5/14/08 Dodgers (Lowe) at Brewers (Parra): 7:05 PM CDT

[sheetswannabe]

Rluz...Parra has 2 of our 4 rbis...He had 80 pitches, and he was dealing....We were up 4-1..I myself, agree with Yosts move...If noone scored in the 7th, more people, not necessarily you, would have agreed with it too

[TooLiveBrew]

With how much our bullpen has been worked so far, that extra work Parra turned in was not throwaway, was it?

[iluvlamp]

Please get the signs straight!

 

signed,

 

fan

[Glennron]

Not a big fan of Cameron bunting here...

[HurricaneBraun]

Fins score 6 in the 9th to tie it up with the Reds

[sheetswannabe]

Hmm...Is that just Weeks in Camerons uniform?

[kiwi brewer]

Fins score 6 in the 9th to tie it up with the Reds

 

 

Coco giving up a bomb I think for the last 3. hee hee.

 

[sheetswannabe]

Cordero gave up a 2 run homer to let the Fish tie it

[jhart05]

They did not give Braun an error for the dive play.

 

How was that not an error?

[Glennron]

Because he dove.

 

At least the Dodgers only have their 3-4-5 coming up.

[And That]

Yah, I can't say sticking with Parra going into the 7th was a bad call. Slightly overworked bullpen, Parra pitching well, not great bench options.

[sheetswannabe]

Whenever you dive and get a glove on it, you usually are safe from errors

[endaround]

If you're not going to pinch run for your catcher in late innings why is Gwynn on the team?

[sheetswannabe]

Braun is trying to hard today

 

Chryslers brilliant for doing the gas for 2.99 thing.

[SeriesFinale]

If you're not going to pinch run for your catcher in late innings why is Gwynn on the team?

As it turns out it would've made no difference this time anyway

 

 

 

 

[sheetswannabe]

JJ with his shirt off...

 

Girls will go crazy

[jjfanec]

I would say the only reason you would have taken Parra out would have been because you deemed it more important to have a pinch hitter when the bases were loaded.

[Glennron]

Sweet Riske. What even happened?

[iluvlamp]

Great an injury. Riske is done. He will need Tommy John surgery. What? I bet I am right.

[sheetswannabe]

Hm. Riskie doesnt look very hurt...

[endaround]

As it turns out it would've made no difference this time anyway

 

 

The point is that he only skill that Gwynn has that isn't duplicated on the team is his speed. If you are never going to use him to pinch run than get a real bat up here.

 

[jhart05]

"Because he dove."

 

I know. Doesn't mean I have to agree with it.

Maybe I would be too tough of an official scorer.

 

 

And I also like he left Parra out there to pitch.

They need the starters to start going into the 7th and 8th innings.

Plus Parra owed it to the pen for making them work so hard in his other starts.

[And That]

Maybe Riskie caught Sheetsitis.

[sheetswannabe]

How the heck is the roof open? Its not that warm.. I went to a game and it was sunny and 64 and the roof was closed

[rluzinski]

The choice was Parra vs Gwynn though

 

OK, so a .150 batter vs a .250 batter (rough estimated, obviously)? I'll take the 10% better chance of a hit (not even mentioning a walk) over 1 extra IP from an average pitcher ( at least right now) who's going to do worse than average because the batters have already seen him a few times.

 

Rluz...Parra has 2 of our 4 rbis...He had 80 pitches, and he was dealing....We were up 4-1..I myself, agree with Yosts move...If noone scored in the 7th, more people, not necessarily you, would have agreed with it too

 

The fact that an infield groundball found a hole should play a part in the decision making process? And the fact that Parra was "dealing" isn't worth much if anything. Just like a pitcher who gets roughed up early performs just as well as expected last in the inning. It's not predictive (check "The Book". Finally, my opinion had nothing to do with the 7th, as Parra didn't pitch particularly bad anyway. My opinion is based on sabermetric studies and common sense that tells you how silly it is to do what Yost did.

 

Like I said, most managers would do it, so I'm not picking on Yost. Just the fact that baseball thinks they figured everything out 50 years ago drives me nuts. Every other sport is happy to admit that they are still learning.