2010-05-22 Brewers (Gallardo) at Twins (Slowey), 3:10 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 8-7, 12 innings]

[thablingster]

We're in trouble when the trainers are getting beat up, lol.

[Buckylovesbeer]

That foul ball into the dugout was scary. Dude took it in the head.....hopfully he is ok

[WisconsinSportsRule]

I don't have any idea where that 2-2 pitch missed.

[GormanHarvey]

I don't have any idea where that 2-2 pitch missed.

 

Especially when it had already been called a strike twice in that AB!

[bklynbrewcrew]

The more Corey hits the more appealing he will look to teams like the Giants who need offense and have young pitching to offer in return.

[trwi7]

All I can say is Macha better not send Gallardo out for the 7th.

[Buckylovesbeer]

Grilled food.....mmm......food on a stick......mmm........

[WV Brew]

Bush--BABIP was .857 yesterday. It's just bad luck.

[GormanHarvey]

All I can say is Macha better not send Gallardo out for the 7th.

 

You know he will. Just like rickie will K here

 

Edit - or at least do nothing productive. A bunt would've been nice

[theavrock]

please for the love of god bunt

[Buckylovesbeer]

Rickie hacks......

[pete]

OMG, Nick Punto stumbles his way into a highlight play. Its a curse.

[WisconsinSportsRule]

What the hell is Macha thinking? Ummm, bunt the damn ball.

 

Now the DP. Go figure

[GormanHarvey]

Gomez did not appear to be running hard/well there

[theavrock]

Ok Rickie is like 0 for a million and you have first and second with no one out. Is it just me or does that situation not scream for a bunt? It would be 4-3 with a runner on second and 2 out if Rickie lays a bunt down.

[WV Brew]

In Macha's defense, it's play for the win on the road and the tie at home isn't it? Bunting Weeks is playing for the tie. The way Weeks has been hitting, he probably should have bunted on his own.

[Buckylovesbeer]

I agree with all of you. Terrible decision making there, unless Rickie all of a sudden refuses to bunt. That was bad baseball and it costed us.

[topper09er]

Rickie Weeks:

 

Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	ROE	BAbip	tOPS+	sOPS+
2010 Totals	41	41	200	173	25	42	7	1	5	20	3	2	21	52	.243	.345	.382	.727	66	1	6	0	0	0	2	.319	100	99
Last 7 days	5	5	23	22	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	7	.136	.174	.182	.356	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.200	-2	-3
Last 14 days	11	11	51	47	1	7	2	0	0	1	1	1	3	15	.149	.216	.191	.407	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	.219	13	13
Last 28 days	24	24	116	105	9	20	2	0	2	8	2	1	10	36	.190	.267	.267	.534	28	0	1	0	0	0	2	.269	47	47

Any manager that does not bunt in that situation does not understand how to win baseball games.

[TheCrew07]

Rickie's slump is getting pretty old now, it's been a month.

[thablingster]

I knew things with Weeks were bad, I didn't know it was that bad. Yowza. I don't understand the use of Estrada today unless they figure Axford can give them multiple innings again tomorrow after Parra finishes off 5 innings.

[pete]

The whole bunting and small ball thing has been analyzed to death. I don't think you'll find support for the idea outside of playing for a single run late in a game. So why would it be good baseball?

 

I can't remember Rickie bunting.

[pete]

Did Gerut break in on that ball?

[Polish Falcons]

2 pitches, 2 outs?? Really? How about looking at a few pitches guys?

 

Corey does his best to make up for that impatience.

 

I still hate it when people think we have a prolific offense. It's really not that good. Take out those huge days against Pitt and we aren't looking so hot. I just wish we had guys who had solid OBP percentage and looked at some pitches.

If you take out the April 20th Pirates game (20 runs) and the April 26 game (17 runs), the Brewers average runs per game drops from 5.1 to 4.5 or 3rd best in the NL to 7th best in the NL. Other teams have high scoring anomalys too, so it's not really fair to subtract that out for the Brewers only, but even if you do, you can see that the Brewers offense still ranks in the top half.

[GormanHarvey]

Stetter is useless this year

[thablingster]

So we've run through three pitchers in this inning why? This type of managing is exactly why our bullpen is fried.