hankchifan

Mune should not be hitting cleanup. Cleanup hitters are not meant to be up there looking for a walk.

One of the biggest Venable blunders of the year, particularly on a pennant race.

I would have preferred a hit and run with Ant at first base.

The way things are going Will needs to be flexible with the analytics. He is too inflexible and orthodox. Would like to see more hit and runs like with Rogers DP we could have had our runner on the go. If we start Davis we would be up 1-0 instead of 2 down. Will needs to factor in the quality of the players involved and their current performance.

Major blunder by Venable to start Chris Murphy this game, he had to start with Davis, who is a starter. We are in a pennant race and we need to start our games with the guns blazing, not with a crap shoot like murphy on top of the terrible line up and Mune batting cleanup, and Rogers catching. Venable is showing us that he is not ready for pennant race primetime. IMO.

And hitting Mune clean up is more than ridiculous.

Still Murakami hitting cleanup with Doyle hitting 5 th and Peters 9 th. Is puzzling at best, and .500+ OPS Rogers and Acuna hitting back to back is also questionable. One of the worst lineups of the year.

And in every other game in a pennant race, and even less in two games in a row.

The coaches are following Will’s lead. Will has three speeds of sense of urgency: slow, slower and slowest.

Let’s wait for Mune hope, but not in a clean up spot. It is unbelievable to me that will is doubling down on Mune hitting cleanup. He is striking out right and left with RISP.

Keep swinging for the fences when small ball would do.

Need to send the memo of not letting Ramirez beat us.

Good option. Also Mune should not have been hitting cleanup up. Venable roster construction continues to be terrible.

Failure once again to get a runner in at 3rd with no outs doomed us again, along with Murakami hitting cleanup and failing with RISP.

Agree. Will is an inflexible manager when it comes to splits. We need to play our hottest hitters like Peters and Grichuk regardless of the pitcher that we are facing.

The lineup of the first game with the Cards was not bad luck, it was managerial malfeasance. Worst lineup of the year by far.

We don’t pick apart every Venable decision, only the bad ones. There are plenty, so it keeps us busy on the keyboard. 😂

Will hitting Colson clean up tonight was managerial malpractice.

This was the worst lineup of the year. Strikeout king Colson hitting clean up against lefty. Quero hitting 5 th and then Doyle with Rogers and Acuna also thrown in the mix. That line up probably could not even beat a good AAA team. Will showing again his terrible line up construction and lack of urgency.

Don’t we have a hitting coach and a managerial leader? Do they understand the meaning of adjustment? They keep doubling down on losing behaviors.

I believe Murakami was hitting 3 rd tonight, not cleanup. Didn’t matter either way.

Ended with Quero hitting cleanup and striking out. Par for the course.

No he has not. If he kept hitting Mune 2 nd and 3 rd on the lineup he is unlikely to pinch hit for him. IMO.

Will didn’t get the memo of not letting Cruz beat you.