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This is the right call but I very much understand the frustration
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I think he's almost assuredly getting tonight off, and probably tomorrow too. Caissie doing what he did certainly helps.
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well I'm ready for like three days off after that, what's next on the schedule
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Unreal on this baserunning
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Yeah JD said Palencia was healthy and ready to go. Just avoid the walks.
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Yeah Brasier seems like the next guy to be cut after all the roster movements (though Horton's blister might take them into the extra roster spots on 9/1). Maybe if tonight gets out of hand he wears it and then gets sent out to pasture. Wicks has been very solid in AAA. I know that doesn't always translate, and hasn't for him, but when you need like 15 bullpen innings in 2 days that's about all you can hope for.
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the batted ball luck in this game is unfuckingbelievable
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I don't know if I've ever seen so many balls (from one team) in one game within 5 feet of the outfield lines at Wrigley.
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Taillon/Wicks piggyback, also have Brasier and whatever Tom Cosgrove. Would really like to avoid Kittredge, three of the last four days already.
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My cynical, but somewhat honest attempt: On May 24th the Brewers were 25-28. That was right before their first long winning streak, and since then they've gone 54-17. Over that stretch, they have very good pitching. 4th in K rate, 12th in walk rate, 8th in GB% (Cubs: 28th, 1st, 20th) very good offense: 5th in BB rate, 4th in K rate, 13th in ISOP, 1st in baserunning (Cubs: 18th, 6th, 12th, 6th) very good defense: 3rd in FG rating for defense (Cubs: 4th) High level analysis of stuff mostly in their control. Very good team all around. Elite in seemingly nothing, and outside of K rate I don't see a whole lot that would separate them from the Cubs. But then: Offensive BABIP: 1st (by ten points over second). (Cubs: 29th, 50 points behind) Defensive BABIP: 2nd (Cubs: 1st) Strand Rate: 1st (Cubs: 6th) Very good overall baseball and absolutely elite 'luck' performance will get you historical runs. Edit: To clarify/reiterate, these rankings are just over this historic Brewers run. Bringing in full season numbers would be obviously more generous to the Cubs and less generous to the Brewers.
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Having to go to your best reliever in the 6th inning against the 8 hitter in a game your ace started that you were up 5-0 with a game later tonight isn't ideal, I wouldn't think. Your best reliever walking Joey horsefeathers Ortiz on four pitches, also not ideal.
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Us with the most injured starting pitcher of the last 5 years
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Also, separate complaint, but if you're going to bury these games on a team owned channel and then not come to an agreement with basically all the major cable providers and then also have your app not be available on the Samsung interface so that I'm somehow sitting here watching this on your app on my phone, maybe don't have the game crash out 4 times before the 6th inning.
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Small sample size and everything, but their struggling pitcher eating innings because of the DH implications should just not be able to go through our 2-3-4 like that the third time through the order. Can't happen.
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I understand he hit a home run today and they are incapable of making outs, but Yelich has an 88 wRC against LHP this year. That was the expected result.
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Well, looks like I was spot on in my Castro criticisms from earlier.
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Caissie could have thrown Contreras out at first base if he wouldn't have caught that, but the whole hustle thing is uniquely a Kyle Tucker issue.
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The league leading BABIP doesn't hurt. We actually have a better K rate than they do on the year....they are better on most of the per pitch metrics (out of zone swing, contact, etc), but it's generally a situation where they are 2nd or 3rd and we're 5th or 6th.
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2nd and 3rd, two outs, 8 hitter up, know how this goes
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Criticism where criticism is due, PCA has to get a ball in the air there.
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I bit my tongue on asking why Willi Castro was hitting 5th against a righty and, of course, here we are
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.710 xBA for Busch (fly out) .850 xBA for Happ, HR in 17 parks (double) Solid walk from Seiya Almost assuredly zero runs.
