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