Brewers: Key Pitching Strategies for Postseason Success

Miz's last start, they went up 4-0. And then that's like, you know, game over for Milwaukee. You saw Mizorowski's last three starts. They took them out early. They didn't even need them. 18 innings pitched, 1.50 earned run average, 18 strikeouts, 5 walks. I mean, that's the only navigating, I think, at this point, Tom, the Brewers are doing, is they're probably going to limit some innings here down the stretch, knowing that they're headed to the postseason. And I'm guessing that that buy is really important to them. I don't know that it's as important to Atlanta, per se. Atlanta had the buy a couple years ago, and then first round got knocked out. I think they don't care. But I think for Milwaukee and L.A., it's going to mean a little more for those two. Yeah, and just the volume of innings that Mizorowski has pitched this year is significantly higher than we had last year. So again, I think this is, to your point, this is the spoils of riches. When you have this lead that they have in the NL right now, which is the NL Central, which is sitting at eight games over the Cubs, because the Cubs took a little bit of a step back, and they're in line for the buy. They can kind of ease off the gas on some of these pitchers and say, okay, yeah, he's pitching great. He's at 85 pitches through six. He could absolutely go out there for seven and get me to 100 pitches and get through the inning. But there's no reason to do so. So let's just ease off an inning here or there, preserve his arm, and they'll be ready to roll come October 1st.