The Brewers are going to try to pull off 3 in a row this afternoon.
Current Series
Brewers lead the series 2-1
| Mon 04/04 | WP: Peter Moylan (1 - 0) SV: Craig Kimbrel LP: Takashi Saito (0 - 1) | 1 - 2 loss |
| Tue 04/05 | WP: Yovani Gallardo (1 - 0) LP: Derek Lowe (1 - 1) | 1 - 0 win |
| Wed 04/06 | WP: Marco Estrada (1 - 0) SV: John Axford LP: Mike Minor (0 - 1) | 5 - 4 win |
Atlanta Braves Thursday, Apr 7, 2011, 12:40 PM CDT Tommy Hanson vs Shaun Marcum Mostly cloudy. Winds blowing in from right field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game time temperature around 50.
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Lineups and more after the jump.
I don't have particularly much to day about the pitching matchups today. Shaun Marcum hasn't had much regular-season experience against the Braves, and the sample size is too small in any case. Even looking at his 2011 sample isn't enough; as I saw in someone's tweet, the Brewers pitching staff isn't performing anything like their previous years would indicate. Gallardo isn't striking out batters, Narveson isn't collapsing in the first inning, Saito is giving up home runs and Marcum is walking too many batters. You used to be able to blame that on NL and AL umpires having different strike zones; that's obviously no longer the case. It's just one start. May this one be better.
Today's lineups:
| Atlanta Braves | Milwaukee Brewers |
| Martin Prado 3B | Rickie Weeks 2B |
| Nate McLouth CF | Carlos Gomez CF |
| Brian McCann C | Ryan Braun LF |
| Dan Uggla 2B | Prince Fielder 1B |
| Jason Heyward RF | Casey McGehee 3B |
| Alex Gonzalez SS | Yuniesky Betancourt SS |
| Freddie Freeman 1B | Nyjer Morgan RF |
| Matt Young LF | George Kottaras C |
| Tommy Hanson P | Shaun Marcum P |