2021-10-11 (NLDS Game #3): Brewers (Peralta) at Braves (Anderson) [Brewers lose, 3-0]

[timpep]

You don't have 3 aces when you treat one of them like a 5th starter. Freddy delivered all year and they pull him when his stuff was as good as it's been all season.

 

I completely agree with this sentiment.

[Samurai Bucky]

Here is a fork --- stick it in them. It is over.

 

Elevate and celebrate... or in the Brewers' case -- try to elevate and choke.

[titletownking]

I doubt this series makes it back to Milwaukee. Braves have just looked like the better baseball team all series.

 

It doesn't matter how good your starting pitching is if you're scoring less than 2 runs per game, you're not going to win in October.

 

The Brewers were without a doubt the better looking team in Game 1.

 

We’re they though? Braves would have scored early in game and had plenty of chances. Can’t remember the brewers having much for chances in the 1st game.

[agingbrew]

Maybe don't let Houser pitch to Pederson next time Edited October 11, 2021 by agingbrew

[Jopal78]

Brewers have been a pitching a defense team all year, problem is the Braves have out pitched them in this series so far.

[BruisedCrew]

Counsell is apparently conceding this game, realizing that 3 runs is an insurmountable deficit.

[timpep]

If we're still playing to win this game Houser needs to come out fast. If we're punting for tomorrow, that's a dangerous decision in a 5 game series.

 

You really think we're scoring 4 runs in the remainder of this game? They really don't have a choice but to punt for tomorrow and it'll be all hands on deck for Games 4 and 5. They're not winning this game now.

 

 

I think the chances of scoring 4 runs in 5 innings is just as good as winning two games in a row against the Braves, yes.

[jason21nl]

The offense sucked most of the year. It’s no surprise it sucks during the playoffs

[phnxcrew]

CC certainly got backed into a corner by this record-setting horrible offense. if last years offensive performance wasn’t the worst in playoff history, this year’s performance is going to take that award. just pathetic.

[KeithStone53151]

I think the chances of scoring 4 runs in 5 innings is just as good as winning two games in a row against the Braves, yes.

 

The Brewers had multiple base runners against every reliever they've faced this series so far except the 7th inning in game 1.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Counsell is apparently conceding this game, realizing that 3 runs is an insurmountable deficit.

 

Or he's simply sticking with a good pitcher who made one bad pitch.

[PlayerHader]

The offense sucked most of the year. It’s no surprise it sucks during the playoffs

 

This is just purely inaccurate.

[folly412]

I still don't hate the decision. I hate 2 runs in 23 innings by Haines' Hackers.

[adambr2]

If we're still playing to win this game Houser needs to come out fast. If we're punting for tomorrow, that's a dangerous decision in a 5 game series.

 

You really think we're scoring 4 runs in the remainder of this game? They really don't have a choice but to punt for tomorrow and it'll be all hands on deck for Games 4 and 5. They're not winning this game now.

 

 

I think the chances of scoring 4 runs in 5 innings is just as good as winning two games in a row against the Braves, yes.

 

Two wins is not implausible. If they can steal tomorrow they'll have Burnes going at home in Game 5.

 

They've scored 2 runs this entire series. The idea that they're going to triple that in the next 4 innings seems a lot more implausible to me.

[timpep]

I am just dumbfounded that runs are at such a premium they would pull a dealing starter after 4 but won't sit Yelich against a lefty.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

At least now we know the ceiling on having a group of stud SP and a bunch of guys that can't hit. If we didn't have Jackie Yelich Jr. signed for 8 years it might have been enough.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Yeah, this is where the randomness of October gets you.

 

Bad luck on a couple of hard hit balls, and then a guy catches up to a pitch you wouldn't have wanted anywhere else.

 

Baseball is cruel, man. It is very cruel.

 

It's not random. Our rag tag scrubs can't hit and they have 30+ bomb guys up and down the line. They hit a few bombs and we rejoice when we get a single. Aces are great but can't win with literally 0 runs.

 

I mean, do you want Cain and Wong to be able to throw the ball from home plate? I get being frustrated, and, yes, the offense was bad, but it wasn't like those guys had bad ABs.

 

The offense has been bad this series. It is bad. That is not debatable. But short of having Freeman, Albies, and Trout hitting 8,9,1, what more do you want from that inning? I hate the results, but I have no gripe with the process. Are you saying you would have built this team differently from the jump?

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

I am just dumbfounded that runs are at such a premium they would pull a dealing starter after 4 but won't sit Yelich against a lefty.

 

Yelich went 1-3 with a BB on Sunday. The team had 6 hits total. He wasn't the problem.

[jason21nl]

The offense sucked most of the year. It’s no surprise it sucks during the playoffs

 

This is just purely inaccurate.

 

You’re going to tell me this was a good offense?

[Fear The Chorizo]

Pulling Peralta in that spot reeks of a desperation move....if the inept offense can't get a run across with 2nd and 3rd and nobody out, then you at least let Peralta stay in the game to hold the Braves in check to and hope they can get to the Braves pen. Anderson was coming out after 5 regardless.

[Nola Beery]

The offense sucked most of the year. It’s no surprise it sucks during the playoffs

Except for a couple of games against the Cubs, the offense has been routinely weak.

What's the point of arguing about who pitches tomorrow, when nobody is going to score?

Overcoming a 1-run lead is a big ask for this team. Overcoming a 3-run lead in the playoffs looks like trying to climb Denali in flip-flops. Misery.

 

And Yelich is back to taking strikes again. MISERY I tell you!

[BruisedCrew]

Counsell is apparently conceding this game, realizing that 3 runs is an insurmountable deficit.

 

Or he's simply sticking with a good pitcher who made one bad pitch.

 

Two singles, a home run and a walk sounds like more than one bad pitch.

 

It sounds more like a guy who doesn’t have his good stuff.

Edited October 11, 2021 by BruisedCrew

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I am just dumbfounded that runs are at such a premium they would pull a dealing starter after 4 but won't sit Yelich against a lefty.

 

Yelich went 1-3 with a BB on Sunday. The team had 6 hits total. He wasn't the problem.

 

There's no way around the reality that Yelich is a major problem on this team as constructed and as it looks now, will continue to be one. We have a bad slap singles hitter making 30 million a year. If he had regressed to Marlins level, we'd probably be OK and at least a semi-watchable offense.

[adambr2]

I think getting shut out for a 2nd game in a row is much more likely than winning this game.

[timpep]

I am just dumbfounded that runs are at such a premium they would pull a dealing starter after 4 but won't sit Yelich against a lefty.

 

Yelich went 1-3 with a BB on Sunday. The team had 6 hits total. He wasn't the problem.

 

They didn't play Sunday but point taken, you like how the offense is run, I get it.