Big First Inning and Halladay Gem Spell Doom for Crew: Milwaukee drops game to Phillies, 5-3

by Hangwith'em Rach on Sep 9, 2011 10:42 PM CDT

W: Roy Halladay (17-5)
L: Shaun Marcum (12-6)
S: Ryan Madson (29)

MVP: Casey McGehee (+.096)
LVP: Shaun Marcum (-.161 (-.119 pitching + -.042 batting))

Win Expectancy Graph and Star of the Game Voting

Milwaukee fell behind early tonight and faced a 3-0 deficit before Roy Halladay had thrown even one pitch. Shane Victorino started the game with a bloop single that fell out of the reach of Corey Hart. After recording an out, Shaun Marcum gave up a single to Hunter Pence and Ryan Howard followed with a home run.

After giving up the three runs in the first inning, Marcum settled down and gave up no more runs until the seventh inning, when two more runs crossed the plate on run scoring singles by Raul Ibanez and Carlos Ruiz. Marcum went 6.2 innings and gave up five runs on nine hits and four walks.

Halladay was Halladay--holding the Brewers to just one run over eight innings on four hits and three walks, while striking out nine. The three walks were a season high for Halladay. Two of the four hits came off the bat of Ryan Braun.

Milwaukee loaded the bases with only one out in the fourth inning on singles by Braun, Taylor Green and a walk to Casey McGehee but Yuniesky Betancourt hit into a double play to kill the rally. The Brewers avoided the shut out when McGehee led off the seventh inning with a double, advanced to third on a Green ground out and scored when Betancourt lofted one to center field.

The Brewers made things a bit more interesting in the ninth inning after Halladay left the game. Prince Fielder led off the inning with a single and would come around to score on a single by Betancourt. Jonathan Lucroy’s sacrifice fly plated McGehee, who had walked, but George Kottaras grounded out to end the game.

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This team is playing like shit

Can I say that yet or am I still going to get crucified for not being a true fan?

by mkehoosier on Sep 9, 2011 11:15 PM CDT reply actions

Well they were facing Roy Halladay and lost 5-3, so...

"We’re here to win, man. All that fighting stuff, that’s for the birds." - Prince Fielder

by SRB on Sep 10, 2011 12:05 AM CDT up reply actions

Hey, get a grip.

You would think that the fans of a team that hasn’t been to the World Series in 29 years would be accustomed to a little adversity. We started this season with four losses, and people began to cry and moan and wonder if we were doomed to failure. Obviously not.

As the season rolled on, players would enter into slumps and break out of them and others would slump and we would scream at the managers for the decisions he did or didn’t make, and we said this team was terrible, and we would cringe when things didn’t go our way and even the lowly Pirates were ahead of us in first place, and people asked if we lacked the personnel to win games. Obviously not.

Then a recovery in July led to an explosion in August, and we rocketed ahead in the standings. We left the Reds, Pirates, and even the Cardinals eating our dust as we put together the best month of baseball in the history of the franchise and zoomed out to a double-digit lead and asked ourselves, are we invincible? Obviously not.

And now, as delighted as we were to suddenly win a few games on the road, we’ve lost a few at home, and since they happened adjacent to each other they formed a streak – of the losing variety – and our fears creep back in and we wonder if this team will suddenly collapse into an unrecoverable funk and stumble backwards out of first place. Obviously not.

If you are in the least bit swayed by the small sample size of five games against extremely competitive opponents, then you might think that you’re just sensibly buoying your emotions against disappointment – but don’t. If you stop hoping for this team and believing in them you are not only playing against some pretty steep odds, you are robbing yourself of the joy you will feel when they cinch the division and pay dividends on your faith in them.

It isn’t over yet, and good thing, too – because I’m savoring every game they play on the way to their title. There’s plenty of time to second guess them when there’s snow on the ground. For now, go Brewers!

by nullacct on Sep 9, 2011 11:21 PM CDT reply actions 3 recs

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

by nullacct on Sep 9, 2011 11:27 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs

I don't want to pick faults but

I think that the Germans had nothing to do with Pearl Harbour.
The Japanese on the other hand…..

by Saltire on Sep 10, 2011 12:03 PM CDT up reply actions

Forget it, he's on a roll

See Animal House again ;)

by nullacct on Sep 10, 2011 12:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Or youtube...you know

Video

Applying pop culture to Brewers discussions since 2009, earning the nickname of "Our Little Abed".

by Yar Nivek on Sep 10, 2011 2:03 PM CDT up reply actions

nicely said.

They do need to win some damn games soon though. I can’t believe the Cards won tonight. I want that magic number to be falling as quickly as possible.

For your health!

by menchkins on Sep 9, 2011 11:34 PM CDT up reply actions

NOT indicative of how I feel, but you reminded me of this quote.

Applying pop culture to Brewers discussions since 2009, earning the nickname of "Our Little Abed".

by Yar Nivek on Sep 10, 2011 12:40 AM CDT up reply actions 5 recs

Careful with the positivity

It usually gets shouted down with claims of straw men and whatnot, around here lately. The team starts playing like a regular good baseball team and not one that plays like it came out the NES game Base Wars and the board cannibalizes itself

Like null said; smile and enjoy the ride.

He’s actually underrated, but that’s another can of worms…

by jarlbartar on Sep 10, 2011 6:17 AM CDT up reply actions

Nah its only a straw man if its a straw man

Actually, you reducing people’s gripes with various things to ’don’t be positive’ is a straw man.

"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 Sep 10, 2011 9:55 AM CDT up reply actions

How did I reduce anyone's gripes specifically?

People post on here that they are disapointed, I post that I’m disapointed but optomistic and more or less get told that I’m out of line and should let people have their own opinions, even though being opsomistic is mine. I guess its hard for me, in my own personal opinion, to get so worked up over a team that is in first place that has lost a handfull of games over the last week, thats all. Trying to be the counterweight of so much negativity, and generally doing it diplomatically, get told to buzz off.

He’s actually underrated, but that’s another can of worms…

by jarlbartar on Sep 10, 2011 4:45 PM CDT up reply actions

I'm sorry if you think people tell you to buzz off for being optimistic

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that. I’ll take you at your word, though.

I will say that being a Brewers fan I’ve usually seen two kinds of people: those who are cheerleaders (positive no matter what, ignore the bad things individuals or the team does, apologists for many things) and the realists (in the face of the best, finding the worst; fearing the worst but hoping for the best). Its not as if one is better than the other. They’re both necessary. But I think unfortunately we in both camps tend to rub the others the wrong way in a season like this: cheerleaders think ‘what can go wrong, 8 games up, going to be in the playoffs! Best team I can remember! Stop being negative!’ Realists think ‘man I hope they don’t blow this. I hope this item isn’t an issue in the playoffs. I hope that item is addressed before the important games. I hope that this person doesn’t make a bad decision and cost the team its post season. Why can’t you just see the flaws and worry about them rather than sugarcoat?’

Of course those are both oversimplifications, as both ‘camps’ can probably be guilty (certainly I have been) of going overboard in one direction or the other. At the end of the day, its a new experience to be a fan of a baseball team that is going to make the playoffs (and that’s not being quibbled about). Its fun and exciting, I just dread it being over too soon.

"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 Sep 10, 2011 5:35 PM CDT up reply actions

The end of tonights game was a bit reassuring at least. I'd just like them to play well against the Phils so they don't play scared if they face them in the playoffs

For your health!

by menchkins on Sep 9, 2011 11:32 PM CDT reply actions

Kimbrel blows it for the Braves.

What a dick

I am too drunk to taste this chicken.

by ThroughBeingCool on Sep 9, 2011 11:32 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

I watched the end of the game, I'm still pissed about it. All he had to do was throw some damn strikes, no one even put a good swing on hm til prince Albert.

For your health!

by menchkins on Sep 9, 2011 11:35 PM CDT up reply actions

He's no Axford, obviously.

by Archibaldcrane on Sep 10, 2011 9:16 AM CDT up reply actions

Pirates are eliminated.

3 down 2 to go.

by Zorakathura on Sep 9, 2011 11:40 PM CDT reply actions 4 recs

Damn that douchey Braun

eliminating the Pirates.

/Bucs Dougout’d

Brewers:
7 games ahead of the Uptight Citizens Brigade
1/2 game ahead of the Braves for the Wild Card Safety Net
1/2 game ahead of Arizona to avoid the Phils in the 1st round

by molitorfan on Sep 10, 2011 1:34 PM CDT up reply actions

22-31 vs. teams with a winning record

That’s going to need to improve or its 1 and done.

"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 Sep 10, 2011 10:03 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs

Only need to go 11-8 in the playoffs to win

by Saltire on Sep 10, 2011 12:04 PM CDT up reply actions

Cool

That’ll make for a good, short World Series, right?

"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 Sep 10, 2011 3:02 PM CDT up reply actions

We still have more playoff wins since 2008 than all the rest of the NL Central teams combined.

Give him an offspeed pitch down and in. He will swing and miss.

by cooper82 on Sep 10, 2011 7:44 PM CDT up reply actions

That seems like a pretty arbitrary endpoint

but whatever.

"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 Sep 10, 2011 11:47 PM CDT up reply actions

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