NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others

[Hot Sauce]

2 hours ago, mul21 said:

Derek Shelton has been relieved of his duties with the Pirates.  That franchise is such a shitshow. I feel bad for him.

I also feel bad for the die hard Pirates fans. 

[Derwood]

30 minutes ago, Hot Sauce said:

I also feel bad for the die hard Pirates fans. 

All 12 of them

[Hot Sauce]

8 minutes ago, Derwood said:

All 12 of them

It’s more a support group than a fanbase really. 

[Derwood]

Paul Skenes:

4-6, 2.05 ERA, 19 BB, 85 K's

Dude is gonna ask out of Pittsburgh right quick

[UMFan83]

21 straight games against teams under .500. We’ve gone 15-4 in the first 19.  I would have been satisfied with 13-6 or 14-5 honestly. 15-4 is great

[We Got The Whole 9]

Despite the glorious Cubs win yesterday, TJ Friedl wins the player of the day.

 

https://www.mlb.com/news/reds-win-even-series-vs-brewers

[CubinNY]

Boy that kid for the Brewers looks like he’s going to be special 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Of course Andrew freaking Vaughn hits a 3-run bomb off Yamamoto in the 1st inning. 

[soccer10k]

Pirates 9 game stretch. They became the first team in history to have back to back series of 3+ games that ended in sweeps, which featured them shutting out their opponent in all three games of one sweep and getting shut out themselves in all three games of the other sweep. I included the Mets series in there because it's funny to see a team go from scoring 30 runs in 3 games to 0 in 3 games a week later.

[Hot Sauce]

It’s July 18 and the Savannah Bananas are the first baseball team to sell out Busch Stadium this season. 🤣

[BigSlick]

Can I vent in this thread about the Brewers? Which small child did they sacrifice to the Baseball Gods? How did they get to play the longest streak of unbelievably lucky and good baseball in history (don’t care if this is true or not)? Why do they get to fall down 8-1 and effortlessly come back? 
 

the brewers currently hold the largest lead of any division leader right now. It’s so over we don’t even know it’s over. It wasn’t even a fight. It just ended in 3 weeks. 

[PackLandVA]

I posted in another thread, but I'll repost here.  Stolen from social media.

Friendly reminder; this was the playoff results from 2017, where the Indians (Guardians) went 102-60 with a 22 game win streak. What the Brewers are doing is impressive, what the Cubs are doing is gut wrenching. But making into the playoffs is what matters, just need to hope this team can get in rhythm at the right time.

Edited August 17, 2025 by PackLandVA

[BigSlick]

I spent decades, DECADES watching the Cardinals do absurd pixie dust nonsense and I don’t think I’ve seen the Cardinals do anything like what the Brewers had foisted upon them by the gods of luck this weekend. 

[CubinNY]

5 hours ago, BigSlick said:

I spent decades, DECADES watching the Cardinals do absurd pixie dust nonsense and I don’t think I’ve seen the Cardinals do anything like what the Brewers had foisted upon them by the gods of luck this weekend. 

Almost happened again today. They are both lucky and good. 

[mul21]

18 hours ago, BigSlick said:

I spent decades, DECADES watching the Cardinals do absurd pixie dust nonsense and I don’t think I’ve seen the Cardinals do anything like what the Brewers had foisted upon them by the gods of luck this weekend. 

Until the Brewers pull off something like this, they'll never match the Cardinals pixie dust.

[Sammy Sofa]

Milwaukee Brewers Weird (Nerd Version) | Defector

[Bertz]

Milwaukee just lost Trevor McGill to a flexor strain, presumably for the year.  Their #2 RP, Abner Uribe, has already been one of the hardest ridden pitchers in the league this year.

I don't think it gets us the division, but I do think it does materially impact their chances in the playoffs.

[Derwood]

[We Got The Whole 9]

Lmao