Crush the Rockies Thread

FWIW: Yankees lead the Cubs 3-0 after the 3rd.

And the Phillies and the Dodgers are tied for the #1 seed.  Brewers are now 3 back.

Hopefully the Brewers will have a solid lead before the Packers start.  But with both Hoskins and Bauers hitting back to back that is almost assuredly two consecutive Ks.

Yes, jump out to like a 7-0 lead by 7PM. Thanks!

The Rockies and Brewers have played 4 games so far this year, for a 2-2 record. But, those 4 games were in Colorado. Lets see how it plays out playing in Milwaukee this time.

12!!    That is all.

Crew leads 1-0 after 2, but strand 2 base runners.

Bottom of the order getting the job done.  Ortiz drives in Bauers who walked. Let's do it again this inning.

Montas only throws 9 pitches in the 5th. A ground out and 2Ks.

No-No, no more.

I'm beginning to think the Brewers may need to make some changes in the starting rotation. Remove Civale and Montas, insert Hall and Ashby.

Goddamnit Turang, work the count a little.

Offense has disappeared.

I just watched the end of the Brewers game. Brewer Hecklin got thrown out trying to tag on a sac fly and go to third with TWO OUT? What a moron. They should option him back to Triple A tomorrow.

I know we are all pissed about the Packers loss AND worried about Love's injury, but baseball is still being played.

Today's game starts at 6:10 CT, apparently no national TV coverage.

ESPN Gamecast gives the Brewers a 79.4% chance of winning today.

Tobias on the mound for the crew vs a guy with a .664 ERA:

Let's right the ship boys.   Get back on that winning track. 

Magic number down to 11 as the Cubs lose to the Yankees again.

Crew leads 4-1 on 3 HR's, now going into their portion of the 4th.

Now 5-1 after an Ortiz double.

A 3 - 1 count and it looks like Sanchez swung at 2 balls, both sliders.    And Adames was on 2nd too.    Won't they ever learn? 

How can Willy hit a 3 run homer when Chourio gets thrown out trying to steal home?   

D. Williams gets the save on a clean ninth inning.

11 pitches, 9 strikes, 2 called strikes, and 7 swings and misses.

10  !!!!!

Still the only team in MLB without a 4 game losing streak.

Sunday's game starts at 1:10 CT, with no national TV coverage.

ESPN Gamecast gives Milwaukee a 70% chance of winning, need to win this series to keep our good lead in the Central standings.

Freddy on the mound for the Crew:

Another new Brewer. Isaac Collins called up and will start in left field today.  Brewer Hicklin sent back to Nashville.   Yelich finally transferred to 60 day IL to make room for Collins on the 40 man roster.  Going for the series win today also.

Time send Milner back to Nashville and bring back Hudson.   Milner blows another giving up a 3 run homer.   

Unfrickenbelievable. Don't know how come the Crew keeps losing to bottom dwellers

@DurangoDoug posted:

Unfrickenbelievable. Don't know how come the Crew keeps losing to bottom dwellers

One the plus side…they won’t see them in October

After a day off Crew travels to San Fran.

Hoping for better results. But the Giants who are like 4th in their division are no pushover, as they're playing near 500 ball.

The last 23 Brewers were retired in order by one of the worst teams in the league.

I would guess there will be some interesting positioning going on to be the #3 wild card in the NL. Teams are going to much rather play the Brewers as the #6 seed than than play the Padres, Diamondbacks, or Mets as the #5 seed (these 3 are the most likely wild card qualifiers).

@Pikes Peak posted:

One the plus side…they won’t see them in October

The rate the Brewers are going, we will won't see more than 4 or 5 games in October against anyone.

@MichiganPacker2 posted:

The last 23 Brewers were retired in order by one of the worst teams in the league.

I would guess there will be some interesting positioning going on to be the #3 wild card in the NL. Teams are going to much rather play the Brewers as the #6 seed than than play the Padres, Diamondbacks, or Mets as the #5 seed (these 3 are the most likely wild card qualifiers).

The Brewers will have a lot to say about that order.  They have 7 games remaining with the D-backs, 3 next weekend on the road and 4 at home after the Phillies.  They also close out the regular season at home with 3 Met games.

I was at the game. A disappointing effort by the Crew today.  Three hits isn't going to win you many games.  Heck. Were it not for a bad throw to first by CO it could have easily been a 2 hit game for the Brewers. Oh well.

The highlight of the day was the Jackson Chourio  bobble head giveaway.  The grandson will be thrilled to get it. LOL

You had to think with Yelich out it would impact their offense but man it’s been just brutal in recent history.

Somehow they need to right the ship or it might be a quick playoff exit yet again.

Hats for bats?  Rum in the clubhouse?  Kill a live chicken?  Whatever it takes.

@Tschmack posted:

You had to think with Yelich out it would impact their offense but man it’s been just brutal in recent history.

Somehow they need to right the ship or it might be a quick playoff exit yet again.

Hats for bats?  Rum in the clubhouse?  Kill a live chicken?  Whatever it takes.

They knew Yelich was out before the trade deadline and did nothing to try to add some power. Maybe the price tag was too high, but they only really have three good offensive players and 1-2 slightly above average ones. This is based on the OPS+ metric which normalizes OPS to a value of 100 being average and accounts for differences in ballparks, etc.

Yelich was at 151 this year. Contreras is 127, Adames is 122, Chourio is 119, and Ortiz is at 110. Mitchell is at 111 in a small sample size. Sanchez is at 102. They have 6 other guys over 100 plate appearances and they are all at 93 or lower. Every one of their bench guys is a defense and speed guy.

The likely outcome for the year is that they back into the playoffs and get eliminated in Round 1 in 5 or 6 games. If they had Burnes instead of Ortiz and DL Hall, it would have made them better this year but worse next year. Adames will leave after this year and they'll sign the next Hoskins type to try to make up for that power.

They get to nibble at the apple every year, but never really get a good bite at it.

The only way they likely make a run in the playoffs is if Adames goes nuclear. That's possible - but other teams are not going to let Adames go on one of those 5 HRs in a week binges. Adames doing that during the Reds and Giants series is what coincided with the Brewers winning 6 of 7 and, barring one of the worst collapses in pennant race history, essentially clinching a playoff berth. If he hadn't have done that, this could be a 4-5 game cushion right now.