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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mlb-rumors-dodgers-named-as-possible-favorite-for-willy-adames');   ga('set', 'title', 'MLB rumors: Dodgers named as ‘possible favorite’ for Willy Adames');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MLB-rumors-Dodgers-named-as-possible-favorite-for-Willy-Adames.jpg?w=1024"></figure><h1>MLB rumors: Dodgers named as ‘possible favorite’ for Willy Adames</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-06T10:07:36-07:00">October 6th, 10:07am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-06T10:07:36-07:00">October 6th, 10:07am</time><address><a href="https://linktr.ee/jordan.llanes">Jordan Llanes</a>Jordan Llanes is a sports writer and reporter based in Florida. In addition to ClutchPoints, he writes for a few other publications covering the NFL, college sports and Tottenham Hotspur. When he's not writing, Jordan enjoys spending time with his fiancée, cats, family and friends, as well as catching the latest TV shows and movies, and traveling.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Coming off an early elimination in the 2024 MLB playoffs, the Milwaukee Brewers must now turn their attention to the 2025 season and beyond. Unfortunately, there is a good possibility that they lose <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-willy-adames-gets-100-real-about-future-amid-pending-free-agency">shortstop Willy Adames</a> in free agency. Rival NL teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Atlanta Braves have been interested in the veteran in the recent past, and <a href="https://x.com/JonHeyman/status/1842939581118759244" rel="noopener">according to reports</a> from Jon Heyman on X (formerly Twitter), they could make a move.</p><p>“Willy Adames, spiritual leader of Brew Crew, has been target of Dodgers, Braves and Giants in past and they’re seen as among possible landing spots,” reported Heyman on the social media site. “Brewers would love to keep him but understand he’s probably out of price range. LA, with Friedman/Rays link, possible favorite?”</p><p>The 29-year-old is in the middle of his prime, starring with the Brew Crew for the last three and a half seasons. They acquired him from the Tampa Bay Rays during the 2021 season. Now, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb-rumors-willy-adames-brewers-contract-extension-update-ahead-free-agency">Adames could hit free agency</a> for the first time in his career. Would a move out west to Tinseltown appeal to the shortstop? He’s had limited success in the postseason up to this point in his major league tenure, so a change of scenery might just be what the doctor ordered.</p><h2><b>Willy Adames would fill big hole in Dodgers lineup</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Brewers-SS-Willy-Adames.jpg"><figcaption>Mandatory Credit: © Jovanny Hernandez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>The Dodgers won the first matchup of their National League Division Series matchup against the San Diego Padres Saturday night, with a final tally of 7-5. Playing at home in front of the Dodger faithful helped spur them on to victory. Would playing in front of those fans on a regular basis excite Adames? It is likely one of the many factors that Los Angeles president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman and general manager Brandon Gomes will use in their favor should they pursue Adames this offseason.</p><p>There have been many rumors in the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb-rumors-dodgers-willy-adames-trade-gavin-lux-shortstop">recent past of acquiring Adames</a> from the Brewers, as the Dodgers have had a hole at shortstop since Trea Turner signed with the Philadelphia Phillies a couple of winters ago. Mookie Betts played there earlier this season but returned to the outfield once he came off the injured list. Miguel Rojas plays the majority of time there now, but he’s a veteran on the back end of his career. Adding a star like Adames will show the LA’s commitment to winning multiple championships in the window that superstar Shohei Ohtani calls Dodger Stadium home.</p><p>Yet, it’s well known just how beloved Adames is in Milwaukee. That is a factor in favor of the front office there, led by president of baseball operations/ general manager Matt Arnold. As said above, he is the spiritual leader of the team. Would that <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-willy-adames-reacts-to-trying-franchise-record-with-home-run-streak">convince Adames to commit</a> long-term to the Brewers? It feels as if anything is on the table once the World Series ends, and the hot stove officially turns on.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

MLB rumors: Dodgers named as ‘possible favorite’ for Willy Adames

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/brewers-blame-wild-card-loss-mets-mlb-playoffs');   ga('set', 'title', '2 Brewers to blame for Wild Card loss to Mets');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/X-Brewers-to-blame-for-Wild-Card-loss-to-Mets.jpg"></figure><h1>2 Brewers to blame for Wild Card loss to Mets</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-04T11:50:52-07:00">October 4th, 11:50am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-04T11:50:52-07:00">October 4th, 11:50am</time><address><a>Andrew Meyers</a>Andrew Meyers is an avid sports fan with a fondness for Philadelphia teams that rarely love him back. He has two degrees from Quinnipiac University, including a master's in sports journalism. Outside of ClutchPoints, Meyers does play-by-play broadcasting for various colleges in the northeast.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>After another unexpected run to the playoffs, the Milwaukee Brewers bowed out of the postseason with a loss to the New York Mets in the NL Wild Card Series. The matchup was the only one of the four to go the distance and the winner-take-all Game 3 did not disappoint with the dramatics. Unfortunately for the Brewers, the loss ended their season.</p><p>Milwaukee lost in the Wild Card round at home for the second consecutive season. The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-pat-murphy-tragedy-take-painful-meltdown-vs-mets">way the Brewers lost</a> this year left an extra sting in the chests of their fans as the Milwaukee faithful have to endure another long offseason following a crushing playoff defeat.</p><p>The Brewers have always been a team better by the sum of their parts rather than a few individual stars. Still, those key players have to step up in the crucial moments of the season. When those moments emerged for Milwaukee, their stars crumbled.</p><p>It’s sometimes unfair to point the blame toward a particular player, especially in a team sport like baseball. Different performances from these <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb-power-rankings-2024-playoff-x-factors">Brewers x-factors</a> could have led Milwaukee to winning ways. Instead, they’re packing up their lockers and looking ahead to 2025.</p><h2><b>Hoskins continues postseason struggles</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Rhys-Hoskins-Brewers.jpg"><figcaption>Benny Sieu-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>The signing of Rhys Hoskins last offseason didn’t move the needle for a ton of people. The first baseman was coming off a lost season thanks to a torn ACL and has always been known as a slugger rather than an all-around hitter.</p><p>Hoskins enjoyed a solid season with Milwaukee but eyes especially turned to him when the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-brutal-postseason-history-mets-loss">Brewers were paired with the Mets</a> for their Wild Card series. Hoskins and the Mets have a long history stemming from his time with the Philadelphia Phillies. Some of that spilled into the regular season with his Brewers teammates joining the fun.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-rhys-hoskins-100-real-what-need-avoid-elimination">Hoskins entered the series</a> with a career .769 OPS and 38 extra-base hits in 90 games against the Mets. His OPS against New York in five games this season was .889. He did not record a hit in the three playoff games, going 0-for-9 with three strikeouts. He was lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh inning of Game 3, an anticlimactic end to his first season with Milwaukee.</p><p>Postseason struggles are nothing new for Hoskins who’s now appeared in 20 playoff games in his MLB career. He is a career .141 hitter in the MLB playoffs with over 32 percent of his plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.</p><p>The Brewers didn’t need Rhys Hoskins to be Babe Ruth, but going hitless in a three-game playoff series is not something a $12 million player is paid to do. Hoskins has an opt-out in his contract and could be one-and-done with Milwaukee.</p><h2><b>All-Star reliever comes up small again</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Devin-Williams-Brewers.jpg"><figcaption>Benny Sieu-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Having reliable pitching is crucial to a team’s postseason success. Few teams had better pitching than the Brewers this year but their best reliever faltered in crunch time.</p><p>Closer Devin Williams was tasked with trying to close out the Mets and the series. With a two-run lead in the ninth inning of Game 3, Williams walked the first batter he faced and allowed another to reach base before Pete Alonso drove in the game-winning run with a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mets-news-fans-explode-after-epic-comeback-win-vs-brewers">three-run homer off Williams</a>.</p><p>The two-time All-Star allowed another run before being pulled. He recorded two outs, giving up four runs in his final appearance of the season.</p><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-devin-williams-shares-true-feelings-over-disastrous-performance-vs-mets">playoff woes continue for Williams</a> who allowed a pair of runs and walked three batters in his postseason debut last October. He now has a 23.14 ERA in 2 1/3 playoff innings.</p><p>There is no doubt that Devin Williams is among the league’s most prolific relievers. He has a career 1.83 ERA, a number that shrinks to 1.66 over the past three seasons. Upon his return from injury this year, Williams carved through batters to the tune of a 1.25 ERA. He struck out 43 percent of the batters he faced in the regular season.</p><p>However, Williams has been unable to live up to expectations in the MLB playoffs, albeit in a small sample size. He is a significant reason why the Brewers have been postseason mainstays, but he also threw the pitch that cost them the lead in their final game of the 2024 season.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

2 Brewers to blame for Wild Card loss to Mets

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/brewers-news-pat-murphy-tragedy-take-painful-meltdown-vs-mets');   ga('set', 'title', 'Brewers’ Pat Murphy shares ‘tragedy’ take after painful meltdown vs. Mets');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Brewers-news-Pat-Murphy-shares-tragedy-take-after-painful-meltdown-vs.-Mets.jpg"></figure><h1>Brewers’ Pat Murphy shares ‘tragedy’ take after painful meltdown vs. Mets</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-04T01:54:43-07:00">October 4th, 1:54am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-04T01:54:43-07:00">October 4th, 1:54am</time><address><a>Michael Aaron Gomez</a>Michael Aaron Gomez is a creative writer and longtime NBA fan. He has been a fan of the Lakers since the three-peat but believes LeBron James is the greatest player of all time.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-pat-murphy-speech-clinched-nl-central">Milwaukee Brewers, who won the National League Central</a>, bowed out of the MLB Playoffs on Thursday after a heartbreaking Game 3 loss, 4-2, to the New York Mets in the Wild Card round. With this victory, the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mets-news-fans-explode-after-epic-comeback-win-vs-brewers">Mets advance to the National League Division Series</a> to face the Philadelphia Phillies, who won the NL East. Moreover, since sweeping the Colorado Rockies in the 2018 NLDS, the Brewers have lost six straight playoff series, giving manager Pat Murphy a ton of things to consider heading into the offseason.</p><p>For now, the Brewers manager has to deal with the sting of losing in three games to the Mets, despite winning the NL Central division by quite a substantial margin.</p><p>“This feels like a tragedy,” Murphy said, as <a href="https://x.com/AdamMcCalvy/status/1842025326043341104" rel="noopener">reported</a> by Brewers beat writer Adam McCalvy on X, formerly Twitter. The manager also added that he “loves this team and will never be able to duplicate 2024.”</p><p>On the other hand, Pat Murphy duly credited the Mets for beating the Brewers in Game 3, particularly <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mets-news-francisco-lindor-keeps-it-100-wild-finish-braves-clinches-playoff-spot">Francisco Lindor</a>, Brandon Nimmo, and Pete Alonso.</p><p>“Those three players are All-Stars,” he said, via a post from SNY Sports.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Brewers manager Pat Murphy gives "all the credit" to the Mets and Francisco Lindor, Brandon Nimmo, and Pete Alonso:</p><p>"That inning was about the Mets. Those three players are All-Stars." <a href="https://t.co/PBQfOKgAIO">pic.twitter.com/PBQfOKgAIO</a></p><p>— SNY (@SNYtv) <a href="https://twitter.com/SNYtv/status/1842027642339352763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><h2><b>The Brewers manager takes stock</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Pat-Murphy-at-a-press-conference.jpg"><figcaption>© Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>What makes this loss sadder for Pat Murphy is that his team were only two outs away from clinching the series and heading to the NLDS.  Jake Bauers started the scoring for the Brewers late in the seventh inning with a homer off Jose Butto, while Sal Frelick put them up 2-0 with another homer on the next pitch.</p><p>Pat Murphy’s decision to bring out starting pitcher Freddy Peralta at the top of the eighth inning signaled his decision to take the game from the Mets. After all, anything goes in an elimination game, and teams will take every advantage they can get.</p><p>Despite throwing only 68 pitches against the Mets two days prior, Peralta did his job, needing only nine strikes to retire the opponent. However, closer Devin Williams gave away a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mets-news-pete-alonso-reacts-legendary-playoff-moment-saved-season">three-run homer to Pete Alonso</a>, giving the Mets the lead they would never relinquish.</p><p>Still, Pat Murphy <a href="https://www.reuters.com/sports/baseball/pete-alonsos-blast-sends-mets-past-brewers-series-win-2024-10-04/" rel="noopener">didn’t throw his player</a> under the bus, despite the loss.</p><p>“Devin has been as good a closer as there is in baseball for the 2 1/2 years that he’s played,” Murphy said, per Reuters. “He’s been unbelievable. I’d give him the ballgame tomorrow in the same situation.”</p><p>After the loss, the Brewers have another offseason to lick their wounds. Anything can happen in the offseason, and this Wild Card collapse could bring about some changes.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Brewers’ Pat Murphy shares ‘tragedy’ take after painful meltdown vs. Mets

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/brewers-news-willy-adames-gets-100-real-about-future-amid-pending-free-agency');   ga('set', 'title', 'Brewers’ Willy Adames gets 100% real about future amid pending free agency');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Willy-Adames-gets-100-real-about-future-amid-pending-free-agency.jpg"></figure><h1>Brewers’ Willy Adames gets 100% real about future amid pending free agency</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-03T21:52:50-07:00">October 3rd, 9:52pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-03T21:52:50-07:00">October 3rd, 9:52pm</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Jedd Pagaduan is a certified Clippers and Gunners fan, which means he's a very sports-traumatized individual. He now writes about sports instead as a form of therapy.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Milwaukee Brewers’ incredible 2024 season came to an end in a flash after they failed to protect a two-run lead in the top of the ninth inning in Game 3 of their Wild Card series clash against the New York Mets. It seemed as though the Brewers’ pitching corps had done its job, but in a cruel twist in the tale, it was two-time All-Star closer Devin Williams who <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-devin-williams-shares-true-feelings-over-disastrous-performance-vs-mets">blew the lead</a> and allowed a three-run home run to Pete Alonso en route to a season-ending 4-2 defeat.</p><p>The Brewers have done a masterful job in remaining competitive even though they’re limited by some budgetary constraints. They also had to weather the loss of their ace Corbin Burnes and manager Craig Counsell, and they did so with aplomb, winning 92 games and once again establishing themselves as the cream of the crop in their division. But now, a long and cold offseason awaits them, as they have a few crucial players <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb-rumors-willy-adames-brewers-contract-extension-update-ahead-free-agency">set to enter free agency</a>.</p><p>One of those players is everyday shortstop Willy Adames. Adames has done nothing but be productive during his time with the Brewers; in fact, this season, he set some records along the way. But the Brewers have historically never been a major player in free agency, which casts plenty of doubt as to whether or not Adames will be staying in Milwaukee for next season and beyond.</p><p>“I don’t know if I’m going to come back. I say I hope. And then if not, it’s been a hell of a time here. It’s been an amazing time. Hopefully it happens again,” Adames told reporters following the Brewers’ season-ending defeat, via David Gasper of Fansided.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">"I don't know if I'm going to come back. I say I hope. If not, it's been a hell of a time here"</p><p>Willy Adames on his pending free agency <a href="https://t.co/J8HhoCwmF9">pic.twitter.com/J8HhoCwmF9</a></p><p>— David Gasper (@dgasper24) <a href="https://twitter.com/dgasper24/status/1842043208294953402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Adames will be worth his weight in gold in free agency. He’s only 29 years of age, so he has plenty of productive years left in his career, and his blend of elite power production for the position and solid defense will make keeping him for the foreseeable future an expensively difficult task for the Brewers.</p><p>The Brewers don’t exactly have a ready-made replacement for Adames, so an interesting offseason awaits them especially in the event of a departure from the 29-year-old shortstop in free agency.</p><h2>Brewers are likely to say goodbye to Willy Adames</h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Willy-Adames-1.jpg"></figure><p>There is no question that the Brewers were the runaway winner of the trade that brought in Willy Adames from the Tampa Bay Rays. Adames’ contributions during his time with the Brewers are <a href="https://www.fangraphs.com/players/willy-adames/15986/stats?position=SS" rel="noopener">worth 15.5 WAR</a>, according to Fangraphs, which is top-shelf production from someone who plays perhaps the most demanding position on the infield (except for catcher).</p><p>Adames has been a dynamic threat from the plate throughout his time in Milwaukee. He hit 107 home runs over the course of three and a half seasons with the Brewers, and he has been essential in keeping the team afloat amid plenty of changes. Losing him will be a big deal, although nothing is set in stone yet. Perhaps the Brewers dig deep into their pockets and pony up the cash required to keep him in town.</p><p>Alas, the biggest contract the Brewers have shelled out other than Christian Yelich’s nine-year, $215 million deal was Ryan Braun’s five-year, $105 million extension back in 2011. They have not spent more than $80 million on a free-agent deal. Rumor has it that Adames’ next contract could be worth a total of <a href="https://www.si.com/mlb/brewers/news-feed/brewers-star-named-no-4-2025-free-agent-predicted-to-earn-150-million-jackson3" rel="noopener">around $150 million</a>, so it might be time for Brewers fans to say their goodbyes to their everyday shortstop of the past three and a half seasons.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Brewers’ Willy Adames gets 100% real about future amid pending free agency

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/brewers-news-devin-williams-shares-true-feelings-over-disastrous-performance-vs-mets');   ga('set', 'title', 'Brewers’ Devin Williams shares true feelings over disastrous performance vs. Mets');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Devin-Williams-shares-true-feelings-over-disastrous-performance-vs.-Mets.jpg"></figure><h1>Brewers’ Devin Williams shares true feelings over disastrous performance vs. Mets</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-03T20:35:04-07:00">October 3rd, 8:35pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-03T23:49:31-07:00">October 3rd, 11:49pm</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Jedd Pagaduan is a certified Clippers and Gunners fan, which means he's a very sports-traumatized individual. He now writes about sports instead as a form of therapy.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The playoff format the MLB has used since 2022 has given way to plenty of heartbreak. For the second-consecutive season, the Milwaukee Brewers, despite winning the NL Central, were unable to make it to the NLDS. This time, the Brewers exited the postseason in rather gut-wrenching fashion, with two-time All-Star closer Devin Williams failing to protect a 2-0 lead against the New York Mets in Game 3 of the Wild Card series after <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mets-news-fans-explode-after-epic-comeback-win-vs-brewers">allowing a monstrous three-run home run</a> to Pete Alonso in the top of the ninth inning.</p><p>The Brewers could not have asked to be in a better position while holding a two-run lead while needing to get only three outs to secure the ballgame. Williams has been one of the best closers in the MLB this season; despite missing a chunk of time due to injury, Williams still record 14 saves in 15 tries while sporting an elite ERA of 1.25 in 21.2 innings of work this season. But he could not deliver for the Brewers <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamMcCalvy/status/1842031750542705101" rel="noopener">when it mattered the most</a>.</p><p>“I’m not going to make any excuses. I didn’t execute the way I needed to. They got the job done and I didn’t. It’s a lot of disappointment, you know. We worked all year to get to this point. They got me a two-run lead during the ninth, you know, that’s how we draw it up. And I couldn’t come through for the boys. No one feels worse than I do,” a crestfallen Williams told reporters following the Brewers’ season-ending loss, via Adam McCalvy of MLB.com.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Devin Williams on the pitch to Pete Alonso, and the empty feeling that he let his team down. <a href="https://t.co/Btq9NpZ2Ee">pic.twitter.com/Btq9NpZ2Ee</a></p><p>— Adam McCalvy (@AdamMcCalvy) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamMcCalvy/status/1842031750542705101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>The vibes have been immaculate for the Brewers all-season long; they have defied expectations, continuing to truck along as the best team in the NL Central despite losing Craig Counsell to the Chicago Cubs and trading away ace Corbin Burnes to the Baltimore Orioles. So for the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mets-news-pete-alonso-clutch-home-run-brewers">Brewers’ season to come to an end</a> with a single swing of the bat makes it all the more difficult for Williams.</p><p>“This is the closest team that I’ve played on. That’s why it makes it that much more disappointing. Everyone did their job except for me. I feel like I let everyone down,” Williams said.</p><h2><b>Brewers get the short end of the MLB playoff format stick</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Brewers-pitcher-Devin-Williams-38-is-relieved-in-the-ninth-inning.jpg"></figure><p>The way the Brewers front office run the team is something to be applauded. They may not break the bank to keep their most talented players past their years of team control, but they have stumbled upon a formula for sustained success. They have made the playoffs six times over the past seven seasons, and in the season in which they failed to make the postseason, they won 86 games.</p><p>However, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb-postseason-2024-format-everything-you-need-to-know">over the past two seasons</a>, the Brewers have not reaped the usual rewards that come with winning the division title. Under the previous playoff format, all division winners are guaranteed a spot in the NLDS — a best-of-five series — with two Wild Card teams duking it out in a single-game elimination contest for a spot in the MLB’s final eight.</p><p>But now, the “worst” division winner of the bunch is relegated to the Wild Card — a best-of-three series. For two consecutive seasons, the Brewers have been eliminated from the playoffs by a red-hot Wild Card team after losing just two games.</p><p>Of course, the Brewers could have gotten through to the NLDS had Devin Williams been his usual self, execution-wise. But still, it’s hard to feel as though Milwaukee hasn’t gotten the short end of the stick in this new playoff format.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Brewers’ Devin Williams shares true feelings over disastrous performance vs. Mets

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mets-news-pete-alonso-reacts-legendary-playoff-moment-saved-season');   ga('set', 'title', 'Pete Alonso reacts to legendary playoff moment that saved Mets’ season');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Mets-news-Pete-Alonso-reacts-to-legendary-playoff-moment-that-saved-NYs-season.jpg"></figure><h1>Pete Alonso reacts to legendary playoff moment that saved Mets’ season</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-03T20:33:46-07:00">October 3rd, 8:33pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-03T20:41:18-07:00">October 3rd, 8:41pm</time><address><a>Mike Gianakos</a>Mike Gianakos is the former editor-in-chief of High Times magazine, where he also spearheaded the video department and event production. He is a longtime podcaster and even longer suffering NY Jets fan.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The New York Mets had their backs against the wall. The team was facing a 2-0 deficit in the ninth inning of a winner-take-all playoff game against the Milwaukee Brewers in the Wild Card round. New York had runners on the corners with one out and Pete Alonso at the plate. The Mets slugger cracked an 86 mph changeup that just made it over the right field wall <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mets-news-pete-alonso-clutch-home-run-brewers">for the go-ahead home run</a>.</p><p>When asked after the game how he would put the incredible accomplishment into words, Alonso simply replied, “Words <a href="https://x.com/AnthonyDiComo/status/1842027348075414004" rel="noopener">can’t explain it</a>,” per MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo.</p><p>“It was a tough fought game all the way through. It’s two really good teams going at it in the postseason so it was going to come down to that last inning there. I mean, man, it’s just really special. I’m just so happy I could come through for the team right there,” Alonso added.</p><h2><b>Pete Alonso kept the Mets’ season alive with a go-ahead ninth inning home run</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Pete-Alonso.jpg"><figcaption>Benny Sieu-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Game Three of the Mets vs Brewers Wild Card Series was scoreless after six innings. Then, in the bottom of the seventh, Milwaukee took the lead when a pair of unlikely heroes emerged. Jake Bauers and Sal Frelick <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-late-game-home-runs-mets">hit back-to-back home runs</a> to give the Brewers a 2-0 lead late in the game. Milwaukee was attempting an improbable comeback after <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-rhys-hoskins-100-real-what-need-avoid-elimination">avoiding elimination in Game Two</a>. The Mets failed to answer in the eighth, setting up the ninth inning fireworks.</p><p>New York’s MVP Francisco Lindor led off the top of the ninth and worked a walk. After Mark Vientos struck out, left fielder Brandon Nimmo singled to right, sending Lindor to third and bringing Alonso to the plate for a career-defining, clutch homer.</p><p>The Mets were up 3-2 but they didn’t stop there. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-willy-adames-jesse-winker-parking-lot-challenge">Brewers’ nemesis Jesse Winker</a> was hit by a pitch. After stealing second, Winker scored on a single to right field by Starling Marte, giving New York a 4-2 advantage heading into the bottom of the ninth.</p><p>The Mets gave the ball to David Peterson. After Frelick led things off with a single to left, Peterson struck out Joey Ortiz and Brice Turang hit into a game-ending double play that Lindor brilliantly handled himself, running to touch second before firing to nail Turang at first.</p><p>The incredible comeback win sends the Mets to the Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies earned the second-seed in the National League by winning the NL East and finishing with the second-best record in baseball behind the Los Angeles Dodgers. The NLDS begins on Saturday in Philadelphia.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Pete Alonso reacts to legendary playoff moment that saved Mets’ season

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mets-news-fans-explode-after-epic-comeback-win-vs-brewers');   ga('set', 'title', 'Fans explode after Mets pull off epic comeback win vs. Brewers');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Mets-news-Fans-explode-after-NY-pulls-off-epic-comeback-win-vs.-Brewers.jpg"></figure><h1>Fans explode after Mets pull off epic comeback win vs. Brewers</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-03T19:46:32-07:00">October 3rd, 7:46pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-03T20:23:59-07:00">October 3rd, 8:23pm</time><address><a>Alex House</a>Alex House is a sports journalist who covers the NFL, NBA, and MLB for ClutchPoints. He grew up in a New York sports-heavy region in Connecticut and earned his journalism degree at the University of Rhode Island. His in-depth knowledge of two of the most passionate and raucous fan bases in the country gives him a truly unique writing voice.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>It will now be much harder for New York Mets fans to say goodbye to slugger Pete Alonso if he signs with another team in free agency this winter. A heroic and heart-stopping <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mets-news-pete-alonso-clutch-home-run-brewers">ninth-inning home run</a> improbably lifts the first baseman and his teammates to a 4-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers in the deciding Game 3 of the National League Wild Card Series.</p><p>In what could have been the final at-bat of his Mets career, and with the club two outs away from seeing its magical season end,  Alonso hit a three-run blast off superb closer Devin Williams to put New York on top. Starling Marte added an insurance run with an RBI single, and the franchise finished off the Brewers moments later. The visitors’ clubhouse is being flooded with champagne, while the home team tries to process the devastating knockout blow it has just been dealt.</p><p>Those who witnessed the madness unfold from their living rooms are echoing the shock that is filling American Family Field on Thursday night.</p><p>“My heart,” <a href="https://x.com/Tiffy_we_dat/status/1842025381907329100" rel="noopener">one fan posted</a> on X. “My desire to be a vial, egomaniacal winner. My Mets. All the games I go to. Everybody I love at Citi. I know we didn’t win the World Series, relax. But mostly…HAHAHAHAHAHAHA BREWERS YA DEAD!!!”</p><p>There was gloating and mocking galore, but some fans <a href="https://x.com/WE_ARE_MET_FANS/status/1842026781819154525" rel="noopener">opted to use history</a> to back up their confidence going into the NL Division Series, and possibly beyond. “In the 9 previous times the Brewers have made the postseason, every team that has beaten Milwaukee has reached the World Series,” The Amazin’ Army said. “The Mets will look to make it 10-for-10 this year.”</p><p>As New York relishes in yet another sensational <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mets-news-francisco-lindor-keeps-it-100-wild-finish-braves-clinches-playoff-spot">comeback victory</a> in the last week, Milwaukee suffers through an awful case of October deja vu.</p><h2><b>Brewers continue to fall short in the playoffs</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Pete-Alonso-celebrates-the-Mets-big-win.jpg"><figcaption>Benny Sieu-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>The Brew Crew underwent several changes ahead of and throughout the 2024 MLB season. They lost their manager to a divisional rival, traded their ace to the Baltimore Orioles and placed their star hitter on the injured list for what turned out to be the remainder of the year. And yet, the Brewers rose above all those hurdles to win their third NL Central title in four years.</p><p>A youthful burst of energy does not always produce favorable results in the playoffs, but this group was not flustered by the moment. Milwaukee weathered a Game 1 loss and bounced back tremendously with a comeback win in Game 2. When Jake Bauers and Sal Frelick belted <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-late-game-home-runs-mets">back-to-back homers</a> in the seventh inning, it seemed like this postseason would go differently for the Brewers.</p><p>But the ghosts of the franchise’s past haunted Devin Williams and the rest of the team before jubilation could ensue. Heartache will accompany fans on the drive back home, just as it has for the last several seasons. One of the most renown Brewers beat reporters <a href="https://x.com/CyrtHogg/status/1842021926857822633" rel="noopener">perfectly sums up</a> the anguish that the ballclub and community are feeling in the aftermath of Alonso’s stunning shot.</p><p>“This year was the one that was supposed to be different,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Curt Hogg posted. “Instead, it ends the same as so many before: heartbreak. As crushing as any before it. Fifty-six years and a World Series title remains elusive.”</p><p>Another grueling recovery period begins for the Brewers, and the party rolls on for the Mets.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Fans explode after Mets pull off epic comeback win vs. Brewers

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mets-news-pete-alonso-clutch-home-run-brewers');   ga('set', 'title', 'Mets’ Pete Alonso’s clutch home run vs. Brewers breaks the internet');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10-03-24-alonso-featured.jpg"></figure><h1>Mets’ Pete Alonso’s clutch home run vs. Brewers breaks the internet</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-03T19:18:45-07:00">October 3rd, 7:18pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-03T19:18:45-07:00">October 3rd, 7:18pm</time><address><a>David Korn</a>David Korn is an MLB associate editor at ClutchPoints. He is also a producer at MLB Network Radio and covers college basketball for A10Talk. David graduated from George Washington in 2023, where he was the radio play-by-play broadcaster for their Men's and Women's Basketball teams.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Down 2-0 in the top of the ninth inning in a win-or-go-home <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/milwaukee-brewers-vs-new-york-mets-bold-predictions-2024-nl-wild-card">Game 3 of the Wild Card round</a> to the Milwaukee Brewers, it looked like the New York Mets were about to bow out of the postseason. Then, up stepped Pete Alonso.</p><p>With runners on first and third and one out, Alonso worked a 3-1 count against Brewers’ relief ace Devin Williams <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1842017998443331905?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet" rel="noopener">and crushed</a> a go-ahead three-run home run just over the right field wall to give the Mets a late 3-2 lead.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="es">PETE ALONSO!!!!!!!!!!!!! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/POSTSEASON?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#POSTSEASON</a> <a href="https://t.co/LzgpxTWUzN">pic.twitter.com/LzgpxTWUzN</a></p><p>— MLB (@MLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1842017998443331905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Alonso <a href="https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/1842020516044947491?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet" rel="noopener">became the first</a> player in Major League Baseball history to hit a go-ahead home run while trailing in the ninth inning or later of a winner-take-all postseason game per OPTAStats.</p><p>Later in the inning, Mets outfielder Starling Marte gave the Mets an insurance run after he drove in Jesse Winker with a single to right field. That 4-2 lead would hold as the Mets advanced past the Brewers to earn a spot in the National League Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.</p><p>Mets fans went crazy after Alonso’s home run!</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">CITI FIELD IS ELECTRIC! <a href="https://t.co/Wzbb224CUW">pic.twitter.com/Wzbb224CUW</a></p><p>— Metsmerized Online (@Metsmerized) <a href="https://twitter.com/Metsmerized/status/1842018952438022477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Pete Alonso and his agent pulling up to the Mets front office for negotiations this off-season. <a href="https://t.co/OJGwV1tPxe">pic.twitter.com/OJGwV1tPxe</a></p><p>— At The Buzzer (@AtTheBuzzer1) <a href="https://twitter.com/AtTheBuzzer1/status/1842019643092881462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">PETE ALONSO’S HOMER SENT US INTO HYSTERIA <a href="https://t.co/9N7LLUVqXr">pic.twitter.com/9N7LLUVqXr</a></p><p>— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1842018840449818905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><h2><b>New York Mets beat Milwaukee Brewers to advance to National League Division Series</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10-03-24-alonso-image.jpg"><figcaption>© Benny Sieu-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>The last few days have been an absolute whirlwind for the Mets. First, they beat the Atlanta Braves in the first game of a doubleheader on Monday to clinch a spot in the postseason. Then, they beat the Brewers 8-4 in Game 1 of the Wild Card round following a commanding offensive performance. In Game 2, things were looking good for the Mets until they gave up a late pinch-hit home run to put the Brewers ahead.</p><p>Then, in Game 3, Alonso came in to save the day. After <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-late-game-home-runs-mets">allowing heartbreaking back-to-back home runs</a> in the eighth inning, things seemed pretty desperate for the Mets. His three-run home run gave the Mets the lead as they clinched a spot in the NLDS against their arch-rivals, the Phillies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Mets’ Pete Alonso’s clutch home run vs. Brewers breaks the internet

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/brewers-news-late-game-home-runs-mets');   ga('set', 'title', 'Brewers late-game clutch home runs have Mets fans in shambles');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10-03-24-brewers-featured.jpg"></figure><h1>Brewers late-game clutch home runs have Mets fans in shambles</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-03T18:40:17-07:00">October 3rd, 6:40pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-03T18:40:17-07:00">October 3rd, 6:40pm</time><address><a>David Korn</a>David Korn is an MLB associate editor at ClutchPoints. He is also a producer at MLB Network Radio and covers college basketball for A10Talk. David graduated from George Washington in 2023, where he was the radio play-by-play broadcaster for their Men's and Women's Basketball teams.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Milwaukee Brewers and New York Mets were in the midst of a tight pitcher’s duel in the win-or-go-home <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/milwaukee-brewers-vs-new-york-mets-bold-predictions-2024-nl-wild-card">Game 3 of the Wild Card round</a>. That all changed in the bottom of the seventh inning.</p><p>Left-handed Brewers first baseman/outfielder Jake Bauers <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1842007712269226229?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet" rel="noopener">came in</a> to pinch-hit for Rhys Hoskins against the right-handed Jose Butto, worked a full-count and crushed a home run into the second deck of the right field bleachers.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">JAKE BAUERS!</p><p>SCORELESS NO MORE! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/POSTSEASON?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#POSTSEASON</a> <a href="https://t.co/0IOt32TlGb">pic.twitter.com/0IOt32TlGb</a></p><p>— MLB (@MLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1842007712269226229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Then, the light-hitting and banged up Sal Frelick came up after Bauers. Frelick followed up Bauers’ performance by hitting the first pitch he saw to nearly the exact same spot in the second deck in right field, just a bit closer to the foul pole.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">SAL FRELICK GOES BACK-TO-BACK!!! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/POSTSEASON?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#POSTSEASON</a> <a href="https://t.co/OqZMZYmRZ5">pic.twitter.com/OqZMZYmRZ5</a></p><p>— MLB (@MLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1842008173953098081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>After the back-to-back home runs from the Brewers’ unlikely heroes, Mets fans could not believe what they were seeing.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Frelick hitting that no doubter proves we live in a simulation and that the simulation hates the Mets</p><p>— Christopher Weber (@shwebsi) <a href="https://twitter.com/shwebsi/status/1842009361318895961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Imagine blowing a playoff series because you gave up home runs to…</p><p>Garrett Mitchell<br>Jake Bauers<br>Sal Frelick</p><p>— Just Mets (@just_mets) <a href="https://twitter.com/just_mets/status/1842009115897266241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>College basketball analyst and Mets fan Gary Parrish of CBS Sports even jumped in the fray.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I cannot believe two people named Jake Bauers and Sal Frelick ruined my night (and year and life).<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LGM</a></p><p>— Gary Parrish (@GaryParrishCBS) <a href="https://twitter.com/GaryParrishCBS/status/1842008731175027174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Things were looking great for the Mets, who won Game 1 and had a 3-2 lead over the Brewers going into the eighth inning before Jackson Chourio and <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-playoff-hero-garrett-mitchell-message-fans-game-3">Garrett Mitchell hit heartbreaking home runs</a> to put Milwaukee up 5-3.</p><h2><b>Jake Bauers and Sal Frelick: Unlikely heroes for the Milwaukee Brewers</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10-03-24-frelick-image.jpg"><figcaption>© Benny Sieu-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Bauers and Frelick are probably the last players Mets fans would have expected to hit go-ahead back-to-back home runs against them.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-sal-frelick-uncertain-injury-scare">Frelick is currently hampered with a hip injury</a>, and only hit two home runs in 145 games this season, his last one coming on May. 15. Bauers has a bit more power than Frelick, with 12 home runs on the season. However, he was coming in cold off the bench for Hoskins, who has tormented Mets fans since his days with the Phillies.</p><p>Mets fans often say that their team is cursed. After what Bauers and Frelick just did to put the Brewers up late, maybe they are right.</p><p> </p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Brewers late-game clutch home runs have Mets fans in shambles

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/brewers-news-willy-adames-jesse-winker-parking-lot-challenge');   ga('set', 'title', 'Brewers’ Willy Adames says Jesse Winker sidestepped his parking lot challenge');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10-03-24-adames-winker-featured.jpg"></figure><h1>Brewers’ Willy Adames says Jesse Winker sidestepped his parking lot challenge</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-03T17:30:08-07:00">October 3rd, 5:30pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-03T17:30:08-07:00">October 3rd, 5:30pm</time><address><a>David Korn</a>David Korn is an MLB associate editor at ClutchPoints. He is also a producer at MLB Network Radio and covers college basketball for A10Talk. David graduated from George Washington in 2023, where he was the radio play-by-play broadcaster for their Men's and Women's Basketball teams.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>There was lots of speculation about what exactly Milwaukee Brewers shortstop <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mets-news-winker-sidesteps-adames-question">Willy Adames said to New York Mets outfielder Jesse Winker</a> when they <a href="https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1841239546240868490" rel="noopener">exchanged words</a> during a tense moment in Game 1 of the Wild Card round on Tuesday. Ahead of a win-or-go-home Game 3 on Thursday, Adames clarified exactly what he said, including a shocking detail about just how serious he was about what he said.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Jesse Winker and Willy Adames exchange words after Winker's game-tying triple <a href="https://t.co/Fc7PpE07xe">pic.twitter.com/Fc7PpE07xe</a></p><p>— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1841239546240868490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Adames <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/03/sports/brewers-willy-adames-was-ready-for-mets-jesse-winker-in-parking-lot/" rel="noopener">made clear</a> what many assumed, that he told Winker to meet him in the parking lot to “settle differences” following Winker’s two-run triple in Game 1. Adames then confirmed that he was waiting in the parking lot for Winker, but he never showed up, according to MLB insider Jon Heyman of the New York Post.</p><p>“I told him that when we were chirping at each other,” Adames said. “I was there (in the lot).”</p><p>Heyman said that the reason Winker was so animated was that he was still upset about being hit by a pitch Brewers starter Frankie Montas when the two teams played each other last Friday.</p><p>“He just started yelling to me straight-up,” Adames said. “In the heat of the moment, I’m not going to back down. So we were just chirping. I don’t know what he was mad about.”</p><p>This is shocking from Adames. Apparently, he was ready and willing to continue his conversation with Winker off of the field. While Adames did not say that he planned to get physical with Winker, there are certain connotations that can not be ignored after telling someone to to meet in a parking lot.</p><p>While it would have certainly provided some thrilling drama to an already incredible postseason series, it is probably for the best that Adames and Winker did not have an off-field confrontation following their tense moment during Game 1.</p><h2><b>Jesse Winker’s history with the Milwaukee Brewers</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10-03-24-winker-image.jpg"><figcaption>© Benny Sieu-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Another wrinkle in the Winker-Adames saga is that the two were teammates on the Brewers in 2023. Winker, an All-Star in 2021 with the Cincinnati Reds, failed to live up to expectations in Milwaukee. In just 61 games with the Brewers in 2023, Winker was below the Mendoza line, batting .199, and only hit one home run.</p><p>While neither Winker or Adames mentioned their time as teammates as a potential cause for the situation in Game 1, it would make sense for there to be some hard feelings between the two sides following Winker’s disastrous performance.</p><p>This season, Winker has been much better. With both the Washington Nationals and the Mets, Winker is slashing .253/.360/.405 with 14 home runs and <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mets-news-jesse-winker-moment-after-walk-off-home-run">has been a crucial part of the Mets’ surprising</a> Wild Card run.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Brewers’ Willy Adames says Jesse Winker sidestepped his parking lot challenge

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/brewers-news-jackson-chourio-reaction-game-2-mets');   ga('set', 'title', 'Brewers star Jackson Chourio’s unforgettable reaction to Game 2 stardom vs. Mets');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Brewers-news-Jackson-Chourios-unforgettable-reaction-to-Game-2-stardom-vs.jpg"></figure><h1>Brewers star Jackson Chourio’s unforgettable reaction to Game 2 stardom vs. Mets</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-03T07:13:12-07:00">October 3rd, 7:13am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-03T07:13:12-07:00">October 3rd, 7:13am</time><address><a>Andrew Meyers</a>Andrew Meyers is an avid sports fan with a fondness for Philadelphia teams that rarely love him back. He has two degrees from Quinnipiac University, including a master's in sports journalism. Outside of ClutchPoints, Meyers does play-by-play broadcasting for various colleges in the northeast.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Some players are born with an edge that separates them in the brightest moments. Milwaukee Brewers rookie outfielder <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-jackson-chourio-makes-mlb-playoffs-history-game-2-mets">Jackson Chourio delivered not once but twice</a> during Milwaukee’s Game 2 win over the New York Mets in the NL Wild Card Series. It was incredible to watch as the 20-year-old seized the opportunity in the biggest at-bats of the season.</p><p>Chourio launched a solo home run to lead off the bottom of the first inning, tying the game after the Mets scored in the opening frame. He then started the bottom of the eighth with another homer, tying the game at three and sparking a three-run inning for the Brewers.</p><p>The moment wasn’t too much for Chourio, who’s lived with lofty expectations all season. He’s lived up to the hype every step of the way.</p><p>“I think the adrenaline is still getting to me,” Chourio said <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41578952/garrett-mitchell-tiebreaking-hr-puts-brewers-mets" rel="noopener">through an interpreter</a>, per Bradford Doolittle of ESPN. “It was a very special moment for me, and it’s one I’m going to look back on and remember for the rest of my life.”</p><p>Chourio recorded two hits in his playoff debut in the two-hole Tuesday, scoring once and driving in a run in an 8-4 Brewers loss. He was lifted to the top of the order in Game 2. He’ll probably stay there after becoming the second-youngest player in MLB history with multiple home runs in a playoff game.</p><h2><b>Youngsters deliver for Brewers in must-win scenario</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jackson-Chourio-Brewers.jpg"><figcaption>Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK</figcaption></figure><p>The Wild Card Series is tricky to navigate, especially for the team that loses Game 1. The Brewers had their backs to the wall in an elimination game. It was players without experience in the MLB playoffs who carried them to a victory.</p><p>Garrett Mitchell entered the game as a pinch runner and earned an at-bat in the eighth inning. The third-year pro hit a go-ahead home run, his first playoff hit, to send the Brewers to a Game 3. 24-year-old Brice Turang has five hits in two games, three of them doubles, and three runs scored.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-playoff-hero-garrett-mitchell-message-fans-game-3">Milwaukee’s young core</a> is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5814611/2024/10/03/brewers-wild-card-win-chourio-mitchell/" rel="noopener">making an impact</a> as a whole, but it starts and ends with Chourio. His Game 2 heroics could be just the beginning of a portfolio of memorable playoff moments.</p><p>“He’s unbelievable, man,” Brewers shortstop Willy Adames said, per Tyler Kepner of The Athletic. “That guy’s crazy. We just told him, I said, ‘Man, I’m proud of you, the way that you’re showing up this postseason. Twenty years old, you’re a kid, and you’re going out there and performing when we need you the most.’ That’s something — I think he was just born with it.”</p><p>Jackson Chourio’s bat was enough to propel the Brewers to one playoff victory but they are in the same spot they were Wednesday entering Game 3 Thursday. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/brewers-news-rhys-hoskins-100-real-what-need-avoid-elimination">Milwaukee faces elimination</a> at home and will want to get off to a good start after trailing early in the series’ first two games.</p><p>Perhaps Jackson Chourio can help the cause and replicate what he did at the plate in Game 2. If the Brewers stay in it, the MLB playoffs could quickly become the Chourio Show.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Brewers star Jackson Chourio’s unforgettable reaction to Game 2 stardom vs. Mets

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During that time, he earned his masters degree in Communication. After graduating in 2022, Cameron signed to play independent professional baseball with the Joliet Slammers, but his time was cut short due to injury. Nonetheless, his love for baseball and all sports never faded.Cameron loves the sports media and sports journalism side of things and does some light writing for a Chicago Cubs blog, as well. To go along with that, he loves sports betting and fantasy sports. He also loves digging on the research and creating content for both sports betting and fantasy sports!</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Betting</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The New York Mets take on the Milwaukee Brewers in a winner-take-all game three Thursday night. Below we will continue our MLB odds <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/betting" rel="noopener">series</a> with a Mets-Brewers prediction and pick. We will also let you know how to watch the game.</p><h2><b>Mets-Brewers Game 3 Projected Starters </b></h2><p><b>Jose Quintana </b>vs. <b>Tobias Myers</b></p><p><b>Jose Quintana</b> (10-10) with a 3.75 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 170.1 innings pitched, 135K/63BB, .237 oBA</p><p>Last Start: at Milwaukee Brewers: Loss, 4.1 innings, 5 hits, 2 runs, 2 walks, 9 strikeouts</p><p>2024 Road Splits: 16 starts, 3.86 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 86.1 innings pitched, 69K/34BB, .241 oBA</p><p><b>Tobias Myers</b> (9-6) with a 3.00 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 138 innings pitched, 127K/36BB, .242 oBA</p><p>Last Start: vs. New York Mets: Win, 4 innings, 1 hit, 0 runs, 0 walks, 5 strikeouts</p><p>2024 Home Splits: 13 games, 12 starts, 2.86 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 69.1 innings pitched, 71K/16BB, .213 oBA</p><p><b><i>Here are the <a href="https://sportsbook.fanduel.com/navigation/mlb" rel="noopener">MLB Odds</a>, courtesy of FanDuel. </i></b></p><h2><b>MLB NL Wild Card Odds: Mets-Brewers Odds</b></h2><p>New York Mets: +1.5 (-205)</p><p>Moneyline: +110</p><p>Milwaukee Brewers: -1.5 (+168)</p><p>Moneyline: -130</p><p>Over: 7.5 (-106)</p><p>Under: 7.5 (-114)</p><h2><b>How to Watch Mets-Brewers Game 3</b></h2><p>Time: 7 PM ET/4 PM PT</p><p>TV: ESPN</p><p>Stream: fuboTV (<a href="https://www.fubo.tv/stream/mlb/?irad=377812&amp;irmp=492408" rel="noopener sponsored">Free Trial</a>)</p><h2><b>Why The Mets Will Cover The Spread/Win</b></h2><p>New York has been able to play well, but their magic ran out at the end of game two. Phil Maton allowed a few home runs, and the Mets could not complete the sweep. However, New York does have Jose Quintana on the mound, and he had a very good month of September. His runs allowed in his last start were his first allowed in the the month. He had an ERA under 1.00 in September, so he is entering this game with the hot hand. If he can continue to throw the ball well, the Mets will win.</p><p>Quintana has been good in his last six starts. In that span, Quintana is 4-1 with 36.1 innings pitched, 25 hits allowed, 29 strikeouts to 11 walks, and an ERA of just 0.74. He is the man the Mets want on the mound in this elimination game, he just has to perform. In order to win this game, Quintana has to go at least into the sixth inning. He is averaging six innings pitched in his last six starts, so it is doable. If he can throw five or six strong, the Mets will advance to the NLDS.</p><h2><b>Why The Brewers Will Cover The Spread/Win</b></h2><p>Tobias Myers is quietly having a great season. You do not hear much about him, but you should. He had a couple of rough months to begin the season, but Myers has been lights out since the beginning of June. In that span, Myers has made 19 starts (20 games pitched), thrown 111.1 innings pitched, struck out 100 while walking just 26, and his ERA is 2.43. He has the talent to shut down the Mets, and it would not be surprising to see him go six strong innings in this game.</p><p>Milwaukee has faced Quintana twice this season, and he has gone less than five innings in both games. This is the playoffs, and an elimination game, so going less than five as a starter is not unheard of. However, the Mets played a double-header on Monday, and their bullpen is feeling the pressure. Getting Quintana to exit the game early would be huge towards advancing to the next round. If the offense can get going a bit in this game, the Brewers will win.</p><h2><b>Final Mets-Brewers Prediction &amp; Pick</b></h2><p>This is a great pitching matchup, even though it does not feature big names. Both pitchers have thrown the ball well, and that should continue. The playoffs are a different animal, though. Tobias Myers is a rookie, so he has not yet pitched in a playoff game. Quintana has the playoff experience, and I think he will outpitch Myers. I will take the Mets moneyline.</p><p><b>Final Mets-Brewers Prediction &amp; Pick: Mets ML (+110)</b></p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

2024 SEASON STATS
BA	HR	RBI	OPS	SB
.211	1	4	0.659	0

2024 SEASON STATS
BA	HR	RBI	OPS	SB
.211	1	4	0.659	0

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