MILWAUKEE — David Stearns believed he was talking for everybody concerned in stating: “Nobody desires to play a doubleheader on Monday.”
He was not interested by the Brewers.
The Mets, Braves and Main League Baseball don’t wish to squeeze in two video games that had been postponed this week and play them sooner or later after the common season ends and sooner or later earlier than the playoffs start.
If, say, the Mets and Braves know their postseason fates, Rob Manfred may cancel the Monday video games. The commissioner may resolve that these video games shouldn’t be performed if solely seeding is at stake.
The Brewers are doing their half to make each video games occur by handing the Mets an 8-4 defeat of their sequence opener Friday.
“That would appear one-sided, proper? You’ve acquired to play your video games, proper?” Brewers supervisor Pat Murphy mentioned earlier than his membership smacked across the Mets. “We’ve acquired to play these three.”
The ultimate sequence of the season doesn’t matter for the Brewers, who’ve clinched the No. 3 seed within the Nationwide League.
But, they’re incentivized to beat the Mets partly as a result of doing so would assist guarantee these video games in Atlanta matter and should be performed.
Milwaukee will match up towards the third NL wild card within the first spherical of the postseason, which might be a depleted Mets or Braves workforce that had endured 18 innings an evening earlier.
Murphy believes not taking part in a full schedule could be a bonus as a result of “you don’t have to make use of additional pitching that you’d use,” Murphy mentioned.
If the Mets use their common 5 beginning pitchers for the ultimate 5 video games of the season, they might not have a starter accessible on common relaxation for Sport 1 of the postseason.
Earlier than starting a sequence that didn’t matter within the standings for his personal workforce, Murphy mentioned the Brewers would “play to win” however acknowledged they might not “empty the tank.”
For instance, he was not anticipating utilizing a reliever on back-to-back days.
He stopped wanting saying he was rooting for a first-round matchup with an exhausted workforce that survives 18 innings Monday.
“Watch out what you would like for,” Murphy mentioned.
