NLCS IST - Dodgers & Brewers

[Frayed Knot]

Game One: in Milwaukee, Sunday 10/11, 8:00 PM FOX -- Tarik Skubal vs Jacob Misioroski

Brewers [103 - 59] won four of seven head-to-head during the season though Dodgers [100 - 62] were +2 in RS/RA

[Frayed Knot]

For a while there it looked like the late (4:25) football game on FOX wasn't going to end by 8 PM

[ashie62]

1-0 Dodgers in the third. Miz has allowed two walks

Dodgers had hit into a bases loaded double play in the second

[Centerfield]

Why would they pull Skubal after 5?

strange. 

[Gwreck]

3 wins to go.  Let’s go Brewers.

[Centerfield]

I find it very counterintuitive to root for the Brewers. I’m thrilled they won. But watching I find myself wishing Misiorowski would get hit until I remind myself that the Dodgers are hitting. 

[Gwreck]

27 minutes ago, Centerfield said:

I find it very counterintuitive to root for the Brewers. 

CF and I are going to disagree about everything tonight clearly. 
 

As a Mets fan, why would I have anything against the Brewers?  Is there something I’m forgetting?  Out of the other 14 NL franchises, they’ve got to be at or near the top of the list of “easiest to root for.”  No major rivalries with the Mets.  No agonizing defeats.  No bad playoff history (and in fact quite the opposite).  Not a problematic fanbase.  I can’t see the issue.

 

[Frayed Knot]

So it turned out the be the low-scoring game everyone thought it would be ... only with less than anticipated contributions from the two marquee starters.

Skoooball & Mis (ex-spouses who also help fight crime together. Catch it this season on CBS): 9.1 combined innings, 3 ER, 10 hits, 5 BBs, 12 K

Meanwhile the bullpens combined for 7-2/3 IP, 0 R, 3 H, and 6 BBs (2 intentional)

 

side note: Are all ballplayers named Ashby required by law to have an alliterative first name or is it just a coincidence. OK, yeah, there was an Earl Ashby back in the '40s. But since then we've had Alan (catcher 1970's - '80s), Andy (pitcher, 1991 - '04), and, since 2021, Brewer hurler Aaron

[Centerfield]

10 hours ago, Gwreck said:

CF and I are going to disagree about everything tonight clearly. 
 

As a Mets fan, why would I have anything against the Brewers?  Is there something I’m forgetting?  Out of the other 14 NL franchises, they’ve got to be at or near the top of the list of “easiest to root for.”  No major rivalries with the Mets.  No agonizing defeats.  No bad playoff history (and in fact quite the opposite).  Not a problematic fanbase.  I can’t see the issue.

 

I feel like the Brewers always beat us. Especially in Milwaukee. I know we won in the 2024 WC, but it took a miracle HR to beat them. Plus the regular season games that nearly knocked us out the week before.  I feel like they had done that before, because that weekend I remember thinking “not this again”. 
 

The 2025 series where they swept us. Marte thrown out at the plate. Manaea gives up that big lead. I hate that building. 

[Centerfield]

Oh duh. It was the first series of 2024. They swept us at home to start our losing streak. 

[Gwreck]

The Mets are 6-19 against the Brewers since the start of the 2023 season so you’re right to say it seems like they beat the Mets a lot.  

But I put those losses on the Mets more.  Especially 2024 and those end-of-season games which were against a Brewers team that had long ago clinched their division and had very little (or nothing) to play for. 

Maybe it’s silly to think any other NL team is acceptable, but in any ranking of the most-dislikable NL teams, we have to start with PHI, ATL, and LAD (obviously).  It’s a drop down to  WAS, MIA, and STL, and then another drop down to SD, CHC, and maybe CIN if you want to still hold a grudge for Rose/Harrelson.  After that… there’s maybe some reason to dislike the Giants too that isn’t immediately coming to mind.  

And then I see the Brewers falling into the lowest tier of “I don’t even think about you” along with Arizona, Colorado, and Pittsburgh. 

 

[MFS62]

5 hours ago, Gwreck said:

 After that… there’s maybe some reason to dislike the Giants too that isn’t immediately coming to mind.  
 

They used to be four subway stops away from  my house. Then they moved and took part of me with them. (But not half as much as that other team that moved)

 

Anyhow, 1-1 after 1 inning in game 2.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Reasons to Dislike the Giants:

• That whole Pride Day debacle.
• The 2016 Wild Card game
• A trip to Allegorical Park in 2025 pretty much began the second half collapse (in my mind, anyhoots).
• Roger Craig, Giants manager (1985-1992), taught his pitchers to scuff.

I kind of like 'em, though.

[ashie62]

Not much pitching in Game 2. Yamamoto out after 8 outs

I don't dislike either of these teams

I'm still a big Sandy Koufax fan and he is still with us

[Frayed Knot]

1 minute ago, ashie62 said:

Yamamoto out after 8 outs

And nearly 80 pitches ... 36 of them alone just to get two outs in the 3rd inning

[Centerfield]

Brewers leave them loaded in the 5th. Frelick takes a called strike 3. 
 

hopefully they don’t regret that later. 

[Centerfield]

Big hit for Contreras. Brewers 9 outs to get. 

[Centerfield]

6 outs. 
 

The Dodgers seem less dangerous with Ohtani struggling. 
 

Is he hurt?  Crazy to see him so punchless. 

[Frayed Knot]

Pat Murphy is either playing his lefty & righty relievers perfectly, or he's pulling guys who are pitching well too early and it's going to come back and bite him 

But he's thru 8 now so who am I to complain.

[Centerfield]

Brewers looking good. Need one of the next two. 

[Gwreck]

15 hours ago, Centerfield said:

The Dodgers seem less dangerous with Ohtani struggling. 
 

Is he hurt?  Crazy to see him so punchless. 

He has to be, right?  I saw in Ken Rosenthal’s article today that he was 14-90 since August 19 with an OPS under .490.

[MFS62]

The last time I rooted for a baseball team from Milwaukee was in the 1958 World Series (I had also done it in 1957).

I'll be rooting for them in this series, too.

Later

 

[Frayed Knot]

3 hours ago, Gwreck said:

He has to be, right?  I saw in Ken Rosenthal’s article today that he was 14-90 since August 19 with an OPS under .490.

Ohtani was IL'd much of September (played just 8 games in the month and was 6/30 w/5 singles) with "biceps inflammation".  It was kind of passed off as if just a precaution so as to have him 'fresh' for the post-season, but that's still not something that would happen if he was completely healthy. And, of course, he hasn't pitched since July 3rd

 

 

 

 

[ashie62]

Chourio homers on first pitch against Snell. Smoltz still fellating Snell

[Centerfield]

I have no idea who some of these Brewers are. Robert gasser?  They’re just making up people now. 

[ashie62]

Cleveland Milwaukee Tampa Bay, they just seem to have a way

The Mets? not so much

[Centerfield]

You figure using the same three relievers every game is going to catch up to you. 

[Centerfield]

Dammit. 

[Centerfield]

Nice work to keep them within 1. 
 

im totally fine with this being the Edwin Diaz blown save game. 

[Centerfield]

Wow. Sit down Snell.