The blessing of baseball is that you don't have to wait very long for a chance to redeem yourself. Today, about fifteen hours after gagging away another late lead, your Milwaukee Brewers look for the cure to their ails in the second game of a three-game series against the Washington Nationals.
Current Series
Nationals lead the series 1-0
| Fri 04/16 | WP: Brian Bruney (1 - 0) SV: Matt Capps LP: LaTroy Hawkins (0 - 2) | 3 - 5 loss |
Milwaukee Brewers Saturday, Apr 17, 2010, 12:05 PM CDT Randy Wolf vs Livan Hernandez Partly cloudy. Winds blowing from left to right field at 20-25 m.p.h. Game time temperature around 60. Complete Coverage > | ||
| Sun 04/18 | 12:35 PM CDT | |
After the jump: pitching matchups, lineups, and whimsy. Join us, won't you?
DodgersFor that Nats, the ageless Livan Hernandez (1-0, 0.00 ERA in 2010; 9-12, 5.44 ERA in 2009) takes the ball. Hernandez won the only start he's made in 2010, as he blanked the Mets for seven innings last Sunday. Grandpa Livan made one start against the Crew in 2009 (as a Met) and got cuffed around, surrendering seven hits and four earned runs in five innings. If Ken Macha is playing the matchups today, Jim Edmonds will probably be in the lineup, as JEd has put together a .316/ .519 / .947 line against Hernandez in 27 career plate appearances.
Here's the Brewers lineup, with much love to Tyler Barnes:
Rickie Weeks 2B
Craig Counsell SS
Ryan Braun LF
Prince Fielder 1B
Casey McGehee 3B
Jim Edmonds CF
Corey Hart RF
George Kottaras C
Randy Wolf P
In the 'pen:
Chris Narveson pitched 1 inning (25 pitches) Thursday.Carlos Villanueva pitched 2 innings (30 pitches) Thursday.
Trevor Hoffman pitched 1 inning (29 pitches) Thursday.
LaTroy Hawkins pitched made a mess of 1 inning (22 pitches) yesterday.
Todd Coffey pitched .2 innings (18 pitches) Wednesday.
Claudio Vargas pitched .2 innings (ONE PITCH, BABY!) yesterday.
Manny Parra was brought out of mothballs to pitch yesterday, going .1 innings (16 pitches).
Bring me home a winner.