Tl;dr: Zach Davies took a no hitter into the seventh inning, but Chris Carter’s two home runs were enough to overcome a shaky appearance by Jeremy Jeffress to beat Oakland 5-4. Top Play (WPA): Chris Carter home runs accounted for all of the Brewers scoring. His first mammoth home run of the game occurred in […]
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Game 38 Recap: Brewers 3, Padres 2
TOP PLAY (WPA): The game was tied 2-2 in the seventh inning. Both Brewers runs were scored via the solo home run. The first was by Chris Carter in the third inning to give the Brewers a 1-0 lead. The second was Jonathan Lucroy in the fifth inning to put the Brewers up 2-1. Now, […]
Game 33 Recap: Brewers 10 Marlins 2
Tl;dr: The Brewers chased starter Adam Conley in the fourth inning and continued scoring on the Marlins bullpen in a 10-2 win. Top Play (WPA): As mentioned above, the Brewers knocked Adam Conley out of the game after four innings, and Jonathan Villar played a large part in building that 4-2 lead. He terrorized Conley, […]
Game 12 Recap: Pirates 9 Brewers 3
Best Play (WPA): With the team in an early 6-0 hole, the Brewers attempted to mount a rally in the fourth inning. Chris Carter singled home Scooter Gennett to score the first run of the game for Milwaukee. Ramon Flores followed that up with a walk to load the bases. After Juan Nicasio goaded Aaron Hill into […]
Prospect Improvements
The Milwaukee Brewers aren’t fooling anyone in 2016 – they’re admittedly in the early stages of a rebuilding process. It shows in the young club on the field, one that is off to a 4-5 start and that has been outscored by a total of 22 runs (28 to 50) in the season’s early going. […]
What Colorado Springs Means for Jorge Lopez and Zach Davies
Just two weeks ago, I speculated about the state of the Brewers’ rotation. I concluded that Matt Garza’s contract status and Taylor Jungmann’s 2015 performance have made them near-locks for the Opening Day rotation. Furthermore, I argued that although Wily Peralta has recently trended in the wrong direction, he has proven to be a consistent part of the […]
Chase Anderson and Zach Davies: Masters of the Changeup
Among the many young faces on the Brewers, Chase Anderson is something of a veteran. At age 28, he has 267.0 major-league innings under his belt, meaning he should be able to impart some wisdom on his rotational cohorts. One of them, Zach Davies, shares some traits with Anderson — they both came to Milwaukee in […]
Which Brewer Had the Worst Pitch in 2015?
On Tuesday, I wrote about the best pitches that we saw from the Brewers in 2015. Jimmy Nelson’s curveball, Ariel Pena’s four-seam fastball, Francisco Rodriguez’s changeup, and Will Smith’s slider all separated themselves from the pack in a good way. Now, we come to the natural compliment to that exercise — which Milwaukee offerings proved […]
Which Brewer Had the Best Pitch in 2015?
Most fans of baseball seem to observe the game from a hitting-centric viewpoint. As Warren Spahn once quipped, “hitting is timing, pitching is upsetting timing.” This approach has never appealed to me — I think pitchers have a greater hand in the game than we credit them for. Aside from the fact that they succeed far […]
Top Brewers Storylines of 2015: Resurrection of the Farm System
On Monday, my colleague Jack Moore covered the departure of Doug Melvin, one of the bigger developments to emerge from this year. While Melvin certainly had his strengths as General Manager, his failures ultimately outweighed his successes — and chief among the former was, as Moore cited, Melvin’s utter inability to construct a respectable minor […]