7/24/08 Brewers (Sheets) at Cardinals (Wellemeyer): 7:15 CDT

[wibadgers23]

Ben Sheets (10-3, 2.88 ERA, 111 SO)

http://espn-ak.starwave.com/photo/2007/0201/mlb_g_sheets_412.jpg

Previous Starts:

DATE	OPP	RESULT	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	GB	FB	TBF	#Pit	Dec.	Rel.	ERA
7/19	@SF	W 8-5	5.0	9	4	2	0	1	3	11	3	25	84	--	--	2.88
7/9	COL	L 3-8	6.0	5	3	3	1	2	11	3	5	24	110	L(10-3)	--	2.85
7/4	PIT	W 9-1	5.2	8	1	1	0	3	6	6	7	28	120	W(10-2)	--	2.77
6/29	@MIN	L 0-5	7.0	9	5	5	1	2	7	10	5	30	115	L(9-2)	--	2.83
6/23	@ATL	W 4-1	9.0	4	1	1	0	0	7	13	9	31	106	W(9-1)	--	2.59
6/18	TOR	W 5-4	6.0	4	2	2	0	4	5	7	7	26	108	W(8-1)	--	2.74
6/12	@HOU	W 9-6	7.0	7	3	3	2	2	9	10	8	31	118	W(7-1)	--	2.72
6/6	@COL	L 4-6	6.0	5	1	1	0	2	3	13	4	25	100	--	--	2.62
5/31	HOU	W 4-1	8.2	7	1	1	0	1	5	12	10	31	122	W(6-1)	--	2.71

Versus

 

Todd Wellemeyer (8-4, 4.22 ERA, 77 SO)

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2006/03/28/5XA4I43D.jpg

Previous Starts:

DATE	OPP	RESULT	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	GB	FB	TBF	#Pit	Dec.	Rel.	ERA
7/19	SD	W 6-5	6.1	5	5	5	1	3	2	8	9	27	84	W(8-4)	--	4.22
7/12	@PIT	L 11-12	6.1	4	4	4	2	1	2	6	11	25	94	--	--	4.04
7/6	CHC	L 1-7	5.0	9	3	3	0	0	3	4	6	23	76	L(7-4)	--	3.94
7/1	NYM	L 4-7	5.0	12	6	6	0	2	2	14	3	27	98	L(7-3)	--	3.86
6/26	@DET	L 2-3	5.0	4	0	0	0	0	3	7	5	18	76	--	--	3.46
6/13	PHI	L 2-20	3.1	8	8	8	3	3	3	6	5	21	90	L(7-2)	--	3.67
6/5	@WAS	W 4-1	6.0	5	0	0	0	1	5	12	4	25	79	W(7-1)	--	2.93
5/30	PIT	W 5-4	7.0	6	1	1	1	2	4	8	10	29	94	W(6-1)	--	3.16
5/25	@LAD	L 3-4	6.0	5	3	3	1	0	4	7	8	23	85	--	--	3.36
5/19	@SD	W 8-2	6.0	6	2	2	0	3	2	9	6	26	100	W(5-1)	--	3.25

N.L. Central Standings:

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road	East	Cent.	West	L10	Strk
Chi. Cubs	59	42	.584	-	37-12	22-30	7-4	23-19	23-10	4-6	W 1
Milwaukee	58	43	.574	1	31-17	27-26	10-11	26-16	15-8	8-2	W 7
St. Louis	57	46	.553	3	30-24	27-22	10-6	25-23	15-9	6-4	L 3
Cincinnati	50	53	.485	10	30-22	20-31	18-14	14-21	9-12	6-4	W 2
Pittsburgh	47	54	.465	12	29-22	18-32	12-12	23-25	6-8	4-6	W 3
Houston	46	55	.455	13	24-25	22-30	10-9	17-24	12-11	5-5	L 4

Wild Card Race:

Team	W	L	PCT	GB
Milwaukee	58	43	.574	-
St. Louis	57	46	.553	2
Philadelphia	54	47	.535	4
Florida	53	48	.525	5
Cincinnati	50	53	.485	9
L.A. Dodgers	49	52	.485	9
Atlanta	48	53	.475	10
Pittsburgh	47	54	.465	11
Houston	46	55	.455	12
Colorado	45	58	.437	14
San Francisco	42	58	.420	15½
Washington	38	63	.376	20
San Diego	38	64	.373	20½

[ELCABALLO45]

Dear Brewers,

 

Wow, that was fun.

 

Lets do it again.

 

XOXO

 

ELCABALLO45

[tigerbrew]

Come on Sheets, let's make it a truly memorable and amazing road trip.

 

Go Brewers!

[tysoncbulls423]

http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/ohwell.gif Come on guys, I asked you guys to win 3 out of 4 or split. Not sweep! I need some breathing room before I get murdered at Miller Park next week! You guys have been playing some amazing baseball though, I'll give you that.

[jhart05]

Can't wait man.

 

Getting up around 7:30 and taking off by 8am.

Which means I should start thinking about getting to bed.

 

 

Let me know what you think about Todd Tichenor, behind the plate.

 

Hopefully I'm sitting close. I'll have a white Brewers jersey on and probably my UWM yellow hat.

 

 

 

GO CREW!!!

[Sheets4theHOF]

time for the F-15 to take flight. i thought the b-52 bomber/f-15 fighter was a pretty cool observation by braun.

 

A three game lead in the wild card would be pretty awesome. KEEP IT GOING!!!

[uwisfan]

4-game road sweep at St Louis. Only doing so in Chicago could be better. Go BENNY

[RickieDROPSbombs]

Lets go Ben and make this the best road trip of the year in all of baseball. 7-0 WE on A ROLL.

[RickieDROPSbombs]

I expect a huge game from Benny tomorrow

 

7 IP 12 K's 0 BB's 1 ER (pujouls homerun, loan blunder)

 

Lets see Benny send us home with a sweep and an 8 game winning streak

[Tailgat0r76]

Let's go Benny! Ever since Wellemeyer's inflamed elbow he has been very ineffective and lets hope that keeps up.

 

Keep it rollin' Ben, I want free burgers at Webb's!

[Mr QL]

this could be a really special roadtrip

 

lets go benny

[dlk9s]

I expect a huge game from Benny tomorrow

 

7 IP 12 K's 0 BB's 1 ER (pujouls homerun, loan blunder)

 

Lets see Benny send us home with a sweep and an 8 game winning streak

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/687/bankerrorinyourfavorzf3.jpg

[fondybrewfan]

Have the Brewers ever swept a road series of 6 or more games? I can't imagine that it has happened to often. Really looking forward to this one although I wish this was an afternoon game. Sure it will be great watching it tonight but today's work day is going to be longer than yesterday.

 

 

Hopefully Ben has his one crappy game a month out of the way and he returns to his normal pitching ways.

[TauPentaRei]

with the 42 pitches in the all-star game and going on 3 days rest in San Franny, I was very glad to see the Counsell pinch hit opportunity arise to get him out after only 84 pitches. on normal rest Benny will be nails.

 

anyone watch that dog whisperer show? well i don't either, nor do i have dogs... but apparently the premise to getting your dogs to behave (so i've heard) is establishing yourself as the Alpha.

 

Benny was throwing SO hard against the Rockies the day after CC's first Crew start - ran up the 11 Ks but also a huge pitch count - maybe trying to show off his stuff to someone with some Cy hardware.

 

It is not a process that has to take long, but I think it has already happened swiftly & organically - CC has come in and established himself as the Alpha of the staff. Benny's success over the the season's final third+ will correspond to how he handles #2 dog status.

 

Get the arm warm, hit your spots, drop the hammer, bite your fingernails, use your change-up like sightings of the white whale, put a gum bubble on someone's hat, work fast work efficient, and drop the hammer one more time... everything that got you to 10 - 2 pre-CC.

[splitterpfj]

maybe trying to show off his stuff to someone with some Cy hardware.

 

More likely, IMO, trying to impress the guy who would name the starting pitcher for the All-Star Game.

[And That]

The Brewers' high water mark as a franchise is 31 games over .500. Let's keep the winning streak going!

[sheethead]

The worst part about the Brewer fever affliction is it seems to make the start of night games take 10 times longer to arrive. The best part of the fever is the awesomeness acheived when the game finally does start.

 

Brewers win 8-3.

[tyguy20204]

I fully expect Sheets to get pounded tonight. I see Pujols having a monster game. Hopefully not.

[RobDeer 45]

HD tonight! Can't wait to see what happens tonight. I hope we get after the rear ends. Do work Sheets!

[eanelson4]

Interesting note: It's amazing how much faster IGT's get put up when the team is on a winning-streak. Not a complaint, just an observation http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

Go Crew! BTW, I can't recall perfectly, but I seem to remember something about how we have never swept the Cardinals at home. True or untrue? Also, when was the last time we even won a series down there? I think its been quite a while.

[owbc]

Lots of rain in STL today. Hopefully it clears out for game time.

[berniebrewer4life]

Interesting note: It's amazing how much faster IGT's get put up when the team is on a winning-streak. Not a complaint, just an observation http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

Go Crew! BTW, I can't recall perfectly, but I seem to remember something about how we have never swept the Cardinals at home. True or untrue? Also, when was the last time we even won a series down there? I think its been quite a while.

We have never swept a 4 game series i know, i think we swept a 3 gamer back in the late 90s.

[jjgott]

Do my eyes decieve me? Do we have a winning record on the road?

[berniebrewer4life]

You are correct jjgott. I would be interested to know the last time we had a winning road record this late in the year. Probably 99.

[sheethead]

Pulled from an obobo55 post on 7/21. Here's what we have left, and I could argue the remaining blue could be green.

 

-3, -5	-2, -3	-1, -1	0, 1	1, 3
-4, -5	-3, -3	-2, -1	-1, 1	0, 3
-5, -5	-4, -3	-3, -1	-2, 1	-1, 3
-6, -5	-5, -3	-4, -1	-3, 1	-2, 3
-7, -5	-6, -3	-5, -1	-4, 1	-3, 3

Well done Brew Crew, well done. A special thanks goes out to the Dbacks, it wouldn't have been possible without your help.