2018-07-12: Brewers (Miley) at Pirates (Taillon) 6:05 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 6-3]

[Fear The Chorizo]

 

I agree with this, but it seems like he Brewers tend to pass on the more-easily winnable races that could pad their lead. They need like a 15 game lead to hold onto it, assuming they will be entering their standard mid-summer swoon.

They have the best record in the league, the can't have passed on that many.

 

The thing is though, is that I know that I've thought about this in at least a half dozen losses that were winnable this year. The best record in the league is great, but it's the 1.0 game lead over the Cubs that concerns me. If the Brewers didn't waste those half dozen opportunities we'd be sitting in a much better position with more than a 5.0 game lead.

 

Your train of thought is shared by every other baseball fan of every other MLB team...always focus on the handful of losses that could've/should've been wins, but forget about the handful of wins that could've/should've been losses. Cub fans have just as many games they feel their team should've won but didn't as Brewer fans do - it's just the nature of looking at every game in a vacuum as a fan.

 

If you play every game like it's do or die / game 7 of the World Series, your team eventually dies. It's always a bummer when the team your root for loses - the beauty of baseball is there's normally another chance for a win the next day.

[adambr2]

One guy this bullpen is badly missing is Matt Albers. When he was healthy he was just as effective as most of his counterparts. He ate up quite a few innings and pretty much was the glue that kept us from ever having to turn toward guys like Lopez and Houser in critical innings. No coincidence the pen hasn't been as good as a whole without him.

[Chicago Here]

One guy this bullpen is badly missing is Matt Albers. When he was healthy he was just as effective as most of his counterparts. He ate up quite a few innings and pretty much was the glue that kept us from ever having to turn toward guys like Lopez and Houser in critical innings. No coincidence the pen hasn't been as good as a whole without him.

when is he due back?

[Chicago Here]

we really struggle hitting the ball or stringing hits together without HRs. Although we do well against the most solid pitchers (oddly). Pounded all star Greinke, beat kluber, and pound arietta. Its wierd but we struggle against garbage pitchers.

[Pugger]

Now that we can’t beat the bad teams, maybe we’ll be able to beat the Cubs.

We only have 3 quality starters. Maybe peralta can become a 4th quality guy but prolly not for another season.

Just outgunned today with miley and houser. Pittsburgh isnt a bad team and we knew we would need at least 5 runs today. Fell short but we have Gurrea, Chacin, and Anderson pitching the next 3 with a fresh bullpen. Should be fine.

 

I'm more concerned that we can't hit our way out of a paper bag. We rarely score unless somebody gets a homer. Because we can't manufacture runs by other means most of the time we allow average to poor pitchers on teams like Miami look like Cy Young clones.