Astros 5, Brewers 0
by Kyle Lobner on Jul 30, 2010 9:30 PM CDT
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W: J.A. Happ (2-0, first win as an Astro)
L: Manny Parra (3-8)
HR: Jason Michaels (6), Chris Johnson (4), Jeff Keppinger (5)
MVP: Rickie Weeks (+.071)
LVP: Manny Parra (-.182)
Win Expectancy Graph and Star of the Game Voting
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If you skipped tonight's game, congratulations. You made the right decision.
The Brewers were unable to get anything going against J.A. Happ and the Astros connected for two home runs off of Manny Parra to account for nearly all of the Astros' offense. Coming into tonight's game, the Astros were last in the NL in home runs. When you throw them pitches like this one (the 2-0 fastball that Chris Johnson turned into a three-run shot), though, most major league hitters can still hit it out. David Riske joined the fun by allowing a solo shot to Jeff Keppinger in the eighth.
All told, Parra allowed four earned runs on four hits and three walks in 5.1 innings of work, striking out six. His line actually would have looked significantly worse if not for great defensive plays by Ryan Braun and Rickie Weeks. One of the relievers to follow Parra to the mound was LaTroy Hawkins, who allowed a leadoff double but nothing else in the seventh inning.
At the plate, the Brewers were only able to get two hits off J.A. Happ over his six innings (and four overall), and one of them was a double to lead off the game by Rickie Weeks. Corey Hart went 0-for-3 with a walk in his first game back in the lineup, and Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun were also held hitless. Casey McGehee had the Brewers' lone 2-hit night.
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Thanks, Casey, for two hits. Player of the Game.
Statistics: A bunch of numbers looking around for an argument. G. Burgy, Rockville, MD
by heybatterbatter on Jul 30, 2010 9:40 PM CDT reply actions
radio says
should have had 3 hits: he reached on a non-error
by PagsBrewCrew on Jul 31, 2010 12:13 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm not sure how you can call that play an error.
I’m not sure how people can call that a hit that should have been a double. A statue managed to get over there and put himself in a position where he should have made the play.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
Did you notice the whole team?
Hey, I know Cynthia1? Would you be related to him?
Statistics: A bunch of numbers looking around for an argument. G. Burgy, Rockville, MD
by heybatterbatter on Jul 30, 2010 9:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Isn't he dead?
Cynthia1 I mean. That Parra guy is still breathing, I think.
And on the night before Packers training camp open...
1) Doug Melvin allegedly said we were contending and pulled back his best trade bait.
2) Gord Ash denied that Doug had pulled people off the table, but reiterated that nothing was happening.
3) Fielder and Braun went 0 for 8000 with men on base.
4) The Brewers, spared the fate of facing the Astros ace by a trade, got shut out by a club that has clearly written off the remainder of the season and perhaps the next two years anyway.
Folks, this seasons been boxed up and is ready for shipping. The ‘Stros just put the packing tape on the box, and it’s time to drop it in the Fed Ex box. I was thinking about taking the family down for another series again this year, but I don’t think I can justify it anymore. I, for one, am ready for some football.
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jul 30, 2010 9:55 PM CDT reply actions
Melvin HAS to see the writing on the wall with this team
Weeks is the only one who doesnt seem to be “mailing it in”. If he thinks that the team can still contend either this year or next, the lackluster attitude should remove that notion for him. 9 games under .500 and 9 1/2 games out of first place….he’s either being instructed to not trade Fielder/Hart/Edmonds, whoever has been inquired about by his superior, or he’s completely clueless or doesnt care. No action by him during now and the end of August is criminal, and would end his reign as GM on about 29 different MLB teams.
What move would he make between now and the end of August?
Nobody is willing to pony up for Hart/Fielder right now. This winter will determine how well Melvin does improving the team for 2011.
Ryan Braun: He loves it.
All depends on point of view
I and some others that would rather take a long term perspective believe that there has to be a deal out there from the Rays or the Giants for Fielder, and the Rays, Tigers, White Sox, Giants or Padres for Hart.
He’s not going to get MLB ready, or on the roster pitching for either one of those guys, and he really doesnt need to be looking for that. And even if he got what he wanted, it doesnt make the Brewers a playoff team next year.
If he took the longer range approach, and took the riskier, yet higher reward package of prospects with huge upside, he can build for 2012 and beyond. That philosophy is working out very well right now for the Rangers.
The only way that works for the brewers
is if they trade for these long term guys, and fire every single person working in the minor leagues at the same time.
http://www.twitter.com/mykenk
Is that in California?
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jul 30, 2010 10:41 PM CDT up reply actions
it's somewhere in the state of euphoria
Too close for missiles, I’m switching to Ueck.
by theBrouhaha on Jul 31, 2010 12:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Taking "a long term perspective" means trading Fielder for an extra year of Jonathan Sanchez?
Ryan Braun: He loves it.
by SRB on Jul 30, 2010 10:50 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Single A?
That’s disgusting to me.
Yeah, well, sometimes I drink.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on Jul 31, 2010 11:20 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
You should be more disgusted
That the Brewers have zero impact arms in their farm system right now.
The 3 guys I had in mind would all have immediately become the best pitching prospects in the organization.
Rangers
Feliz has 1.0 WAR, Andrus has 1.3 WAR. Other than that they don’t have any young guys making impact – am I missing something?
Get a ife broseph
Plenty of bad GMs have kept their jobs through worse malfeasance
Maybe he should play first base instead. That is, he should lie out there and we can step on him when we get a hit.
The Bando Years
Let us not recall them. Shudder.
Agreed
I will mimic DM’s lack of activity and stay away from Miller Park for the remainder of the year, if he’s not interested in putting an improved product on the field, I’m not buying.
He’s actually underrated, but that’s another can of worms…
by jarlbartar on Jul 30, 2010 11:32 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Happ
He picked up the win Roy Oswalt couldn’t get to tie the franchise record.
Maybe he should play first base instead. That is, he should lie out there and we can step on him when we get a hit.
Phil Cuzzi will be behind the plate tomorrow
Can’t wait 
Maybe he should play first base instead. That is, he should lie out there and we can step on him when we get a hit.
Bush is 3-1 with a 1.185 WHIP when Cuzzi umps
Not that it means anything, Bush is the ump aggrivator this year
Phil Cuzzi is a menace.
Phil Cuzzi must be stopped.
SRS BSNS
by Rubie Q on Jul 31, 2010 7:46 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
I don't get many Brewers games
Down here in OK, so when they play the Astros I really look forward to it. I guess I shouldve planned to do something else tonight…
Goooooo-mez!
by Drew C on Jul 30, 2010 10:50 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
Tom H is feeling the depression
As the trade deadline approaches and we take stock of our team
How much longer are the Brewers going to allow Carlos Gomez to waste at-bats that Lorenzo Cain could be getting? It’s an absolute shame.
Brewers 1B Prince Fielder has no RBI in last 7 games, 1 RBI in last 10 and only 46 for season. Little wonder no team has overbid for him.
Brewers LF Ryan Braun is batting .196 for the month of July, dropping his overall average to .273, a season low. He is really struggling.
I feel more sad about this team/situation than I did in 02
I mean it wasn’t going to get worse than that and changes were coming because of that terrible season. Here, though, it appears nothing will happen and we’re back to the Brewers of the mid to late 90’s.
Perhaps when Doug Melvin says he’s looking for major league ready players he should realize that just because they’re in the majors doesn’t mean they can actually play.
I was disappointed with the lack of hookers but the pancakes were delightful
Hart's playing much better than Hammonds did
But aside from that I can’t say this team is a whole lot better.
C: both terrible
1B: Sexson and Fielder about the same
2B/SS: Weeks & Escobar about the same as Hernandez & Young
3B: Houston had less pop than McGehee but higher OPS
LF: Jenkins off-year matches Braun’s off-year
CF: Sanchez > Gomez
RF: Hart awesome, Hammonds not
Ace: Ben Sheets vs. YoGa
2-3-4: Rusch-Wright-Quevedo better WHIP than Narveson-Bush-Wolf
Closer: DeJean vs. Axford
Small quibble
2002 catchers had a .599 OPS
2010 catchers have a .733 OPS
Yo is quite a bit better this year than Sheets was in 2002. The 2010 team has a little better pitching depth than 2002 (check out some of the fill-in pitchers that year, yikes), which is the main difference in the pitching staffs.
Get a ife broseph
All true.
But aside from those small differences, and Corey Hart, Doug thinks they can contend for the pennant.
Not really small differences
This team will likely win about 20 more games than that team.
Get a ife broseph
Schadenfreude is all I have left
keithlaw Heard from an exec not involved in the discussions that the White Sox are furious with the Nats over Edwin Jackson.
Ryan Braun: He loves it.
Nats GM wins the trade deadline
flips a marginal “closer” for a legit catcher prospect
flips the white sox the bird and sticks them with a garbage pitcher
wait...the Sox are pissed about a deal they accepted?
by PagsBrewCrew on Jul 31, 2010 12:18 AM CDT up reply actions
The thought is that the Nats said “we’ll trade you Dunn if you get us Edwin Jackson.” White Sox went out and got Edwin Jackson, then the Nats said “actually….never mind.”
Fucking hilarious if you ask me.
by warwick5s on Jul 31, 2010 12:25 AM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
especially since what do the Nats need with Edwin Jackson? They have SEVEN STARTING PITCHERS on the DL right now, not to mention that there are several non-injured starters on their 40-man roster in AAA and AA. They’re having the “everything must go” sale, so it really doesn’t matter that their rotation at this moment in time consists of Livan Hernandez, 3 quad-A guys, and whatever version of Craig Stammen shows up for work on his start day.
So glad my boys talked me into watching Xgames over Brewers game
Shawn White skateboarding was actually pretty cool to watch
"It's a joke. It's all a joke.
I liked it better when the Astros were happ-less.
"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!"
by roguejim on Jul 31, 2010 6:40 AM CDT via mobile reply actions 6 recs
We need to get some o' dat happ...
in da bats. No amount of pitching is going to solve the failure in the 3 and 4 hole of late – and pretty much before that, too.
Statistics: A bunch of numbers looking around for an argument. G. Burgy, Rockville, MD
by heybatterbatter on Jul 31, 2010 3:38 PM CDT up reply actions
If I were a Milw pitcher, I'd be walking on eggshells
with every at bat. No room for error when your own bats are silent. Hard to be aggressive under thoe circumstances. Richard, Corey, and McGehee together can’t carry this team.
Statistics: A bunch of numbers looking around for an argument. G. Burgy, Rockville, MD
by heybatterbatter on Jul 31, 2010 3:42 PM CDT up reply actions
If you watched the location of Manny's pitches
He was all over the place. Walked two batters – and not from not getting the calls, but not being able to hit spots – and forced to throw strikes threw pitches right down the middle. He may have good stuff, but I don’t know where he’s hiding it. He’s terrible.
I feel bad for you
hopefully you are getting drunk right now.
"I've been banging a lot of bratwurst lately".
Uecker during the 8th inning of his first game back
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