Welcome to Week Six of the Weekend Recap. The Brewers had themselves a great weekend against the Mets, sweeping the series and capping it by scoring ten runs after the 5th inning to come back from a 7-1 deficit. Milwaukee won, 11-9. Weekend Series Mets Brewers Friday May 12 4 7 Saturday May 13 4 […]
Author: Andrew Salzman
Weekend Recap 5: Garza, Shaw, Thames
Welcome to Week Five of the Weekend Recap, where we’ll look at another disappointing weekend for the Brewers. They lost two of three games against Pittsburgh; the losses were a rain interrupted game on Friday and an extra inning loss on Saturday. Weekend Series Brewers Pirates Friday May 5 0 4 Saturday May 6 1 […]
Weekend Recap 4: Bullpen and Homers
Welcome to Week Four of the Weekend Recap, where we’ll review a disappointing weekend series against the Braves. This series was an unfortunate way to cap a successful April for the Brewers. Weekend Series Braves Brewers Friday April 28 10 8 Saturday April 29 11 3 Sunday April 30 3 4 Let’s start with the […]
Weekend Recap 3: Chase and Manny
Welcome to Week Three of the Weekend Recap: The optimism of last week has slightly faded as the Brewers had a bad week, capped by losing three of four against the Cardinals in Milwaukee. Weekend Series Brewers Cardinals Thursday April 20 7 5 Friday April 21 3 6 Saturday April 22 1 4 Sunday April […]
Weekend Recap 2: Knebel and Torres
Welcome to Week Two of the Weekend Recap. The Brewers had a successful weekend in Cincinnati which saw them take three of four games from the division leading (!) Reds to move into second (!) place. Weekend Series Brewers Reds Thursday April 13 5 1 Friday April 14 10 4 Saturday April 15 5 7 […]
Weekend Recap 1: Thames and Nelson
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Weekend Recap, where I’ll note some interesting performances which you may have missed over the weekend. After starting the series against the Cubs with a walk-off wild pitch victory, the Brewers dropped the next two games as Zach Davies and Tommy Milone struggled in their starts. Weekend Series Brewers […]
Hernan Perez 2016 in Review
The average players are the ones who fall under the cracks. They don’t garner the attention of black ink on their Baseball Reference page or reach milestones such as hitting forty homers or stealing sixty bases. They don’t offer the tantalizing potential of a top prospect, nor the arc of redemption from guys who never […]
Losing and Home Runs
After Francisco Lindor hit Cleveland’s third home run in the first game of their Divisional Series with Boston, TBS flashed a stat that Cleveland was 17-3 this season when hitting 3+ home runs in a game. I thought that was a silly fact to note since teams should win most of the time when hitting […]
Jonathan Villar’s Baserunning
Jonathan Villar led the Major Leagues in stolen bases with 62. However, according to Baseball Prospectus’ Baserunning Runs (BRR), Villar actually produced negative value on the base paths this past season. In fact, only Chris Carter created more negative value than Villar amongst non-pitchers. Villar had -2.4 BRR this season, which would put him in […]
Game 158 Recap: Rangers 6 Brewers 4
Tl;dr: The Brewers raced out to a 3-0 lead but the Rangers did enough damage against Jimmy Nelson to pull off the 6-4 victory. Top Play (WPA): The top play put the Rangers ahead for good and knocked Jimmy Nelson out of the game with one out in the sixth inning. Old friend Jonathan Lucroy […]