2011-06-18 Brewers (Wolf) at Red Sox (Lester) - [Brewers win, 4-2]

[pretendastronaut]

June 18 - 6:10 P.M.

http://www.ishouldhavebeenanastronaut.com/brewfan/2011/logos/brewers.jpghttp://www.ishouldhavebeenanastronaut.com/brewfan/2011/logos/redsox.jpg

39-32

42-27

Pitching Matchup

http://www.ishouldhavebeenanastronaut.com/brewfan/2011/pitchers/brewers/wolf-15.jpghttp://www.ishouldhavebeenanastronaut.com/brewfan/2011/pitchers/redsox/lester-01.jpg

Randy Wolf

4-4 | 3.20

The Brewers had won four consecutive Wolf starts before a loss at Wrigley Field on Monday, when the lefty delivered seven scoreless innings but drew an unlucky matchup against career Brewers-killer Ryan Dempster.

Red Sox vs. Wolf
Wolf Game Log

Jon Lester

9-2 | 3.73

Lester is coming off his best outing of 2011, pitching eight strong innings and holding Toronto to just two hits and one run. He struck out eight and got ahead of 18 of the 25 hitters he faced with excellent command of both his fastball and changeup.

Brewers vs. Lester
Lester Game Log

Starting Lineups

1. 
   
2. DH Rickie Weeks
   
3. RF Corey Hart
   
4. LF Ryan Braun
   
5. 1B Prince Fielder
   
6. 3B Casey McGehee
   
7. SS Yuniesky Betancourt
   
8. 2B Josh Wilson
   
9. CF Carlos Gomez
   
10. C George Kottaras
    

• LHP Randy Wolf

1. 
   
2. CF Jacoby Ellsbury
   
3. 2B Dustin Pedroia
   
4. 1B Adrian Gonzalez
   
5. 3B Kevin Youkilis
   
6. DH David Ortiz
   
7. LF Darnell McDonald
   
8. SS Marco Scutaro
   
9. C Jarrod Saltalamacchia
   
10. RF Mike Cameron
    

• LHP Jon Lester

Media Coverage

http://www.ishouldhavebeenanastronaut.com/brewfan/2011/media/media-fsn.jpg

Brewerfan Game Chat

MLB GameDay 2010 | ESPN GameCast | 620 WTMJ Affiliates

Fan Sites

Sons of Sam Horn

[joepepsi]

Crap, the La Crosse Tribune listed game time at noon today. Now what am I supposed to do?????????

[PrinceEatMeat]

Crap, the La Crosse Tribune listed game time at noon today. Now what am I supposed to do?????????

It was originally noon, but changed to 6 because of the Bruins parade.

[MillerParkSouth]

Good to see Georgie boy back there against the lefty instead of Lucroy. Surely Wolf will throw a no-hitter now.

[Funketown]

DH Weeks

RF Hart

LF Braun

1B Fielder

3B McGehee

SS Yuni

2B Wilson

CF Gomez

C Kottaras

 

I guess I don't mind Yuni in the 6 hole against a lefty as much. That might be the worst bottom 5 of a lineup I have seen in a very long time.

[PrinceEatMeat]

This is a horrible lineup. Not batting Gomez 9th is inexcusable. Have to utilize him as a second leadoff hitter in this situation. Otherwise, not much you can do, except play Lucroy because we're facing a lefty. But we all know that situation.

[ilovebeer]

The bottom of the lineup is awful. I keep having to remind my self we are still in first place.

[chickinbrickin]

Not even going to watch this one. I am going to guess two hits out of the 5-9 guys tonight. Only good thing going for us is we have a lefty on the mound.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Yeah, we better hope Wolf throws a gem and the top 4 get us a decent amount of runs. Otherwise we are completely screwed.

[crewcrazy]

The Brewers' lineup looks ugly at first glance, but to be fair, Boston's 6-9 isn't looking so hot today, either.

 

Also not many other lineup options facing a LHP. Morgan and Kotsay can't start against LHP, and Wilson is only in to give Weeks a day off defensively. Only real gripe is Kottaras starting against a lefty, but at least he's hitting 9th. Who knows, maybe he'll surprise us in his return to Boston.

[ilovebeer]

I just hope its a close game and we don't get blown out this evening.

[hawing]

Crap, the La Crosse Tribune listed game time at noon today. Now what am I supposed to do?????????

It was originally noon, but changed to 6 because of the Bruins parade.

Sorry, joepepsi, but the time switch helped me out for once, since I was at work this afternoon and would have completely missed a 12:10 start.

Come on, Brewers, the rest of the Central won't skid forever.

[ilovebeer]

JJ Hardy is batting .288. that was a smart move to trade him.

[ilovebeer]

I am glad the game was changed to 610, at noon is when i go to the gym so everything worked out.

[owbc]

Nice start Rickie!!!

[PrinceEatMeat]

JJ Hardy is batting .288. that was a smart move to trade him.

It actually was at the time. He sucked, and we had Escobar.

[Pack87Man]

Well, that's a start. How hard did you have to hit that to make it go out there?

[ilovebeer]

Rickei goes yeard! nice start.

[ilovebeer]

BACK TO BACK JACKS

[owbc]

Brewers doing a good job fighting Prostate Cancer

[PrinceEatMeat]

Yes! Back-to-back bombs, and then a double! Good start on Lester.

[hawing]

Wow, what a start. Though the cautious part of me reminds me that the Brewers scored two early runs Friday, too.

Of course, it's no longer Friday. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[hawing]

Brewers doing a good job fighting Prostate Cancer

That's an interesting euphemism: WOOHOO! TAKE THAT PROSTATE CANCER!!!!!11!!one

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

5 pitches, 2 runs and a double...Red Sox have us right where they want us.

[dlk9s]

We've scored 2 runs to start the game. Guaranteed win.