Scholarship table
Brewers have to get it done without Yelich against an easier schedule. Cubs have to get it done without Baez and now potentially Rizzo against a tougher (but not insane) schedule. Cards have the toughest schedule remaining. Should be an interesting two weeks.
and have had to do it without their best pitcher and second best hitter for a while now.any word on when or if keston or woodruff return this year?
Hope he can bounce back quickly. Looks like Rizzo just badly sprained his ankle. Bummer seeing all these stars hurt at the end of the year.
The best fans in baseball cleared out VERY quickly with 4 outs left in the game today. And they had a chance to tie it up too. Would’ve been a very quiet celebration for a home game in a pennant race had they completed the comeback in the bottom of the ninth.
These next two weeks are going to be very interesting. Frankly, if the Crew simply does their job they'll be in the post season. The Cubs and the Cards play a combined 26 games. And in those 26 exactly 7 are guaranteed to be a loss. The very best the combined tandem can go is 19-7 and obviously both will lose other games as well. So it's not unrealistic at all that one or the other could play sub .500 ball down the stretch. St Louis has a particularly challenging schedule. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see them go from the division lead to out by the time this is over. Yesterday was huge for the Crew. And the Cubs should be thanking their northern neighbors as well.
And the Cubs should be thanking their northern neighbors as well.
The Brewers had a very difficult first month and a half of the season and then the schedule lightened up quite a bit. I think they had a stretch of something like 26 straight games or maybe 26 of 29 games against sub .500 teams. The thinking was if they're .500 after the first month and a half they'll be in great position. They were 10 games over .500 at that point and then went something like 9-17 against the sub .500 teams.This still isn't last year's team, especially without Yelich. When the Brewers won a couple series against the Cubs and then the schedule really opened up to end the season last year you knew they were going to make their run. This year? I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Brewers went 6-7 down the stretch despite the weak schedule.
So I am playing around on Fan Graphs this morning, and was surprised to see that they have the playoff odds like this:Cardinals: 86.3%Cubs: 72.7%Brewers: 36.1%They have the Brewers and Cubs going 7-6 the rest of the way, and the Cardinals 6-7. This is despite the Brewers having the easiest of the three schedules. Are they evaluating the Brewers without Yelich? Is it because of their negative run differential, saying that they have been playing inordinately "lucky" lately?
Let's not forget the Nats in this. Only a 1.5 game wildcard lead over the Cubs, 2.5 over the Brewers. Three games upcoming versus the Cards.
Yep. Especially with the inanity of Dave Martinez' decision making. Was watching some of their game on Saturday due to the WC implications. Brings Suero in during the 6th for relief, holding a 1-0 lead. He promptly gives up 2 hits and the tying run. Leaves him in to start the 7th where he walks the next 2 guys on I think 9 pitches total. Then brings in Rodney with 2 on. Now you have base runners for Acuna and Albies with only 1 out and naturally they feast and the Nats get blown out.