Game Thread #134: Brewers (62-71) at Phillies (76-58)
by Kyle Lobner on Sep 3, 2010 5:15 PM CDT
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PrintOut of the frying pan and into the cheese steak.
Current Series
3 game series vs Phillies @ Citizens Bank Park
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Milwaukee Brewers Friday, Sep 3, 2010, 6:05 PM CDT Mostly cloudy,rain. Winds blowing in from right field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game time temperature around 85.
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Check out Nicole's series preview, then join us after the jump for tonight's pitching matchup, lineup and more!
Cole Hamels (3.31 ERA, 3.84 FIP) is a pretty good example of how a win-loss record can be deceiving: He's 8-10 in 2010 despite the fact that he does everything pretty well: Baseball Reference estimates he's been worth 3.6 WAR to the Phillies this season, easily the second highest on the pitching staff (behind Roy Halladay, who's in a class by himself). Hamels is sixth in the NL in both walk rate (2 per nine innings) and strikeout rate (9.1 per 9). If he has one weakness, it's the long ball: He's allowed 24 this season, the fifth most in the NL.
Hamels works in the low 90's (92 mph average fastball), and uses a changeup (22% of pitches), a curve (8.1%), and for the first time this season, a cutter (14.6%). All four pitches have been above average this year. He's facing the Brewers for the second time in 2010: On May 16, he held them to two runs on six hits over 6.2 innings, walking three and striking out three. Casey McGehee and Corey Hart took him deep in that game. Four Brewers have faced him ten times or more:
| Player | PA | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
| Prince Fielder | 21 | .300 | .333 | .600 | .933 |
| Corey Hart | 18 | .278 | .278 | .444 | .722 |
| Rickie Weeks | 18 | .133 | .278 | .267 | .544 |
| Ryan Braun | 15 | .267 | .267 | .733 | 1.000 |
Chris Capuano (5.06 ERA, 4.20 FIP) is making his fourth start of the season, and this is the first time he's been allowed to take two consecutive turns in the rotation. He was pretty bad last time out, allowing six runs on six hits and three walks in just three innings, striking out five and giving up five home runs. He's facing the Phillies for the first time since 2006.
Capuano's fastball velocity is up this season: He's getting 87.6 mph on his average fastball, the fastest it's been since 2004. As usual, he's relying heavily on his changeup (26.1% of pitches), and, also as usual, it's his best pitch (+1.37 runs per 100 pitches). He'll also throw a fair number of sliders (16.1% of pitches), but they're getting hammered (-6.75 runs per 100). Opposing batters are helping him out a bit this season, swinging at 28.1% of his pitches outside the strike zone. For his career he's averaged a 23.1 O-Swing%.
Jimmy Rollins is the only Phillie that's seen Capuano ten times: He's 3-for-9 with a home run and a walk.
Via Anthony Witrado, here's tonight's lineup:
Rickie Weeks 2B
Corey Hart RF
Ryan Braun LF
Prince Fielder 1B
Casey McGehee 3B
Lorenzo Cain CF
Alcides Escobar SS
Jonathan Lucroy C
Chris Narveson P
And in the bullpen:
Todd Coffey faced three batters (8 pitches) Wednesday, and also pitched on Tuesday.
Zach Braddock pitched .2 innings (15 pitches) Wednesday.
Jeremy Jeffress pitched 1 inning (11 pitches) Wednesday.
Mike McClendon faced two batters (6 pitches) Wednesday.
Manny Parra pitched 2 innings (32 pitches) Tuesday.
Kameron Loe pitched 2 innings (41 pitches) Monday.
Trevor Hoffman pitched .2 innings (17 pitches) Monday.
Carlos Villanueva pitched 1 inning for Nashville on Monday.
John Axford hasn't pitched since Saturday.
According to weather.com, it looks like the weather shouldn't be an issue tonight, with a game time temp of 82, a 10% chance of rain and a low of 67.
Enjoy the game!
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I know it's still early
But am I the only one home on a Friday night?
Now that's great tasting chicken!
Also
I have no idea who Ryan Star is, but I feel like I’ve heard enough of him.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
I'll be here for a while
but then it’s poker night.
by Hangwith'em Rach on Sep 3, 2010 6:13 PM CDT reply actions
Right now it seems good
Later when I am broke and drunk it will seem less good.
by Hangwith'em Rach on Sep 3, 2010 6:16 PM CDT up reply actions
at least
you will be drunk
"I've been banging a lot of bratwurst lately".
Uecker during the 8th inning of his first game back
Also, it beats my plans
Watch the first couple innings, give the dog a bath.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
well
the Rally Lobster will be clean. I have a feeling we will need him tonight.
"I've been banging a lot of bratwurst lately".
Uecker during the 8th inning of his first game back
You have to work that into the re-cap somehow
by Hangwith'em Rach on Sep 3, 2010 6:26 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm here as well
Trying to decide what to do for dinner and the night though, so may head out in a bit.
Sorry lookin first.
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he said he didn't have that kind of dough." - Ueck
Not bad for Cappy
As in, no one scored :)
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he said he didn't have that kind of dough." - Ueck
For dinner tonight I will be having Toppers
and having flashbacks of college. Mmmm….taco pizza.
by Greggers on Sep 3, 2010 6:29 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
I almost ordered Glass Nickel.
But Toppers is also a solid choice.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
A triple order of stix sounds good.
Once you’ve had a Taco Joe Supreme from Happy Joe’s, you’ll never bother with other places taco pizza. It shames them all.
Granted, I'm not much of a Taco Pizza fan
But the Happy Joe’s in my neighborhood isn’t worth visiting.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
Glad we went with a single order of the Topperstix
Triple order would have been way too much.
It does seem to me, however, they they taste better after a night out.
How long is that in comparison to two shakes of a lambs tail?
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he said he didn't have that kind of dough." - Ueck
by GormanBraun28 on Sep 3, 2010 6:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Wow...
Seriously guys?
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he said he didn't have that kind of dough." - Ueck
Definitely
Not Top Ten for sure
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he said he didn't have that kind of dough." - Ueck
by GormanBraun28 on Sep 3, 2010 6:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Should have been 3 outs there
No runs score
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he said he didn't have that kind of dough." - Ueck
Jerry Crasnick tweets:
Brewers might call up former No. 1 pick Mark Rogers for a look next week. It’s always good to see those Maine guys get a shot.
I’d like to see that. Can’t hurt to give him some big league experience.
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he said he didn't have that kind of dough." - Ueck
I love baseball
I get excited when they zoom in on the ball close enough that you can see that it’s not perfectly round, and it’s not exactly white, it’s leather. It’s got texture, and seams.
I like looking down the foul line and realizing that no matter how electronic our game gets, no matter how precise our umpores are and performance-enhanced our athletes are, that ball was foul, because Jerry the Greenskeeper sneezed when laying the chalk and today the foul line is a quarter-inch to the right past first base.
I like how baseball uniforms can make a fat old gray-haired man cussing with a mouth full of tobacco a leader of a team in a gentleman’s game.
I like that sometimes it’s exciting when lots of things happen – and even more exciting when nothing happens.
I love the sound that a wood bat makes.
I love that my team can be overpaid and underperform, make mistakes and lose games, and they’re still fun to watch when fall rolls in and the weather cools and you know you’ve only got a few weeks left and then you’ve got nothing but one football game a week to watch until spring, so every home run added to the season’s totals and game climbed up in the standings is the final layer of the official statistical record, and you savor it all.
I don’t care if we win today. Today I love baseball.
by nullacct on Sep 3, 2010 6:47 PM CDT reply actions 7 recs
I think Braun stole his mojo back
Hart
4/5 – 5/10 – .266 .344 .456 .800
5/14 – 7/15 – .301 .348 .628 .977 – mojo
Since 7/16 - .246 .286 .362 .647
Braun
4/5 – 5/10 – .359 .443 .594 1.037 – mojo
5/14 – 7/15 – .253 .287 .409 .696
Since 7/16 - .319 .381 .491 .872 – mojo
Yeah, I think that's come up in suggestion threads before.
I’d use that too.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
I don't know anything about programming.
Have higher ups given any reasons for not having it or how difficult it would be to implement it? In the last couple weeks, I think there have been about 5-6 times I would have loved to have this option.
I think they acknowledge it'd be useful
They’ve just also got 1000 other things to work on.
Now that's great tasting chicken!
I'm a sophomore, so I'm living in an apartment with a couple buddies.
I lived in Sullivan last year.
it's probably because Cappy has been in the bullpen for most of the time
he never had the regular workload of a starter
by ilikeburritos on Sep 3, 2010 8:05 PM CDT up reply actions
2 on no outs
And they can’t get a runner to 3rd
Sigh
"It's a joke. It's all a joke.
by WSB Chris on Sep 3, 2010 8:01 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
*sigh* remember when Hart used to hit .286, consistently got hits?
he’s on his bad batting streak again
Hasn't hit a HR since his extension
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.
It was a good game
We didn’t win, but we held the Phils to one run, that’s a victory of sorts considering this pitching staff.
Everyone who voted still think Parra would have done better?
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