The Winemakers and the Cubs played nine innings of baseball on Saturday, but the first game of the National League Division Series was decided before the end of the first game. Each series begins with its numerous problems. Does the brewer have enough pitches to take damage from Brandon Woodruff and Shelby Miller? Can Kyle Tucker and Pete Crow-Armstrong find the MVP format they showed earlier this season? How will the winemaker’s offense deal with the strike-throwing cub pitchers? Will the brewers rust after five layoffs? Will the Cubs regret Matthew Boyd getting off on a short break after throwing 58 balls against Padres on Tuesday? In the first game, the last two questions were crucial.
The winemaker is not rusted, and Boyd may have passed. The Cubs jumped up, but at the bottom of the first, the Brewers exploded in Boyd, just like they had packed themselves into cannons for the past five days. In the regular season, the brewers scored just 9% of the run in the first inning, the third lowest speed in baseball. Maybe they are saving all the money for the playoffs. Milwaukee led 6-1 in Game 1 and expanded it to the second time. “I’m very proud they’re ready,” said manager Pat Murphy during the game. “These guys are ready to swing, and when they are ready to swing, there can be a lot of good things going on. It’s a great bunch of things.”
With their first round goodbye, the brewers ranked ace Freddy Peralta in the first match. After playing the IC early, Peralta looked at every guy leading the NL to lead the NL with a 17-win victory and beat the Cubs. He missed the outside with a 95mph fastball on the first court of the game, and then returned in the center of the plate with a belt-high heater, Chicago’s leading batsman Michael Busch fouled. Peralta repeated the pattern: four-aircraft outdoors, middle belt high four-aircraft. Busch is ready for a second one. He opened it and sent 389 feet on the fence to the right. With four goals, the Cubs have a 1-0 lead. Peralta recovered quickly and gradually retired the next three batsmen. He was allowed to hit only one more shot in the next four innings.
At the second bottom, Jackson Chourio beat Boyd’s first court and brought the ball inside. Looking back, wondering what would happen if Boyd placed the court in the strike area. Maybe if Chourio actually played, maybe the whole game would be different. But it was tight, Churio pulled the bat back and then ripped his fourth ball, and he saw twice the third baseline. Brice Turang knocked down Chourio with twice his own, the first court he jumped over the right field fence. The winemaker tied the game after five goals. William Contreras ripped open the next court, just skipped the dive Ian Happ, entered the left field and scored turang. In three consecutive doubles, the brewers led 2-1. They are not finished yet.
Chicago pitching coach Tommy Hottovy stepped out and settled, who lured a ground ball into the ground from Christian Yelich and then deepened his troubles by walking Andrew Vaughn. Michael Soroka, much earlier than the Cubs wanted, began to warm up in the bullpen.
Boyd broke Sal Frelick’s bat and lured the earth into weaker. Nico Hoerner likely won his second gold glove this winter, collecting the ball to charge and then inexplicably swinging his relaxed jump. The ball kicked him and allowed Contres to score. The winemakers still led 3-1 first and second. Boyd hit Caleb Durbin among four arrangers above the area before leading Blake Perkins 1-2. He was a strike to end the game, but Perkins was great at the Bats, getting a hit after hitting the ball, then fouling on the court, and tearing the line into the middle – both he and the Brewers love the world’s favorite thing – scoring Vaughan and lifting Frealic to third. The winemakers had a 4-1 lead, while Boyd’s days ended after 30 innings of pitching and two-thirds of the game.
Soroka enters the game with a simple task: stop bleeding and keep the game close. Instead, he walked the ninth batsman, Joey Ortiz, on four courts, loaded the base and brought chourio back to the plate. This could be a good time, pointing out that Chourio was his only 307 WRC+ in his only playoff game in the Wild Card series last year. He pushed the career playoffs and even higher, swinging and running one after another on the left side of the infield. The winemakers led 6-1. Kindly, Soroka lets Turang chase a high-level fastball three.
The winemaker hit 26 minutes in the first inning. They saw 45 pitches from both pitchers. They sent five hits, walked twice, and then reached once by mistake. They put seven goals in the game with a hard hit rate of 72%. Curt Hogg Milwaukee Journal Sentinel It was pointed out that this was the first time they scored six times in the first inning throughout the season. Unparalleled Sarah Langs noted that in playoff history, the team that scored at least six in one inning has achieved 113-1. With the last singles dinosaur, Soroka’s job changed. No longer maintaining the game scope. In addition to falling behind the five best series, we must also prevent the bears from annihilation of the bullpen.
Peralta allowed singles to the Crow-Armstrong, but he only needed 12 balls to retire the Bears on the second top and gave the brewer a chance to rescue. After leading the first doubles in three consecutive games, Milwaukee led the second time in three consecutive singles.
Contreras turned left, Yelich singled right, Vaughn singled to the center. The base was full and Aaron Civale became warm in the bear bullpen. Frelick lined up a row of left courts on a ball that was too shallow that Contreras could not label it, and then Durbin put a duck snort on the shallow water center field and knocked two. Seventeen winemakers are here. Thirteen people arrived safely. Eight points. Perkins took root at first base and pushed the runners into two races. Ortiz walked on four courts and loaded the base again, and Counsell slowly walked to the mound. Soroka lasted only one-third longer than Boyd. The job of the food bureau fell on Civale, the brewers switched to the White Sox in June and sold them to Vaughan, and the Cubs announced their waivers at the end of August.
Chourio greeted Civale with another grounder at the third baseline, an infield single that raised the score to 9-1. However, it comes with a price. Chourio missed almost the whole month with right ham fatigue throughout August, and he exacerbated the injury as he was busy beating Matt Shaw’s throw. He was upset and he talked to a coach and left the field and returned to the clubhouse. The winemaker announced that he would be further evaluated after the competition. Turang beat the game, and TBS Radio announced that the Brewers were the first team in playoff history, with nine runs and 10 hits in the first two innings.
The Cubs and the Winemakers also played 7 innings of more baseball. Peralta pitched brilliantly, even though he surrendered to another Homer in the sixth inning. He was shy about a quality start, and Milwaukee’s loyal loyalist brought him a reward of applause. He gave up three runs in 5 2/3, hit nine innings, walked three innings and allowed four hits. Civale also played his role well, spreading three hits in 4 1/3 innings and allowing Counsell to ask the bullpen for two other innings. Hoerner added another Solo Homer from Jared Koenig in the eighth inning, and then Nick Mears finished the game on the ninth.
Game 2 questions will revolve around Chourio’s health and Chicago’s ability to rebound from such a thoroughly stumbling block. The brewer has the ability to fill in at Isaac Collins, who has been rookie with 122 WRC+ this season, but Chourio is a tough player to replace. His three hits pushed his career to WRC+ 361 in the playoffs, and if the gap in hamstring injury was so severe, it would be hard to imagine he would return to play against the Cubs in time. With a 9-3 victory, the winemakers even attracted the Cubs’ season series with a 7-7 record. The good news for the Cubs is that they will take a day off before Game 3 and give their bullpen a break. Although Boyd only made 30 goals, it seems unlikely that he will take a break in Game 4.
