Late game for us in WI as it starts at 8:45 CT, but should be on ESPN+.
Might be a close one with ESPN Gamecast giving the Crew a 56.2% chance of winning.
Civale pitching for Milwaukee
| Player | W-L | ERA | WHIP | IP | H | K | BB | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-8 | 4.62 | 1.34 | 140.1 | 142 | 134 | 46 | 25 | |
| 3-5 | 5.19 | 1.50 | 52.0 | 43 | 64 | 35 | 10 |
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Note: the Cubs are now 8.5 games behind us, but have 2 more games in their series in L.A. vs the Dodgers (they beat them yesterday).
Inexcusable that Bauers is batting clean up with his .193 average. Don't get me rong, I really like Murphy but it is time he puts a line up in ink and stays with it. One day Turang leads off, the next day he's 9th. Both Hoskins and Bauers should never bat higher than 8th for the rest of the season.
My batting order: Chourio, Frelick, Contreras, Adames, Turang, Mitchell, Perkins, Hoskins, Ortiz.
Happy Birthday Blake Perkins too.
Old guys like us like lineups. Same shit every day. You could set your watch to it. Maybe someone gets a shot during a double header or they swap out a left handed bat for a left handed pitcher but that was it. Even if your team sucked.
Now the only way you see this is a team like the Dodgers with what seems like MVP's everywhere in their lineup.
Brewers up 2 - 1 going into top 5th. Each scored their runs in the 1st.
Mitchell leads off the 6th with a homer, Yastremezski counters leading off the San Fran 6th with a homer. 3 - 2 Crew going into the 7th. D L Hall got the last 2 outs in the 6th.
Hall walks our old buddy Canha leading off the 7th but gets a fly out and a double play grounder. On to the 8th. Lets get some insurance runs.
9!!!!!! Crew wins 3 - 2!!!! Could be 8 as the Cubs are losing 3 - 1 to the Dodgers going into the 8th. Williams gets the save but faced 5 batters giving up an infield single and a walk, but also gets 2 Ks.
Cubs come back and beat the Dodgers with 5 in the 8th.
The Brewers magic number is 9, meaning if the Cubs go 17-0 the Brewers would need to go 9-9 over the rest of the year.
Obviously, the odds of that are very minimal. But if you look at the schedules for each team, you could easily make a case that it's not out of the question for the Brewers to go something like 5-13 and the Cubs to go 14-3 based on their opponents.
The Brewers have one of the toughest remaining schedules in baseball. 13 of their remains 18 games are against the Phillies (3), Diamondbacks (7), and Mets (3) who will be going all out to either clinch the 1 seed or make the playoffs as a wild card. The Brewers get 5 against the Giants and Pirates, but all are on the road.
On the other hand, the Cubs play 12 of their 17 games against the A's, Nationals, Reds, and Rockies. They have one more against the Dodgers and 3 more against the Phillies.
14 of 18 versus playoff teams against 4 of 17 versus playoff teams. It makes it important to take care of some business against the Giants and not let this get too close in the final week.
Odds are minimal but that same scenario happened to the Mets several years ago and they lost the division.
On to game 2 and hopefully 8!!
Terrible start by Rea. Already down 4-0 after one and facing Blake Snell.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:Terrible start by Rea. Already down 4-0 after one and facing Blake Snell.
Now down 5-0 and counting.
Cubs up 2-0 after the top of the first.
Brewers tried to rally in the 2nd. 5 good AB’s loaded the bases against Snell with 2 outs and made him throw 30 pitches. Then Turang swung and missed at 3 straight - rally over.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:Now down 5-0 and counting.
Cubs up 2-0 after the top of the first.
And now Yazstremski homers and it's 8-0 Giants.
This one is over. At least we won't need to follow the rest of this west coast game. Position player appearing as a pitcher incoming...
It’ll take 3 games to get these 8 runs back.
Dodgers now up 5-2 in the bottom of the first, so at least that's trending in the right direction.
Jordan Wicks gives up 4 (!) homers in the first - Cubs trail 5-2 now.
@Cheezers posted:Brewers tried to rally in the 2nd. 5 good AB’s loaded the bases against Snell with 2 outs and made him throw 30 pitches. Then Turang swung and missed at 3 straight - rally over.
Turang has really been poor at the plate for about 3 months now. Really disappointing he couldn’t build on his fantastic start to the season.
It sucks because when he does find a way to get on base, he’s a base running phenom. But he never gets a chance to remind everyone what a great weapon he is if he can’t actually get on base.
Ohtani has homered and stolen a base tonight. He's now at 47 home runs and 48 stolen bases for the year. And, when he's fully healthy, he's one of the 4-5 best pitchers in baseball.
Colin Rea is just getting left in to get shelled tonight. 11 hits and 10 runs in 4 innings.
Murphy is pulling as many regulars as possible in the 5th inning. Both Turang and Chourio have been pinch hit for.
One of the ugliest pitching lines you’ll ever see.
But now 8!!! Cubs lost!!! 
Another 8:45 CT game, no national TV coverage, we need to win and take this series.
ESPN gives us a 55.9% chance of winning.
Montas on the mound for the Crew, here is your pitching comparison:
| Player | W-L | ERA | WHIP | IP | H | K | BB | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6-10 | 4.69 | 1.37 | 132.1 | 124 | 120 | 57 | 18 | |
| 3-5 | 5.19 | 1.50 | 52.0 | 43 | 64 | 35 | 10 |
A bye is still within reach but it's gonna take a really strong finish.
Winning 2 of 3 @ Arizona and then sweeping the Phillies would be a good start.
Almost the same as last night except Mitchell in center and flipping Sanchez and Adames.
Scoreless through 3.
The Brewers have now scored 15 runs the last 6 games plus these 3 innings.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:Scoreless through 3.
The Brewers have now scored 15 runs the last 6 games plus these 3 innings.
Now shutout through 5 innings tonight.
The Brewers also have 19 hits in their last 112 at bats.
1-0 Brewers. Adames walks and scores on 3 wild pitches.
Chourio 2 Run Homer. 20-20 club!
Happy to escape with taking 2/3.
Chourio! Great job! 20/20 during 20. Fantastic 🤩
7!! And on we go.
Chourio is the youngest player ever with a 20/20 season. The next two players on that list are Mike Trout and Vada Pinson, who both turned 21 during the year they did it.
Two other things about Chourio's home run last night. The Giants home field (now Oracle Park) has been open since 2000. In those 25 seasons, only 76 home runs have been hit to right field by right handed hitters.
https://www.mlb.com/news/jacks...to-have-20-20-season
The other, perhaps more amazing thing, is that if the fan doesn't catch his home run last night, it comes very close to making it over the back wall of the stadium for a splash hit into McCovey Cove. The ball probably gets out since the guy's hand is extended above the back wall. There have been 103 splash hits in the 25 seasons the park has been open (Barry Bonds has 35 of them). It looks like no right handed batter has ever hit one in the Cove. Chourio came very close. The amount of power you have to generate to hit one out to the opposite field in Oracle Stadium makes it very difficult. Chourio is 20 years old and is probably at 75% of the strength he's going to be at when he's 25. He may hit 50 home runs at some point soon as he grows given the opposite field power he has.
https://www.baseball-almanac.c...ry/splash_hits.shtml
