Craig Counsell, always locked-in, reacted to change his bullpen plan instantly on Mark Canha's grand slam.
Craig Counsell is looking for career win number 700 today, in the middle of Craigtember.
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My Ray story:
That yell you hear in the middle of Ken’s call? Ray punching my dad in the arm in pure excitement. He loved this game. He loved the A’s. And he loved his job.
Gutted. I know he’s already behind the plate with Catfish on the mound. Thank you, Ray, for everything.
Jackson Chourio's triple came off the bat at 110 MPH on a 103 MPH fastball.
THAT'S THE HARDEST HIT BASE HIT ON A PITCH THAT FAST IN THE STATCAST ERA.
He's TWENTY.
Brandon Woodruff:
"I thought about this on the plane ride back home from the physical, the way things shook out for me, it made me realize that, I wasn't supposed to go out the way I was supposed to go out...
I've got a lot of unfinished business in a Brewers uniform."
The Brewers lost three straight series at the end of July and were only up 5.5 games in the division.
All leading into this 13-in-a-row stretch against ATL-CIN-LAD-CLE.
The Crew just responded with:
Sweep at ATL, series win vs CIN, split vs LAD, sweep vs CLE.
Undaunted.
This offseason, the Brewers:
•Secured funding for their ballpark /extended the lease to 2050
•Extended Jackson Chourio
•Opened a brand new facility in the DR
•Avoided arbitration with all of their eligible players
•And now signed Rhys Hoskins
Mark & Matt, take a bow.
Jackson Chourio is making history today:
SINCE WORLD WAR II...
There has not been a player:
Make his MLB Debut on Opening Day
Batting first
Before his 21st birthday.
The last player to start in their debut on Opening Day that's younger than Chourio was Ken Griffey Jr. in 1989
With today's news that the DH is officially coming to the National League, the
#Brewers
are at the center of baseball trivia:
Brandon Woodruff is the last pitcher to hit a home run in a postseason game: 2018 NLCS Game 1 off Clayton Kershaw.
That is the Brewers' 11th one-hitter-or-less since Chris Hook took over as pitching coach in 2019.
That is the most in baseball.
It's also the 5th one started by Freddy Peralta.
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Here’s a list of schools that in ‘18-‘19
Played in a bowl game
Has a men’s basketball team in the tourney
Has a women’s basketball team in the tourney
Has an ice hockey team in the tourney
Has a ranked baseball team
Has a ranked softball team
1.
@TheSunDevils
That’s the list.
After a back-pick and another pickoff attempt with Rowdy on second.
He turned to the Angels staff and says "I'm fat." The people's champ.
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Pat Murphy was tossed because Brian O'Nora called this as out of the running lane on Joey Ortiz.
How did both O'Nora and Brennan Miller at home miss this???!??!
This image of Blake Perkins always stuck with me. This was Perkins after he was the final out of the rally vs OAK in the tough sweep finisher.
It was his 18th game in the show.
Tonight, he had two clutch moments despite not starting a game since July 30th.
These rookies, man.
Lost in the chaos of last night, Ronald Acuña Jr. threw this ball 100 MPH from RF.
Adames reached 28.1 ft/sec, one of his faster sprints of the year. What a moment.
The Brewers learned their lesson last year, waiting too long to call up Garrett Mitchell.
This season, they called up Sal Frelick and he has been exactly as advertised: the sparkplug.
12-1 Brewers.
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Great question from
@Todd_Rosiak
on bunting in today's session, who's the best bunter?
"Sneaky, Yelich is a great bunter ... he attempts, he's successful, puts it down. He does it once a year and it's gonna be huge in a huge situation."
He's 5-for-7 the last 3 years.
Jackson Chourio 20-20-20 watch ...
2Bs: 20
HRs: 16
SBs: 19
Here's the list of rookies 21 or younger to join that club in baseball history:
Mike Trout and Julio Rodriguez. That's it.
In the StatCast era ... the only players to hit a homer 449 feet or further before their 21st birthday ...
Acuña Jr
Correa
Guerrero Jr
Tatis Jr
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Since Elly De La Cruz stole home...
The Brewers held hit to 3-for-29 (.103) 2 HR and 12 K.
Pitching & defense. He's a helluva player, and he's gonna torment the rest of the league ... just not the Brewers for the rest of this season.
SINCE MAY 1st
Christian Yelich is one of only four players in baseball with a 3/4/5 slash line.
.304 / .401 / .500
He has a 144 wRC+ during that time.
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William Contreras has started 56 consecutive regular season games going back to last season. His numbers and MLB ranks:
.345 AVG (1st)
.434 OBP (3rd)
.542 SLG (16th)
.966 OPS (11th)
76 hits (1st)
And the Brewers are 37-19 over this stretch of baseball.
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Christian Yelich has been "a triple shy" 11 times in his career despite his three cycles.
No one in MLB history has four cycles in a career...
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Matt Arnold on the Brewers being in a position to buy again at the deadline potentially postseason bound:
"It's nice, but I certainly don't want to get comfortable where we are. We don't want to just get in the playoffs, we want to win a World Series."
NL schedule observation:
The
#Brewers
have the third-hardest start in the league (first six series) according to FanGraphs projected win total
1. ARZ 85.5 avg opp win proj.
2. MIA 84.8
** 3. MIL 84 **
T4. SD/CIN 83.5
6. NYM 82
I know Willy has hit two homers tonight.
But him hustling to sniff out an infield hit in a 9-0 game tells you everything you need to know about that dude.
And the tone that the "pillars" have set in this clubhouse.
This was a hard, old school play by Tommy Pham.
I don't think anyone took exception to the slide, just that he didn't like William celebrating.
Which, if you don't want them to celebrate, don't give them a reason to.
Of the five guys who pitched out of the bullpen today:
🔘Koenig has pitched multiple seasons of indy ball.
🔘 The Astros let Paredes walk after a tough '22-'23
🔘 Hudson was DFA'd for a $325M pitcher
🔘Payamps went thru waivers SIX times
🔘 Megill went thru waivers & was traded.
Aaron Civale is the 9th pitcher ever to strikeout Ohtani three times in a game and it’s a WILD list:
Justin Verlander (x2)
Justus Sheffield (x2)
Gerrit Cole
Luis Garcia
Dallas Keuchel
Triston McKenzie
Robbie Ray
Bruce Zimmerman
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Burnes 8IP 0R
Woodruff 9IP 0R
The last time the Brewers had back-to-back starts of at least 8IP and 0R allowed...
CC Sabathia and Ben Sheets in 2008
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Jackson Chourio since June 23rd (23G, 109 PA) with the
@BiloxiShuckers
.351/.413/.608/1.021
5 HR, 6 2B, 1 3B
11 SB, 10 BB, 9 K
I'm still staring at that last line. Oh, by the way, he's 19 years-old
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