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2021-10-12 (NLDS Game #4): Brewers (Lauer) at Braves (Morton) [Brewers lose, 5-4 -- Freeman’s 8th inning HR off Hader breaks tie, and hearts]

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So I take it everyone is done whistling past the graveyard concerning the offense this past month?

 

 

Nope, they are just waiting for the best time to flip that switch..

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Counsell has also failed the team by continuing to do the same thing and same lineup this series and not changing anything up. He's a good manager, but he's managed a very poor series.

 

This series is squarely on the players. They can't hit the ball and it hasn't really mattered who it is.

 

Agreed with OSS. If Rowdy had the chance to strike out third in the first inning instead of fifth would that have made you happier? Lineup construction has nothing to do with guys not hitting pitches.

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So I take it everyone is done whistling past the graveyard concerning the offense this past month?

 

I wasn't overly concerned with the Brewers not winning so-called meaningless September games, but my position for months was that the offense, not the pitching, would dictate what kind of run we get. The way this offense has looked at times, that doomsday scenario was always out there.

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Counsell has also failed the team by continuing to do the same thing and same lineup this series and not changing anything up. He's a good manager, but he's managed a very poor series.

 

This series is squarely on the players. They can't hit the ball and it hasn't really mattered who it is.

 

If they lose the series I’m not sure what Counsell could have done differently. Bat Yelich 8th? Taking Peralta out yesterday early is one of the only questionable decisions I can think of and that can be argued either way. Dudes need to hit the damn ball.

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Yelich should not be playing OF next year. He sucks in just about every way. Makes me wish we still had Braun running around.

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Counsell has also failed the team by continuing to do the same thing and same lineup this series and not changing anything up. He's a good manager, but he's managed a very poor series.

 

This series is squarely on the players. They can't hit the ball and it hasn't really mattered who it is.

 

Almost 100 percent agree with this - the only disagreement was the decision to pull Peralta. Yelich is an amazing easy target but who put up good at bats? Wong has been really bad. Garcia has been terrible. Escobar has had some awful at bats. Tellez outside the home run has had some really bad at bats. Taylor had one of the worst pinch hit at bats I have seen.

 

Peterson has been good and I think Adames has been decent. It seems like Urias and Cain are making good contact. Am I missing someone?

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I hate how Snitker is portrayed as some genius for starting Morton on short rest. Placid faced Morton. It's Brewers absolute incompetence, nothing more.

 

This is not epic starting pitching by the braves this is epically bad hitting by the Brewers.

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Bottom of 2nd, runners on 1st and 2nd, one out. Broken bat fly ball out to Yelich. He catches it. The runner at 2B had taken off on contact. Yelich lobs it to Wong who touches the base and tags Freeman, who was on 1st before, at about the same time…..

 

If Wong would have tagged Freeman first, before touching the bag, the run would have been allowed to score UNLESS the team would have appealed the play (not left the field of play) to get a 4th needed out!!! Check it out…. Not talked about.

 

Yup, that would've been the rare time where a 4th out in an inning would've been possible.

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Counsell has also failed the team by continuing to do the same thing and same lineup this series and not changing anything up. He's a good manager, but he's managed a very poor series.

 

This series is squarely on the players. They can't hit the ball and it hasn't really mattered who it is.

 

Almost 100 percent agree with this - the only disagreement was the decision to pull Peralta. Yelich is an amazing easy target but who put up good at bats? Wong has been really bad. Garcia has been terrible. Escobar has had some awful at bats. Tellez outside the home run has had some really bad at bats. Taylor had one of the worst pinch hit at bats I have seen.

 

Peterson has been good and I think Adames has been decent. It seems like Urias and Cain are making good contact. Am I missing someone?

 

Pulling Pina against a RHP in the 7th and ending up with Maile having to bat for the game in the 9th was also a really bad managerial move.

 

I should clarify I put this series almost entirely on the players. But Counsell hasn't managed a good series.

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Bottom of 2nd, runners on 1st and 2nd, one out. Broken bat fly ball out to Yelich. He catches it. The runner at 2B had taken off on contact. Yelich lobs it to Wong who touches the base and tags Freeman, who was on 1st before, at about the same time…..

 

If Wong would have tagged Freeman first, before touching the bag, the run would have been allowed to score UNLESS the team would have appealed the play (not left the field of play) to get a 4th needed out!!! Check it out…. Not talked about.

 

Yup, that would've been the rare time where a 4th out in an inning would've been possible.

 

I'm following everything up until the appeal portion. What is this?

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No idea what whistling past the graveyard means...

 

But obviously our offense is our weaklink. Not sure that was ever a surprise.

 

100% this. I would say, from my vantage point, the 'fear' or concern has always been we completely outperformed our means in an extremely hot few months upon the Adames arrival. We then got injured, lost some flow, and potentially reverted back to April/May. Even before the last few weeks of tapering off we were at the very Bottom of Playoff offensive outputs. We just haven't been a potent offense as whole. Our team was entirely dependent upon an Ace starting staff and a solid Bullpen. The bullpen then also got injured and had some hiccups. They came into the season with the assertion they will win via defense and pitching. That is their identity and now they are facing the stark reality that runs are now extremely hard to come by. They simply have to hope the pitching holds and they can find a stroke of luck here and there.

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