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Or both

And we give one right back.

Hope for Schoop

Queue the clown show.

What a treat to be able to watch a team get baffled by 80/85 MPH pitches for the next three hours. I feel like this is going to be a frustrating game.

It's still a shoulder regardless of how it happened. No way I extend him until he proves he can pitch again.

Mostly AAAA fodder. But... those are the guys that teams like the Cubs have who have huge Septembers... lol. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/2018-roster.shtml Morrow and Bryant are nice reinforcements to have during that stretch if those two can come back.

This team has been Jekyll and Hyde for some time now, wouldn't surprise me either way.

jesus, braun,

As a substitute, would you accept a bunch of guys worrying about holding the lead almost before Braun's homer lands in the seats? Because there's been plenty of that already. Not exactly unwarranted.

I believe we need a steady stream of "Yelich is coming back to earth" posts.

At least.

Well, you typed a whole lot of words but as the old adage goes, if you're explaining you're losing. You're hypothetical arguments where teams are playing unequal amounts of games crumble when you consider that each team is going to play 162 games. There is no scenario in which the Brewers make up only the three games you claim they are behind and finish ahead of the Cubs. The standings show them three games behind right now only because they have played a different number of games and the season is incomplete. If you want to say they are three games out, fine, but as you yourself said, the only way the Brewers catch the Cubs is if the Cubs lose five more games than the Crew by the end of the year.

They are already five back. Losing both games to the Cubs would put them 7 back.

You can't subtract from the W column either. So, doesn't it matter as well? Yes it does. That's why the standings are calculated using both the wins and losses of respective teams. Yes, the Cubs have 5 less losses, but they also have to play 4 more games than the brewers from here on out. On average you can expect the Cubs to lose at least 1 of those, if not two. Of course, they could win them all, but that still doesn't matter. Anyway, if your logic was correct (it isn't) I assure you that MLB would show the Brewers 5 games back on their standings page. Back to reality though, right now the biggest thing that matters is these two games coming up against the Cubs. Brewers will be either 1,3, or 5 out after this series. In my opinion this could either make the race tight to the end or make it very hard for the Brewers to realistically keep up with the Cubs. So, the simple question here is how many more times would the Cubs need to lose than the Brewers for the remainder of the season for the two teams to end up tied. You can turn it around and ask how many more games the Brewers would need win than the Cubs over the remainder of the season in order to catch them. The answer doesn't change. It's five either way meaning the Brewers have to make up five games on the Cubs from now until the end of the season, which means they are five games back. The Brewers can win all the games they want and it won't matter unless the Cubs lose five more times than the Brewers (hence, you can make up wins but not losses). Not only is the logic sound, it is an absolute mathematical certainty that the Brewers are currently five games behind the Cubs.

And that means the Cubs aren't good at finishing?

If by “finish”, you mean having 2 guys get hit by a pitch in an inning and another reach on a infield grounder, allowing one hard hit to score four runs, then yes, they know how to finish. This isn't the first time. Chalk it up to whatever you want to.

We are not winning the Central I agree, but we are 3 back, not 5. Five back in the loss column is all that matters.

Cubs with the walk off slam tonight. Man, can that team finish. Now five back in the division and the WC quickly becoming the only real path.

Hogwash, plenty of really good starting pitchers come up and pitch out of the pen.

Nah, game is already lost. He'll do fine today. LOL, at least with the actual pitching.

Nah, game is already lost. He'll do fine today.

That should about do it with the bottom of the order up in the 9th. Potentially five back in the loss column by the end of the day and teetering on being out of a playoff spot all together. Not a good spot.

That is just a matter of perspective. I predicted 77 wins so only 11 more wins to exceed my expectations.

Particularly when your pitching is getting ripped.