2021-09-12: Brewers (Lauer) at Indians (Civale) [Brewers win, 11-1 -- Crew completes sweep; Wong and Garcia each hit two HRs apiece]

[DuWayne Steurer]

Indians doubled their output of hits in the series right there.

[markedman5]

That's OK, we're on Manny Pina cycle watch. Something that happens less than no hitters BTW.

 

 

We need a gapper that hits the wall funny and takes a long bounce away from an outfielder. Or someone to dive at a sinking liner and have it skip under his glove.

 

An outfield collision……nobody gets hurt but they are slow getting up

[markedman5]

Way to go Box

[sveumrules]

Boxberger with a casual 2 K, 2 stranded runners.

[endaround]

Manny has quietly raised his OPS up over the .720 mark, right in line with career standings.

 

Was just looking through FanGraphs positional splits earlier.

 

Catchers are currently 5th in wRC+ (111) & tied with SF for 1st in WAR (5.0).

 

2B have also fared well with a 121 wRC+ (4th) & 4.2 WAR (2nd).

 

Molina 0.9 WAR

Pina 1.1 WAR.

 

Ergo Manny is a $10M catcher

[markedman5]

We are going to get to see Ashby today too

[sveumrules]

We are going to get to see Ashby today too

 

& the whole thing could still maybe be over before the Packers game.

[PinaMadness]

Here we go!

[tomwopat]

Props to Vogelbach for making an out so Urias doesn't have to worry about clogging the basepaths for Pina.

[sveumrules]

The Blue Jays offense isn’t too hot. They’ve scored 27 runs in their last 4 innings. 11 in the 7th yesterday to come from behind in the last inning of a doubleheader. Then 16 I the first 3 innings today, including 10 in the third. They won the first game of yesterday’s DH 11-10.

 

Toronto's offense is awesome, 3rd in runs scored (735) & 1st in OPS+ with a 113 mark.

 

The Orioles pitching is the opposite of awesome, with 835 runs allowed & an 81 ERA+, both MLB würsts.

[sveumrules]

Arenado HR has Cards up 2-0 on the Reds, who have only mustered one hit off JA Happ through five innings.

[sveumrules]

Speaking of HRs, that's two for Kolten today.

[sveumrules]

& another for Avisail.

[markedman5]

Wow

[markedman5]

464

[PinaMadness]

With that Avi home run, that guarantees Manny another at bat.

[Fear The Chorizo]

That was well struck

[Eye Black]

This Brewers team feels like they’re somehow playing their best baseball of the season over the past month even though they’ve been good pretty much all season.

[markedman5]

That Ashby breaking ball is money

[BruisedCrew]

Garcia was really close to having 3 today. He has hit the ball extremely hard 4 times.

[markedman5]

If you ever want to face a guy throwing 102 it’s in the 9th inning up 11-1

[sveumrules]

If you ever want to face a guy throwing 102 it’s in the 9th inning up 11-1

 

Indians didn't want to take their chances on getting cycled by the Manny-nator.

[BruisedCrew]

This Brewers team feels like they’re somehow playing their best baseball of the season over the past month even though they’ve been good pretty much all season.

 

The stretch of 16 games in 16 days that included series against the Reds, Giants, Cards, and Phils was the block of the schedule that I wanted the Brewers to get through. If they were going to lose significant ground, that was where it was most likely to happen. Even with the little stumble in the “sandwich” series against the Twins, they got through that at 10-6 and put the division race into my comfort zone.

[sveumrules]

Ashby with the good old fashioned three inning save.

[BruisedCrew]

This can be a discussion for the off-season, but with Burnes, Woodruff, Peralta, Houser, Lauer, and Ashby, I wonder who they might be willing to trade to help fill a hole in the every day lineup. I realize that you can never have too much pitching, but you also have trade value to get value and with so many teams desperate for pitching they might be able to get a pretty strong position player in a deal including one of those pitchers.