Can’t get myself to blame anything but the ninth in this one. Those AB’s after Yelich double just can’t happen. Mitchell going down looking just can’t happen. Lara had to make contact.
hamilton throw terrible but chaos happens when you make contact with guys on.
The last time this team scored five runs was when the twins punted a routine ground ball that led to 3 unearned runs
they are completely toast. And the division will be tied after Sunday
Pat Murphys surgery may have impacted his brain.
Sentezela got smoked yesterday in a game he didn’t use uribe because of two off days but brings the guy right in who pitches nothing but meatballs.
that was the most obvious outcome the minute he was announced warming up.
All you have to do is ask yourself if the brewers were down 1 in game 5 with a man on third and one out, who would you trust at the plate?
not who would you prefer, but who would you actually trust? The answer is no one.
Sadly they will be in second place by the time they go to wrigley for four.
4 in LAD, sea (elite pitching), Braves, between then,
by the grace of a miracle if they even go 2-2 in LAD the division lead will be 1 game.
Bregman 2 HRS 5 RBIs.
nationals tied the game only to have the cubs score 5. Four with two outs .
we have David Hamilton and Joey Ortiz taking full time at bats.
Division was always going to come down to the 7 games against the cubs. They didn’t win 10 in a row twice on accident.
the difference though now is whether they win it by 4+ or we can win it in a nail biter.
their pitching only has to give up 5 or less runs to win while we are the polar opposite.
The at bats all game were abysmal. The at bats by Hamilton and Ortiz in the 10th were worse than abysmal. They are not starting bats let alone on a playoff team.
This team will be the four seed and will lose to whoever gets the five because they’ll be deflated by getting the wild card.
Not one single bat in the lineup you can trust to get a clutch hit. They’ll have players here and there get hot, but I wouldn’t want a single player in the lineup up with risp in the playoffs with the game on the line over other bats that playoff teams have
Well - looks like we will have to scoreboard watch 3 teams to the wire. Obviously cubs are priority for a chance at the bye, but Braves about to win 9 straight.
top 4 teams are gonna remain as so, but the order is wide open.
Wilson is here for two reasons - mop up or when the starter doesn’t have it. It was still a tie game and the starter clearly didn’t have it.
the same manager who pulled Sproat in the third halfway through an at bat made this decision 4 games later.
Loss is solely on the manager. Everyone in the milky way could see Drohan had no command already blowing a 4 run lead. Keeping him out there after after the first guy reached was even more inexcusable.
A lot of negativity on here (me included - see last two posts), but David Schofield did his individual trade rankings today and here’s what he said about Brewers
he said he wouldn’t be surprised if sentozela is the most impact reliever in October acquired at the deadline.
His criticisms of the cardinals trade was that it was a lot to give up and that May isn’t likely to start in the playoffs like a more notable starter would’ve. But he also said Mays underlying stats are great, gives up no hrs and the brewers got two solid arms. I think that’s a fair evaluation.
He didn’t rip the Brewers at all.
I have given them the benefit of the doubt with Yelich because it would be integral to their success to get him going, but if the division lead dwindles to below 5 and they are still testing him out 1-4 they are not serious about winning the division.
Listening to Cardinals radio talk - obviously they are happy with return.
Bernie Miklasz (writer for Cardinals) just said May has the No 7 FIP among all MLB starters since April 10th.
Ragsdale turns 23 in December and has Chourio and Lara on big deals with two years remaining for Mitchell and Yelich.
Brewers will flip Megill for prospects in the offseason, Contreras in 1.5 years and we will have replenished anything traded and not a soul will care about them unless they are MVPS.
There was division tax on this for sure though.
Not sure how or why anyone is complaining about this (I know most aren't).
Mays FIP is 3.14 and he will slot 5th and eat innings. Romero isn't high leverage, but he's a decent lefty which they badly needed.
One of the goals is to get Harrison and Miz to October healthy. Ashby too. Everyone.
This is the perfect trade to do that.
Would love for them to swing once more.
"He's a veteran with "playoff experience" so he's obviously going to do well in the playoffs again."
I understood entirely what your sarcastic and completely incorrect comment meant.
It's not relevant on whether or not Gausman would crack the Brewers rotation or not. The Cubs and Brewers are not the same team, nor am I saying I wanted to Brewers to get Gausman.
I'm saying it was a ridiculous comment made essentially paraphrasing that he is a washed up has been, when he pitched a dominant October and regular season for a world series participant LAST YEAR.
His FIP is also 3.5 this season and the Cubs have a spectacular defense and have made David Peterson look like a solid #3.
Kevin Gausman is 10 months removed from: 3.8 WAR, 3.5 ERA and 1.06 WHIP.
Playoffs: 2.93 ERA and 26 strikeouts over 30.2 innings pitched
IF you mean literally last year when saying "success once upon a time" then sure. He is also going to the best defense in the MLB. This was a great get for them and you are severely underrating Kevin Gausman.