All eyes will be on managers Dave Roberts, Craig Counsell

MILWAUKEE – The challenge is to guess right, and hope that a chain reader finds a glove for no other reason than good fortune, and that's all the work. That, and to prevent 25 men having little in common, but their work clothes, to hurt themselves permanently. That, and in agreement with almost everything that was sent by your boss's office. That, and seeming quiet and not panicked for the TV cameras.

That's what you have to assume and take responsibility if any of the above things go wrong, with the result being condemnation and ridicule at least until another baseball game is played, in which case it will be the turn of another poor sap.

Just this week, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone admitted that when he returned home after receiving juju overalls (and that he was tried, he gave his judgment), he had set his car radio to 80, a call to transparent compassion. And more Jack Wagner.

It's autumn, which means that a trump asset must be pitching, a helpless cleaning hitter must be smothered, a losing team must be autopsied and all but one manager must be upgraded. The remaining manager? Sanctified.

(Just on Thursday in Houston, Alex Cora told reporters, "In the end, honestly, A.J. [Hinch] do not throw a ball, I do not throw a ball. In the end, my last fight was in 2011. And A.J. was a while ago. It's not about us. ")

And even.

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So, happy October baseball, Dave Roberts. And happy October to you, Craig Counsell. This is the National League championship series, one of you has a guaranteed contract for next season, and this is not the guy who has managed the World Series l '. last year, the NLCS the year before and that did nothing else than to win division titles how is the concert sometimes.

For the sake of time, we will describe the future challenges for the two managers, even if they are not all their decisions, because it is they who will defend them if they have horribly failed.

First, Counsell, the Wisconsin-born, child-minded Brewers coach, who guided the home team in his three full seasons at 73, 86 and, in 2018, 96 wins.

The brewers queues

The Dodgers will train three left-handers and Counsell's regular players include left-handed hitters Mike Moustakas and Travis Shaw. Shaw is a career .234 batting against lefties. He hit .209 against them this season. Moustakas actually had a better batting average against left-handed than right-handed, though base and slugging percentages were lower. As a general rule, Counsell would not be taking sides against a southpaw, especially a good southpaw, with Clayton Kershaw, Hyun-jin Ryu and Rich Hill being eligible. You can see Jonathan Schoop at Shaw's second goal against Kershaw, although Schoop beat .202 as Brewer. He also combined 0 goals against 11 against Kershaw and Hill (which means anything but nothing) and has never faced Ryu.

Josh Hader

The golden ball. The brilliant left handed six times on consecutive days of the season. At rest, his ERA was 4.15. The rest of the time, almost nobody ever hit him. Therefore, when Counsell deploys it, its impact on the game will not only be significant, it may happen in the next match. Or two.

Milwaukee starts to launch

Counsell announced that Gio Gonzalez was in match 1. Gonzalez has not started since September 30 and has launched nine innings since mid-September. Wade Miley starts the second match. Miley played 64 shots in the third game of the Division series and seven innings in the second half of September. Counsell said Jhoulys Chacín, the presumed match 1 coach until Thursday's announcement and the presumed match 3 match, would be available for match 1. That's what the Brewers are doing. They corrected the first game of the Division series and could possibly end up at some point in the NLCS. The decision, therefore, when a beginner is approaching his limit – third inning, fourth, every time – and when to release one of the best ways the game will carry the post-match conversation.

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Matchups

The Dodgers, very heavy in the pack, can be a handful, even for a tense and balanced pen. Counsell organizes the matches one by one, not at all?

"Look, I think that's what usually happens as the game unfolds," Counsell said. "Their right-handed hitters are perfectly capable of hitting a right-handed shot. … The managers will try to win matches and that's why these guys play and a lot of them play. But we always have to go out and we have to throw and our guys have to throw. … you know, we'll have right-handers, and obviously Josh [Hader] is a great weapon for us that makes other guys think. He's tough on everyone, but I think he's really tough on left-handed batters, as he has shown. So we have a choice to make, and that's one of the reasons we feel we're successful.

"Really, after playing baseball for a month of September, there are only five players on the bench, to be honest with you."

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Secondly, Roberts, who is a Yu Darvish newbie after already winning this victory, is in the hard position of winning every game every day and coming up with a much more experienced team.

Clayton Kershaw, Hyun-jin Ryu, Buehler Walker, Rich Hill (in that order)

Even the mid-game defeats against the Brewers are dangerous and potentially fatal, so how long will Roberts stay with the best of his beginners while trying to protect the slightly median relief of the Dodgers might determine the series.

Kenley Jansen

He is the closest. He starts the ninth inning with a lead. Because he suffers from heart disease and more frequent volatility in the ninth inning, he does not seem to be the same pitcher who has thrown more than one heat five times last October. The seventh and eighth round confrontations with Pedro Báez, Kenta Maeda, Scott Alexander and Dylan Floro become critical.

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The dodgers

The Dodgers squad occupies up to four positions. The Brewers will start the left-handed pitchers – Gonzalez and Miley – in games 1 and 2. So, are the Dodgers going back-and-forth, knowing that the two Brewers starters might not be invited to throw more money? once in order? Or do they sell early by picking up favorable matches – David Freese to first base, for example – as long as they exist? Kikè Hernández (not Brian Dozier) was chosen in second place in the Division series, limiting possible pelotons to first base (Max Muncy or Freese), left field (Joc Pederson or Chris Taylor) and right field (Yasiel Puig against the right-handed, Matt Kemp against lefties). Cody Bellinger became the regular center player, although he often finishes the matches at first base. In Game 1, Roberts said on Thursday night, Freese would start early and Muncy, 7 years out of 24, with three hits in the clutch hit, would be on the bench.

"There will be failures that will play this series," said Roberts. "And that's part of the fun."

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