Defense, Speed, Pitching Keys Brewers Advancing to Statis-Pro Semifinals

The Statis-Pro Milwaukee Brewers used five stolen bases, five defensive plays that saved runs, two new PB 4-7 upgrades in the rotation, and a total of FIVE PB 2-8 excellent relievers to beat San Francisco 4-0 then Toronto 6-2 to win Pool E and advance to play Pool D champ Tampa and one team to be determined in a semifinal pool.

Of the 11 batters who played in the two games, five were excellent base stealers (A SP rating) and four more were good base stealers (B). The only defender who is not excellent is shortstop Jett Williams, but both games he reached base early and then pinchrunner David Hamilton came in and then went into shortstop where he is excellent to mean the team always had half gold glover level (Clutch Defense - CD 5) defenders and the other half were very good CD4 defenders.

The only two runs scored agaisnt them in the two games came as result of a walk followed by a home run to let them score with no chance for the defense to make a play.

However, the first two games we played after the trade deadline finalized rosters were a funny start - as Chourio double and scored to make it 1-0 Milwaukee, and then Luis Arraez had singled and Rafael Devers homered to make it 2-1 and none of it counted - because a Z-play came up as the old 21 that states that the skies opened and rained out the game before the first inning was even over - so both starters were lost and and both teams needed to go to their fifth starter. This was good because we then realized that Arraez had not been moved to the Phillies at the trade deadline so that is now fixed.

The following are the three semifinal polls, with the teams in bold already clinched and the teams in italics are teams that are now 2-0 but have not clinched:

Semifinal Pool J - Boston, NY Mets and likely 2-0 LA Dodgers

Semifinal Pool K - Tampa, Milwaukee and likely 2-0 Kansas City

Semifinal Pool L - TBD but the three with 2-0 records are Philadelphia, Arizona and Minnesota

Best teams upset in pools to be eliminated are Braves and Yankees, and Cubs are on the verge at 0-2.

Here are the basic numbers on each Brewers card as shown in the previous blog and what each did during the two games last night as the Brewers clinched.

order	PB-	Pitchers	K	Max IP	ERA	2-game highlights
1	2'-9	Jacob Misiorowski	22 to 48	6	4.11	Already started earlier game
2	2'-7	Brandon Woodruff	24 to 51	8	3.86	Already started earlier game
3	4'-7	DL Hall	25 to 44	5	3.90	4.2 scoreless start vs Tor
4	4'-7	Shane Drohan	25 to 44	5	3.99	start v SF but rained out after 1 ip
6	2'-6	Kyle Harrison	23 to 46	5	4.22	3 scorelss innings start makeup SF
11	2'-8	Trevor Megill	21 to 57	2	3.43	Final scoreless IP vs Tor to clinch
12	2'-8	Abner Uribe	21 to 55	2	3.16	1 scoreless vs Tor
13	2'-8	Coleman Crow	25 to 44	2	3.56	2.2 innings over 2 games
14	2'-8	Aaron Ashby	23 to 45	2	3.57	1.2 scorless to beat SF, 1 vs Tor
15	2'-8	Angel Zerpa	25 to 47	2	3.46	1 scoreless vs SF
16	2'-7	Jared Koenig	23 to 47	2	3.50	1 scoreless vs SF
19	2'-7	Craig Yoho	27 to 45	1	3.70	1 scoreless vs SF
order	Pos	MIL	HR	SP	OPS	2-game highlights
1	LF	Jackson Chourio	31 to 34	A	0.791	reached 6 of 11 times, HR, 2B
2	DH	Christian Yelich	27 to 31	B	0.769	rbi triple
3	RF	Sal Frelick	33 to 33	B	0.727	3 of 11
4	C	William Contreras	28 to 32	C	0.804	2-run single, 3 hits
5	2b	Brice Turang	31 to 32	A	0.726	2-run HR, 3 hits
6	CF	Luis Lara	27 to 31	A	0.725	single, 2 steals
7	1b	Jake Bauers	21 to 24	B	0.706	1 of 8, run scored
8	3b	Joey Ortiz	28 to 31	B	0.696	2b, two 1b, 3 clutch def plays
9	SS	Jett Williams	24 to 24	C	0.650	single, walk 2 times up, then sub
10	SS	David Hamilton	24 to 25	A	0.649	pinch run 2x, 3 steals, def
10	PH	Brandon Lockridge	27 to 27	A	0.639	pinch hit single start 2-run rally

The Brewers join Pool D champion Tampa in one of three semifinal pools, but those two may get help unless the Pool F favorite Chicago Cubs rally with their final roster after the trade. They are 2-0 and the stunning Kansas City Royals are 2-0 with the St Louis Cardinals at 1-1. The Cubs would need to win both, then have St. Louis beat Kansas City and to have all teams finish 2-2 and then win the run differential tie breaaker.

 

PB-	Pod E Pitchers	Opp	Score	Allow	Result	Proj ERA
2'-6	Kyle Harrison	SFG	4	0	W	4.22
2'-7	Brandon Woodruff	SFG	2	0	W	3.86
2'-9	Jacob Misiorowski	Tor	2	9	L	4.11
4'-7	DJ Hall	Tor	6	2		4.17
	Milwaukee Totals		14	11	3-1, +3	Advances
4'-7	Landen Roupp	Mil	0	2	L	4.09
4'-7	Robbie Ray	Tor				4.2
4'-7	Carson Whisenhunt	Mil	0	4	L	4.17
2'-8	Logan Webb	Tor	1	0	W	3.32
	San Francisco Totals		1	6	1-2, -4	Eliminated
2'-7	Ricky Tiedemann	Mil	2	6	L	3.98
2'-9	Dylan Cease	Mil	9	2	W	3.54
2'-7	Shane Bieber	SFG	0	1	L	3.74
2'-7	Trey Yesavage	SFG				3.72
	Toronto Totals		11	9	1-2, +2	Eliminated