2020-08-30: Pirates (Brault) at Brewers (Woodruff) 1:10 PM CDT

[markedman5]

Got to think Suter starts tomorrow?

 

What did I miss? And without knowing what I missed I vote Rasmussen.

Is it because of the double header messing with the rest days?

 

Yes.....it would be Houser turn but with the DH he would be on short rest

[brewers888]

Feel like Yardley has good looking ERA but has allowed a lot of inherited runners to score...

 

As a 4th or 5th option which he is Yardley is fine but he is nothing great.

[wildcat83]

The Pirates have had base runners all over the place.

 

We’ve had more base runners than them. The only place they’ve had more runners is home plate.

[brewers888]

Big chance for Smoak to do something.

[wildcat83]

I would feel better about Mathias hitting

[brewers888]

Joke umpires now lets take advantage.

[brewers888]

Smoak sucks.

[markedman5]

Lol...’.we can’t get a run on a wild pitch with bases loaded......then we get another swing when inning shou,d have been over......then we get a strike out anyway

[wildcat83]

Couldn’t put it in play with 4 strikes. No doubt Mathias gives a better AB.

[Underachiever]

Are minor leaguers getting paid at all this year?

[yourout]

Brewers are now dead last #30 in team batting average.

#27 in runs per game

#28 in OBP

[sdcheezhd]

#32 out of 30?

[yourout]

#32 out of 30?

Oops...i thought there was 32.

[TURBO]

Horrible game to watch, what a boring team. Thankfully, it's only 60 games this year, I simply could not watch this mess for 162.

[sdcheezhd]

I was wondering if they were last in OBP too thx for clarifying.

[brewers888]

Brewers are now dead last #30 in team batting average.

#27 in runs per game

#28 in OBP

 

Haines magic.

[timpep]

Brewer's offense had 6 hits, 5 walks, 2 hbp, and was aided by 2 errors and 2 wild pitches and could only score 1 run...

[brewers888]

Horrible game to watch, what a boring team. Thankfully, it's only 60 games this year, I simply could not watch this mess for 162.

 

Hopefully the trade deadline is exciting but I have a feeling we won't do anything worthwhile.

[wibadgers23]

This was just a dreadful loss. Woodruff on the mound and you’re facing the Pirates bullpen all game and you come up with one run. Good thing we came back and won last night.

[BruisedCrew]

Woodruff came into the game with a 3.19 ERA and a 2.87 FIP.

 

Fangraphs has him as the #11 pitcher in baseball.

 

And before people complain about walks, he had the 22nd lowest walk rate in baseball coming into today.

 

Tough crowd around here.

 

A significant part of my disappointment with Woodruff has been his inability to get deeper into games. I want my best starter to go more than 5 innings, and he hasn’t been able to do that often enough.

 

Going deep into a game is essentially an impossible task when Craig Counsell is your manager.

 

Maybe it’s because of the disjointed training leading to the season, but last year Woodruff had a stretch of 12 games in which he went 6 or more innings in 11 of them and went 7 or 8 several times. He isn’t coming close to that now.