Game Thread (4/12/2022): Brewers (Lauer) at Orioles (Watkins) - 6:05 PM CDT

[Eye Black]

[Eye Black]

The Brewers finally play their first night game of the season. The Orioles starter for this evening is still TBD as of early Tuesday morning. 

Here’s a fun little “did you know”…

While the Milwaukee Brewers origins can be traced back to Seattle [Pilots] and the Braves before them came to Milwaukee by way of Boston, there is one MLB franchise that actually originated in Milwaukee. That’s right, you guessed it, the franchise now known as the Baltimore Orioles played in the American League in 1901 as the Milwaukee Brewers. 

From Wiki (Baltimore Orioles history) :

So I guess even if the Brewers suffer another defeat we can all take a tiny bit of solace in the fact the loss will come at the hands of the OG Milwaukee Brewers. 

[Nola Beery]

Fascinating!

 

[SeaBass]

Brewers are undefeated at night, let's go!

[Pugger]

I can't watch tonight's game so I suppose they'll find a way to win...

[NBBrewFan]

15 minutes ago, Pugger said:

I can't watch tonight's game so I suppose they'll find a way to win...

Thanks for taking one for the team.

The Brewers don't seem to do so well against TBD, but I think this is the game the offense turns a corner.  Whether it's down another dark alley I can't say.

[BillScottCanRake]

When will the bats wake
from their slumber? without runs
wins are not a thing

[SomewhereInTime]

I expect at least six shutout innings from TBD tonight against this lineup.

[MDCrew]

Anyone in the MD area going to the game tonight? 

[patrickgpe]

Orioles putting out Spencer Watkins who had an ERA of 8 in 16 appearances last year. this better be the night the bats wake up. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Hunter reminds fans: It's only 4 games

The discipline at the plate is actually quite good, fwiw:

They simply need to start hitting with RISP and getting dialed in when they are making contact. Here's hoping Eric's hiccups in ST aren't as true in this early season as Woody's. The obvious addendum here could be: they've struggled to hit w RISP for 2 years now. I have no answers there. 

[SeaBass]

This is a little random but I was puttering through some early MLB statistics and made this interesting discovery for this young season.

Guardians rookie Steven Kwan is leading MLB with a .692 AVG, 789 OBP and 1.789 OPS, also leading the league in runs, hits, triples and walks (and zero strikeouts). Now that is an impressive debut.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, SeaBass said:

This is a little random but I was puttering through some early MLB statistics and made this interesting discovery for this young season.

Guardians rookie Steven Kwan is leading MLB with a .692 AVG, 789 OBP and 1.789 OPS, also leading the league in runs, hits, triples and walks (and zero strikeouts). Now that is an impressive debut.

Not only that, and I'm not kidding:

He hasn't experienced a single swing and a miss. It's unbelievable.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Looks like the Twins game will be rained out and my wife has to work late so the universe just cleared my schedule for me. 

[Eye Black]

49 minutes ago, SeaBass said:

This is a little random but I was puttering through some early MLB statistics and made this interesting discovery for this young season.

Guardians rookie Steven Kwan is leading MLB with a .692 AVG, 789 OBP and 1.789 OPS, also leading the league in runs, hits, triples and walks (and zero strikeouts). Now that is an impressive debut.

He doesn’t hit the ball very hard (max exit velocity so far is 103-mph), but he still consistently makes his contact count with a barrel rate above 10%. He’ll be fun to watch, seems like could end up being another example of someone that wasn’t well known as a prospect, but becomes a good major leaguer. I also think he'll develop more power to pair with his contact ability (or at least reach his ceiling in terms of maximizing his potential power output). Sort of in the Michael Brantley mold in terms of being less heralded during his time in the minors but really breaking out as he approached the majors. 

[SeaBass]

I watched some video of Kwan hitting and he has the classic Keston Hiura leg kick. Let's pour one out to the eventual demise of his MLB career.

[Sixtolezcano]

6 hours ago, Pugger said:

I can't watch tonight's game so I suppose they'll find a way to win...

I doubt it. I have them losing this series 2 games of 3.

[treego14]

The bats come out at night ... may it be so for our Milwaukee Brewers!!!  

[hawing]

Brewers in Birdland

Remember Victor Santos?

He was good at night.

[Outlander]

Feeling pretty good about this one. Win a couple, come back home .500 and put these first few games behind them.

[treego14]

28 minutes ago, hawing said:

Brewers in Birdland

Remember Victor Santos?

He was good at night.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/santovi01.shtml ... I remember him -- nothing stellar about him as I recall, though. 

[NBBrewFan]

Leadoff HR for Wong will get the Brewers on the board early and often.

[HarryDoyle]

Is the audio ahead on Bally's for everyone else?

[hawing]

Victor Santos was part of the 2004 and 2005 Brewers.  So "nothing stellar" is just about right. ?

[BillScottCanRake]

1 hour ago, hawing said:

Brewers in Birdland

Remember Victor Santos?

He was good at night.

The Vampire!