Some terrible body language from May this inning. First sign of adversity and he just gave up

Murph not using Drohan vs. the lefties the second time through is definitely interesting!

Tired - What if the entire NL Central finishes over .500? That would be wild! Wired - What if the Brewers are the only NL Central team over .500?

David Hamilton just is not a MLB caliber shortstop, let alone the caliber the Brewers need on defense.

Rengifo might not have a locker tomorrow after this defensive inning

The Cubs are generally a very patient team but have seen a total of 48 pitches in the last 5 innings vs. Miz

Those Chourio and Turang ABs were about as bad as it gets for that situation. Saw a total of 2 pitches in the zone.

The Cubs have been bitten quite a bit by the injury bug in terms of starting pitchers (Boyd, Horton, Steele) but they have been unbelievably healthy on the position player side. All but 13 PA have come from 1-12 in their position player group. They aren't even using their last guy on the bench!

Cubs have 2 different 10 game winning streaks, just lost their first home game in over a month and still are only 0.5 up in the division against a Brewer team that didn’t have 3 of its best hitters for a month

The Brewers currently have 8 of the 9 hardest hit balls in this game. Also the top 6 xBA events. It seems like in the rare games where they actually square the ball up well, they don’t get the expected results and lose

Brewers slugging the hell out of the ball today. Bauers should probably have two homers too if it weren’t for the wind.

The winner of game 1 in each weekday Brewers series is now 0-7 in game 2's. There have been zero weekday sweep chances for either team

So I don't think Chad Patrick will be making a start on Friday now right?

This is the 7th Chourio PA so far this series. All 7 have come with the bases empty.

Brewers will now play 18 games in 17 days from June 26 through July 12

Brewers ended the game with 13 of the 15 hardest hit balls in the game. They had 15 balls hit over 100 mph. That has to be a record for them this season. Just terrible sequencing tonight

This has been the biggest zone by far I’ve seen all season. Also Vaughn must not be dialed in yet since you gotta challenge either strike two or strike three here

Weird pattern alert! The winner of game 1 in each weekday Brewers series this year has lost the remaining games in the series. Brewers either go WLL or LWW in weekday series.

The second worst bullpen in the NL has retired 10 straight Brewer batters

Reynolds’ single in the 10th was pounded into the ground and was the luckiest hit for the Pirates. It came at the absolute perfect time since it was far more likely to be an inning ending DP. Meanwhile Turang scalded a likely double with a runner on and one out and it was caught

The brewers had the four hardest hit balls in that game. All with a positive LA and in sum they expected to get 3 hits out of them. They got 1 and it was a two out single with the bases empty

We are up to 183 PA from these four without a single XBH. Just insane

Miz’s sudden lack of control happens at random times every outing and always leads to 2-3 runs

Brewers up to 3 or 4 losses where if they had their 2024 or 2025 bullpen would have been a relatively comfortable win.

Murph going to Ashby and Anderson in the 6th down a run (and then two runs) when Sproat was pitching very well put him in a situation where he won't have a high leverage guy to use if this game goes to extras.

Three back breaking GIDP today for the Brewers. The double play regression coming all at once.

Aaron Ashby's WHIP is now 1.50

The Brewers have a better record than every team in the AL besides the Yankees. The Brewers are also currently in last place in the NL Central

Ortiz, Hamilton, Matos, and Jones have combined for 144 PA this year and have a total of zero extra base hits. That is 17.6% of the total PA that the Brewers have had with absolutely no threat of power.

The Brewers are over .500 in April now

@matrueblood.bsky.social Lockridge going all out on a blooper and making a diving catch. Made me remember this article from this week. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Brewers double play regression coming hard in this game

Pretty sure that Bauers single was gonna be catchers interference anyway

I cannot imagine how much more could go wrong in a single week in April for a baseball team

Brewers went from having potentially the best bullpen in the league to a bottom third pen. Legit might cost them 5-10 games this year

Why exactly was Woodruff pulled 70 pitches in?

The brewers have one hit with RISP since Monday

Leaving a righty who obviously has lost it to face a lefty, only to bring in a lefty (who was ready a batter earlier!) to face a righty is about as weird as it gets.

Quite possibly the least deserved 5 R outing I’ve ever seen from Woody

This has to be a suspension Willson, right?

UConn now has 19 straight wins in sweet 16 and beyond. They were the worse kenpom team in 7 of those games

Top 43 in WAB all got in. No one worse than 46th in WAB received a bid. Please make WAB your main metric you look at when comparing resumes next year please!

That was the third highest adjusted Off efficiency game of the year. Wisconsin with 3 of the top 21 this season.

Purdue has gotten back 12 of their 22 missed shots so far.

Average resume rank (SOR, WAB, and KPI) heading into the day. Two teams directly ahead of Wisconsin took losses and now BYU is down big in first half. Great night for 6 seed chances.

By Gard's biggest weakness is his refusal to play his stars with two fouls in the first half. I'm betting a good portion of this is when the backup bigs get 2 early and he just rides with them

First 100 game score for Wisconsin this year on @barttorvik.bsky.social

@rdtopp.bsky.social on the "Hard Mode" rant on this week's pod. I would actually argue that how the Brewers operate is actually "easy mode". It creates a perpetual high floor with tons of depth and chances every year to make the playoffs and make a run.

How many national writers realize the Brewers would have lost Freddy to free agency last year had they not signed him to pre-Arb extension years ago?