2011-09-28 Pirates (Locke) at Brewers (Greinke) - [Brewers win, 7-3, earn # 2 seed]

[Oldcity]

Ron's got to get him the W.

[topper09er]

edit: maybe they meant "finish with 17 wins and not one win more"

Maybe they forgot to change W = 17 to W >= 17

[Raw Biz]

With 67 pitches, I think Greinke could pitch again Sunday but they probably wouldn't want Greinke pitching on short rest twice in a row. It would also mean Marcum goes over a week without pitching.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Venters doing his best job to try to blow the game for the Braves.

[Oldcity]

Come on Venters...

[Yeti73]

I could not be happier for GoGo. The guy has been relegated to a backup and suffered a crushing injury, yet all season he has been one of the first out of the dugout to celebrate, always celebrating and playing amazing defense. Maybe he isn't the player people projected when he was a prospect, but he's found a role and a platoon of GoGo/Morgan next year is better than most other teams' centerfield situation. He has become on of my favorite Brewers based on attitude and hard work alone. If he could just learn the basics of baserunning, he'd be amazing.

[Yeti73]

Did Prince Swap positions with D. Lee?

[topper09er]

Notice Hairston is not bunting, when Morgan does it that is on his own

[stoutdude04]

Rain delay in Boston.

[wOOgiE22]

Some nice hitting by Hairston there!

[Schlitz001]

Well said about Gomez. The guy is an insanely good defender and a real team player. He's going to be huge during the playoffs as a late inning replacement.

[topper09er]

What Hairston did there is exactly what I wanted Weeks to do last inning

[pebadger]

I'm guessing we're going to see a lot of JHJ and very little of CM in the playoffs.

[PrinceEatMeat]

I think Hairston has firmly planted McGehee on the bench for the playoffs.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

I'm guessing we're going to see a lot of JHJ and very little of CM in the playoffs.

I think that all of Brewerfan.net can live with that.

[bucksman4]

I'm guessing we're going to see a lot of JHJ and very little of CM in the playoffs.

It's about time RR plays a guy based upon present merit and not on past successes.

[topper09er]

Kimbrel must preserve a 1 run lead with the Braves season on the line

[endaround]

Notice Hairston is not bunting, when Morgan does it that is on his own

Notice Hairston did bunt when Hart was at 2B. It is a coaching thing (don't get me started about bunting players over to 3B)

[Raw Biz]

Notice Hairston is not bunting, when Morgan does it that is on his own

Just because it didn't happen there doesn't mean Roenicke has never called for it.

[Funketown]

Well said about Gomez. The guy is an insanely good defender and a real team player. He's going to be huge during the playoffs as a late inning replacement.

CarGo has to be one of my favorite <.290 OBP guys ever to play the game. Outside of getting on base, he does just about everything extremely well.

[topper09er]

Notice Hairston is not bunting, when Morgan does it that is on his own

Just because it didn't happen there doesn't mean Roenicke has never called for it.

He obviously calls for it sometimes but not every time Morgan lays one down in the 1st inning.

 

Fine I will correct my statement to say when Morgan does it that is on his own sometimes

[Rhett16]

Just to add a little bit to the Daron Sutton talk from the first page, I live in Arizona and Sutton is interviewed pretty often on the "Doug & Wolf" radio show, and I remember him saying at least a few times things to the effect of "I just wish the Brewers would lose every game". (paraphrasing of course) I don't know what exactly happened between him and Milwaukee, but there is definitely some bad blood there and it did come through last night in his call at the end of the game.

[stalton]

that would have been hilarious if Yuni tagged that one out of here

[Raw Biz]

Notice Hairston is not bunting, when Morgan does it that is on his own

Just because it didn't happen there doesn't mean Roenicke has never called for it.

He obviously calls for it sometimes but not every time Morgan lays one down in the 1st inning.

 

Fine I will correct my statement to say when Morgan does it that is on his own sometimes

I have no problem if Morgan wants to bunt for a hit every once in awhile. The problem is he tries it just about every game and almost always bunts when Hart reaches to start. In those situations, he should be swinging away and I think Roenicke should be telling him to swing away more often than not and only lay one down if 3B is back.

[topper09er]

Come on Braves, bases loaded 1 out