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Ryan Pressly trying to close it out for Houston. Marsh up. Chases one low and strikes out. Schwarber at bat. Full count. Walks. First walk, for Phillie, since the 3rd inning.  No hits yet. Hoskins up. Hoskins flies out to Tucker. 2 outs. Realmuto up. Hits it to Bregman at 3rd base and is thrown out. A World Series No Hitter!! Series now tied at 2 games apiece. Game 5, tomorrow night, in Phillie at 7:00pm CST.

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@ammo posted:

Must be suiting up a bunch of Brewers.   Oh wait, the Brewers couldn't score with a guy in scoring position and 0 outs.   Unless a home run was involved.

I don't know how many base runners the Brewers left stranded, this past season, but it has to be a lot. A lot of games lost with runners left on base. The Phillies gets past both the Padres and us, to advance to the playoffs and now the World Series. If the Brewers last half of August and first half of September had been better, things may have been different. The Brewers need a pitching staff and reliever staff like Houston has, to get into the playoffs. Now the talk is that either Burnes or Woodruff may be gone, by next season.

@mrtundra posted:

Bregman doubles on an 0-2 pitch. Two more runs score and it's 3-0 Houston with nobody out. Tucker at bat. Sacrifice fly to deep center scores Alvarez. Bregman to 3rd base. 1 out. Yuli Gurriel at bat.

These are 2 AB's you would have never seen from the Brewers.  Bregman shortening his swing on 0-2 and lining a hit to right field - Brewer hitters would have been swinging for the fences even if it's an 0-2 count.   Sac Flies weren't real big with the Crew this year either.

@mrtundra posted:

I don't know how many base runners the Brewers left stranded, this past season, but it has to be a lot. A lot of games lost with runners left on base. The Phillies gets past both the Padres and us, to advance to the playoffs and now the World Series. If the Brewers last half of August and first half of September had been better, things may have been different. The Brewers need a pitching staff and reliever staff like Houston has, to get into the playoffs. Now the talk is that either Burnes or Woodruff may be gone, by next season.

You need to get really lucky and get a bunch of these types of pitchers pre-free agency on the same staff. The Brewers had Hader, D. Williams, Burnes, and Woodruff all at the same time on cheap deals and couldn't get it done. There are a lot of things that contributed, but the key date was September 10, 2019. That's when Yelich fouled that ball off his knee. He's never been the same since and the Brewers ceiling cratered. Sure, they had a good season in 2021, but I never felt the way I did watching them like I did in 2018-19.

It happens to other teams as well, but when your best player becomes a shell of himself in his prime and you budgeted 20% of your salary cap on him to be a superstar, this is what results. The Brewers title window is probably closed as long as the Yelich contract is on the books. At least Cain's contract is off the books now, because over 40 million for Cain and Yelich last year likely helped drive the Hader trade.

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