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Brewers 4, Pirates 1

W: Jeff Suppan (6-8)
L: Ross Ohlendorf (11-9)
S: Trevor Hoffman (29)

HR: Casey McGehee (11), Garrett Jones (16)

MVP: Jeff Suppan (+.248)
LVP: Felipe Lopez (-.114)

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A series sweep, a well-pitched Jeff Suppan start and the Brewers' 21st consecutive home victory against the Pirates. It was a day of unlikely events.

Jeff Suppan probably saved the lives of countless Jeff Suppan bobbleheads by putting in one of his best outings of the season today. Suppan allowed eleven baserunners in six innings and had the bases loaded in the second and fourth innings, but allowed just one earned run, a solo shot by Garrett Jones.

Casey McGehee supplied the first Brewer run with his 11th home run, then a Jeff Suppan bases loaded walk and a two run single by Craig Counsell supplied the remaining offense. Felipe Lopez went 0-for-4 and is now 2-for-19 since leaving Tuesday's game with a tweaked tendon in his foot.

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Giants fans hearing about how Hoffman is wasting away in Milwaukee must be confused

Pitched in four of the last six games.

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by TheJay on Aug 30, 2009 3:55 PM CDT reply actions  

It strikes me

This is the type of game they paid $42 million for, right? You know Suppan won’t strike many out, he’ll walk a few, and he’ll give up some hits, but they paid him for his ability to work around all that damage.

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by TheJay on Aug 30, 2009 3:57 PM CDT reply actions  

Right

The double play is sort of his thing

Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, ""That’s all they need is another home run hitter".

by tcyoung on Aug 30, 2009 3:57 PM CDT up reply actions  

They paid him $42M to win home bobblehead games.

Taking Shallowness to New Depths...

by Fatter than Joey on Aug 30, 2009 3:59 PM CDT up reply actions  

We need more bobbles.

by SgtClueLs on Aug 30, 2009 6:59 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions  

Yep...

just too bad there aren’t more of these.

by sjlee on Aug 30, 2009 9:59 PM CDT up reply actions  

no...

i think there are plenty of hits and walks;)

by PagsBrewCrew on Aug 31, 2009 6:36 AM CDT up reply actions  

I would really like to see Hoffman in a 2010 Brewers jersey

Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, ""That’s all they need is another home run hitter".

by tcyoung on Aug 30, 2009 3:57 PM CDT reply actions  

suppan

how much contribution to wpa offensively? pitching-wise?

by PagsBrewCrew on Aug 30, 2009 4:59 PM CDT reply actions  

+.226 pitching, +.024 offense

You could give up eleventy billion baserunners but if they never score, you get a nice, shiny WPA.

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by TheJay on Aug 30, 2009 5:32 PM CDT up reply actions  

Actually +.022 offense

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by TheJay on Aug 30, 2009 5:33 PM CDT up reply actions  

ahh...good point

although if you get pulled with runners on the WPA isn’t quite as shiny, even if they don’t score.

by PagsBrewCrew on Aug 31, 2009 6:37 AM CDT up reply actions  

Finally, the Brewers treat a last place team the way they deserve to be treated

Official BYB Juju Consultant...now accepting rally creature applications!

by ahtrap on Aug 30, 2009 9:45 PM CDT reply actions  

Shouldn't Counsell be MVP?

Not only did he get 2 RBIs but he turned a number of double plays that the average 2nd basemen couldn’t have done…I want a recount

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.

by JAMOOL on Aug 30, 2009 11:25 PM CDT reply actions  

It's not as simple as that

It’s actually based on the WPA ratings from the win expectancy graph. As far as Counsell goes, he only had .107, the third best in the batting category.

Counsell is awesome though.

CounsellWSMVP10!

by kirbir on Aug 31, 2009 12:07 AM CDT up reply actions  

yeah

wpa doesn’t take into account the defense – at least directly. But I’m sure you could take some of the wpa off (by hand) of soup and stick it on counsell for the relevant plays

by PagsBrewCrew on Aug 31, 2009 6:39 AM CDT up reply actions  

kyle, i’m embarrassed for you, and how little you know about baseball.

Jeff Suppan probably saved the lives of countless Jeff Suppan bobbleheads by putting in one of his best outings of the season today. Suppan allowed eleven baserunners in six innings and had the bases loaded in the second and fourth innings, but allowed just one earned run, a solo shot by Garrett Jones.

He pitched as bad, maybe worse than he did on 7/27 when you suggested macha should be fired for not lifting suppan with the bases loaded. yesterday he works out of bases loaded jams all day and you say great performance. even if you concetrated i’m not sure you could be anymore inconsistent… and we all know consistency is the most important baseball skill.

Also, Kendall has a couple of decent weeks and you stop taking daily shots at him?

How much more of a casual fan can you be? It’s been over a year since you invaded this site and you haven’t learned anything, why do you write about baseball if you hate it so much?

sigh

goodbye cruel world… kyle (or maybe jim, jeff or kow) can you ban my account and delete all of my comments, stories and fanposts.

oh bcb, we hardly knew you…

/wipes tear from eye and heads off into the sunset to thunderous applause

;)

Bring Back The Old Logo!

by jacob on Aug 31, 2009 9:34 AM CDT reply actions  

"and we all know consistency is the most important baseball skill"

i beg to differ;) I think the most important baseball skill is skill itself.

And yes, the blog is a lot more “feelie” and less “numberie” than last year. I prefered more (valid) numbers than what we have right now, but probably a bit less than we had last season;)

by PagsBrewCrew on Aug 31, 2009 6:46 PM CDT up reply actions  

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