Top Pitching Performance of the Week<\/p>\n
Yes, Jacob Misiorowski did throw eight scoreless innings while striking out 11 and walking just one to bolster his Cy Young case. But at a time when it feels like the Brewers\u2019 starting pitching rotation is falling apart, one player has fought against late-season fatigue and is pitching better now than he has at any point in the season: Robert Gasser.<\/p>\n
Even without his strikeout stuff, Gasser twirled a gem on Saturday night as the Brewers beat the Orioles 1-0. In seven innings, Gasser allowed only three hits, and while he had more walks (three) than strikeouts (two), he did what he needed to do to get outs. Gasser has now allowed just five earned runs over his last five starts (26 1\/3 innings, giving him a 1.71 ERA in that span) and will almost surely be starting in the postseason for the Brewers in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
Top Hitting Performance of the Week<\/p>\n
The Brewers\u2019 bats did finally cool off a bit after they were scorching hot for the first two weeks of September. The team still played great, though, and the Brewers ripped off a second consecutive 5-1 week despite less impressive offensive play. While there were still a few standouts, I\u2019m going to go with Cooper Pratt in this spot. Pratt hit .400 (6-for-15) with a couple of walks (.471 OBP), and while all of his hits were singles, he was timely and knocked in three runs, including two RBI knocks in Sunday\u2019s 3-0 victory over the Orioles. Pratt was also active on the basepaths and stole four bases in five attempts, making him 17-for-20 on the season. Pratt is now hitting .282\/.350\/.371 on the season, basically right at league average in terms of OPS.<\/p>\n
A couple of other shoutouts: Jake Bauers led the regulars in OPS this week \u2014 he had only three hits, but two of them were doubles, and he also walked five times, giving him a .500 OBP in 16 plate appearances. Let\u2019s also hear it for Bo Naylor, who popped his first homer as a Brewer when he went 1-for-3 with a dinger and a walk on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Injury Notes & Roster Moves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Pitching Performance of the Week Yes, Jacob Misiorowski did throw eight scoreless innings while striking out 11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[307331,34976,363,99],"class_list":["post-855471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-milwaukee-brewers-discussions","tag-milwaukee-brewers-news","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}