Brewers Blow 2-0 Series Lead, Randy Wolf Pours Gasoline On Dumpster Fire In 10-6 Loss To Diamondbacks

He can be blamed, but to say he’s more than 3/4ths of the reason they lost these two games is ridiculous. The offense was terrible yesterday and Marcum and Wolf have to take some of the blame, they were flat out terrible and did not bring anything to the desert.

Managers usually assume that their guy can “turn it around” or “got unlucky”, and thus, the desperate need to keep the starter to accomplish one of the goals of a starter (eat innings) takes precedent. Sometimes, it’s just clear that their pitchers don’t have control or their pitches aren’t dancing – blame the pitcher for that, luck for some, and the current paradigm for of managers not realizing this before the game gets completely out of hand.

I mean, look at Gibson leaving in Ziegler in Game 2. Rattled pitcher left out to dry because all he needs is to do is “finish the inning” to accomplish the arbitrary goal of a reliever. It’s a paradigm shift that I think needs to happen in MLB for teams to maximize the efficiency of their staffs as a whole.

But even THAT’s a slippery slope – if you start yanking guys too early, you get the LaRussa reputation of meddling too much with the mound. Damned if you do/don’t. However, I think laying this all on the incompetence of one manager, when just about everyone else is held to the same standard of arbitrary goals of pitcher roles, is completely unfair.

apparently my typing is as good as Randy Wolf’s pitching.

Stop the presses, I guess.

The offense did just about enough to win, and was let down by the pitching. Compare that with last night, where neither side performed.

4 HR is 3 too many to give up by this pitching staff.

IMHO the negativity sprang forth fully-clothed from Randy Wolf’s self-immolation.

Call me the metaphor mixer. ;)

than Wolf was last night.

I’ve learned that generally, when Uecker’s home-run call is delayed (i.e., when it starts with, “Fly ball … deep left-center” instead of, “Swing and a drive! And deep!”), like on Corey’s flyout, it’s not going out. He’s just getting the call revved up just in case.

Perfect example of a team built to fit the quirks of their ballpark, especially when combined with all that outfield range to cover the massive gaps in left-center and right-center.

was 10 feet away from being the only manager ever to win manager of the year and be canned for being incompetent in the same season. Don’t tell me roenicke was “out-managed”.

No one said Gibson was a genius. I sure didn’t.

You can get out-managed by not understanding the circumstances and making bad moves no matter how stupid the guy on the other side is. In Milwaukee Gibson made mistakes and Roenicke didn’t. In Arizona the situations have reversed. RR hasn’t responded well to two consecutive poor outings from his starters.