Would be nice to get the early 2024 version of Turang at the plate back. He's been absolutely terrible at the plate for about a month now, just like he was for most of 2023.
2 out rally - Mitchell with a 1B and Contreras HR. 2-0 top of 1st.
Edit - Adames 2B and Frelick RBI 1B. 3-0 now. All with 2 outs.
Contreras with a no-doubt-about it HR to give them a 2-0 lead, Brewers get another run and go ahead 3-0 in the first.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:Chourio with a bad at-bat in the first for the first time in a while. Swung at a ball in the dirt a good 8 inches out the strike zone on what would have been Ball 4.
Chourio comes right back in his next at-bat with a HR.
Followed by Mitchell homering later in the inning.
6-0 Brewers
Nice way to start the game. Murphy's Maulers have 4 HR's so far. Please do not let them get back in the game.
edited to make it 4
@Brak posted:Well that's 4 HRs now.
Are the Braves just going to let Charlie Morton continue to throw batting practice all game?
Keep winning and put the pressure on the Dodgers. Only 1 game behind them.
Now 8-0 after a Haase single
Edit: Braves finally put Morton out of his misery.
I know the Braves weren't playing the best either but I didn't see this coming in the series!
You absolutely cannot walk the first two batters of an inning up 8-0. After a Riley HR all of a sudden it’s 8-3.
Montas giving the Braves some life. With an 8 run lead he walks the first 2 batters in the 3rd then gives up a 3 run bomb, then another hit. 8-3 now with nobody out.
And just like that Montas gives up a 3 run HR, now 8-3, Braves still batting
Montas walks another guy (who is hitting 185 with a 575 OPS) with one out in the next inning.
Now 10-3 after Bauers HR, that's now 5 HR's in this game
Edit: make it 6 after Chourio hits another 12-3
Jake Bauers just hit the Brewers' fifth home run of the game
Looks like a football game score 10-3 Brewers !
@PackerHawk posted:This Chourio guy isn't bad.
He's played at an all-star level since about June 1st. The fact that he's younger than most of this year's first round picks is an added bonus.
@Thunderbird posted:is there a mercy rule in MLB?
Which Braves position player is going to pitch the last 2 innings today?
Bases loaded, no outs in the Crew 7th
Edit: make it 14-3 as a walk brings one in
32 runs so far in 3 game series. 6 hr today. amazing!
Blair Kiel would be scolding us for displaying such hubris
Monasterio over the Uecker line. Batting .202 after his hit today.
The Braves utility infielder has been more effective today as a pitcher than Milner.
@Cheezers posted:Monasterio over the Uecker line. Batting .202 after his hit today.
Actually 209 now.
@Thunderbird posted:Blair Kiel would be scolding us for displaying such hubris
Pardon me for asking (and I may have missed a thread on this), but where oh where is he?
Now that's how you piss pound the Braves!
Read that is the Crews first sweep of the Braves in Atlanta since 2016.
@RoyalWulff posted:Pardon me for asking (and I may have missed a thread on this), but where oh where is he?
There was no thread on it, but I'm guessing he got banned for some sort of egregious behavior, and the mods have been silent on the issue. But Kiel was too ingrained in the whole X4 fabric that I really doubt if he voluntarily walked away. I'd even bet he still follows along anonymously.
What a game!! Listened to it as I was driving for work. I don't know much about the Braves manager but I bet Bobby Cox would have plunked some Brewer after this barrage.
@PackerHawk posted:This Chourio guy isn't bad.
During the game the Brewer announcers said since June 1st in 50 games Chourio is batting .340, has 20 extra base hits and driven in 34 runs.
@Cheezers posted:I know the Braves weren't playing the best either but I didn't see this coming in the series!
I don’t know how anybody could have seen it. We’ve been struggling of late.
I’m pulling up the game to watch on MLB.tv.
My excitement level over Chourio is just beyond description. Five straight multi-hit games in a row.
Since June 23rd: 34 games played, 136 at bats, 27 runs, 49 hits, 9 doubles, 7 home runs, 24 RBI, 7/8 stolen bases, 8 walks, 19 strikeouts.
.360 AVG/.396 OBP/.581 SLG/.977 OPS.
The NL Rookie of the Year has been talked about as being all but decided, going to Paul Skenes.
There’s a lot of baseball left-48 games to be precise- and the way the kid has been playing, it might not be a foregone conclusion.
Chourio has all the tools. The sky is the limit.
This sure is fun! Every curve ball Morton tosses up there is sailing over the wall, or at least it feels like it.
Willy Adames is hitting the ball really hard too.
That the offense was able to explode like this with Yelich out….that’s going to be huge for their confidence going forward. And they did it against some good pitching, too. Chris Sale is going to be Skenes’ competition for the Cy Young.
The Brew Crew is now third in baseball in run differential.
Doh, there goes another home run from Choirio! Opposite field bomb.
@lambeausouth posted:I’m pulling up the game to watch on MLB.tv.
My excitement level over Chourio is just beyond description. Five straight multi-hit games in a row.
Since June 23rd: 34 games played, 136 at bats, 27 runs, 49 hits, 9 doubles, 7 home runs, 24 RBI, 7/8 stolen bases, 8 walks, 19 strikeouts.
.360 AVG/.396 OBP/.581 SLG/.977 OPS.
The NL Rookie of the Year has been talked about as being all but decided, going to Paul Skenes.
There’s a lot of baseball left-48 games to be precise- and the way the kid has been playing, it might not be a foregone conclusion.
Chourio has all the tools. The sky is the limit.
There haven't been too many Brewers players to play this many games at such a young age (Chourio is 20). You'd have to look at Robin Yount and Gary Sheffield. Even Molitor didn't play in the majors until he was 21. Fielder didn't play until he was 22 (a few games at age 21) and Braun didn't play until he was 23.
That's basically every Brewers young player that played at a HOF level at some point during their careers.
Chourio's OPS right now on a large sample size at age 20 is 763.
Yount played when he was 18, and his OPS during his age 18, 19, and 20 seasons were 622, 674, and 593.
Sheffield at ages 19 and 20 was at 695 and 640.