fan I would rather see Hardy in the lineup. Friggin Counsell always kills us. I predict a Brewer victory as Mr. Lohse comes back to earth. Brewers win 6-4.

I am glad to see Ankiel have the day off. He has been struggling.

Throws almost identical stuff to Wainwright. In fact Wainwright is the 6th best comp as far as stuff goes to Lohse this year and was on Lohse’s list last year too. Hopefully the crew can take advantage of that since the game plan against the Brewers batters should be the same.

I was looking up and down the Cards lineup to see how they might fair against Parra’s excellent curve and noticed that basically none of the Cardinal batters are swinging at balls out of the zone. Not even Izturis. Why can’t our guys do that?

Parra is going to have to get his curve over for a strike if he is going to be effective today.

Looking at Turnbow’s splits from 2007, he went 3-1 to 16 different batters. Gave up a .000 batting average but a .812 OBP.

But dude is simply unhittable once he has two strikes on a batter.

Parra has to go deep today. We just got three straight starts were the starts have gone 7 innings and we are carrying 14 pitchers!

One thing that just hasn’t gotten enough attention this year is the amazing turn around with the Brewers defense. Their team RZR is above average, their plus/minus is tied for 4th best in the NL, and their outfield RZR is at an amazing .934. With Gross playing a lot of center and some “interesting” routes by Braun in left I am as shocked as you probably are.

Prince with his first hit in the series. Here’s to hoping this comes to fruition.

Time to work the bottom of the strike zone.

Not watching the game—was it a lucky bounce or a legit single by Lohse?

Lohse threw an eephus to Parra, followed by a shoulder-high fastball for a called strike.

Here is his every pitch he has called so far this year. Strange that it doesn’t look like he has called too many low strikes up to this point.

Braun and Fielder time to do something.