Brewers 14, Indians 12
by TheJay on Jun 15, 2009 10:08 PM CDT
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PrintW: Todd Coffey (2-1)
L: Rafael Perez (1-2)
S: Trevor Hoffman (16)
MVP: Prince Fielder (+.581)
LVP: David Bush (-.461)
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The offense woke up tonight. Ryan Braun kicked things off with a 2-run home run in the first, the Brewers manufactured a run in the third, and they really got things going in the fifth. A walk, double, triple, and sac fly plated three runs in the fifth. Sac flies in the sixth and seventh brought in two more. Then...well, we'll get to that.
But first, the pitching. Coming into the game, Dave Bush had allowed only two home runs with runners on base (and 13 solo shots). Tonight he doubled that total as Shin-Soo Choo and Victor Martinez both had two-run homers. Bush lasted only 3 1/3 innings, giving up 8 runs on 6 hits and 2 walks. He also plunked two batters to seize the major league lead in that category. Bush's ERA stands at 8.64 over his last five starts (24 ER, 25 IP). Chris Narveson was charged with three runs in his 1 2/3 inning Brewers debut and Mark DiFelice gave up a three run homer to Travis Hafner. Todd Coffey settled things down in the 7th inning with a perfect nine-pitch inning. After getting the first out of the eighth, he turned things over to Mitch Stetter, who blew away two batters as is his wont. Trevor Hoffman came on for the 9th and picked up a nerve-wracking save.
All's well that ends well, though, and there would not have been a save opportunity if not for the monster Brewers eighth inning. I think the play-by-play says it best:
Brewers eighth.
Hardy flied out to right fielder S.Choo.
Mi.Rivera walked on a full count.
Counsell walked on a full count, Mi.Rivera to second.
Herges pitching.
McGehee walked on four pitches, Mi.Rivera to third, Counsell to second.
R.Braun infield single to short, Mi.Rivera scored, Counsell to third, McGehee to second.
R.Perez pitching.
Fielder homered to center on a 0-0 count, Counsell scored, McGehee scored, R.Braun scored.
C.Hart singled to center.
M.Cameron walked on a full count, C.Hart to second.
Gamel singled to right, C.Hart scored, M.Cameron to third.
Generic RHP pitching.
Hardy lined out to third baseman Jh.Peralta.
Mi.Rivera struck out.
Yes, that was Prince Fielder's FIRST. CAREER. GRAND. SLAM. He finished with six RBI on the night, a career high by two and enough to vault him into the major league lead. Ryan Braun finished a double short of the cycle, but drove in five runs of his own. Casey McGehee contributed three hits and JJ Hardy managed to break his 0 for 30 skid despite making two outs in the 8th inning. How odd was this game? The Brewers even managed to steal two bases (Braun & Gamel). Just another crazy night.
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CRAZIEST GAME OF THE YEAR
This is a memorable one… if we compile a list of the top 10 games at the end of the year- I bet this one is on the list…
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
I Rec this game for Prince's shot
High-fives all around.
Slap hands, slap hands!
Trying my damndest to unbunch peoples' undies.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on Jun 15, 2009 10:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Gotta love Sportscenter
Making you listen to the crack of the bat from Fielder 3 times
by dishingoutdimes on Jun 15, 2009 10:11 PM CDT reply actions
I'm going to need the full 21 hours to recover
"Cubs fans boo again – 99% of these people can’t see the plate." -Ueck
I LOVE the win expectancy graph
that’s like the Grand Canyon
Wait
That was Fielder’s first grand slam of his career? Did anyone else know this?
:)
"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"
Hm, I think the game broke the WPA system
Brewers hitters: +1.021 WPA
Indians pitchers: -1.021 WPA
Brewers pitchers: -.493 WPA
Indians hitters: +.521 WPA
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How is that possible?
dickie_thon: Third baseman Bill Hall / Watches the third strike go by / Gamel grabs his glove
Elsewhere in sports...
… the US national soccer team still can’t get a fair shake from international refs, oh, and Brett Favre’s a lying, egomaniacal ahole. Sounds like a Viking to me.
i have a reasonable dislike of Bill Hall.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jun 15, 2009 10:15 PM CDT reply actions
if he plays for them
The Packers will smear him. Mark my words.
by dishingoutdimes on Jun 15, 2009 10:17 PM CDT up reply actions
can't wait
Raji and AK74 are going to get loose
"He had some firsts," said Brewers manager Ken Macha. "His first homer, his first Major League start, his first error and my first gray hair."
i think the fan hate is greater than the other current Packer roster
But I do agree… he will be crushed, and the refs will call that game so ridiculous they will call any hit on Favre a late hit
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
I think everyone is overestimating Favre's desire for revenge
I think that Favre will try to do too much, and I think the Packers are legitimately pissed at him. They’re just smart enough not to whine in the media like Favre.
by dishingoutdimes on Jun 15, 2009 10:24 PM CDT up reply actions
not smart enough, or too smart?
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, ""That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
The front office hates him for exposing them
but the players? The young ones probably couldn’t care less and the vets probably feel like they always have. Some of them probably wish they were Vikings.
overestimating?
There are 31 teams in the NFL, and he happens to choose the Packers biggest rival… in fact he already admitted when he wanted to play for the Vikings last year it was because of revenge… now a year later we are supposed to believe it isnt?
Favre hasn’t even discussed other teams from the interview tonight… clearly it is overwhelmingly for revenge- and he went as far to admit things ended badly with certain people in Green Bay…
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
Well it's hard to tell
When he’s changing his story and contradicting himself all of the time, how the hell are we supposed to know what his desires are? Matters, of course, are made worse by the fact that he himself doesn’t seem to often know what his desires are.
(And who is surprised that recovery from surgery gets over just in time for being able to skip the boring optional team-building stuff, anyone?)
Nope.
i have a reasonable dislike of Bill Hall.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jun 15, 2009 10:28 PM CDT up reply actions
hahaha well said
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, ""That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
Sorry, I disagree.
i have a reasonable dislike of Bill Hall.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jun 15, 2009 10:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Hey,
I’ll gladly argue this with you all you want, but not here. I Shouldn’t have brought it up at all.
i have a reasonable dislike of Bill Hall.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jun 15, 2009 10:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Absolutely amazing
Nearly every hitter was dialed in tonight. I know this game was mostly about Braun and Fielder but no way does this win happen without McGehee…what a nice surprise that guy has been…
captainbok: What do you like the most about milwaukee
Jeff Suppan: Captain Bok, that is a great question. Does "Bok" mean Book of Knowledge? My favorite thing about Milwaukee are the Brewers.
+1
Yeah McGehee needs to be in the lineup every night, or just about every night
by dishingoutdimes on Jun 15, 2009 10:17 PM CDT up reply actions
I think Hall should play vs Cincy
And that is about it
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
I was wondering about that
If Counsell finishes the season with 400+ ABs and a .350 OBP, the talk about him finishing his career in Milwaukee might have been premature - I bet there would be a few teams willing to outbid the Brewers for his services. (He’s on a 1 year, $1 mil contract for 2009.)
If that happens, and if McGehee keeps hitting, I bet we’ll try to make him the new Craiggers.
"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"
The SportsCenter highlight
called the Brewers “surprising”, noting that they are in first place.
This team won 90 games last year and is mostly intact, if not better.
Gotta love the Eastern Seaboard Promotional Network
It is what it is.
Mostly intact
But lacking the new Yankees ace, yada yada yada.
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"Ace" as in "Ace Rimmer?"
He could probably pitch better….
by morineko on Jun 15, 2009 10:21 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
see the TV show "Red Dwarf"
he’s the AU version of the pain in the rear hologram Arnold J. Rimmer, and both of them annoy Lister to no end.
by morineko on Jun 15, 2009 10:30 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Just when I think this place cannot get any better
You go and drop a RD line sniff I love this place
On another note you cannot imagine my happy shock and surprise when I just final checked the score and saw the Brewers had made a huge comeback.
It would have never happen if I had kept watching ;)
Let me spell it for you Cub fans O N E H U N D R E D A N D O N E Y E A R S
Then I thank you for not continuing to watch
Though it must be painful for you
dickie_thon: Third baseman Bill Hall / Watches the third strike go by / Gamel grabs his glove
That is what I thought about myself
I turned the game off at 7-12…only to turn it back on 14-12…what a night
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Jun 15, 2009 10:42 PM CDT up reply actions
A Red Dwarf reference.
Well done.
i have a reasonable dislike of Bill Hall.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jun 15, 2009 10:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Smoke me a kipper.
I’ll be back for breakfast.
i have a reasonable dislike of Bill Hall.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jun 15, 2009 10:30 PM CDT up reply actions
The team won 90 games
but you may have forgotten, Sabathia won 37 of those games, and Sheets won 45. That leaves only 8 other wins, and Gagne got the save in 7 of them.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Jun 15, 2009 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
No, the national opinion on Gagne is very low
Those weren’t games saved by Gagne, they were animals saved by Prince Fielder’s vegetarian diet.
Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, ""That’s all they need is another home run hitter".
but how can they replace Sheets and Sabathia?
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
Well, to be fair
A lot of voters even on this site predicted them to be in 2nd/3rd in the Central.
Ryan Braun: He loves it.
Hardy
has made two outs in an inning three times this year.
That has to be a Major League record, right?
I want to know if a player has ever made all three outs in an inning. That would make you feel pretty worthless.
by Getting Yosted on Jun 15, 2009 10:27 PM CDT up reply actions
I asked that in the game thread
Don’t think it is likely… that would be the worst feeling in the world
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
The team would have to score at least 22 runs in an inning for that to happen
If the 3rd out is the 27th batter of the inning, guy comes up for the third time with the bases loaded and two out. The record for runs in an inning is 18, so it’s never happened.
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...and that's overthinking and assuming the guy making all 3 outs came up 9th in the inning - oops
If he leads off like Hardy did in the 8th, the team would have to score 14+ runs in the inning. That’s happened before, but not that often. You might check the few box scores they have here for teams with 14+ run innings, but I doubt anyone ever made all 3 outs in an inning.
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I suppose
to give ourselves a sporting chance, we could including grounding into a double play.
JJ could strike out.
The next 8 batters all get on base.
JJ, in a fit of pique, decides to take matters in his own hands and grounds into a double play,
Then we’d have only a minimum of 5 runs. I bet that’s been done before. Given the fact that the players would have given our fictional JJ an atomic wedgie in the dugout right after the double play, there might even be visual evidence of it.
"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"
Actually....
On Hardy’s second out of the inning he hit a bullet to third and the runner was almost doubled off – could have recorded all three that way and almost did.
Brewers fan lost in South Carolina.
If he's done it three times
That means the major league record is probably 8 times in a season. Games with long histories suck like that.
Three times this year
JJ Hardy has been two of the three outs in an inning, so everyone else is running the bases, scoring, racking up RBIs while JJ is striking out, grounding out, getting caught stealing, etc… twice. Essentially when the team is on fire and it seems like no one can do wrong, there is JJ getting out again and again, the guy can’t catch a break and honestly unlucky doesnt even begin to describe it
Most fun game thread ever to read.
I missed the game until the middle of the 8th, then read the game thread after the game ended. It’s so much fun to see those F-bombs and “Screw this game”s knowing what comes next. And midway through game thread 64a, there it was.
Glorious.
wow what a game
GO Brewers GO hope this come from behind win gets them going agan
who needs to run on the treadmill when you can just watch interleague.
by sowingwildoats on Jun 15, 2009 10:34 PM CDT reply actions
Guess who shut off this game and went away
I rarely give up on Brewer games. I was certainly surprised when I got home here :)
I last May, still no more than Nick Neugebauer not.
lol @ the espn recap
“even JJ hardy got a hit!!”
captainbok: What do you like the most about milwaukee
Jeff Suppan: Captain Bok, that is a great question. Does "Bok" mean Book of Knowledge? My favorite thing about Milwaukee are the Brewers.
That seems like a valuable piece of trivia
if only BA would tell us every time Prince comes to bat with the bases loaded!
by CheezeconQueso on Jun 15, 2009 10:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Answer is...
0. First one, they mentioned that during the game
"Actually we're wonderful multitaskers... We can pick apart our team misfortunes at losing the first two series of the season AND make fun of the Cubs." - roguejim on BCB commentators
Prince Fielder
Continues to destroy left handed pitching.
"Actually we're wonderful multitaskers... We can pick apart our team misfortunes at losing the first two series of the season AND make fun of the Cubs." - roguejim on BCB commentators
I was thinking that earlier.
Prince is hitting lefties better than righties and it may be anectdotal but he seems to really hit left handed relievers harder.
RHP .288/.432/.569 1.001 OPS
LHP .310/.395/.634 1.029 OPS
Teams are going to start saving that LOOGY for Counsell
Why I never stop at least passively watching a game....
It only takes a peak during a commercial or a couple seconds on the cell phone….
I was riding the el
Listening to Uecker on my phone… and starting clapping and yelling “hell yea”… everyone gave me stares, but didn’t care being the crazy guy on the el
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
wow, what a game
what more can one say. That Yogi Berra certainly was a smart man. This game is exactly why I never stop watching until the final out
"my goodness"
most overlooked part of the game
Cleveland got Aquinoed… we feel your pain, Indians fans.
The other overlooked part of the game
Is that we got bushwacked for the 5th start in a row
In his last 5 games
25 IP
24 ER
15 BB
8 HR
3 HBP
8.64 ERA
.313/.421/.667 1.088 OPS
I’m a big fan of DB, but I’m concerned that Looper and Suppand are the “stable” guys behind YoGa
Overlooked? Maybe underemphasized...
“Bush lasted only 3 1/3 innings, giving up 8 runs on 6 hits and 2 walks. He also plunked two batters to seize the major league lead in that category. Bush’s ERA stands at 8.64 over his last five starts (24 ER, 25 IP).”
:)
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| W | L | PCT | GB | STRK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cincinnati
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27 | 20 | .574 | 0 | Won 2 |
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St. Louis
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26 | 22 | .541 | 1.5 | Won 1 |
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Pittsburgh
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23 | 24 | .489 | 4 | Won 3 |
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Houston
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22 | 25 | .468 | 5 | Lost 2 |
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