Cubs (Brown) vs Brewers (Priester): 5/2/25, 7:10pm

[Brandon Glick]

It's those pesky Brewers again, though they actually haven't been quite so pesky in 2025, sitting at just 16-16 going into the series. The Cubs could really open up a gap in the division this weekend.

 

[Irrelevant Dude]

The game is on Apple TV+ tonight.  I searched around for free trials and some of the previous deals (like the Best Buy 3 month trial) appear to be dead.  The best I found was a 7 day trial through Prime Video, which will be good enough for access to tonight's game.

[Brian707]

I forgot to cancel Apple TV once Severance ended so I get to see tonight's game. Is it me or is Apple TV+ picture one of the best out there for streaming? Its like night and day watching a baseball game there as opposed to Fox or ESPN as an example.

[Andy]

21 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

I forgot to cancel Apple TV once Severance ended so I get to see tonight's game. Is it me or is Apple TV+ picture one of the best out there for streaming? Its like night and day watching a baseball game there as opposed to Fox or ESPN as an example.

The Apple games stream in 1080p, so I don't think it's just you. The one time I watched one, it was noticeably sharper.

[Hot Sauce]

6 minutes ago, Andy said:

The Apple games stream in 1080p, so I don't think it's just you. The one time I watched one, it was noticeably sharper.

Hopefully Ben Brown will bring his 1080p game tonight and be noticeably sharper.

[BKHoo]

As of this morning:

 

Cubs in national league:

First in BA

First in RBI

Second in HR 

First in hits

First in SB

 

Seventh in ERA

Ninth in saves

Eighth in quality starts

Fourth in shut outs

Ninth in SO

Eleventh in WHIP 

Twelfth in Hits allowed 

[Bertz]

42 minutes ago, BKHoo said:

As of this morning:

 

Cubs in national league:

First in BA

First in RBI

Second in HR 

First in hits

First in SB

 

Seventh in ERA

Ninth in saves

Eighth in quality starts

Fourth in shut outs

Ninth in SO

Eleventh in WHIP 

Twelfth in Hits allowed 

Notable here as well is that the NL is the superior league this year by seemingly a pretty wide margin

[CubinNY]

1 hour ago, Brian707 said:

Is it me or is Apple TV+ picture one of the best out there for streaming? 

I was going to say the same thing

[WhyCantWeWin]

29 minutes ago, TomtheBombadil said:

OK gang but Colin Rea has a $5 million salary so its like they couldn’t even be efficient abt it ya know 

I c u Tom

[BKHoo]

Anyone agree with me that Brown is due for a dominant game? 

[gflore34]

31 minutes ago, BKHoo said:

Anyone agree with me that Brown is due for a dominant game? 

I agree, he dominated a better Brewer lineup last season, don't see why can't dominate a lesser lineup tonight.

[Stratos]

3 hours ago, BKHoo said:

As of this morning:

 

Cubs in national league:

First in BA

First in RBI

Second in HR 

First in hits

First in SB

 

Seventh in ERA

Ninth in saves

Eighth in quality starts

Fourth in shut outs

Ninth in SO

Eleventh in WHIP 

Twelfth in Hits allowed 

3rd best SP era.  10th in pen ERA

[JHBulls]

Hopefully I can find a good stream today because I don’t particularly want to buy a $13 Apple TV sub for one game.

[Rcal10]

55 minutes ago, Stratos said:

3rd best SP era.  10th in pen ERA

To be fair, the pens era is really hit hard by 3 innings. 3 terrible innings. Without those innings the pens era era is under 3. And in 2 of the games with the awful innings, the Cubs came back and won the game anyway. And in those 2 games of Workman makes a play that should be made, they give up a lot less runs.  In reality the pen hasn’t been that bad and in fact, good, but for 3 major blow up innings. 

[BKHoo]

If it was not for blow ups my wife would call me the perfect husband. 

[Stratos]

Both this year and last year, hitters have lit up Ben Brown's fastball. High EV and high xAVG and xSLG on it.

Good fb velo but maybe it's a location thing.... hopefully.

Have to assume guys are probably sitting on that fb too because the curve is very good.  As people have said, he may need a 3rd pitch longterm to stay in the rotation.  He's been working in a change up

[BKHoo]

38 minutes ago, Stratos said:

Both this year and last year, hitters have lit up Ben Brown's fastball. High EV and high xAVG and xSLG on it.

Good fb velo but maybe it's a location thing.... hopefully.

Have to assume guys are probably sitting on that fb too because the curve is very good.  As people have said, he may need a 3rd pitch longterm to stay in the rotation.  He's been working in a change up

I think that’s it - it’s hard to go more than once through the order with only two pitches.  It sounds like his change up is not progressing too well. 

[PackLandVA]

Looks like the Brewers are going with a lefty opener before bringing in Priester.

[CubinNY]

I don’t like the Brewers and Wisconsin is full of alcoholics

[CubinNY]

Beautiful picture, but I’m listening to the radio feed

[PackLandVA]

YOu cannot stop Carson Kelly! You can only hope to contain him!

[JHBulls]

Pat Murphy’s opener sucks. 

[Jason Ross]

Opener successfully failed.

[chibears55]

That opener plan didn't quite work out 🤷‍♂️

[JHBulls]

Haha, Priester sucks as well,