@lambeausouth posted:Turang has a 74 career OPS+. That's 26% below league average.
He's starting to approach Mark Belanger-level bad.
And he's almost as good a fielder as Mark Belanger was.
Well that game sucked, we'll get them tomorrow.
At least the scrubs also lost
Turang is still only 24 years old. He is a gold-glove level second baseman and has stolen 40 bases in 46 attempts so far this year. Other than an absolutely pathetic month of July (15 for 89 with 2 extra base hits and an OPS of 412), he's been playable. His August wasn't great, but a 612 OPS with his glove and speed still allows him to have some value.
Another 6:40 CT start for Wednesday's game. ESPN does not show national TV coverage.
ESPN gives the Crew a 59.8% chance of winning.
Looks like 2 pretty evenly matched pitchers today, with Colin Rea on the mound for Milwaukee:
| Player | W-L | ERA | WHIP | IP | H | K | BB | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-9 | 3.96 | 1.10 | 147.2 | 127 | 179 | 36 | 21 | |
| 12-4 | 3.70 | 1.16 | 146.0 | 134 | 118 | 36 | 24 |
@DurangoDoug posted:Another 6:40 CT start for Wednesday's game. ESPN does not show national TV coverage.
ESPN gives the Crew a 59.8% chance of winning.
Looks like 2 pretty evenly matched pitchers today, with Colin Rea on the mound for Milwaukee:
Player W-L ERA WHIP IP H K BB HR 12-9 3.96 1.10 147.2 127 179 36 21 12-4 3.70 1.16 146.0 134 118 36 24
With Helsley going 2 innings last night, he should be unavailable tonight and that's a huge advantage for the Brewers if they can keep this close or get ahead.
Brewers have beaten Gray twice already this year and he has struggled more lately than he was earlier in the season. He has given up at least 1 homer in each of his last 6 starts. I like the chances against him tonight. In the last 30 days he is 2 - 3 with a 4.97 ERA. He can be gotten to.
Crew down 2-0 after Rea walks in 2 runs in the first, currently 3rd inning Crew batting, not much going on for them so far. One hit for them in this game.
Contreras getting the night off really hurts the offense. Hoskins is also out, so the offense is basically Chourio and Adames.
The Brewers are 7 for their last 57 against the Cardinals. Chourio is 3 for 6, the rest of the team is 4 for 51.
And then Chourio has one of his worst at-bats in a while after Turang leads off the 6th with a bunt single and gets to 2nd on a wild pitch. The three strikes were all swinging.
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I will never ever understand why Bauers would bat 3rd.
I'm beginning to wonder why he is on the team.
@ammo posted:I'm beginning to wonder why he is on the team.
He made a game-saving play at first base last week. The Brewers value defense over almost everything else, but Bauers hitting third is not something that should ever happen.
He's a veteran who has a 209 career batting average, strikes out in a third of his career at-bats (496 out of 1477).
They have to hit him third because if they sit Hoskins and Contreras, they have to have someone else in the lineup to give them some power other than Adames and Chourio.
Imanaga has a no-no through 7 for the Cubs. 95 pitches - wonder if CC lets him finish??
Edit - I guess not! Pulled him after 7.
Mitchell scores on an RBI ground out by Ortiz. 2 down.
The good news for the playoffs is that DL Hall has been dominant again.
The bad news for the playoffs is the offense is often absolutely anemic when they face good pitching, like they did against Gray tonight.
Once Gray is pulled, Haase homers to tie it in the bottom of the 8th.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:They have to hit him third because if they sit Hoskins and Contreras, they have to have someone else in the lineup to give them some power other than Adames and Chourio.
I'll take a better average and putting the ball in play over power any day and twice on Sunday.
Tie game, and Chourio does what he needs to do, which is at least get Chourio from 2nd to 3rd when he's hitting with nobody out and make sure he hits the ball to the right side. It's what Robin Yount did as well as any player in baseball history.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:Tie game, and Chourio does what he needs to do, which is at least get Chourio from 2nd to 3rd when he's hitting with nobody out and make sure he hits the ball to the right side. It's what Robin Yount did as well as any player in baseball history.
But then Contreras strikes out with 1 out.
The Brewers lose again in extra innings when the Cards intentionally walk Chourio with two outs to put the winning run on first base rather than face him.
3 seed here they come.
They just don't have enough offense, and that was obvious before the trade deadline and especially after Yelich went down.
I love cheering for this team, but I don't think anyone really considers them a real threat to get to the World Series. I'd love to be wrong, but they just aren't going to score enough runs against good teams often enough in a 7 game series.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:The Brewers lose again in extra innings when the Cards intentionally walk Chourio with two outs to put the winning run on first base rather than face him.
We as fans had better get used to this. Smart managers will keep doing this.
@Cheezers posted:We as fans had better get used to this. Smart managers will keep doing this.
It comes down to how Murphy structures the batting order. They have three guys that other teams will make sure don't beat them in a playoff games - Chourio, Contreras, and Adames.
Hoskins is who ended up hitting behind Chourio when they walked him in extra innings. Hoskins is now basically Rob Deer or Eric Thames at this point in his career. Since July 1st, he is 32 for 175 with 12 home runs and has struck out 59 times and walked/HBP 19 times. So, over half the time he either homers, strikes out, or walks.
The problem they have is that don't have any other power hitters. Losing Yelich was huge, but even if they had another guy like Hoskins that was a threat to go deep on any at-bat it would make a huge difference. There three main bench guys are Monasterio, Bauers, and Perkins. They get no power from their outfielders other than Chourio and limited power from the third baseman (Ortiz). On their active roster, if you take out Chourio the other guys that play outfield (Frelick, Mitchell, and Perkins) have 12 home runs in over 1000 at bats. Their 3rd baseman (Ortiz) has 10 home runs. The fact that Adames hit so many home runs at the SS position makes up for some of this, but most teams get their power from the corner infield positions and at least two of their outfielders.