The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year, and Bryce Elder took that literally. He allowed 8 runs in the 2nd inning as the Brewers broke the game open and salvaged a game from the 3-game series. Somehow, Elder stayed in to complete 6 otherwise scoreless innings. If a Quality Start is a minimum of 6 IP and a maximum of 3 ER, then what do you call 6 IP and 8 ER? (Reminder, this is a family site.) Elder’s ERA rose to 3.75, which is probably about where we hoped it would be, but the trend is bad.
William Contreras went 4 – 5, scored 2 runs, had 3 RBIs, and hit his 7th home run of the season for the Brewers. Joey Bart went 0 – 4 with an RBI for the Braves. A 2-run homer in the bottom of the 9th by Rowdy Tellez rounded out the game’s scoring. At San Diego Monday at 10 pm Eastern, Grant Holmes and Michael King scheduled.
Thank you, Rusty – how about 6IP and 8ER is a “Quantity Start”?
Have you seen this?
Actual live games rendered pitch by pitch in a cozy 8-bit view while they happen.
https://ribbie.tv/
Ok that’s seriously awesome.
HA! That is great!! Jut saw a Phillies HR
This is really cool! I don’t subscribe to any platform that has ESPN, so I might use Ribbie to follow along with tonight’s game.
Tellez looks like he belongs in the WWE or the SEC.
Elder’s all-star candidacy has taken a significant hit. Still, if you’re gonna give up runs, doing it all in one game is the way to go.
Let’s take 2 from the Pads!
HSK took another 0fer with multiple strikeouts. Doesn’t look like we are going to recoup any value out of that deal.
It’s worse than that. Baseball Reference this am shows WAR of -0.9, which is crazy low for someone with so few PA. Would have been better to have just burned $20,000,000 dollars.
My wife’s family decided we need to drive 3 more hours than usual for our beach vacation this year, and as a result I am near Sarasota for the week (Lido Key to be precise). We’re making the short drive down to CoolToday Park for the FCL Braves game tomorrow. Anybody I should look out for? I don’t follow minors too closely and certainly not rookie-level.
Important reminder that Milwaukee has been excellent this year both record wise and performance stat wise. Two out of three, seeing both of their aces, is pretty great by my standards.
The Braves were very lucky. Most of the 8 runs Bryce gave up came with two outs. And the Brewers in all three games kept pounding and pounding. Not sure any of the pitchers had a clean inning. It took a once-in-a-lifetime play to win game 2. The fact that the Braves can no longer score is going to come back to haunt soon. They can’t win many more with walk-offs. There is a reason that the Braves only score in the 1st (before the SP settles in) and later innings (when substandard pitchers come in).
Wonder why all NL teams but the Bums have worse records. Guess the Braves are the only lucky team.
I was interested in reading something on ESPN today, that the Brewers are the second-best team in clutch hitting … and that the Braves are first.
recapped.