Giants 5, Brewers 3
by Kyle Lobner on Mar 4, 2010 5:02 PM CST
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W: Jeremy Affeldt (1-0)
L: John Axford (0-1)
S: Sergio Romo (1)
Jeff Suppan had an excellent first spring training start today, pitching two perfect innings with a strikeout. In fact, the first three Brewers to take the mound (Suppan, Todd Coffey and Scott Schoeneweis) escaped without allowing a hit.
John Axford, however, ran into trouble on the fifth, allowing four runs on five hits and an error on a pickoff throw in one inning of work, and the Brewers were unable to recover. After Axford's departure, the Brewers also got scoreless innings from Zach Braddock and Cody Scarpetta. Chris Smith allowed the Giants an insurance run in the eighth.
After a week of hype, what we'd been warned to expect happened in the first inning: Barry Zito hit Prince Fielder with the first pitch in his first plate appearance. Fielder, however, tossed the ball back to the mound and trotted to first without incident. The benches were not warned and the remainder of the game was played without incident.
Meanwhile, Rickie Weeks got his spring training off to a nice start, going 2-for-2 with a walk, driving in two runs and stealing his first base of the spring. Jody Gerut went 1-for-4 and had the Brewers' only extra base hit in the game, a double off Todd Wellemeyer.
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Remember to properly stretch and cooldown
Some of you are going to need the whirlpool, you hit it a little too hard for your first work of the year.
Tomorrow’s game thread better not smell like a Ben-Gay factory.
When there is a scuffle in Ireland, there’s no need to specifically mention in the news story that alcohol was involved
by Getting Yosted on Mar 4, 2010 5:08 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
I honestly wish Suppan wouldn't pitch well...
He’s had good months before, April of last year comes to mind. But he clearly can’t maintain a high level of performance throughout a whole season, much less two months consecutively. People might start thinking he’s actually worth putting in the game.
"Cubs suck. I own them" -Doug Davis
So long as one of them is a GM not named Doug, all the better
When there is a scuffle in Ireland, there’s no need to specifically mention in the news story that alcohol was involved
by Getting Yosted on Mar 4, 2010 5:14 PM CST up reply actions
Actually
Suppan was 4-0 in April in 2007. In 2009 he had a horrible start to the season, remember his April start vs the Cubs where he walked something like 5 runs in? He had a very good May and June as well as a tolerable July. He really tanked after that if I remember correctly.
Suppan’s trouble is consistency. He is a pretty solid pitcher for a month and then the worst guy in the league for a month, then back to tolerable, etc…
Also Sportscenter
is going to talk about the Fielder hit in a few minutes, which means they’ll replay the celebration from last year, which never gets old.
"Cubs suck. I own them" -Doug Davis
it has received
a lot of air play tonight. The Brewers are now part of the ESPN hype machine!
Q: Did you ever scout Corey Hart? What seems to be holding him back from being a good hitter for AVG?
A: The slider away. And that facial hair.
-Keith Law ESPN chat 2/11/10
Zito settles score with Brewers' Fielder
insouciantly? had to visit dictionary.com for that one.
Basically means casually
But makes you sound more erudite (I love the word erudite. It’s the only word I know of that if you use it, it describes you).
Brewers Baseball and other assorted nonsense (mostly the assorted nonsense) at my blog, What's a Tararrel?
by Lefti on Mar 4, 2010 5:33 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I'd possibly make a case for "douchebag"
"I hope your name is Rick"
No
I’d argue that non-douches still have some very appropriate uses of that word. Sometimes a person is just self-evidently douchey, and that’s really the only sensible word to describe him, whether the observer himself is a douche or not.
by Cheeseandcorn on Mar 4, 2010 5:57 PM CST up reply actions
I missed the game and the gamethread
But 746 comments for a spring training game? Holy moly, this site has grown.
Ryan Braun: He loves it.
Sadly, I missed the game
My comment in the Mug was done away from home. Any comments from the broadcasters on how Scarpetta looked out there?
I was on a team with Cody's dad.
I wish him well.
Giants are officially dbags for that
I can’t believe there wasn’t a bigger reaction for the HBP. I probably would have just looked at Zito like, really? You’re resorting to that? Weak.
E: George 4 (5, throw, throw, throw, throw).
Just the way they called it the last few days
It seems really immature to worry about a celebration like that, and then to carry it all year around like that. I don’t know. I like what he did, just react like, yeah, try to make me mad, good luck with that.
E: George 4 (5, throw, throw, throw, throw).
The Celebration
In of itself wasn’t necessarily mature either.
Prince did what he did, and he had to take his lumps. It wasn’t as if the Giants put a 97mph pitch in his earhole.
Spring Training seems like the perfect time to do this sort of thing.
Taking shallowness to new depths -- FtJ's blog
by Fatter than Joey on Mar 5, 2010 8:24 AM CST up reply actions
I agree on everything but the last night
If you’re gonna hit him, have the decency to do it in a regular season game so we get a baserunner. I know it wasn’t exactly a high-velocity pitch, but I’d be pretty mad to have to get hit intentionally with no real reward.
E: George 4 (5, throw, throw, throw, throw).
i dunno
the difference between 85 mph and 95 mph is only 10.5%
then again, pain may not be directly proportional to force-of-impact.
by PagsBrewCrew on Mar 5, 2010 12:31 PM CST up reply actions
I'd guess the relationship here is exponential, not linear.
That's all I've got for you today, unless you're interested in some Chris Capuano/Tom Haudricourt Fan Fiction.
Not that the situation would arise, but how would the Giants react if the Brewers intentionally hit Tim Lincecum in a spring training game?
It’s ridiculous. It’s bad enough to be such a sore sport that you have to retaliate for a home run celebration, but to do it in a spring training game is completely out of line. What would have happened if the pitch got away and hit Fielder in the elbow and put him on the DL? That sort of thing happens if you start throwing at people.
Ryan Braun: He loves it.
I think Zito has better control than to let it get away from him.
In any case, ridiculous or not, baseball follows an odd code of honor. Do something to “show up” the opponent and you’d better be prepared for some consequences.
No one is on the Giants is going to admit they threw at Fielder intentionally, and the Brewers aren’t going to complain about it. If the Brewers are going to retaliate, they’ll do it their next game.
I know about the code of honor
I just think the code of honor is stupid.
E: George 4 (5, throw, throw, throw, throw).
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