Reds 7, Brewers 6
by Kyle Lobner on Apr 13, 2009 10:36 PM CDT
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PrintL: Yovani Gallardo (1-1)
S: Francisco Cordero ()
HR: Corey Hart (3), J.J. Hardy (1), Jay Bruce (1), Edwin Encarnacion (1)
MVP: Corey Hart (+.227)
LVP: Yovani Gallardo (-.442)
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If you tuned in late, you missed all the scoring tonight: The two teams combined to score 12 runs in the first three innings, and the Reds jumped out to an early 7-5 lead, capped by Edwin Encarnacion's 3rd inning grand slam that gave the Reds a lead that turned out to be insurmountable.
Gallardo rebounded to pitch perfect innings in the fourth and fifth, but still allowed seven earned runs on three hits and four walks in five innings. Mark DiFelice, Todd Coffey and Mitch Stetter combined to pitch four scoreless innings to keep the Brewers in the game, but the offense never picked them up.
The Brewers had plenty of opportunities to come back and tie the game, loading the bases in the fourth and eighth, and having runners on first and second in the seventh, but failed to score in all of those opportunities. Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun went 0-for-6 and left 11 runners on base, but did combine to walk four times.
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Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun went 0-for-6 and left 11 runners on base
Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh……………………
Crimson and Cream Machine
Baseball season = Go Brew Crew!
by dishingoutdimes on Apr 13, 2009 10:41 PM CDT reply actions
more bright sides
at least we don’t live in DC.
by sowingwildoats on Apr 13, 2009 10:45 PM CDT reply actions
They get pitch f/x on everybody
I’m sure someone will check it out. I would if I wasn’t so tired.
Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.
Never mind
he topped out at 80.2. They said he threw a fastball and change, but the change was faster than the fastball. No breaking stuff that I can find. 22 pitches, his release point was pretty consistent except for 3 pitches way off to the side for some reason.
Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.
Somebody tried the same thing last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABtv6W27Z0
They think it will end the curse.
2002 game
That was an awful game all around tonight. It reminded me of one of those 2002 games where both teams were awful but would play these 14-13 slugfests that would last 14 innings.
I was sitting right behind home plate and no one could throw a strike. it was just awful to watch. Encarnacion’s grand slam was a meatball and the second he hit it the whole place knew it was gone. And the one Bruce hit was a bullet.
Of course we are still very early but I began to think again about the problems that occur when you put such a huge reliance on young pitchers.
this site is a RAM hog
that’s why they start the new gamethreads after a while.
if you don’t log in and just refresh the page, you’d be fine;)
by PagsBrewCrew on Apr 14, 2009 12:13 AM CDT up reply actions
Depending on which computer I'm using
Some days I struggle at around 250, and some days it’s not a problem at all.
I’m trying to find a happy medium between keeping the game threads fresh and knocking something else off the front page to make a fifth overflow thread for the final 50 comments. I’ll get better at it as time goes by.
"The reports are that he is getting better. The definition of better is nebulous."
Is there a way...
to demote the second gamethread when the third comes into play…or making sub-threads. Or having the users be able to hide all-but-100-most-recent?
by PagsBrewCrew on Apr 14, 2009 12:24 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm reaching out to other SBN'ers for advice on this one.
Because, if nothing else, having 3-4 game threads plus a recap each day knocks the site’s actual content off the front page too fast.
"The reports are that he is getting better. The definition of better is nebulous."
plus all the "We hate suppan" stuff
there should be a way of just making a BCB’s shitlist section which we put all the Suppan and Kendall stuff into, thereby leaving the frontpage mainly for news.
by PagsBrewCrew on Apr 14, 2009 1:43 PM CDT up reply actions
On the Evil BCB
They put the extra threads for each day on the column on the right under a seperate heading.
Atleast that way you can find them so long as they are tagged as game threads.
Game threads alone are fine for me until we're closing in on 400...
but with a Gameday window also open it gets critical sometimes.
Team ERA +6.5
It’s early, but I think I’ve seen enough (if you include Aug/Sept of 08). We are in big trouble with our pitching….Team batting average was .224 before tonight…again a tell tale sign…we are/will be hot& cold offensively….Gonna be a long LONGGGGGG season….Will we be back to +90 loss seasons??
I've given up my "be patient" stance
After posting a long comment about being patient, I’ve decided to make my knee jerk post and say just how horrible they are this year and I can’t believe I paid $110 to watch a 110-loss team flush their entire season down the toilet in frustration. Corey Hart finally gets some plate discipline and then Fielder starts swinging at balls in the dirt. Gallardo displays the control of a mop-up reliever (e.g., Jeff Suppan) for an inning and they lose yet another game. The team ERA climbs to a gazillion. The Brewers are managing to find ways to lose games this early in the season and it’s setting a bad precedent for the whole of April. They’ll be lucky to finish the month with 6 wins. What a clusterf*** of a season so far. Almost makes you wish you were an Astros fan, because at least they know they’re going to lose all their games and have no delusions of grandeur like we do about our team.
There. That felt so good.
Now to be reasonable again, it was one bad inning for a young pitcher, which is going to happen as he learns to control the strike zone, because he is a young pitcher. The Brewers have always been a streaky hitting team and went 0-gazillion with RISP at a stretch last year. Fielder is known for pushing too hard and sucking for brief periods so this is nothing new. If Corey Hart keeps up his plate discipline, the Brewers will have the most productive 1-4 hitters in all of MLB once they start putting it together. The season isn’t over, but it’s certainly been fugly.
The key question
Did Gallardo have a bad inning, or was Kendall calling a bad inning?
by Marty McSuperFly on Apr 14, 2009 9:02 AM CDT up reply actions
Looks pretty close
The pitch drifted in, but it’s not too far off of where Kendall wanted it. Assuming this is the pitch you mean.
by Marty McSuperFly on Apr 14, 2009 12:05 PM CDT up reply actions
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