2012-05-21 Giants (Bumgarner) at Brewers (Wolf), 7:10 PM CDT (Hart starts at 1B) [Brewers lose, 4-3 in 14 innings]

[jjgott]

Nice play by Izzy there.

[ninja33]

Gomez hitting there against Romo is inexcusable with Morgan, Ishikawa, and Green all on the bench. Need a LHH there.

 

Or Lucroy. But yea, Gomez was the 4th or 5th best option there. Pretty strong show of faith from Roenicke there, and it backfired. I guess he wanted to save the PH for Izturis/pitcher spot. Still don't really get it though.

 

God, Ax in a tie game is so terrifying. It's so bizarre how much he can struggle sometimes

[PrinceEatMeat]

Gomez hitting there against Romo is inexcusable with Morgan, Ishikawa, and Green all on the bench. Need a LHH there.

 

Or Lucroy. But yea, Gomez was the 4th or 5th best option there. Pretty strong show of faith from Roenicke there, and it backfired. I guess he wanted to save the PH for Izturis/pitcher spot. Still don't really get it though.

 

God, Ax in a tie game is so terrifying. It's so bizarre how much he can struggle sometimes

 

I'd prefer a LHH against Romo with the slider he throws. But Lucroy also would've been better. The easy solution was just to put in Morgan and leave him in the game in CF.

[stoutdude04]

I hope we dont lose another game scoring 3 runs or less...

[GormanHarvey]

How bout a Rickie walk off here?!

 

Edit...what was I thinking?

[stoutdude04]

Swung through one there.

[yfinn6]

There was Rickie's hanger to hit.

[ninja33]

I'd prefer a LHH against Romo with the slider he throws. But Lucroy also would've been better. The easy solution was just to put in Morgan and leave him in the game in CF.

 

agreed. a small part of me kind of likes it a little bit, for the "you want to get some more ABs Carlos? OK, go win this game against a RHP" attitude. Probably not the right time for it, and I'm a fairly statistical driven person so I don't really like saying this....but it's nice to see faith put in a young player. Someone else still should have been used.

 

And if the brewers lose, disregard this message.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Now the question is where to use Lucroy. Because you have Kottaras, Izturis, and the pitcher's spot up against a LHP with only LHH left besides Luc. Probably have to wait now.

[FVBrewerFan]

For no reason whatsoever, I still expect something good to happen every time I see Weeks step up to the plate. Must be the brain equivalent to muscle memory.

[Gobias Industries]

Romo was way off tonight, but he still only needed six pitches total to strike out Gomez and Weeks.

[Dollarbill13]

I'm okay with a sac bunt from izzy here.

[Baldkin]

Romo was way off tonight, but he still only needed six pitches total to strike out Gomez and Weeks.

 

He has 179K's in 448 PA vs RHBs in his career. 40%. He's just wicked vs RHB.

[endaround]

So because he hit Maysonet there is no other SS available. Roenicked!

[ninja33]

Now the question is where to use Lucroy. Because you have Kottaras, Izturis, and the pitcher's spot up against a LHP with only LHH left besides Luc. Probably have to wait now.

 

Would have used him for Kottaras. If you bring him in for someone else, Bochy likely puts a RHP right back in.

 

Although George is a very patient hitter, so that works too.

[GormanHarvey]

Izzy actually hit one hard there...shoot

[PrinceEatMeat]

Luuuuuuccccc!!!! About time! No reason not to pinch-run for Kottaras, but still won't.

[chadomac]

They probably want kottares to continue catching. Lucroy's been playing a lot.

[PrinceEatMeat]

I guess, but I'd rather have Luc's defense in there behind the plate the rest of the way.

[Gobias Industries]

Romo was way off tonight, but he still only needed six pitches total to strike out Gomez and Weeks.

 

He has 179K's in 448 PA vs RHBs in his career. 40%. He's just wicked vs RHB.

Yup, I know he's death vs RHBs. But he hung one to Gomez on 0-2 and to Rickie on 0-1. He was definitely not lights out tonight. Looked ordinary to Aram too.

[reillymcshane]

Bad luck there. Izzy and Luc both hit the ball well. Would have been nice to have won it there.

[adambr2]

Bill: "That might've been a triple."

 

How? It bounced into the seats.

[cnycerveceros]

Am I the only one who thinks they shouldn't play Blister in the Sun when we are pitching?

[Baldkin]

Bill: "That might've been a triple."

 

How? It bounced into the seats.

 

New rule: "What Bill says, goes."

[valpocrewsader]

I've only been watching the last couple innings, but they have yet to go to commercial since the 8th. Just highlights and commentators between innings. What's that about?