The final countdown before the trade deadline has begun, and the Brewers will be one of the most intriguing teams to watch this weekend. Of particular interest to many contenders are a trio of pitchers in Milwaukee’s bullpen, as Jeremy Jeffress, Will Smith and Tyler Thornburg are becoming household names in the baseball world as […]
Author: Travis Sarandos
Game 92 Recap: Brewers 9 Pirates 5
TL;DR The Brewers won their 40th game of the season Wednesday night, putting in a solid day’s work to breeze past the Pirates, 9-5. Chase Anderson failed to reach the fifth inning for the fourth time in five starts, but the bullpen slammed the door shut while Milwaukee’s offense continued to pour it on. TOP […]
Scooter Gennett Can Hit Lefties
Each of the past three years in Spring Training, there has issued forth from Maryvale Baseball Park a repeated refrain: Scooter Gennett plans to play every day. This has always been an easily dismissed notion: entering the season, Gennett was the worst MLB hitter of all time against lefties, measuring by OPS: he owned a […]
Game 84 Recap: Nationals 7 Brewers 4
Feels like we’ve been here before, doesn’t it folks? For the second time in a few weeks, the Brewers dropped the third game after taking the first two of the series against the first place Nationals, falling to Washington 7-4 affair on Wednesday afternoon in our nation’s capital. You already know the basics, so let’s […]
Game 67 Recap: Brewers 8 Dodgers 6
The Brewers and Dodgers, who kindly waited until both the NBA Finals and Copa America games were finished before kicking things off in Chavez Ravine, capped a busy sports night with a fireworks display in Los Angeles Thursday night. The two teams combined for four home runs, 14 runs and 18 hits as the Brewers […]
Corey Ray: Future Brewers Ace
With the fifth pick in MLB draft yesterday. The Brewers selected outfielder Corey Ray out of the University of Louisville. As with anything a sports team ever does, the frustrated fans weren’t hard to find. @AdamMcCalvy This organization needs pitching and then more pitching not another left fielder. Good grief. — USMCforcerecon (@usmcforcerecon2) June 9, […]
Game 54 Recap: Brewers 4 Phillies 1
After salvaging a win from a three-game home set with the Cardinals on Wednesday, the Brewers headed east for a four-game series against slightly less deadly prey. The reeling Phillies, one of the season’s early surprises after jumping out to a 24-17 record, entered the series having dropped six in a row and 10 of […]
When You’re Young, You Just Run
There are two kinds of unwritten rules in baseball. There are the ones that folks like Brian McCann and Tony LaRussa protect and/or make up at will, like the maximum amount of time one is allowed to take while rounding the bases following a home run or what actions constitute the necessity to throw a […]
All You Had to do was Swing
A few weeks ago, I addressed the Brewers extreme shift in plate discipline numbers. The team had moved from the highest O-Swing percentage in the league in 2015 (34.1 percent) to the lowest in 2016. With about double the sample size now in the books, that remains true: Milwaukee’s O-Swing percentage this season remains a […]
Game 28 Recap: Reds 9 Brewers 5
BRUCE STRIKES AGAIN: REDS 9, BREWERS 5 The Brewers began a four-game series with their division rivals in Ohio Thursday evening. The Reds entered the game with a struggling pitching staff that ranked 29th in the league in team ERA. Unfortunately, the only team worse than them is Milwaukee, and so the results of the […]