2018-10-20 (NLCS Game #7): Dodgers (Buehler) at Brewers (Chacín) 7:09 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 5-1 -- 2018 Season Comes to a Close]

[WinkelsasVsSoriano]

Need a big hit. I would go Granderson since I feel like they're gonna go with lefties later, but I guess you, unfortunately, have to actually use Schoop in this game. Please do something. Finally do something good!

[Bulldogboy]

And he's 0-2

[young guns]

I just wish we could have saved harder for a time when they would have had a chance of panicking and taking out their lefties.

[MoreTrife]

He done.

[DuWayne Steurer]

If we win this game, Schoop better not be on the WS roster.

[jason21nl]

Here comes the hook for the k

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Perhaps Woodruff is feeling good in the bullpen. Between him and Hader, that has a good chance for 5 or 6 innings. That could also play into going to Hader early.

[PinaMadness]

I hate Shoop.

[Bigblast]

Useless schoop at it again.

[bucks2281]

Hope this is last game for Schoop in a Brewer uniform

[jason21nl]

That’s a spot for granderson. Or hell Woody. Although Woody probably pitches

[MrTPlush]

Stearns did a lot of great things...but he really showed us he is human when it came to getting Schoop. Total zero.

[jjfanec]

Man it is sad when a weak grounder is a positive at bat for schoop. He just brings nothing right now

[jjgott]

[adambr2]

Schoop is absolutely worthless. And that was one of his better ABs.

[YelichPosse]

Not that I expected anything - cause I didn’t ... but geez is he useless. It’s a miracle he made soft contact and didn’t K... sigh

[Ennder]

I don't really get using him there. Maybe there is some data that he is the best of the PH options against high velocity or something.

[folly412]

So using your best bullpen pitcher early is an option, but the same doesn't apply to hitting so the worst bench bat is used with runners on. Not saying the philosophy is wrong, I just don't entirely follow.

[Brewcrewin07]

This is so stupid...using Hader this early when you are behind..Roberts isn't going to PH, so what is the damn point. there are others that can hold the deficit. the crew probably only gets one more inning to make it happen against walker or it's game over..It will be Kershaw, Baez, Jansen

[ShawnSpencer]

Well there goes my pregame prediction...

[WinkelsasVsSoriano]

I'm shocked he made contact. I would have preferred quite a few pitchers in that spot. Not even joking. He has zero confidence and I have zero faith.

[homer]

So using your best bullpen pitcher early is an option, but the same doesn't apply to hitting so the worst bench bat is used with runners on. Not saying the philosophy is wrong, I just don't entirely follow.

 

Yeah I was thinking the same thing

[timpep]

Getting Harder in early to keep it close but then batting Schoop with 2 on seems like a mixed message.

[coolhandluke121]

I think they should have used Granderson there. Who knows if he even gets a chance to face an RHP later anyway, and in such a great position to do some damage. They're only going to use him for one at-bat, and it would be hard to draw up a better situation.

 

I guess they're planning on so many pitching changes that they'll need all their PH's anyway, but I don't agree with that logic. You can't be sure the pitcher's spot will come up more than 3 times.

[young guns]

Can the Dodgers put muncy at third so he can throw some of those away. I remember him being pretty bad at third against us in the regular season.