08-30-2023, 12:35 PM
The Brewers just keep winning. 9-1 in their last 10. We're 7 back in the division (plus the tie breaker is Milwaukee's, so we're closer to 8 games back in reality). With jjust 1 month left of regular season play, odds are they got the division. We should turn our focus fully to the Wild Card now.
We're 2 games back from the Wild Card, with the Giants unfortunately being the ones who pushed us down here. We still have an okay shot at making the playoffs, but it must start today against the Giants. We've been completely and utterly shut down on offense the last two nights. They need to show some resolve and put up some runs today.
If Greene is back, gives us 6 quality innings and we score 4 to 5 runs, we should walk out of there with a win and we'll be back to 1 GB from the Wild Card.
If we lose and drop to 3 GB in the Wild Card...that would be rough.
After today's game, we have a 4 game weekend series with Chicago. They need to, at the very worst, split the series. If they can get 3 or 4 wins there, that may revive the season.
This is our last chance to directly affect one of our competition, as we play nothing but fodder teams and AL teams for the remainder of the season.
The silver lining of that is that we will have a (theoretically) much easier end of the season than Chicago. The Cubs have a gauntlet to end the season, with 4 games against us, 7 against Arizona, 3 against SF, 3 against Atlanta and 3 against Milwaukee over the next month (They also have 6 against Colorado and 3 against Pittsburgh). They may have the largest impact on who wins those last 2 WC spots, depending on how they fair against those other WC teams.
We're on life support right now, pending these next 5 games. If we continue on the path we've had all August, then we're toast. If we can rebound and take a few from Chicago and finish this awful west coast road trip with a win, then we still have a pretty good chance.
Losing McLain for at least 2 weeks is not promising though. Hopefully, Fraley comes back soon.
We're 2 games back from the Wild Card, with the Giants unfortunately being the ones who pushed us down here. We still have an okay shot at making the playoffs, but it must start today against the Giants. We've been completely and utterly shut down on offense the last two nights. They need to show some resolve and put up some runs today.
If Greene is back, gives us 6 quality innings and we score 4 to 5 runs, we should walk out of there with a win and we'll be back to 1 GB from the Wild Card.
If we lose and drop to 3 GB in the Wild Card...that would be rough.
After today's game, we have a 4 game weekend series with Chicago. They need to, at the very worst, split the series. If they can get 3 or 4 wins there, that may revive the season.
This is our last chance to directly affect one of our competition, as we play nothing but fodder teams and AL teams for the remainder of the season.
The silver lining of that is that we will have a (theoretically) much easier end of the season than Chicago. The Cubs have a gauntlet to end the season, with 4 games against us, 7 against Arizona, 3 against SF, 3 against Atlanta and 3 against Milwaukee over the next month (They also have 6 against Colorado and 3 against Pittsburgh). They may have the largest impact on who wins those last 2 WC spots, depending on how they fair against those other WC teams.
We're on life support right now, pending these next 5 games. If we continue on the path we've had all August, then we're toast. If we can rebound and take a few from Chicago and finish this awful west coast road trip with a win, then we still have a pretty good chance.
Losing McLain for at least 2 weeks is not promising though. Hopefully, Fraley comes back soon.
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