2011-06-30 Brewers (Wolf) at Yankees (Sabathia) - [Brewers swept, 5-0]

[rluzinski]

Anyone else just have the dreaded feeling that this game is already over? 3-0 shouldn't be impossible to overcome, but with the road version of the Brewers, it sure seems like it. We can't even consistently score 2 runs on the road, yet alone 4-5.

http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?date=2011-06-30&team=Yankees&dh=0&season=2011

Yankees have an 84% chance of winning and that assumes both teams are relatively equal in talent. CC vs. Wolf, Yankee's offense vs. Brewers offense... Brewers have a 1 in 10 shot if I'm being kind.

EDIT: OK, even worse now http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

[pebadger]

The Yankees can't be that great. They just picked up the Brewer bullpen refuse.

 

Or maybe Milwaukee just doesn't know what they're doing in letting Mitre go. Pretty sure the Yanks wouldn't have picked up Dillard.

[Oxy]

Isn't it harder for Yankee fans to get excited about a team that was largely bought? I suspect they don't really care but it would bug me. Bill Gates could decide to buy the Royals tomorrow and turn them into a perennial World Series contenders by spending $250 mil/year. It just seems kind of makes the whole thing a farce.

 

It's almost like every other professional league understands the importance of competitive balance except baseball.

Even though their best players are Sabathia, Teixeira, A-Rod, Granderson, (and Cano, but he doesn't fit the profile), there is a reason that their most beloved players are Jeter, Posada, Mo Rivera, etc. I would imagine that Cano will eventually make his way into that group.

[chuckcrim]

Do the Brewers have the prospects to trade for Reyes? A guy I'm arguing with on Twitter seems to think so. This guy needs to pee in a cup.

[brwrsfan]

It's just frustrating because we have all the pieces in place, yet we're the worst team in MLB on the road. If we were even average on the road, we'd have the division in a stranglehold.

 

Instead, we're looking at going from 3 up to tied in the span of 3 days. I know there are 80 more games, but it's just so depressing for me. This is our "go for it" year and we just seem to be getting no breaks (take the IL schedules as an example) and we just seem to be blowing it.

[davemakovec]

Alright, Randy. This game is over. Try to keep your pitch count down so you can absorb as many innings as possible.

[cnycerveceros]

At least they're not about to get swept by the Nationals.

[chuckcrim]

Weeks is seeing the ball well today.

[Oxy]

Weeks is seeing the ball well today.

So is the defense. I don't think that Gomez, Braun or Betancourt knew where that pop-up ball was going. They just saw it off the bat and sort of ran in the general direction of the ball. Gomez went backwards and Braun ran to a spot ten feet to the right of where the ball landed and Betancourt is Betancourt.

[pebadger]

Well, technically the Brewers aren't the worst in MLB on the road. Just in the NL. Hey! At least we're not KC or Oakland! Heck of a slogan for a team that fancies itself a playoff team.

 

Of course, somebody has to make the playoffs from the NL Central (AKA the division that has a grand total of 1 postseason win since the Cards won the World Series. At least it was a Brewer win)

[owbc]

Just a great play there to get Gomez. Lots of emotion by the Yankees, you can tell they are enjoying playing the game. In a classy way, of course.

[TheCrew07]

Do the Brewers have the prospects to trade for Reyes? A guy I'm arguing with on Twitter seems to think so. This guy needs to pee in a cup.

If the team is willing to give up Heckathorn, Thornburg, and Davis then maybe. I believe Thornburg is now a year past his signing date and eligible to be traded.

 

 

[owbc]

Prince and CC both thought that one was gone. Just can't catch a break.

[jason21nl]

The Brewers have no shot against CC

[Yeti73]

Can't wait for CC to opt out and come back to Milwaukee. We can then move Grienke to the pen.

[TheCrew07]

Wolf pulled the string nicely on that last pitch.

[jason21nl]

Its not a great line up when you throw 3 left hand hitters out there to face CC

[pebadger]

It's not a great lineup. When you throw 3 left hand hitters out there to face CC it's worse.

[jason21nl]

the only guy that looks like a big league hitter today is Braun

[Pack Attack]

Gotta be Prince's worst game & series of the season.

[pebadger]

Provided we don't see something that would legitmately seem miraculous, given how the Brewers have never seemed to be in any of these games, I'm pulling for the Brewers to again outhit the Yankees. With 2 Brewer hits and no more Yankee hits or runs, the Brewers will have lost the series 21-4 despite having outhit the Yankees in every single game, and by an overall count of 27-23.

 

If it happens, somebody need to send that one in to Kurkjian. Can't have happened all that often.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Not sure why Bill and Brian are blaming Gamel for that. He didn't have a lot of time. Not sure why they think that was thrown to hard for that situation. Axford should've had that.

[trwi7]

That was a hell of a play by Gamel and the blame should go on Axford for the throw. Run to the base, he slowed down, Gamel put it right where it needed to be and it bounced out of Axford's glove.

[markedman5]

Kind of off topic but Haudricourt says that the Brewers have made more outs on the bases then any other team in the major leagues(not including pickoffs or caught stealings).

 

How is that super aggressive style working for you RR?

[COBrewerfan]

Kind of off topic but Haudricourt says that the Brewers have made more outs on the bases then any other team in the major leagues(not including pickoffs or caught stealings).

 

How is that super aggressive style working for you RR?

Pretty good, they are in first place