2011-04-25 Reds at Brewers - [Brewers lose, 9-5; pre- and post-game audio at tail end of thread]

[derflotr]

Gomez has looked like a completely different hitter this homestand...that was a great AB for him.

[Raw Biz]

Braun just looks amazingly comfortable at the plate this year. Hopefully he keeps it up.

[ilovebeer]

Maybe Gomez finally realised the fans wanted Morgan more than him.

[ilovebeer]

Isn't it kind of stupid for braun to steal second with Prince up?

[ilovebeer]

Casey what were you doing there?

[ilovebeer]

Its not a bad crowd for a monday night. I think they are going to have a hard time drawing until gas prices come down.

[chickinbrickin]

Its not a bad crowd for a monday night. I think they are going to have a hard time drawing until gas prices come down.

 

Gas prices will never come down.

[bucksman4]

And...Prince still stinks making good, accurate throws to home on bang-bang plays.

[pebadger]

The carnie with the teddy bears at the State Fair has nothing to fear when Prince comes around.

[ilovebeer]

Come on Chris settle down, no more balks please.

[chickinbrickin]

Yep, Prince weak D results in a run and 2 missed outs. I think every other first basemen in the league makes the catch on the flair from Cairo.

[chickinbrickin]

Love his bat and the Braun Fielder combo, but I'm not going to miss him in the field.

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

Casey had plenty of time to look Phillips back there. Another reason the Reds seem to have our number...they make those plays that we don't at the margin.

[ilovebeer]

We were darn lucky that only one run scored that inning,

[Ennder]

Starlin Castro with 3 errors in one inning in the Cubs game, I promise I won't complain about Betancourt's defense since it obviously could be worse!

[TheCrew07]

That play where the run scored is a perfect example of the issues the Brewers have on defense, but BA and BS will remind us that the Brewers have the fewest errors...

 

Casey should have played the big hop, it doesn't make sense to back up and play the little hop. There was no reason to give up a run on that play as Cincy didn't have the contact play on. Fielder doesn't have a strong or accurate arm either which certainly doesn't help, but off the bat I thought they were going to save the run because the runner wasn't breaking home, then McGehee backs up and Prince makes a bad throw and a run scores.

 

The fielding metrics won't even have a problem with that play because an out recorded, but from watching the play live and now the replay a couple of times, it was a preventable run in my opinion.

 

I just hate to see them give runs away, especially against the better teams, and while giving away runs period is never a good thing, if we get to the playoffs the pitching is only going to take us so far.

[GormanHarvey]

Oof, that was one ugly AB Jon.

[GormanHarvey]

Narvy not looking overly sharp in the early going here

[davemakovec]

Well, hopefully Narveson can pull it together and at least go five innings.

[chickinbrickin]

Narvy not looking overly sharp in the early going here

 

Just Narvy being Narvy. It wasn't going to last forever, but hopefully we can hold them here and get the bats going.

[bucksman4]

And no outs.

[lcbj68c]

get him out rr. before the game is over

[bucksman4]

BP Narvy tonight. Wow.

[bucksman4]

get him out rr. before the game is over

The way Arroyo is pitching, 5 will probably be enough.

[derflotr]

I hate to be mr. downer here, but I'm getting really sick of losing to the Reds. This annoys me.