 to find the Brewers trying (unsuccessfully) to avoid a 3 game sweep by the Reds by fielding a lineup of Urias (.219), Vogelbach (.224), Yelich (.245), Garcia (.239), Pina (.147), Peterson (..160), Lopes (.125), Robertson (.138), Peralta (.048). Not surprisingly, that Murderers Row produced just 1 run in a 2-1 defeat, just one example of several games in the first half of the season in which the Brewers lost while allowing only two runs. The game ended with a strikeout by pinch hitter Jackie Bradley Junior, who was hitting .153. After that game, the Brewers were 11th in the NL in runs scored and had a run differential of 0. Fans who were down on the offense didn’t need to have an agenda; they were justifiably frustrated that the offense was wasting so many good pitching performances. That frustration resurfaced in the 8 games preceding the All Star break when the Brewers went 2-6 while scoring 3 runs or less in all of the losses, again not taking advantage of good pitching. With the additions to the roster, players returning from injury, and others emerging in varying degrees from slumps, hopefully we won’t have to see any more lineups like that this season, and those 0-2 run outputs will be a lot less common than they were before the All Star Break, including the week just before the break.

The biggest possible improvement for the Reds is getting Castellanos back in the lineup. For the Cardinals, it’s getting Flaherty back in their rotation. He is on rehab now and should be back by the time the Brewers face them next.

With a RHP (Morton) slated tomorrow, I agree that this would be the game to give Wong a day off and get Urias in the lineup. Also use Pina tonight and Narvaez tomorrow. Cain, Garcia, and Taylor in the OF and they’re good to go. I doubt if they want to force Escobar to 1B just yet so Tellez should be the only lefty in the starting lineup.

Most likely. Not even a doubt. He pitched two innings without allowing a runner.

I agree it’s not ideal, but I have a feeling there’s not going to be much concern about getting Hader enough work by the end of the regular season. Things will tighten up, and probably soon. This is a short term concern, not a long term one. If he only pitches once every 10 days, he is more likely to be rusty when he is in a tight save situation. One or two less innings now isn’t going to mean he can pitch more innings in September.

I’ll take crap for it again, but I would bring Hader in if the lead stays at 4. He hasn’t been sharp in his last few outings and it wouldn’t hurt to leave him a cushion.

Haven’t seen either Williams or Hader in a tight situation for awhile. Need them both to be sharp tonight.

I agree that Tyrone should be playing over him at this point. I just don’t see CC sitting him when he comes back. Really no reason to think too much about it until Yelich comes back.