Latest / The Huddle / 10/13/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to The Huddle. It's time
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- 0:23Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
- 0:26Speaker 2: We know exactly what we got to do. All right?
- 0:30Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some shit.
- 0:32Speaker 1: One, two, three.
- 0:33Speaker 3: We got some big plays coming. What the hell's going on?
- 0:36Speaker 1: Come on out here! Yellow Weasel!
- 0:38Speaker 2: Quit calling the plays, all right?
- 0:39Speaker 3: It is time.
- 0:40Speaker 2: What do you think you are?
- 0:41Speaker 1: I am!
- 0:42Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen.
- 0:43Speaker 4: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
- 0:47Speaker 4: your respect.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt.
- 0:48Speaker 5: That son of a gun is thick.
- 0:50Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
- 0:51Speaker 5: Daddy Sarian.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Strong.
- 1:04Speaker 6: Here he creates a high line drive to deep right field.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Freeman takes it away from Freeman. What a battle. How
- 1:12Speaker 2: does it end? Jake Bowers is impressive at the walk.
- 1:34Speaker 2: Christian Yelich. Lines the ball.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Center field.
- 1:36Speaker 2: It's down.
- 1:37Speaker 1: Hamilton's in to score the time run.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Turing comes in behind him. Milwaukee takes the lead.
- 1:40Speaker 1: And it's Christian Yelich coming through.
- 1:50Speaker 2: And that's going to be it.
- 1:51Speaker 3: Wow.
- 1:52Speaker 2: I mean, he's fatigued. By far the shortest start of
- 1:55Speaker 2: Yoshinobu Yamamoto's postseason career. Out of the game in the
- 1:58Speaker 2: third inning. It's a high drive to deep center.
- 2:00Speaker 5: Pahez going back.
- 2:01Speaker 2: It is gone. And it's tied again. Controls Newell. David
- 2:11Speaker 2: Hamilton leads off to sixth.
- 2:12Speaker 5: And got hit by Brock Stewart.
- 2:14Speaker 7: We've already seen you put this man on.
- 2:16Speaker 2: You're flirting with trouble if you're the Dodgers. Now the
- 2:18Speaker 2: Dodgers with a throw away.
- 2:21Speaker 6: That's going to be an interference on Freddie Freeman.
- 2:24Speaker 2: Hamilton will stop at second. He was going to get
- 2:27Speaker 2: second either way. To left field. It is down and
- 2:29Speaker 2: it's Catriona's delivery again. Lures back in front. Contreras has
- 2:38Speaker 2: knocked in three of the five. Got him. Four up
- 2:43Speaker 2: and four down for a rebound. Hamilton floats around right field.
- 2:47Speaker 2: Tucker watches it sink in. Hamilton on for the fourth time.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Here goes Hamilton.
- 2:51Speaker 1: First pitch.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Throw from Smith.
- 2:52Speaker 6: There it is.
- 2:53Speaker 2: Not in time. And Hamilton continues to be a terror
- 2:56Speaker 2: to him. Basic center field. Nice turn.
- 2:58Speaker 6: Six-five rules.
- 3:23Speaker 4: That was kind of fun to relive. A little condensed
- 3:26Speaker 4: game highlights from Fox Sports. Welcome into the Tuesday edition
- 3:28Speaker 4: of the Huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin podcast. Drew Wilson,
- 3:31Speaker 4: Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian, live from headquarters in our new
- 3:35Speaker 4: time slot, 2 to 5 p.m. And as we were
- 3:39Speaker 4: reliving those moments here with you on these here airwaves
- 3:42Speaker 4: and interwebs, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, everywhere in the iHeart app,
- 3:45Speaker 4: streaming live, Facebook X and YouTube, the MLB Network just
- 3:50Speaker 4: fired up the rebroadcast, the replay of the entirety of
- 3:53Speaker 4: the Brewers-Dodgers game two from yesterday at AmFam Field. And
- 3:58Speaker 4: I think I'll cover my eyes when Logan Henderson tries
- 4:01Speaker 4: to throw the first, but the rest of it I'll enjoy.
- 4:03Speaker 7: Just like Logan did. I mean, seemingly so, unless he
- 4:07Speaker 7: was aiming for the guy sitting in row three. But
- 4:09Speaker 7: drew a nice little way to this is how Armin
- 4:11Speaker 7: Sarian lives his life. Just gets to rewatch games. We
- 4:14Speaker 7: get to do it on day number two in the
- 4:16Speaker 7: two o'clock hour.
- 4:16Speaker 5: I like that.
- 4:17Speaker 6: Yeah, it is pretty wild. This is the Armin experience.
- 4:20Speaker 6: As my buddies were saying, well, look, we can feel better.
- 4:23Speaker 6: At least our fielders were pretty good. It was just
- 4:25Speaker 6: our pitcher that couldn't feel them. Like, well, it all
- 4:27Speaker 6: matters right now. But I guess that is a good
- 4:29Speaker 6: way to look at it. Most of his throws to
- 4:30Speaker 6: the plate were fine.
- 4:31Speaker 1: That's it.
- 4:32Speaker 5: Everywhere else.
- 4:33Speaker 4: Well, with the exception of one spiked ball that let
- 4:36Speaker 4: a guy move to third base and score on a
- 4:39Speaker 4: sack fly.
- 4:41Speaker 5: The Dodgers had three hits. None of them drove in
- 4:43Speaker 5: a run. It's amazing. They scored four. How'd they get
- 4:46Speaker 5: four runs? Well, you handed most of them on the
- 4:48Speaker 5: silver platter. Yeah.
- 4:49Speaker 7: And frankly, Drew, it seemed like at least from the
- 4:52Speaker 7: Dodger reaction, I was gathering last night and early this morning.
- 4:55Speaker 7: They felt pretty resigned to the fact that they did
- 4:58Speaker 7: not do anything offensively to make that a game yesterday.
- 5:01Speaker 5: Can't really complain about anything.
- 5:02Speaker 4: When you get three hits, you have no claim to
- 5:04Speaker 4: try to even feel like you were lucky to.
- 5:06Speaker 5: Get four runs.
- 5:07Speaker 4: The Brewers have the upper hand in the series, and
- 5:09Speaker 4: they have been the dominant team. The bullpen has been incredible.
- 5:14Speaker 4: And yesterday was just an encapsulation. People who don't watch
- 5:18Speaker 4: the Brewers all year can see yesterday's game in the
- 5:21Speaker 4: late afternoon time slot and say, oh, okay, I get it.
- 5:25Speaker 4: Contreras was the man. Three hits to either tie or
- 5:28Speaker 4: put his team ahead. So it was William Contreras day.
- 5:31Speaker 4: Jake Bowers had a bat for the ages. Oh, and
- 5:33Speaker 4: then later drove in another key run. Yellich acted like
- 5:37Speaker 4: the captain. taking advantage. A lot of times you see
- 5:40Speaker 4: them not capitalize on.
- 5:42Speaker 5: A moment like Bowers is a bat.
- 5:45Speaker 4: And then David Hamilton getting his start is the spark
- 5:48Speaker 4: plug in the nine hole of a couple of big,
- 5:51Speaker 4: huge rallies with his speed and his base running and
- 5:53Speaker 4: just getting on base and being pesky, which was incredible.
- 5:57Speaker 4: And again, it's hidden here among the tire and strip
- 6:00Speaker 4: club ads. You got to look for it. But Jack
- 6:02Speaker 4: Centurio is had the most productive 0-for-5 day because twice
- 6:05Speaker 4: he moved Hamilton to third where he was able to score.
- 6:09Speaker 5: And that's just Brewers baseball.
- 6:12Speaker 4: When Jackson Turio moved the second time, he had a
- 6:15Speaker 4: ground ball, I think, to Freeman and to the right side.
- 6:18Speaker 4: It's like, now you've got to get him in. We
- 6:20Speaker 4: talked about it, Billy. You said, if you don't get
- 6:21Speaker 4: a guy in from third with less than two outs,
- 6:23Speaker 4: it's like giving up a run. And they got him in.
- 6:25Speaker 4: It was Brewers baseball. And the Dodgers' heads are spinning.
- 6:28Speaker 5: They are.
- 6:29Speaker 4: teetering on the brink like they could still come back
- 6:31Speaker 4: 100 it's hard to imagine how the way they're playing
- 6:35Speaker 4: they're talking about benching otani he looks hurt the brewers
- 6:38Speaker 4: have survived their top two guns now they got pretty
- 6:40Speaker 4: good guys in waiting and snelling glass now but the
- 6:44Speaker 4: snowball's rolling down the hill and the brewers have the
- 6:46Speaker 4: upper hand you've all seen the number 83 percent of
- 6:49Speaker 4: teams with a 2-0 lead in a game and a
- 6:51Speaker 4: seven game series go on and win it's hard to
- 6:54Speaker 4: imagine the Dodgers winning four or five. If anybody can
- 6:56Speaker 4: do it, this team can do it.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Correct.
- 6:58Speaker 4: But they're going to be pushed to the brink. And
- 7:01Speaker 4: now it's getting to the point where if the Brewers
- 7:03Speaker 4: can take game three, it's fait accompli. Like coming back
- 7:06Speaker 4: from three O's.
- 7:07Speaker 7: There's a reason why only one team's done it. And
- 7:11Speaker 7: they did a documentary of four-parter about it a couple
- 7:13Speaker 7: of years ago.
- 7:14Speaker 5: This is a two-time reigning defending champion.
- 7:17Speaker 7: And Drew, albeit not looking much like it, the Dodgers
- 7:21Speaker 7: don't look much like it in the box. They haven't
- 7:24Speaker 7: in the bullpen. And the first two guys you mentioned
- 7:26Speaker 7: at the top of their rotation. the one who came
- 7:29Speaker 7: in here a year ago on game number two and
- 7:32Speaker 7: shut you out and basically shut the lights off of
- 7:34Speaker 7: American family field and Yamamoto, you knock him out in
- 7:37Speaker 7: the third inning yesterday. And you mentioned it with the
- 7:39Speaker 7: captain capitalizing on the powers at bat. I mean, that's
- 7:43Speaker 7: throwing your hands up in absolute cinema, because if you
- 7:46Speaker 7: don't there and you let him off the ropes, you're,
- 7:49Speaker 7: Lord only knows how the rest of those six innings play.
- 7:52Speaker 7: But once you have the Dodgers on the ropes, you
- 7:54Speaker 7: got to be able to knock them out. Joe Davis
- 7:55Speaker 7: said it last year in the final call of game
- 7:58Speaker 7: seven of the World Series, which is one of the
- 8:00Speaker 7: best World Series game sevens we've ever seen. And the
- 8:03Speaker 7: blue Jays were closer than anybody has maybe ever been
- 8:07Speaker 7: to winning the title. Not once, but twice. He said,
- 8:10Speaker 7: if you're going to beat the champs, you better knock
- 8:12Speaker 7: them out. So now you got them on the ropes.
- 8:15Speaker 7: Now you got to be able to deliver two big
- 8:17Speaker 7: blows and finish the job.
- 8:18Speaker 6: And this is when the challenge really gets real. I mean,
- 8:21Speaker 6: you take the first two. That's fantastic. It was monumental
- 8:24Speaker 6: to do that, a task to win at your home
- 8:27Speaker 6: stadium in front of your home crowd. But it'll be
- 8:29Speaker 6: tougher going to L.A. This is a desperate team, a
- 8:31Speaker 6: proud team, back-to-back champs. They're going to be desperate to
- 8:34Speaker 6: win game three. You have to think this is their
- 8:37Speaker 6: best chance to win one because they know they can't
- 8:38Speaker 6: go down 3-0. They're going to have Dodger Stadium behind them.
- 8:42Speaker 6: With their talent and their experience, it can still flip quick.
- 8:45Speaker 6: And I think it's fine to realize that and understand that,
- 8:49Speaker 6: even knowing you're in a pretty good position now.
- 8:51Speaker 5: So the Brewers have to stay vigilant in that regard.
- 8:53Speaker 5: I think they know that.
- 8:54Speaker 4: The Brewers, every time the Dodgers took the lead, the
- 8:56Speaker 4: Brewers answered, which was huge.
- 8:58Speaker 5: That was the key, yeah.
- 8:59Speaker 4: Can't say enough about the bullpen. Ashby being nails Uribe again.
- 9:02Speaker 1: Oh, man.
- 9:03Speaker 4: It is, everything is rolling from, and it started with the,
- 9:07Speaker 4: you know, it started, it's been all summer.
- 9:09Speaker 5: It's been all summer.
- 9:10Speaker 4: But the, that game two Padres game with the Churrio walk-off, right?
- 9:15Speaker 5: For sure.
- 9:16Speaker 4: That's, you know, that pretty much got the, That was
- 9:19Speaker 4: like the final push. And now it's just a wagon.
- 9:22Speaker 7: Well, and now I don't know if you guys have
- 9:24Speaker 7: noticed it, but everybody that I've maybe ever encountered in
- 9:27Speaker 7: my entire life has been posting about the Milwaukee Brewers. Like,
- 9:31Speaker 7: I don't know that I ever thought there were about
- 9:33Speaker 7: half of the folks I saw with the social capital
- 9:35Speaker 7: of being at game two yesterday that I ever would
- 9:38Speaker 7: have thought were interested. in the Milwaukee Brewers. They have
- 9:42Speaker 7: galvanized a hell of a fan base of the casuals
- 9:45Speaker 7: right now. And the bandwagon is so full and fully
- 9:50Speaker 7: loaded that it's more, listen, the song said, be a
- 9:54Speaker 7: believer in Brewers fever. There's a lot joining in the
- 9:57Speaker 7: cheering because I don't know that I have ever seen
- 10:00Speaker 7: this many just passerbys be this engaged into the crew
- 10:04Speaker 7: right now.
- 10:04Speaker 5: Well, it's great. And, you know, we've been to the
- 10:06Speaker 5: NLCS before, obviously, in recent history.
- 10:08Speaker 6: But this one, I think that the refrain you hear
- 10:11Speaker 6: from a lot of people.
- 10:12Speaker 5: Is, well, this feels different. Well, in that sense, it does.
- 10:14Speaker 5: I think, Billy, a lot of people believe now.
- 10:15Speaker 6: I think it took a win and obviously getting to
- 10:20Speaker 6: for people to really start believe it. You saw a
- 10:21Speaker 6: little bit of that five years ago with with Bucks
- 10:24Speaker 6: to being a Not a bandwagon-type team, but people jumping
- 10:27Speaker 6: on it.
- 10:28Speaker 5: But Brewers does have bigger reach in that sense. Brewers
- 10:30Speaker 5: have never had a 2-0 lead in a series. In
- 10:33Speaker 5: any seven-game series.
- 10:34Speaker 4: In a seven-game series. So that's uncharted territory. There were
- 10:37Speaker 4: just so many wild things about yesterday. Yamamoto had never
- 10:40Speaker 4: had a 12-pitch at bat in his three seasons in
- 10:42Speaker 4: the majors.
- 10:42Speaker 5: That was remarkable, man.
- 10:44Speaker 4: And the Brewers did to the Dodgers kind of what
- 10:47Speaker 4: the Padres and Dodgers did to Miz.
- 10:49Speaker 5: Totally was.
- 10:50Speaker 4: Just ran up his pitch count. And the powers at bat.
- 10:53Speaker 4: It was the inflection point, the pivotal moment in the game.
- 10:56Speaker 4: Cause that just, he was done after that.
- 10:58Speaker 5: He's tired. He hangs a pitch to yellow. She smacks it.
- 11:01Speaker 5: And it was like, then it was, it was on.
- 11:03Speaker 7: And he looks into the dugout. Like, Hey, yeah, I'm done.
- 11:06Speaker 7: I don't know what you guys got going on here,
- 11:08Speaker 7: but you better come get me now.
- 11:09Speaker 4: And the blueprint for the Dodgers was not to use
- 11:12Speaker 4: six pitchers and six innings at a game that Yamamoto starts.
- 11:15Speaker 5: It was the furthest thing from the thought.
- 11:16Speaker 6: Does he, someone is like consistent and steady and tough
- 11:20Speaker 6: as him. I had to look like you said, Billy,
- 11:22Speaker 6: like make that look like look fatigued. I mean, it
- 11:25Speaker 6: was just uncharted.
- 11:26Speaker 5: I mean, it was amazing. It's amazing how the Brewers
- 11:29Speaker 5: bowl constricted you to use a Billy Smith hits in
- 11:31Speaker 5: the game.
- 11:31Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:32Speaker 7: Now it was the terrain at bat in that third inning, right?
- 11:35Speaker 7: Where Yamamoto looks into Smith on the three, two pitch
- 11:38Speaker 7: and was like, well, I think that you're not going
- 11:41Speaker 7: to challenge that one.
- 11:42Speaker 5: It was, I think it was the next one.
- 11:43Speaker 4: Cause I think they just kind of let the first
- 11:45Speaker 4: one side, the Dodgers were like the second only one
- 11:49Speaker 4: team had fewer challenges as a defense, as pitchers, as catchers.
- 11:52Speaker 5: Oh, okay. So they didn't challenge a lot. I don't
- 11:55Speaker 5: know why. And he smacked his head, though. You're right. Yeah,
- 11:57Speaker 5: I mean, he taps the head. He looks at him like, brother,
- 11:59Speaker 5: you sure?
- 12:00Speaker 4: I thought it was the second one, because I think
- 12:02Speaker 4: the first about was a close 3-2, and then it was, yeah,
- 12:06Speaker 4: I thought it was the second, because it happened twice
- 12:08Speaker 4: with Terang.
- 12:09Speaker 5: It was like it was wild, but.
- 12:11Speaker 7: It was in that sequence. It was in that inning.
- 12:13Speaker 7: Then when Bowers comes up to two guys later, where
- 12:16Speaker 7: is it again? Like what a hell of an inflection
- 12:18Speaker 7: point right there. If they challenge that one, the Bowers
- 12:21Speaker 7: at bat never happens in that inning. And again, you
- 12:24Speaker 7: don't know how far he goes. The answering back every
- 12:26Speaker 7: time the Dodgers scored momentum, the cliche only as good
- 12:31Speaker 7: as your next day starting pitcher. or your next half
- 12:33Speaker 7: inning starting pitcher in a playoff series.
- 12:35Speaker 5: Right.
- 12:35Speaker 7: Cause I mean, there's so the games flip so quickly
- 12:39Speaker 7: and even those three outs immediately after scoring, it just,
- 12:43Speaker 7: especially in the crowd, which seemed like it was at
- 12:45Speaker 7: a fever pitch yesterday. You get three outs with the lead,
- 12:49Speaker 7: and you already see some folks going, okay, now I'm
- 12:52Speaker 7: going to go grab a beer, go to the bathroom.
- 12:54Speaker 7: Maybe I'll grab a sausage now. You go and score immediately,
- 12:57Speaker 7: keep that rally going. The towels aren't slowing down. It
- 12:59Speaker 7: felt like that was a massive part of keeping the
- 13:01Speaker 7: pedal down yesterday. You respond each time the Dodgers got
- 13:05Speaker 7: up and either took the lead back or– In terms
- 13:08Speaker 7: of Contreras, you only tied it, but damn, did the
- 13:11Speaker 7: game flip right there when he banked that thing off
- 13:13Speaker 7: the scoreboard.
- 13:13Speaker 6: That's just the momentum flip, and it's funny. We talk about,
- 13:16Speaker 6: you know, will the Brewers have enough power? Will they
- 13:18Speaker 6: hit enough home runs? They've done it their way, but
- 13:21Speaker 6: they've also mixed in the power when they've needed it
- 13:22Speaker 6: the most, right? They got the Terang homer. They got
- 13:25Speaker 6: the Contreras homer. No, they haven't had, like, a three-run
- 13:28Speaker 6: bop or all those things, but it's just amazing when
- 13:31Speaker 6: you embrace an identity, when you start to believe in
- 13:33Speaker 6: that identity, how you can really perform to it.
- 13:36Speaker 5: And the Brewers have done that.
- 13:37Speaker 6: They approach taking walks now like it's like a magnum opus.
- 13:42Speaker 6: And I just love the fact that they embrace that
- 13:44Speaker 6: identity because so many people in baseball are like, can
- 13:47Speaker 6: this consistently work? Can it work in the playoffs, the singles,
- 13:50Speaker 6: the slats?
- 13:50Speaker 5: They're doing it right now.
- 13:51Speaker 4: The Dodgers do rely a lot on home runs for
- 13:54Speaker 4: their offense, right? But they can score in a myriad
- 13:56Speaker 4: of ways.
- 13:57Speaker 5: Absolutely.
- 13:57Speaker 4: And they have one extra base hit in this series
- 13:59Speaker 4: so far. They hit a bunch of bombs against the Braves,
- 14:02Speaker 4: and they roughed up Chris Sale.
- 14:03Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
- 14:04Speaker 5: So they're capable, like we said.
- 14:06Speaker 4: But I was struck yesterday again because like everybody, Derek
- 14:09Speaker 4: Jeter was talking about it on their panel about just
- 14:12Speaker 4: the way the Brewers play.
- 14:13Speaker 5: And it's like, I don't know, you don't notice it.
- 14:15Speaker 4: It goes unnoticed in the regular season. And this is
- 14:18Speaker 4: the way you're supposed to play is winning baseball is
- 14:20Speaker 4: what he said. And Jeter was talking about that. This
- 14:23Speaker 4: is winning baseball. But the Dodgers play that. I was
- 14:26Speaker 4: struck because two of the best players on the field
- 14:28Speaker 4: and two of the best players currently in the major
- 14:30Speaker 4: leagues are like Mookie Betts and Jackson Churio. Betts is
- 14:33Speaker 4: towards the end of his stardom in his window, and
- 14:36Speaker 4: Churio's just opening the door. But they both got runners over,
- 14:39Speaker 4: and Mookie Betts moved a guy over from second to
- 14:42Speaker 4: third with a grounder to the right side, and halfway
- 14:44Speaker 4: down the line, he's clapping. You knew exactly what he
- 14:47Speaker 4: wanted to do. He knew exactly, and he was clapping.
- 14:49Speaker 4: It's like, I thought, wow, that's really something. And then
- 14:51Speaker 4: I see Churio do it now. Churio's first move was
- 14:55Speaker 4: he had a ball to the hole and Hamilton got
- 14:57Speaker 4: a great read because you don't usually go to third
- 14:58Speaker 4: on a ball to the left side. Usually go that,
- 15:01Speaker 4: but he got a great read and knew the ball
- 15:03Speaker 4: was behind him. Mookie didn't have any play and Hamilton's
- 15:05Speaker 4: really fast. So that was an unconventional, maybe unintentional move,
- 15:10Speaker 4: but it moved the guy over. And I've had, I had,
- 15:12Speaker 4: I pointed that out on the old X machine and
- 15:16Speaker 4: somebody like, well, Hamilton would have scored from second anyway,
- 15:18Speaker 4: but you don't get it because Hamilton, Tell me you
- 15:21Speaker 4: don't know without telling me you don't know ball, because
- 15:24Speaker 4: when you get a guy to third, the pitchers are
- 15:27Speaker 4: reticent to spike breaking balls. It changes their delivery. They
- 15:31Speaker 4: have to worry more. And it's like any ball that
- 15:33Speaker 4: squirts away. It changes the dynamic. Plus you can score
- 15:37Speaker 4: a guy on an out and you know, it doesn't, I.
- 15:40Speaker 7: Was going to say the scoring on and out. It's
- 15:42Speaker 7: a completely different one. And it's a game changer. You
- 15:44Speaker 7: mentioned Hamilton earlier on. How about Hamilton and Pratt each
- 15:47Speaker 7: with two hits yesterday when in all reality going into
- 15:51Speaker 7: the playoffs, I thought it was going to be either
- 15:53Speaker 7: or of those two. I thought Joey Ortiz would be
- 15:56Speaker 7: in every single game of the playoffs. And it's not
- 15:59Speaker 7: like he's made bad contact. He hasn't necessarily gotten many
- 16:02Speaker 7: of the results that you would hope for. But he's
- 16:05Speaker 7: scalded some baseballs. And instead, yesterday, it's Hamilton at third.
- 16:09Speaker 7: Brad at short. Both play good defense. Good one into
- 16:12Speaker 7: the glove of Hamilton. And obviously, they both with the
- 16:15Speaker 7: hits at the bottom of the order and flip it around.
- 16:17Speaker 7: It's really, really impressive to see. And I understand there's
- 16:21Speaker 7: still two more to get.
- 16:23Speaker 5: Mr. Bean, Brian is... Just ringing in my ear. Job's
- 16:26Speaker 5: not finished.
- 16:26Speaker 6: What's there to be happy about? Job's not finished. But
- 16:30Speaker 6: it feels pretty good.
- 16:31Speaker 5: This feels pretty good.
- 16:33Speaker 7: For what we talked about all year long, Drew's ringing
- 16:37Speaker 7: statement about playing good baseball would just be 500. You're
- 16:41Speaker 7: now to the point of the baseball season where you
- 16:43Speaker 7: can be exactly 500. I know you pointed out yesterday
- 16:46Speaker 7: 7 and 6. Now you can be exactly 500 and
- 16:49Speaker 7: wake up World Series champs.
- 16:50Speaker 6: Yeah, it's pretty crazy to think about it. it's, you know,
- 16:53Speaker 6: and if you're a lifelong fan, we all are Brewers fans.
- 16:55Speaker 6: So I know people are like, you know, I've been
- 16:57Speaker 6: watching this team forever. Well, we all been watching forever.
- 16:59Speaker 6: We're all fans, but for Brewers fans, it can obviously
- 17:02Speaker 6: feel like beyond your wildest dreams. So you just kind
- 17:04Speaker 6: of want to like, keep it there, but you want
- 17:06Speaker 6: to understand like, this is real embrace the moment, embrace
- 17:09Speaker 6: the energy.
- 17:09Speaker 5: Yeah. It's not done. This is the team that can
- 17:12Speaker 5: flip it on you quick, obviously.
- 17:13Speaker 6: So you have to make sure you don't get the
- 17:15Speaker 6: cold water in your face after getting it.
- 17:16Speaker 5: But look, it's fun. You have to enjoy the journey.
- 17:19Speaker 5: And I think Bruce is doing it now.
- 17:21Speaker 6: Like you said, Billy, the Kobe thing is funny because
- 17:24Speaker 6: I always say that's important for players, not for fans.
- 17:26Speaker 5: I could be happy right now. I'm not playing. That's true.
- 17:29Speaker 5: It doesn't matter what I do.
- 17:33Speaker 4: Another moment, another hidden moment in the game happened in
- 17:36Speaker 4: the seventh inning when one out, nobody on Henriquez is in.
- 17:40Speaker 4: He comes in to face Pratt. He buzzes the tower,
- 17:44Speaker 4: spins the bill of his cap around. And I'm just thinking, well, heesh.
- 17:48Speaker 4: yikes see how the kid responds yeah it's a single
- 17:52Speaker 4: and then he tries to run and gets thrown out
- 17:53Speaker 4: stealing but the fact that he got a hit after
- 17:56Speaker 4: that and he's 22 years old it shows it's just
- 17:59Speaker 4: like that's the ethos that's the huevos of the brewers
- 18:02Speaker 4: and that's just the way they've been.
- 18:03Speaker 7: Playing all year long they really have uh identified the
- 18:06Speaker 7: two right he was gonna get hit after that pitch
- 18:08Speaker 7: no no no i thought he was gonna be overmatched
- 18:11Speaker 7: in the abat now granted it wasn't like a do
- 18:13Speaker 7: or die guy on third situation, but it's still, you.
- 18:17Speaker 5: Know, but he, but he tags one Oh three on
- 18:20Speaker 5: the next pitch.
- 18:21Speaker 7: And then I think it's one Oh two on the
- 18:22Speaker 7: base edge and Boulder away from me, backing you up
- 18:25Speaker 7: real quick, quick to not get, be able to touch
- 18:27Speaker 7: the sinker.
- 18:28Speaker 5: On the outside 22.
- 18:29Speaker 4: And what does he have less than like a hundred
- 18:31Speaker 4: big league games to be doing that?
- 18:34Speaker 7: Pretty, pretty impressive identification of the talent that you had
- 18:38Speaker 7: down there as well.
- 18:39Speaker 6: Right.
- 18:39Speaker 7: Like I know it's a lot easier to glaze at
- 18:42Speaker 7: this moment, but you sign Lara and Pratt each before
- 18:46Speaker 7: the year.
- 18:46Speaker 5: And when each of them signed their.
- 18:49Speaker 7: Deal or agreed to terms and we first got the
- 18:52Speaker 7: awesome notification that the Milwaukee Brewers have signed an extension
- 18:55Speaker 7: with minor league. before you tap and finish the rest,
- 18:59Speaker 7: everyone thought it was Jesus Monday.
- 19:01Speaker 5: Everybody thought it would be me. I don't know, maybe
- 19:04Speaker 5: Blake Burke.
- 19:05Speaker 7: I don't know that everybody was anticipating it being Cooper
- 19:07Speaker 7: Pratt and Luis Lara, the guys that they lock up,
- 19:10Speaker 7: and they don't win either of the first two games
- 19:12Speaker 7: without them here in the NLCS.
- 19:13Speaker 6: Yeah, and I know people have been a little frustrated
- 19:17Speaker 6: with Pratt's inconsistency. I thought last night was a really
- 19:19Speaker 6: tough one. You're taking that wild hop. It was pretty
- 19:22Speaker 6: much a screamer. He didn't make the play, but That
- 19:24Speaker 6: wasn't the third inning, right?
- 19:26Speaker 5: That would have been a tough play. Very tough. Very tough.
- 19:28Speaker 5: So I get it.
- 19:29Speaker 6: And Glove is what he does. But he's made some
- 19:32Speaker 6: great plays, too. So you have to look at that
- 19:33Speaker 6: thing both ways. Defense, once again, I mean, Freelick's play
- 19:36Speaker 6: was tough. He made that catch.
- 19:38Speaker 5: He kind of had it.
- 19:39Speaker 4: You know, they scored that inning, but he had to
- 19:40Speaker 4: make that play. They're playing winning baseball. They've won 108
- 19:45Speaker 4: games this year. This isn't a fluke.
- 19:46Speaker 5: It's a film they seem to be able to do
- 19:48Speaker 5: this yes.
- 19:49Speaker 4: Yes indeed they're a good club and they can beat
- 19:51Speaker 4: you in a number of ways and like i've said
- 19:53Speaker 4: before you know in in playoff baseball the little moments
- 19:56Speaker 4: like billy not getting a guy in from third and
- 19:59Speaker 4: like the the little moments like that and for the
- 20:02Speaker 4: dodgers like not preventing Hamilton from stealing and just little
- 20:06Speaker 4: moments like that. But the Brewers are overcoming mistakes that
- 20:09Speaker 4: would have crippled them in the past. And they're coming
- 20:11Speaker 4: back in games when they wouldn't have come back in
- 20:13Speaker 4: the past.
- 20:13Speaker 6: Right.
- 20:14Speaker 5: And it's just.
- 20:15Speaker 4: And Contreras is, this is his moment. Like he's right now,
- 20:18Speaker 4: the MVP through two games. He's been incredible. It has
- 20:22Speaker 4: been a ride and it's just really getting rolling. Cause
- 20:25Speaker 4: now they're going to go to, to the goal is
- 20:27Speaker 4: now to not have to play a game.
- 20:29Speaker 7: See a series starts series officially starts when somebody loses
- 20:32Speaker 7: at home. You were in the post game last night, right?
- 20:34Speaker 7: Drew was it, was it your boy, John Paul, who
- 20:38Speaker 7: asked Contreras about the celebrations or about the, the trot
- 20:42Speaker 7: around the bases.
- 20:43Speaker 5: I liked his answer.
- 20:44Speaker 7: What are you thinking about? Take those long trots around
- 20:48Speaker 7: the bases. Well, I just do that for my teammates.
- 20:53Speaker 7: I want my teammates to be able to celebrate. Yeah,
- 20:57Speaker 7: it's not for me. It's not for my celebration. It's
- 21:01Speaker 7: for all my teammates to be able to celebrate.
- 21:03Speaker 5: I absolutely love it.
- 21:04Speaker 4: His trip around the bases is 35 seconds and Bowers
- 21:06Speaker 4: is at bat was like seven and a half minutes.
- 21:10Speaker 6: Listen, it works, though, because it gets the boys fired
- 21:13Speaker 6: up on the top step. I mean, okay, we got
- 21:15Speaker 6: to get Sal Freelick like some sort of stepladder because he's.
- 21:18Speaker 5: Just leaning and standing on top of the.
- 21:20Speaker 2: Goodness gracious.
- 21:21Speaker 5: No, no, no. It wasn't a short joke. I promise.
- 21:23Speaker 5: Listen to what I'm saying. He's standing.
- 21:25Speaker 7: Two games away from the World Series, and that's what
- 21:27Speaker 7: you're going to do to the poor guy.
- 21:28Speaker 5: I love Sal. I love Sal. It's not a short joke.
- 21:29Speaker 5: My point is... Armand thinks he looks like Sal. Unbelievable, Drew.
- 21:32Speaker 5: I don't think it is. Multiple people have told me,
- 21:34Speaker 5: so I don't think it.
- 21:35Speaker 6: They're telling me he's standing on top of the top
- 21:38Speaker 6: step on the wall that.
- 21:39Speaker 5: The whole time anyway.
- 21:41Speaker 6: He's like balancing himself the whole time on top. That's
- 21:44Speaker 6: a very arm and move, by the way. That was
- 21:45Speaker 6: what I used to do all the time. Try and
- 21:47Speaker 6: climb it, lean over the fence. He's doing it so much.
- 21:50Speaker 6: We should just give him one of those purchase, like
- 21:51Speaker 6: one of those tennis umpire chairs to sit on because
- 21:54Speaker 6: he just.
- 21:54Speaker 5: Loves being that high. It was not a short joke. Okay.
- 21:57Speaker 5: I love what you got. You keep it up, Salvatore.
- 22:00Speaker 5: Maybe you've been great. Life is good. It's an off day.
- 22:04Speaker 5: Everybody can relax and get ready for some late night baseball.
- 22:08Speaker 4: Get ready for us. To welcome Bill Schroeder. Tuesdays with
- 22:12Speaker 4: Rock back. He's going to join us next. You are
- 22:15Speaker 4: in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. We are huddled
- 22:20Speaker 4: up on a Tuesday afternoon.
- 22:21Speaker 5: That's right.
- 22:22Speaker 4: We're on in the afternoons now. 2 to 5 p.m.
- 22:24Speaker 4: And it's awesome.
- 22:27Speaker 5: What else is awesome? Talking to Bill Schroeder.
- 22:29Speaker 4: Brewers TV in the wake of a thrilling victory yesterday
- 22:33Speaker 4: at American Family Field.
- 22:35Speaker 5: Rock, I only got one question for you. How about
- 22:37Speaker 5: them Brewers?
- 22:39Speaker 3: Unbelievable. You know what I like even more sometimes when
- 22:43Speaker 3: I hear Dancing Queen and it's not 7.30 in the morning.
- 22:48Speaker 5: That's a beautiful thing, isn't it? That's a good thing too.
- 22:51Speaker 3: I love the fact that we're on here today at 2.30.
- 22:56Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, I'll be on every day if
- 22:57Speaker 3: you want because.
- 22:59Speaker 5: That's a dangerous thing to say. Yeah, that's a dangerous
- 23:02Speaker 5: thing to.
- 23:02Speaker 3: Say, Bill. I really didn't mean it. I just mean that.
- 23:06Speaker 4: Well, We just spent 20 minutes talking about all the
- 23:09Speaker 4: things that have been going right and all the things
- 23:11Speaker 4: the Brewers are doing well, but we're barely scratching the surface, Rock.
- 23:13Speaker 4: So what are the things that are standing out to you,
- 23:16Speaker 4: both in the first two games against the Dodgers and
- 23:19Speaker 4: just overall in this postseason?
- 23:22Speaker 3: Can you say bullpen? I mean, this bullpen for the
- 23:27Speaker 3: Brewers has been unbelievable. Everybody that comes out of that
- 23:31Speaker 3: bullpen has got the job done. You know, nothing makes. Yesterday,
- 23:35Speaker 3: I mean, or they retired the last 15. They've given up, what, one,
- 23:40Speaker 3: maybe two wins in the playoffs so far this year.
- 23:43Speaker 3: Aaron Ashby, if he's not an MVP-type guy out there
- 23:48Speaker 3: right now, I don't know who is. You know, you've
- 23:50Speaker 3: got to think, you know, Contreras, you know, Turio, Ashby,
- 23:54Speaker 3: the way he's been able to eat up innings. He
- 23:56Speaker 3: just dominates. I mean, coming out of multiple innings, I mean,
- 24:00Speaker 3: Matt Murphy didn't even have to use McGill yesterday. He's
- 24:03Speaker 3: been so good. So it seems like these guys are
- 24:06Speaker 3: playing their best baseball right now. It couldn't come at
- 24:09Speaker 3: a better time. This is about as exciting as I've
- 24:13Speaker 3: ever been about a baseball season. And they just keep winning.
- 24:16Speaker 3: I mean, everything they're doing is right.
- 24:18Speaker 5: How about Uribe, too? In front of Ashby yesterday, he
- 24:22Speaker 5: was just dominant.
- 24:24Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and Uribe. I mean, the bullpen, but, you know,
- 24:27Speaker 3: it's like, you know, the way Murph uses them, sometimes
- 24:29Speaker 3: it's Uribe first and then Ashby, and then other times
- 24:32Speaker 3: it's Ashby, then Uribe, depending on where the opponent is
- 24:36Speaker 3: in the batting order. I tell you, if that Murph
- 24:38Speaker 3: is not, you know, another manager of the year, something's wrong.
- 24:43Speaker 3: This guy, I've been listening to a lot of radio,
- 24:46Speaker 3: you know, the last couple of days, and I've been
- 24:50Speaker 3: hearing the fact that some of these guys are saying
- 24:53Speaker 3: that Not only is Pat Murphy not only the best manager,
- 24:57Speaker 3: he might be the best coach in all the sports
- 24:59Speaker 3: right now. I don't know if anybody can argue that.
- 25:02Speaker 3: I don't think you can argue that. The way he's
- 25:04Speaker 3: been able to keep these guys focused. I mean, they
- 25:08Speaker 3: won the division by, what, 14 games? They had a
- 25:11Speaker 3: week off before the playoffs started, and they just keep
- 25:15Speaker 3: playing at a top level. I mean, he's got them engaged.
- 25:19Speaker 3: He's got them intense. He's got... I don't know what
- 25:22Speaker 3: he's been saying to Contreras, but I love that it
- 25:25Speaker 3: was a 37-minute jaunt around the bases yesterday.
- 25:27Speaker 5: Oh, it's just glorious. But Rock, it's not for him.
- 25:32Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I mean, tell you what. I think
- 25:35Speaker 3: he broke his own record, the one that he hit
- 25:36Speaker 3: against the Padres. So, I mean, maybe earlier this year.
- 25:40Speaker 3: I forget what it was. But he is absolutely enjoying
- 25:43Speaker 3: every one of those home runs. I mean, that is
- 25:47Speaker 3: about as long a home run as you're going to see.
- 25:49Speaker 3: He knew it as soon as he made contact. What
- 25:52Speaker 3: a jolt that that put in the crowd yesterday.
- 25:55Speaker 5: That's got to feel incredible.
- 25:56Speaker 7: Contreras is exactly what I wanted to ask you about, Rock,
- 25:59Speaker 7: because Murph said it last night, however good you think
- 26:01Speaker 7: he is, he's underrated. They go perfect out of the bullpen.
- 26:06Speaker 7: To work with all those pitchers, be able to sequence
- 26:08Speaker 7: call for everyone coming out of the pen, five to
- 26:11Speaker 7: six different guys a night. Can you somehow explain that
- 26:15Speaker 7: to people, just how difficult that is for the game plan,
- 26:19Speaker 7: all that goes into it, and just how impressive it is?
- 26:22Speaker 3: And everybody's game plan is different for every hitter, right?
- 26:25Speaker 3: I mean, the way, you know, D.O. Hall goes after
- 26:28Speaker 3: Otani is going to be different than the way, you know,
- 26:31Speaker 3: Uribe goes after him and vice versa. And, you know,
- 26:35Speaker 3: it's just one of those things where you have to
- 26:37Speaker 3: be prepared. And he does his homework. I mean, he's
- 26:40Speaker 3: in those pitchers meetings along with Sanchez. And, you know,
- 26:44Speaker 3: all the pitchers are in there. And it's amazing. And
- 26:46Speaker 3: the other thing about, you know, Contreras is, you know,
- 26:49Speaker 3: when things are really going tough in an inning, He
- 26:52Speaker 3: never seems to, like, get worked up. He never really
- 26:55Speaker 3: seems to show that we are in a bad spot
- 26:58Speaker 3: right now. He's a calming influence behind home plate. Like,
- 27:02Speaker 3: you know, I don't think I've ever seen before. He's
- 27:04Speaker 3: been amazing this year. He's been amazing since he's been
- 27:08Speaker 3: with the Brewers. I mean, when he came over here
- 27:10Speaker 3: from Atlanta, I mean, the word on him was all bat,
- 27:13Speaker 3: no defense. Well, you know what? I haven't seen any
- 27:15Speaker 3: of that. I mean, he's a lot of defense, a
- 27:18Speaker 3: lot of bat, a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of leadership.
- 27:22Speaker 3: And he's just been incredible. And, you know, Mercer, I mean,
- 27:26Speaker 3: when you have a guy like that behind home plate,
- 27:28Speaker 3: you know, calling a game and managing the defense, it's
- 27:30Speaker 3: like having another coach out there.
- 27:33Speaker 4: Talking to Bill Schroeder, Brewers TV, friend of the program
- 27:35Speaker 4: here in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Rock, how
- 27:39Speaker 4: about the at-bat for the ages, Jake Bauer's 12-pitch battle
- 27:43Speaker 4: with Yamamoto? And I'm wondering, this is going to be
- 27:46Speaker 4: a new thing, and baseball is going to have to
- 27:47Speaker 4: legislate in the middle of that when Yamamoto's pitch comp
- 27:50Speaker 4: thing battery died. Like, pitcher needs a break. It used
- 27:53Speaker 4: to be you'd go out and do a visit, but
- 27:54Speaker 4: now they limit those. Now it's like, hey, we're not
- 27:57Speaker 4: getting communication here.
- 27:59Speaker 5: Yeah, pull that out of your head.
- 28:00Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it's amazing how those things are timed so well,
- 28:04Speaker 3: aren't they? I mean, Yamamoto, I mean, he's just like
- 28:07Speaker 3: all of a sudden, Rock. I guess after 12, it's
- 28:10Speaker 3: not working. I need a new one. You know, I
- 28:12Speaker 3: don't know about, I don't know how you can, how
- 28:15Speaker 3: you can like make sure that that's actually the case.
- 28:17Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure, but anyway, you know, that was
- 28:21Speaker 3: a game changer. There's no doubt about that 12 pitch
- 28:24Speaker 3: at bat, the dual walk. And right after that, Yelich
- 28:27Speaker 3: comes up with a base hit, drives in a couple
- 28:29Speaker 3: of runs. I mean, that was a difference maker. You
- 28:31Speaker 3: know how demoralizing that is for a pitcher to be
- 28:34Speaker 3: throwing that many pitches and end up walking a guy.
- 28:37Speaker 3: I mean, that takes it out of you. I mean,
- 28:39Speaker 3: whoever wins that battle, I mean, that's going to be
- 28:42Speaker 3: a momentum swing for that team. You know, if Yamamoto
- 28:46Speaker 3: struck Bowers out there, that was going to be momentum
- 28:48Speaker 3: for them. You know, Bowers gets a walk or gets
- 28:51Speaker 3: a hit, that's momentum for the Brewers. And that's the
- 28:53Speaker 3: way it played out. And, you know, you can't really
- 28:56Speaker 3: say enough or emphasize enough how important that at-bat was.
- 29:00Speaker 3: And it's typical of a Brewers at-bat this year, isn't it?
- 29:03Speaker 3: I mean, we talk about the woodpeckers all the time.
- 29:06Speaker 3: They don't give up. I mean, you know, and Jake
- 29:09Speaker 3: really wasn't swinging the bat all that well, but a
- 29:11Speaker 3: lot of jam shots, a lot of foul balls off
- 29:14Speaker 3: the end of the bat, you know, some check swings
- 29:16Speaker 3: and this and that, but he was able to draw
- 29:19Speaker 3: the wall, just battling, getting his head in there and
- 29:22Speaker 3: not giving in, and he draws the wall, the crowd
- 29:26Speaker 3: goes crazy, and what was it, the first pitch after that? Yeah,
- 29:29Speaker 3: my mother threw the yellow, she hit it into the center,
- 29:31Speaker 3: I think it was a curveball or something like that,
- 29:34Speaker 3: but I was at the game. I wasn't privy to
- 29:38Speaker 3: replays or the TV screens or anything like that. But
- 29:42Speaker 3: I'm telling you what, that environment at American Family Field,
- 29:46Speaker 3: it's amazing. I mean, the Brewer fans showed up big
- 29:50Speaker 3: time this playoff season, like they have all season long.
- 29:53Speaker 3: they are into it. And I think they realize that
- 29:55Speaker 3: they have something special with this group of guys and
- 29:58Speaker 3: they don't want, they want to be a part of it.
- 29:59Speaker 3: All right, rock.
- 30:00Speaker 4: We have joked in the past about you in the
- 30:02Speaker 4: booth when it's really hot and sweating through your shirts
- 30:04Speaker 4: and you can tell up there. I heard from several people,
- 30:07Speaker 4: friends of mine who were in the stands talking about
- 30:09Speaker 4: how warm it was. 83 degrees at first pitch. How
- 30:11Speaker 4: warm was it in the bowl with everybody yelling for
- 30:14Speaker 4: three hours?
- 30:15Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's okay because we won, right? I don't care.
- 30:19Speaker 5: Exactly.
- 30:21Speaker 3: I have no problem sweating as long as there's a
- 30:24Speaker 3: live camera staring me in the face with a red
- 30:26Speaker 3: light on.
- 30:27Speaker 5: There you go.
- 30:27Speaker 3: And I'm doing an opening with sweat dripping off the
- 30:32Speaker 3: end of my nose. I mean, that's kind of a
- 30:36Speaker 3: buzzkill for me. I'm just a little self-conscious when that's happening,
- 30:41Speaker 3: you know? Yeah. It was just fantastic. I mean, unseasonably warm.
- 30:46Speaker 3: I mean, the crowd. I'll tell you what. I don't
- 30:51Speaker 3: go to many games that I don't work, but I
- 30:54Speaker 3: was just honored to be at that game yesterday with
- 30:57Speaker 3: the way that crowd responded. Most of the people standing
- 31:00Speaker 3: up the whole game. I mean, the players were into it.
- 31:04Speaker 3: It's an amazing thing. I mean, when people say that
- 31:08Speaker 3: sports doesn't really... helping a city. It's not just the money,
- 31:14Speaker 3: but think about how many people in that ballpark and
- 31:16Speaker 3: around Wisconsin just fired up right now about their team.
- 31:19Speaker 5: Absolutely. It changes the whole community. You're absolutely right, Rock.
- 31:22Speaker 5: I'm glad you said that.
- 31:23Speaker 3: No doubt about that. You know what? And you can
- 31:27Speaker 3: thank Bud Scheele for that, right? To get this new
- 31:29Speaker 3: ballpark done. I'm going back a long time, 20-some, 25 years,
- 31:32Speaker 3: but I mean, and he had the vision. You know,
- 31:36Speaker 3: he had the vision back in those days. We need
- 31:38Speaker 3: a new ballpark, and that's going to put us over
- 31:41Speaker 3: the top. It took a few years. It took a
- 31:43Speaker 3: few years. Yep. But this has been an incredible run
- 31:46Speaker 3: for this team right now.
- 31:49Speaker 5: Go ahead. What about what about Terang, too?
- 31:51Speaker 7: I mean, on Saturday or Sunday night, I mean, for
- 31:54Speaker 7: the homer that he hits the inside corner. I think
- 31:58Speaker 7: they said that there's been like four homers on pitches
- 32:00Speaker 7: like that. And three of them are Otani being able
- 32:02Speaker 7: to hit it out to left center, be able to
- 32:04Speaker 7: take that and slice it through. He jokes that it
- 32:07Speaker 7: was just because he didn't want to hit one off
- 32:08Speaker 7: his knee like he did in his first at bat.
- 32:10Speaker 7: But you see how hard this dude grinds. Murph talked
- 32:14Speaker 7: about it, that he's there until damn near midnight with.
- 32:16Speaker 5: Vogelbach to then get the payoff.
- 32:19Speaker 7: You don't always get the payoff the next day, but
- 32:22Speaker 7: that tenor for maybe their best player, it just kind
- 32:24Speaker 7: of sets the tone of how hard he works. But
- 32:27Speaker 7: it seemed like that was a perfect encapsulation of the
- 32:30Speaker 7: one guy that had been slumping, being able to work
- 32:32Speaker 7: himself out of it in.
- 32:32Speaker 5: The biggest moment.
- 32:34Speaker 3: Yeah, and again, he didn't slump a whole lot during
- 32:37Speaker 3: the regular season, but sometimes it's just the way it goes.
- 32:41Speaker 3: Look at Otani. I think the biggest problem with the
- 32:45Speaker 3: Dodgers offense is that they're a big guy. They're a
- 32:47Speaker 3: big guy. Their horse is not doing anything at the plate,
- 32:51Speaker 3: and that puts pressure on everybody else. And I think
- 32:53Speaker 3: when the Brewers aren't scoring a lot of runs, it's
- 32:56Speaker 3: because the big boys aren't getting it done. It puts
- 32:59Speaker 3: pressure on everybody else. But you know what? It's not
- 33:01Speaker 3: the only thing. The other day is not the only
- 33:03Speaker 3: time Bryce Terang did that. I remember many times going
- 33:09Speaker 3: down the elevator and walking through the service level after
- 33:12Speaker 3: a game. We're talking 10, 15 minutes after a game,
- 33:16Speaker 3: and I hear the crack of the bat, and I
- 33:19Speaker 3: try to look through the screen there, and it's Bryce
- 33:22Speaker 3: Terang taking batting practice after a game. It's not just
- 33:28Speaker 3: once or twice. He does it all the time. He
- 33:30Speaker 3: doesn't just do it. at the plate. I mean, you
- 33:32Speaker 3: see him working awfully hard every single day out of
- 33:35Speaker 3: second base, even when there's no BP, there's no wind field.
- 33:38Speaker 3: You'll see Matt Erickson hitting him ground ball, Joey Ortiz, Pratt,
- 33:43Speaker 3: you know, all these guys, they take it real seriously.
- 33:45Speaker 3: They love the game and you have to love the
- 33:47Speaker 3: game to work that hard as hard as these guys do.
- 33:50Speaker 5: Pretty wild. A couple more for you, rock.
- 33:52Speaker 4: David Hamilton was kind of a throw in, in the
- 33:55Speaker 4: Durban trade that was Boston. And people who saw him
- 33:58Speaker 4: in spring every day said, this guy's going to help.
- 34:01Speaker 5: This guy's going to help.
- 34:02Speaker 4: He helped him win the game yesterday with his base
- 34:04Speaker 4: running and just getting on base. And one of my
- 34:06Speaker 4: favorite moments, you talk about Murph and his popularity and
- 34:10Speaker 4: Murph loves him. Guys on other teams respect him. When
- 34:13Speaker 4: Hamilton gets hit and then Murph goes out to check
- 34:16Speaker 4: on him. And I see Freddie Freeman and they're, they're
- 34:19Speaker 4: kind of talking. Freeman taps him on the leg. I'm
- 34:21Speaker 4: wondering what was that exchange? Well, we find out Murph
- 34:24Speaker 4: said that Freeman said, come on Murph. We know you're
- 34:26Speaker 4: just stalling before he steals. And Murph said to go
- 34:29Speaker 4: on the first pitch or the second pitch.
- 34:31Speaker 5: And lo and behold, he steals the bag. It's like.
- 34:35Speaker 3: He's limping around. It's like the old Earl Campbell thing,
- 34:38Speaker 3: you know?
- 34:39Speaker 2: Great reference.
- 34:40Speaker 3: It took him about five minutes to get up off
- 34:42Speaker 3: the ground after getting targeted, limping back to the huddle,
- 34:46Speaker 3: and then he runs for 75 yards, you know, without
- 34:48Speaker 3: any problem. But, you know, I mean, David Hamilton has
- 34:52Speaker 3: really done a great job. He made one of the
- 34:53Speaker 3: nicest catches in South Territory. Earlier this year, I think
- 34:57Speaker 3: it was September sometime, just amazing, amazing play. He can throw.
- 35:03Speaker 3: Everybody has their glitches and their yips defensively, and hopefully
- 35:07Speaker 3: those things don't last very long. He is a difference
- 35:11Speaker 3: maker at the bottom of the order. He can drive
- 35:14Speaker 3: the ball, too. He can bump, but those legs, the
- 35:18Speaker 3: speed that he has, it's a difference maker out on
- 35:20Speaker 3: the bases. Anytime he's at second, And anything that's the
- 35:23Speaker 3: outfield grip, you know he's going to be able to score.
- 35:26Speaker 4: What I love about moments like that with Murph and Freeman,
- 35:28Speaker 4: I didn't look to see if Freeman looked into the
- 35:31Speaker 4: dugout after that steal.
- 35:32Speaker 5: Come on, man, really?
- 35:35Speaker 4: A couple other things that steal out, Rob, is like
- 35:39Speaker 4: I said, Jackson Churio, not all 0-for-5s are created equal.
- 35:43Speaker 4: And I'm sure you probably can relate to this because
- 35:45Speaker 4: Jackson Churio had two outs where he moved Hamilton from
- 35:48Speaker 4: second to third and led to runs.
- 35:50Speaker 5: And so that's like You know, that's like hitting five screamers, right?
- 35:53Speaker 5: Doesn't that take the sting away from an 0 for 5?
- 35:55Speaker 3: Yeah, right. I mean, that's Brewers baseball. That's team baseball.
- 35:59Speaker 3: And by the way, I did have a number of
- 36:01Speaker 3: 0 for 5s. Thanks for reminding me.
- 36:02Speaker 5: I was going to say, that was dirty pool. Dirty
- 36:05Speaker 5: of him to do that.
- 36:07Speaker 3: You didn't think I was going to let that one go,
- 36:09Speaker 3: did you?
- 36:09Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. In a limited role, backup catcher Bill
- 36:13Speaker 2: Schroeder swung a big stick.
- 36:14Speaker 1: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
- 36:17Speaker 3: I can never hit a ball to second base. There's
- 36:22Speaker 3: no possible way. I got to push button that direction,
- 36:26Speaker 3: but that's baseball, right? Advancing base runners and dragging them in,
- 36:31Speaker 3: you know, not, not having to rely on the home run.
- 36:34Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Just, you know, eight, nine, ten-pitched bats,
- 36:38Speaker 3: like that whole thing with Bowers yesterday. Incredible stuff, and
- 36:42Speaker 3: it's been going on all season long.
- 36:44Speaker 4: The other thing I want to ask you about, Rock,
- 36:45Speaker 4: was on the way out here, Cooper Pratt comes in
- 36:48Speaker 4: and Henriquez spins his cap with 103, and he gets
- 36:51Speaker 4: a base hit. Like, you know, that to me.
- 36:54Speaker 5: Was like, wow.
- 36:57Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no fear up there. I mean, if you're afraid,
- 37:00Speaker 3: you've got no chance. These guys are throwing these days.
- 37:04Speaker 3: I mean, they get their chin right in there. They're
- 37:06Speaker 3: covering that outside corner. Remember Jim Gantner, the way he
- 37:09Speaker 3: would cover against a lefty? I mean, he would like
- 37:12Speaker 3: to whack on his back against a guy like Gidger.
- 37:15Speaker 3: He was going up and in on. He wouldn't give
- 37:17Speaker 3: an inch until the last second. So that's what a
- 37:19Speaker 3: lot of these Brewer guys have been doing. I mean,
- 37:21Speaker 3: that's what makes them successful. Just difficult outs on an
- 37:25Speaker 3: at-bat by at-bat basis. I mean, sure, there's going to
- 37:28Speaker 3: be guys that are going to be struggling up there, but,
- 37:30Speaker 3: you know, they never give up an at-bat.
- 37:32Speaker 5: It's going to be a fun ride. Rock, thanks for
- 37:34Speaker 5: joining us.
- 37:35Speaker 4: Enjoy a night off, and then we'll be ready to
- 37:37Speaker 4: watch the game with some Miller Lights on the couch
- 37:40Speaker 4: tomorrow night.
- 37:41Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right.
- 37:43Speaker 1: 2.30.
- 37:43Speaker 3: I'll be on every Tuesday at 2.30 if you want.
- 37:45Speaker 3: You bet. That was the other week then. Book it.
- 37:50Speaker 5: Book it. We'll talk to you next week, pal. Perfect timing.
- 37:53Speaker 3: Talk to you next week, guys.
- 37:54Speaker 1: Thanks, guys.
- 37:54Speaker 5: See you, buddy. Bill Schroeder, Brewers TV.
- 37:57Speaker 7: Fantastic that was easy that was easy it's almost like
- 38:00Speaker 7: we planned that being able to being able to move
- 38:02Speaker 7: to the afternoon people want to come on the show
- 38:04Speaker 7: let's go let's rock but rock does no i like
- 38:07Speaker 7: that he immediately cautioned it guys i wasn't actually serious
- 38:09Speaker 7: but not all day trust.
- 38:10Speaker 4: Me trust me show but he will join us i
- 38:13Speaker 4: was just communicating with a friend of ours training because
- 38:16Speaker 4: narik who's coming to town if the brewers advance and
- 38:18Speaker 4: uh she had an awesome brewers post yesterday he will
- 38:21Speaker 4: come on the show as well oh bring it welcome
- 38:24Speaker 4: all our friends here it's uh life is good this
- 38:26Speaker 4: is the 10 time We're going to roll around in it.
- 38:28Speaker 4: We're going to savor it. It doesn't suck to be
- 38:31Speaker 4: a fan at this moment. Doesn't suck to be on
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- 39:43Speaker 7: A good string from Kyle in Nashville. He said, nobody
- 39:46Speaker 7: should care about who we face in the World Series.
- 39:48Speaker 7: The Brewers barreled through the Padres, the hottest team in
- 39:51Speaker 7: the NL at the time. Now we're taking down Goliath
- 39:54Speaker 7: and the Dodgers. I want whoever is considered the best team.
- 39:57Speaker 7: So there's no doubt about the quality of our team.
- 40:01Speaker 7: Go crew, scared of no one. He also followed it
- 40:03Speaker 7: up with, we can beat any of the Dodgers pitchers
- 40:07Speaker 7: And we're proving it. I think that is an important
- 40:09Speaker 7: part of it. Like whether or not you had to,
- 40:12Speaker 7: I think all these guys believe in themselves, uh, an
- 40:14Speaker 7: exceptional amount. And does the fan bases, uh, belief matter?
- 40:19Speaker 7: Not a whole hell of a lot, but I think
- 40:21Speaker 7: for the fan base and probably the deep, deep, deep
- 40:25Speaker 7: down parts of players being able to beat school and Yamamoto,
- 40:30Speaker 7: the two biggest, uh, the two heads of the dragon there.
- 40:32Speaker 7: And that starting rotation, you mentioned it. Blake smells a
- 40:35Speaker 7: two-time Cy Young award winner. He's on the Hall of
- 40:39Speaker 7: Fame trajectory, right? They're not throwing a slouch here. And
- 40:44Speaker 7: Tyler Glass now would be a lot of teams. Number
- 40:46Speaker 7: one guy. But these are not the guys that you
- 40:48Speaker 7: fear as much. The two that you just were able
- 40:51Speaker 7: to slay are the ones that were the biggest obstacles
- 40:54Speaker 7: in anybody winning it. You would have thought this year
- 40:57Speaker 7: and you're able to beat them with both of your
- 40:59Speaker 7: dudes and neither of your best two guys having their
- 41:02Speaker 7: best game. That's the first time Logan Henderson's given up
- 41:04Speaker 7: four runs, right?
- 41:06Speaker 5: And a start. That's right. Now it was mostly his fault.
- 41:08Speaker 5: They were. How many earned? Two earned. Two earned.
- 41:13Speaker 2: But four runs.
- 41:14Speaker 3: I mean, sorry.
- 41:15Speaker 7: I know they technically aren't earned. When they're your errors, Drew,
- 41:19Speaker 7: I think we should submit that.
- 41:20Speaker 5: I totally agree. That was what I was just. I'll
- 41:23Speaker 5: never change.
- 41:24Speaker 4: But the two things I would change about scoring is
- 41:26Speaker 4: I would give a team error. Like when a pop-up
- 41:28Speaker 4: falls between three guys.
- 41:30Speaker 5: Correct.
- 41:30Speaker 6: Yes. Like a team rebound in basketball. I was asking
- 41:33Speaker 6: Matt about that since I was 12.
- 41:35Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 41:35Speaker 5: Like, why isn't that?
- 41:36Speaker 4: I know, but that's the one thing when a pitcher
- 41:39Speaker 4: makes an error and he gets an under and runs
- 41:40Speaker 4: like your error, you should wear that one.
- 41:42Speaker 5: You might have to wear that one.
- 41:43Speaker 4: You get a break when the guys, the eight guys
- 41:45Speaker 4: behind you, you know, kick it around, but you use
- 41:48Speaker 4: your area.
- 41:48Speaker 6: You should wear, I guess it's technically, it's not measuring
- 41:51Speaker 6: his ability to feel that's measuring his ability.
- 41:53Speaker 5: That's true.
- 41:53Speaker 7: But yeah, I always thought your, your, your ability to
- 41:57Speaker 7: throw should be something that was decent, but Seth.
- 42:00Speaker 5: McClung put something out.
- 42:01Speaker 7: And I know I saw you reposted online yesterday and,
- 42:04Speaker 7: That is kind of a concern. I want Logan Henderson
- 42:08Speaker 7: in his next start, Drew. First ball grounded right to him.
- 42:13Speaker 7: Ball to find you, put that out of your mind
- 42:16Speaker 7: and be able to deliver the goods because those yips
- 42:18Speaker 7: can be a real thing for pitchers not being able
- 42:20Speaker 7: to throw over to first base, right?
- 42:22Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 42:22Speaker 5: I mean, like John Lester with the pickle. Lester would
- 42:25Speaker 5: bounce it. He would damn near run over and flip it, right?
- 42:28Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 42:29Speaker 5: He just almost couldn't do it. He just became a
- 42:31Speaker 5: mental thing.
- 42:31Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 42:32Speaker 5: Yeah. Rude Baker, Major League Two, of course. Of course.
- 42:35Speaker 4: Oh, that was the guy I was thinking of. Or
- 42:37Speaker 4: Steve Blass or Chuck Knobloch in real life.
- 42:39Speaker 5: Chuck in real life.
- 42:41Speaker 6: So anyway, you can text us, obviously, at our text line, 877-794-1973.
- 42:46Speaker 6: But a lot of our comments coming in today on YouTube,
- 42:49Speaker 6: on the stream, we'll get to a bunch of them.
- 42:51Speaker 6: I'll get this one in from Will real quick. What
- 42:52Speaker 6: makes this team so likable when you're captain? The most
- 42:54Speaker 6: recognizable player on your team is okay to sit out
- 42:56Speaker 6: a game to help their team win a game. That
- 42:58Speaker 6: says a lot, and you root for that team. You do,
- 43:00Speaker 6: and you root for that guy. I mean, it's great
- 43:02Speaker 6: to see. We'd be happy if the Brewers were winning
- 43:03Speaker 6: either way, but it's great to see Yelich come up
- 43:05Speaker 6: big in some of these big moments.
- 43:07Speaker 5: It's been a long time coming for him, deserving, I think.
- 43:09Speaker 6: And, you know, I think everybody in the world knew
- 43:12Speaker 6: Yelich would have a problem taking a seat if Vaughn
- 43:14Speaker 6: was the guy.
- 43:14Speaker 4: And there's a chance he might not start in game three.
- 43:17Speaker 4: But he did have two hits against lefties yesterday, so
- 43:19Speaker 4: there's a pretty good... And Murph did kind of say
- 43:21Speaker 4: after game, I don't know if I'm going to do
- 43:22Speaker 4: that again. Yeah, he did kind of walk in and
- 43:24Speaker 4: didn't love that. And Murph has been letting Freelick and
- 43:28Speaker 4: Mitchell and other guys bat against lefties in situations where
- 43:30Speaker 4: you wonder if they're going to get the hook.
- 43:31Speaker 5: For sure.
- 43:32Speaker 4: I thought Lara would get a call yesterday at some point. Yeah,
- 43:35Speaker 4: and Mitchell's back to scuffling, but man, when he's hot,
- 43:37Speaker 4: he's hot. When he's not, he's not.
- 43:38Speaker 5: That's just the way you roll with Mitchell. Yeah, he
- 43:40Speaker 5: is Donovan Jorgensen. Yeah.
- 43:42Speaker 3: Right?
- 43:42Speaker 5: I mean, he is who's hot, who's not with Donovan Jorgensen.
- 43:45Speaker 6: He is.
- 43:45Speaker 5: Garrett Mitchell, one day, hot. Next, not.
- 43:48Speaker 7: Then you just got to figure out which one you're
- 43:50Speaker 7: being able to throw in there. I'm with you.
- 43:53Speaker 5: His glove plays for sure.
- 43:55Speaker 7: Him being able to track down the ball in center field.
- 43:57Speaker 7: I will say the one that Kyle Tucker just got to.
- 44:00Speaker 7: You mentioned Churio's 0 for 5. I did kind of
- 44:03Speaker 7: forget as we're watching the game back here inside the studio.
- 44:05Speaker 7: He scolded that baseball. I thought that was.
- 44:07Speaker 5: Ticketed for the gap. He did. And it almost bobbled
- 44:10Speaker 5: out of Tucker's glove. He's making good wood. I'm not
- 44:13Speaker 5: really concerned. And there were a couple of leaders that
- 44:15Speaker 5: fell too. No pause.
- 44:17Speaker 6: No, not at all.
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