Diamondbacks 7, Brewers 3
by Nicole Haase on Jul 5, 2011 9:54 PM CDT
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WP: Zach Duke (2-3)
LP: Randy Wolf (6-6)
SV: David Hernandez (5)
HR: Prince Fielder (22), Justin Upton (14), Corey Hart (10), Gerardo Parra (5),
MVP: Prince Fielder (.049)
LVP: Randy Wolf (-.374)
This one started ugly and only got uglier as the game progressed. Randy Wolf wasn't fooling anyone, grooved fast balls down the middle of the plate and gave up seven runs in the first three innings.
Wolf loaded the bases with one out in the first and gave up four runs on four hits and a walk before the innings was over.
Prince had an RBI infield single in the second to make it 4-1. He also hit a homer in the sixth to bring him within one of the NL lead.
In the third, Wolf gave up a leadoff home run to Justin Upton and a two-run homer to Gerardo Parra, making it 7-1 after three innings. The Diamondbacks had nine hits with in the fourth inning after putting 17 hits on the board yesterday.
Wolf did manage to complete six innings, saving the bullpen from filling too many innings, which I guess is something. Marco Estrada filled two innings and Zach Braddock took the ninth - neither allowed a hit or a run.
Corey Hart hit a solo home run in the eighth to make it 7-3.
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Yay the pirates are officially for real!
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by Flanyboy on Jul 5, 2011 10:01 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
That sounds really familiar
Sorry. Think happy thoughts
"This one means 'Kill Kirk!!!!'... And also, 'hallelujah'... Depending on the context."
by trippingandy on Jul 5, 2011 10:38 PM CDT up reply actions
I was going to make a snarky comment about run differential
but it seems they are finally positive and sadly the Brewers are now -2.
We few, we happy few, we band of Brewers.
I lost track of time
I turned on the game at 3-0 and turned it off. I really hope the guys don’t coast into the All-Star break. The Pirates can’t keep it up all year, but the Reds aren’t as bad as they’ve been playing and the Cardinals keep winning like they always do. It would be in poor taste to make a joke about Roenicke becoming an alcoholic so I’ll refrain.
Founder of the BCBCU - Est. 2011
by ecocd on Jul 5, 2011 10:08 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
We're in the second 20-plus game stretch of the season
where the Crew has played sub-.400 baseball: 13-19 to open the year, now 7-14 over the last 21.
We pull our pants up and do our jobs here.
by Rubie Q on Jul 5, 2011 10:10 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
That will teach him to show up on time
"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."
~Doug Melvin
by Charlie Marlow on Jul 6, 2011 12:48 AM CDT up reply actions
Right?
That’s the way to do it.
Roenicke’s managerial philosophy:
It’s not whether you win or lose it’s whether you taught Zach Braddock a lesson"
For your health!
Get over it
While I do agree that RR’s use of the bullpen has been suspect, I don’t think sending Braddock down to the minors was a bad thing.
Braddock has a health issue and wasn’t doing what he was supposed to to keep it under control. Showing up late may be a minor issue, but it’s also indicative that he was still having problems and meant he wasn’t getting enough rest. If they just turned a blind eye to it, there’s a good chance that it would start affecting his performance as the season dragged on.
Pujols is the Barack Obama of baseball.
by sjlee on Jul 6, 2011 10:21 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
But fear not, our problems are at an end:
Drew Olson reports that Runnin’ Ron held a closed-door meeting after the game, the baseball equivalent of calling the fire department two hours after your house burns down.
We pull our pants up and do our jobs here.
Its too bad
Because I have always thoroughly enjoyed their open-door meetings…
Unless that meeting ends with Kotsay being off the team and Betancourt being benched in favor of.... Wilson I guess.... I really don't care
Oh yeah, and him letting someone else manage the bullpen. Maybe Counsell can act as a player/manager.
For your health!
I think being 2 games out
Means we still have a good chunk of our house left. I’d say the bedroom is burning and there is a broken water main and the room next door has a container of gasoline in it. But the house is by no means burned down yet. I’m waiting for fireman Grienke to save the day!
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by Flanyboy on Jul 5, 2011 10:47 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I thought the house already exploded when they went 0-4 to start the season or when they went 0-7 in early May.
Every time they get back in first place they get a new house.
"PLUSH ALERT: THERE WAS AN UNTUCKING AT FENWAY!"
by SRB on Jul 5, 2011 11:24 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
When are you supposed to have them?
When you’re winning?
by Cheeseandcorn on Jul 5, 2011 11:15 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
To put it less snarkily
If you held a closed-door, circle-the-wagons meeting every time the team lost a few games in a row, you’d be having one every other week. You only get to play that card a couple times a season as a manager, and from the looks of things, tonight was probably the right time.
by Cheeseandcorn on Jul 5, 2011 11:24 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Never. They don't really do any good and are just discussed to appease fans.
The players know they aren’t winning and I would assume they are trying to win, so I don’t know what these meetings teach them.
by diegop89 on Jul 5, 2011 11:28 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I don't think they are ever about teaching anyone anything
They are about the players (and manager) being able to air their concerns and call each other out behind closed doors without worry of what happened ending up as news. I don’t know if it only usually gets mentioned if a team turns their play around as a result, but it seems like a lot of times they do some good.
by uwbadgers on Jul 5, 2011 11:34 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Sometimes teams need a pep talk...
A struggling player tends to focus on himself and helping him or herself most. Thats very easy in a game like baseball where individual performances are so easy to separate.
A properly done pep talk CAN cause the team to think more as a team and change the focus from the struggles of oneself to focusing on how to help the team.
Not sure that would really help much but it can take the focus of a struggling player off their own struggles and could help that player perhaps to play more relaxed and better realizing its not just him who is struggling?
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by Flanyboy on Jul 5, 2011 11:35 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
You don't have to give Gomez a pep talk to turn him into a decent player, you just need to look up his stats.
"PLUSH ALERT: THERE WAS AN UNTUCKING AT FENWAY!"
gomez's defense makes up for his offense.
Our backup/right handed cf is by far the least of the brewers problems right now.
by uwbadgers on Jul 6, 2011 8:14 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions 3 recs
I will admit that I hated on Gomez a lot last year.
And I was wrong. It took watching Yuni play that made me realize just how wrong I was.
by BrewCrewBrian on Jul 7, 2011 8:13 AM CDT up reply actions
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