Game Thread #55: Astros (30-25) at Brewers (26-28)

by Jeff Sackmann on May 30, 2008 5:01 PM CDT in Game Threads

If you had told me during spring training that, two months into the season, the Astros would be comfortably ahead of the Crew in the standings, I wouldn't have believed it. Presumably Lance Berkman will stop OPS'ing a gazillion, and the Astros will drift back to .500...by which point, I hope, the Brewers will no longer be below that mark.

The pitching matchup tonight is Brandon Backe and Manny Parra. Game time is 7:05 CT, and here's the BR Game Preview.

Go Brewers!

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So

are the Cubs ever going to lose again? Down 8-0 and they come back to win? They are on fire.

by molitorfan on May 30, 2008 7:05 PM CDT 0 recs

Happenin' place tonight

Wasn’t J.R. Towles supposed to be an offensive upgrade over Ausmus?

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by TheJay on May 30, 2008 7:06 PM CDT 0 recs

well, he's certainly younger and taller...

Perhaps that’s what they meant by “upgrade.”

by morineko on May 30, 2008 7:09 PM CDT up 0 recs

Quick inning for Parra

Maybe get rid of the line drive off the body in the future. His ERA is almost under 5.00 now.

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by TheJay on May 30, 2008 7:11 PM CDT 0 recs

Bomb

by Cameron!

by molitorfan on May 30, 2008 7:14 PM CDT 0 recs

Mike Hammerin'

Does it again, finally at home.

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by TheJay on May 30, 2008 7:15 PM CDT 0 recs

sweet - a wham by Cam

by ol Pete on May 30, 2008 7:15 PM CDT 0 recs

Back to back

this could be a nice little Friday.

by molitorfan on May 30, 2008 7:17 PM CDT 0 recs

Braun

Could’ve at least waited until the Mercedes promotion to give a lucky fan a car. :)

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by TheJay on May 30, 2008 7:17 PM CDT 0 recs

Picnic area

I love how everyone just sat there even as Braun’s shot was coming right at them

by molitorfan on May 30, 2008 7:18 PM CDT 0 recs

Did it look like Cam short hopped that?

by ol Pete on May 30, 2008 7:23 PM CDT 0 recs

Wiggs gets the green light on 3-0

by ol Pete on May 30, 2008 7:26 PM CDT 0 recs

Damn Jay

you had to taunt Towles

by molitorfan on May 30, 2008 7:30 PM CDT 0 recs

I also mentioned Parra's ERA

Shucks.

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by TheJay on May 30, 2008 7:31 PM CDT up 0 recs

Ha

no one mention a former Brewer who plays LF

by molitorfan on May 30, 2008 7:32 PM CDT up 0 recs

I want to see him doing his approximation of sprints out there.

by ol Pete on May 30, 2008 7:33 PM CDT up 0 recs

I wonder what Greg Vaughn's up to these days.

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by TheJay on May 30, 2008 7:38 PM CDT up 0 recs

Wearing bright green batting gloves

and coming to the plate to “Nothin’ But a G Thang”. Great at bat music. I loved Vaughn.

by molitorfan on May 30, 2008 7:40 PM CDT up 0 recs

Rickie

has been covering 1B well on bunts.

there was the 2-5-4(@3) DP the other day. And on the recent SB, he covered first.

by PagsBrewCrew on May 30, 2008 7:36 PM CDT 0 recs

where SB = sac bunt, not stolen base:P

by PagsBrewCrew on May 30, 2008 7:36 PM CDT up 0 recs

Did you guys see this?

http://deadspin.com/5011575/julian-tavarez-still-crazy-still-losing-stuff

by molitorfan on May 30, 2008 7:39 PM CDT 0 recs

Weird guy. Did anyone ever hear any comment about the play where he cut off the ball last game?

by ol Pete on May 30, 2008 7:41 PM CDT up 0 recs

even if someone has, I haven't

by PagsBrewCrew on May 30, 2008 7:45 PM CDT up 0 recs

he did get DFA'ed on a road trip

but that was over two weeks ago. wouldn’t someone have let him in to clean up his stuff? he had said he was going to report to Pawtucket, after all. (Ah, baseball stories.)

He’s an odd one. The day before the Sox sent him down he was walking around the field at the Metrodome and appeared to be giving other guys pitching tips (from what I could hear,) including Daisuke Matsuzaka. Hmm.

by morineko on May 30, 2008 7:47 PM CDT up 0 recs

Cameron now has more HR than Fielder

and he missed the first 15 games…

Any of you more knowledgeable in peripheral-stats able to give me some hope that Fielder has just been unlucky or something?

"My thing is that you guys eat meat all day and you can't hit a ball. That's my thing." - P. Fielder

by SRB on May 30, 2008 7:54 PM CDT 0 recs

about the HRs… shhhhhhh…

about the stats, I would go to baseball-reference.com and look for babip – and I’m no expert by any means.

by ol Pete on May 30, 2008 7:59 PM CDT up 0 recs

err...

babip has nothing to do with HRs;) 3TO need not apply:P

by PagsBrewCrew on May 30, 2008 8:30 PM CDT up 0 recs

25 Games

it was 25 games!

And I thought Marty already covered it, it’s not luck. It’s the fact he’s a veggie eating, card carrying member of the communist party.

by SgtClueLs on May 30, 2008 8:03 PM CDT up 0 recs

I love Braun's plate coverage

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on May 30, 2008 8:00 PM CDT 0 recs

Braun

2nd RBI

by molitorfan on May 30, 2008 8:01 PM CDT 0 recs

and FSN quick enough to switch as Backe looks like he was saying...

that which Shaft got yelled at for

by ol Pete on May 30, 2008 8:03 PM CDT 0 recs

It might help

To catch the plate with some of these pitches.

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by TheJay on May 30, 2008 8:12 PM CDT 0 recs

Brian

always reminding listeners of the depressing factoids

by ol Pete on May 30, 2008 8:17 PM CDT 0 recs

By the same token

Parra’s pretty good at giving him reasons to.

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by TheJay on May 30, 2008 8:18 PM CDT up 0 recs

Hopefully not recurring like a nightmare.

by ol Pete on May 30, 2008 8:22 PM CDT up 0 recs

Parra is an exceptionally good batter

for a pitcher. look at him milk 9 pitches off the opposition. Sure, it didn’t come out to an RBI, but you gotta give him props for trying.

by PagsBrewCrew on May 30, 2008 8:32 PM CDT up 0 recs

true

I kept wondering if a bunt toward Wiggington would’ve been a good strategy.

by ol Pete on May 30, 2008 8:35 PM CDT up 0 recs

And

a quick inning after the long at bat

by molitorfan on May 30, 2008 8:37 PM CDT up 0 recs

problem with a bunt

a foul ends the inning.

by PagsBrewCrew on May 30, 2008 8:40 PM CDT up 0 recs

That Berkman

He’s so hot right now.

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by TheJay on May 30, 2008 8:37 PM CDT 0 recs

his hitting

isn’t too bad either. Maybe JJ can share the wealth after the game.

by molitorfan on May 30, 2008 8:38 PM CDT up 0 recs

I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I’m selling? No. Do I know what I’m doing today? No. But I’m here, and I’m gonna give it my best shot.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on May 30, 2008 8:40 PM CDT up 0 recs