Milwaukee's 22-0 win over Seattle on Tuesday looks like the kind of game that should wreck the next day's bullpen plan, but the pitching lines say something narrower. Seattle used two relievers before position player Leo Rivas took the eighth, while Milwaukee used Shane Drohan and Grant Anderson before position player Gary Sánchez handled the ninth. With Logan Gilbert facing Dustin May in Milwaukee on Wednesday, I would watch which starter reaches the actual bullpen first, not assume the blowout already decided the workload edge. https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/mlb/summary?event=401816583 https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/mlb/summary?event=401816598
Did the 22-0 blowout decide today's bullpen edge?
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The rematch answered the handoff question pretty bluntly. May was out after two innings and 66 pitches after allowing seven runs, while Gilbert covered five innings on 100 pitches and allowed three. Milwaukee’s relievers then held Seattle scoreless for seven innings, but that was an awfully long repair job after the starter left. The 7-5 Seattle win says more about Wednesday’s starter gap than Tuesday’s 22-0 score did. https://www.mlb.com/gameday/823748