Brewers vs. Cubs Preview: A Crucial NL Central Doubleheader

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00:00at NL Central. It looks like it's over, but it could get interesting this week with five games

00:05between the Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Brewers. Yesterday was supposed to be a double

00:09header. One of those games got rained out. And quite frankly, if they played game number two,

00:13Cubs might've just got shut out again and got beat down by the Brewers because game number

00:17one yesterday, a seven to nothing win. Only two hits for the Cubs. Peralta was a genius out there.

00:23Horton got blown up early and the Brewers just looked like they're ready to say, okay,

00:26if you thought you had some fun and we had a 14 game win streak, we might just put a 14 game win

00:31streak right on your head and win these next five games in your own building. A chance it felt like

00:36for the Cubs to make one last stand. Now it looks like it was Custer's last stand after a seven,

00:41nothing beat down yesterday. And it's so funny, Donnie, because people are going, when you look

00:48at some of these numbers for them, right? 53 and 17 since May 24th. Again, 53 and 17 since

00:56May 24th, people have been, and you and I have been talking about it now for two weeks going,

01:01I do not understand why they are pricing the Brewers that you're pricing them. Like you keep

01:07waiting for the wheels to fall off and they have not fall off yesterday. A lot of people thought,

01:13all right, coming off of that loss to Cincinnati, here we go. Now the Cubs are going to get to them

01:18and that's going to be a letdown. And yeah, no, no, it wasn't. It was an absolute smack down

01:24of a game. Let's face it. That game yesterday, this whole series means way more to who Donnie,

01:30not the Brewers. It means way more to the Cubs and the Cubs showed up with one hit against Peralta

01:37and could not score a run, but yet they gave up seven. Your, your rookie phenom, Kate Orton,

01:42who hadn't given up what a run in how many innings, 20 some odd innings. Yeah. Gave up a few

01:48yesterday. And that is this Brewers team. I don't listen. There might be, you know,

01:55maybe some two or three game losing streaks between now and the end of the season. But for the think

02:00that the wheels are going to fall off or a team that has the eighth lowest payroll in all of major

02:06league baseball, I think is ridiculous. I think we're out of our mind. If we think this team is

02:11going away anytime soon. Yeah. Take a look at like the first four batters in the lineup,

02:15which were absolute linchpins for the first part of the major league baseball season. Joe,

02:20Michael Bush yesterday, smooth. Oh, and three with two K's two 58 batting average down the season.

02:24Justin Turner, aging veteran here. Oh, let me get a pinch in there. Yeah. You're hitting 217 on the

02:29season. Then you go to Tucker. It was like, Hey, this guy could be an MVP. Yeah. He went over four

02:33yesterday. His average now down to two 61 say a Suzuki that God makes contact all the time. Oh,

02:38he went one for three yesterday. He improved the two 50 for his batting average and Pete Crow Armstrong.

02:43And I was led to believe that he might take down Shohei Ohtani to be the MVP,

02:48another Oh, for three with a strikeout yesterday. He's down to two 59. It's almost like the pitching

02:53hasn't been great, but the bats absolutely disappeared. And if you wanted them to sort of

02:58get that spark, like, okay, Brewers are in town. Now let's get them. Let's ambush them four to one in

03:02this series. We can now make a couple of games up and put the pressure on them seven to nothing right

03:07off the bat. And then you don't even get a chance to go out in game number two and say, okay,

03:10let's get that game back quickly here. You got to let it stew for another double header.

03:14That's going to take place today. So if we look at the standings here in the, uh, excuse me,

03:19in the NL central, we're on blood to believe again, this could be fun. This could get excited.

03:23No, it's not. The Brewers are back up nine games here, 14 over the Cincinnati reds. This is a wrap

03:28and it almost makes me feel like we were joking who could win this series three to two, four to one.

03:32The Brewers might just win a five. Oh, they're playing that good at baseball.

03:38And you got to look, it's got to start at the top with Pat Murphy, their manager,

03:42who, if I'm not mistaken, Donnie was the manager of the year last year.

03:45And I don't know how you don't give it to him again this year, no matter what happens

03:50point out a team with the eighth least payroll here in major league baseball. They've got one brand name.

03:59The guy that's making the most money is Christian Yelick. And everybody says the same thing. The

04:04guy leads by example. This team is filled with a bunch of younger, no superstar guys, but you know

04:12what they do better than anybody else, Donnie is they play the game of baseball. They hit cutoff,

04:18man. They run the bases, right? They take the extra bases. They're not swinging for home runs at,

04:24you know, at 0 and 2 on the count. This is a team that plays baseball and it's working. Go figure,

04:32Donnie. Teams that get fundamentals down can actually win in major league baseball and not

04:37rely just on a home run.

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