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  1. BruisedCrew
    I would like to see both Bauers and Vaughn in the lineup if they’re looking for more offense
  2. BruisedCrew
    Since you asked I do remember something that went totally wrong with Monasterio at SS. In the Saturday night game against the Giants with the Brewers leading 1-0 in the top of the 6th, he fielded a routine grounder and made a wild throw to first to put the leadoff man on. After a walk, and a hit, and an error by Stiegler the Giants had 3 runs. From there the Brewers went to the bullpen scrubs. I don’t really care if Monasterio starts, but I don’t see that providing a sudden boost to the offense. In his 26 PA since September 1 he’s posted an OPS of .397. And his career record doesn’t cry out “instant offense”.
  3. BruisedCrew
    The thing I can't get out of my head as I look at these teams is that the one that has 4 All Star caliber SP and 3 future Hall of Famers and 3 other All Star caliber hitters in their everyday lineup is going to be tough to beat.,
  4. BruisedCrew
    He would have had to get his head down pretty low to get beaned by that pitch. He could have let it hit him in the foot, but I can't blame a hitter whose self preservation instinct takes over.
  5. BruisedCrew
    I was at the game and am scrolling through the game thread. At the game with my old eyes I didn’t realize the ball had hit the wall so we didn’t know what had happened until we saw the replay on the scoreboard. After seeing what happened I still couldn’t believe Hernandez didn’t tag up and score easily. When I got home and watched the play on the telecast, I could see that he tagged up, but went back when the ball popped out of Frelick’s glove and he caught it on the rebound. That was Hernandez’s big mistake. It is a seemingly little known rule that a runner can tag up and advance once a fielder touches the ball, not when he “catches” it. So if he had just kept coming home, he would have scored. He did not have to go back and retag.
  6. BruisedCrew
    It’s also,only recently that the 4 games went to the team with a better record. For over a century they simply alternated leagues except for the brief period of using the winner of the All Star Game.
  7. BruisedCrew
    There is no merciful Supreme Being if Brewers fans are subjected to two straight years of soul crushing late inning playoff exits.
  8. BruisedCrew
    I have made it clear that I have never favored playing Monasterio over Ortiz, mainly because I don’t think Monasterio is as good a hitter as his OPS in limited ABs might suggest. But in that case I was begging to give Bauers a shot at a potential game breaking hit when Counsell couldn’t have countered with a lefty. We’ll never know what Bauers would have done but I wanted him to have a chance. There probably won’t be a better opportunity in this game.
  9. BruisedCrew
    As little confidence as I have in Misioroski, I am tending to agree that he might hold the key to keeping the Brewers in the game tomorrow. I would consider using Santana as an opener with a short leash with the hope that he can avoid the first inning HR and also take some of the pressure off Misioroski by being on the mound at the beginning of the game when the noise and energy from the crowd will be at its peak. It's something of a Hail Mary move, but that might be what it takes to keep the Brewers in the game until the 6th inning. The other hope is that having at least half of the crowd noise in their favor will spur the hitters into putting up more of a fight than they have the last two days.
  10. BruisedCrew
    Adding to my earlier comparison to 2011, that year I was cautiously optimistic about the Brewers winning Game 5 because of the home field and crowd and the fact that Gallardo had shut down the DBacks in Game 1. But I was anxious that a loss would wipe out what had been the Brewers best season since 1982. Today I am essentially resigned to the fact that the Brewers will lose tomorrow, very possibly in a blow out reminiscent of the final game of the 2011 NLCS when Roenicke insisted on starting Marcum, even though he hadn't been effective for several weeks. I am also more jaded about the Brewers ability to advance in the playoffs. The scars from 2021 run pretty deep., The Brewers appeared to have a dominant pitching staff that could lead them through the playoffs, but the bats went completely silent after scratching out a first game win over the Braves. I know that unexpected things happen in baseball all the time. But this one seems very unlikely. My gloomy mood is also affected by the realization that the Brewers patchwork pitching staff and woodpecker offense, which is struggling to make it through 5 games in 8 days against the Cubs, will be no match for the now healthy Dodgers.
  11. BruisedCrew
    There have been some understandable comparisons between this situation and Game 5 of the series against Arizona in 2011. I remember well how I felt about that game and it was similar in a lot of ways to how I feel about this game. But there are also some significant differences. In 2011 the Brewers won their first division title in 29 years. It was a team that seemed as good as any in MLB and that had a real chance to go to and win the World Series. but it was also a team that performed dramatically better at home than in the road (57-24 at home vs 39-42 on the road). So when the Brewers lost games 3 and 4 in Arizona there was still the thought that the home field would save them. And, having Gallardo on the mound instead of Wolf and Marcum, who had both struggled down the stretch , provided some reasons for optimism. But I remember being extremely nervous about the possibility that a promising postseason would come to an extremely disappointing end. That anxiety continued through the tight game, increased as Axford blew the save and the DBacks threatened to take the lead. Morgan’s game winning single was one of the great moments in the life of a Brewer fan.
  12. BruisedCrew
    If there’s any consolation in losing this series (and I’m not sure there is any) it would be that it has been exposed that this team would be squashed by the Dodgers. Now that the Dodgers have Ohtani, Snell, Glasnow, and Yamamoto as SP, and their HOF and All Star string of hitters healthy and producing, the series would be a mismatch. With 5 games and 6 days the Brewers pitching staff would be dead before the series could come back to Milwaukee. Im still holding out hope (with no expectation) for the Brewers to ride the home crowd to a win on Saturday so I can use the tickets I bought for Game 1 on Monday. But this Brewers team looks defeated.
  13. BruisedCrew
    I detailed in the other thread ( “Game 4 if Necessary”) why I feel strongly that Peralta is the only choice and why I will be upset if it isn’t him.
  14. BruisedCrew
    How do you have a more rested pen on Saturday with a bullpen game today than if you start Peralta today? And who would the bullpen game pitchers even be after several of them pitched multiple innings yesterday.? Putting a pivotal game in the hands of Misioroski and Gasser seems extremely reckless. The Weather Channel forecast calls for a wind of 7 MPH .out of the SSE at 8 PM. A “wind” of 7 MPH is barely noticeable and SSE is more foul pole to foul pole than blowing out. It’s more like the absence of a wind blowing in. I’m going on record as saying that, unless there is some unknown physical reason for Peralta not to pitch tonight, I’m going to be pretty peeved if he doesn’t start.
  15. BruisedCrew
    I think anything else would be definitive proof that Murphy’ is not a “master class” manager. When you have a chance to put a team away with your clear top SP going on normal rest you have to take it. If you win he can come back again on normal rest in Game 2 of the NLCS. If you lose then you go to an all hands on deck bullpen game on Saturday.
  16. BruisedCrew
    Im going to be in Chicago Saturday and Sunday and I’m dreading the fact that I might find myself surrounded by thousands of celebrating Cubs fans.
  17. BruisedCrew
    And the momentum swings.
  18. BruisedCrew
    But if he was real leader he would have hit a 3 run HR with nobody on base…in both of his ABs.
  19. BruisedCrew
    I think you both know that second guessers will focus on the manager’s pitching moves even in very low scoring games if the team ends up losing. But this is all straying from my original point, which was not that Murphy made a BAD move and lucked out, but that it wasn’t a “master class” or genius move just because the Brewers ended up winning the game.
  20. BruisedCrew
    You're essentially adopting the position that if the team wins the manager made the right moves. Applying that logic, Murphy pulled a major blunder last October by bringing in Williams to pitch the ninth inning against the Mets and allowing him to face Alonso with 2 men on base. Managers make many decisions based on percentages, but most of those percentages are unknown. There are always going to be "what if" questions when something goes wrong. IF (and I realize I am using that dirty word) the Brewers had lost that game 3-1, the criticism of the decision to start Ashby would have been scathing. The decisions to start Ashby and to throw Misioroski into a tie game in the third inning led to a win in no small part because of things that had nothing to do with those decisions, most importantly the Brewers scoring 7 runs
  21. BruisedCrew
    Who said that?
  22. BruisedCrew
    I really can't agree with the sentiment that Murphy's decision to go with the bullpen game was a master class move. In my book it was a gamble that ended up working out because the offense and the 6 pitchers who followed Ashby all came through with near flawless performances. From the contemporaneous comments on the game thread I think there are a lot of posters who would agree with me if they are honest with themselves. If Vaughn hadn't come up with the 3 run HR in the first and/or any of the 6 pitchers who followed Ashby had had blowup outings, he would have been roasted for tinkering with pitchers and putting them in something other than their normal roles. If he wanted to give the back end relievers an inning of work that could have been done easily after letting Priester go 4 innings and pulling him earlier if he ran into trouble. If Misioroski had walked several batters, like he has often done recently in his first innings, the Brewers would have found themselves in a 3-3 tie or trailing in the third inning with 3 pitchers, including 2 of the top relievers, already used up. I wonder if Murphy is now planning to use Quintina and Priester as a "stack" in game 3.
  23. BruisedCrew
    Darling is old old enough to know who those old Brewers are but he throws out those names as if they played dozens of playoff games.
  24. BruisedCrew
    After the way Misioroski bounced off the field screaming like a high schooler when he got the third out I wouldn’t trust him to be able to settle down and throw strikes in the next inning. But I do wonder what the plan is now that they’ve already used up two of the pitchers who would usually cover middle innings.
  25. BruisedCrew
    These announcers are as bad as levering gawking at the high speed pitches while ignoring that he’s giving up walks and hits.
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