2017-07-18: Brewers (Guerra) at Pirates (Nova) 6:05 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 4-3]

[jason21nl]

Good lord. You could see that coming from a mile away!

[markedman5]

Figures

[adambr2]

On Gameday it's looked like a really small zone tonight both ways.

[BrewersAA]

I don't know why you pull him there. Bases are clear now, might as well leave him out there, there is no good had in pulling him

[adambr2]

Cardinals are starting to pick it up too. If we don't start taking some of these divisional games we're going to be in trouble quickly.

[pacopete4]

Too bad it isn't 4-3 like it should be.

[yfinn6]

I don't know why you pull him there. Bases are clear now, might as well leave him out there, there is no good had in pulling him

 

McCutchen hit him hard twice already, despite not having any hits to show for it. I'm fine with them taking Guerra out there after giving up 2 HRs and a walk in that inning. Wonder if the Brewers will double-switch w/ Phillips in the top of the 7th.

[Jopal78]

Figures the starting pitching falters just as the trade deadline rolls around and Brewers not willing to meet price to get controllable arms

[lcbj68c]

Too bad it isn't 4-3 like it should be.

 

Give it a couple more batters.

[wildcat83]

Walks drive me crazy. They bug me more than errors. I understand that it's impossible to not have any walks, but watching Harrison tie it because of the walk in front of him drives me crazy...

[adambr2]

Right down the middle with no movement. Yeah, they'll hit that.

[adambr2]

LOL. Nice work, Drake.

 

I don't have the stats in front of me, but I can't imagine there is a team in baseball that blows more leads than we do.

[OnaBadger58]

Put in Scahill

[markedman5]

Starting to get the feeling this is going to be the road trip from hell.....

[jason21nl]

Its only been a couple games and this one isn't over but it sure feels like the bottom is about to fall out

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Wild game swing in that inning. Better get the ship righted fast.

[FVBrewerFan]

It is always darkest before dawn

[Matt1969]

Kept Guerra in too long

Pen stinks.

[BrewersAA]

I don't know why you pull him there. Bases are clear now, might as well leave him out there, there is no good had in pulling him

 

McCutchen hit him hard twice already, despite not having any hits to show for it. I'm fine with them taking Guerra out there after giving up 2 HRs and a walk in that inning. Wonder if the Brewers will double-switch w/ Phillips in the top of the 7th.

 

This is why you don't pull him, let him finish. Build his confidence instead of showing you don't have any in him. Relievers pitching with 1/3 left in a middle inning is one of the worst moves in baseball. I saw the stat one time that the worst era in baseball is a 1/3 situation, the author was saying it's because they have in their mind that they may be put back out the next inning so it changes the way they pitch. Either way I leave Guerra out there after the HR every single time with a pitch count in the 60s

[rcc]

 

All the Red Sox fans comments. One made a comment about the coaching staff over there. I think the Brewers hitting coach might be a better one.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Pretty decent form tackle by Thames. Needs to wrap up a little better, though.

[brewmann04]

I said DS should not make trades until after this road trip.

[lcbj68c]

Its only been a couple games and this one isn't over but it sure feels like the bottom is about to fall out

 

There was going to come a stretch where the Brewers played .400 ball and the Cubs and Cardinals played 1.000 ball. I'm just shocked it took until mid-July. Cubs have a brutal stretch early August that will keep us "hanging around" but I full expect the Brewers to play closer to .460-.480 ball the rest of the way.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Really get the sense there's a 5-20 stretch coming.

[adambr2]

For how much we like to think of our squad as a 'we never quit' bunch of battlers, we seem generally pretty useless trying to battle back once trailing in the late innings.