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

[PrinceEatMeat]

Not leaving Parra in is just stupid. 2 outs and no one on and Roenicke burns his last position player to put in Perez, his worst pitcher available. Parra was pitching great. Makes no sense at all.

[stoutdude04]

Another loss scoring 3 or less runs? We must be like 3-20 when we score 3 or less.

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

OK...this is funny

[Marc Newfield of Dreams]

Not leaving Parra in is just stupid. 2 outs and no one on and Roenicke burns his last position player to put in Perez, his worst pitcher available. Parra was pitching great. Makes no sense at all.

 

Loe I can understand not using, but Dillard threw 8 stinking pitches yesterday. Perez makes no sense.

[AZBrewCrew]

"He jumped out of the batters box like he just saw a snake"

[pretendastronaut]

"Brewers need a run to keep it going"

 

Joe Block is demented!

[rluzinski]

"He jumped out of the batters box like he just saw a snake"

Sounded like a classic exaggeration until I saw the replay. Not sure I've ever seen a "batter" bail on a strike like that ever.

[rluzinski]

Izturis 0-6. Of course, when you get 5 hits in 14 innings, there are plenty of terrible offensive performances to go around.

 

Hart, crush one please.

[MNBrew]

Does Izturis seemingly make an out on the first pitch all the time or only about 80% of the ABs I follow on GameDay?

 

Way to go, Taylor Green, for actually getting a hit!

[rluzinski]

I can't believe I just spent almost 5 hours watching this. Makes me feel kind of stupid.

[PrinceEatMeat]

It was hard to restrain from throwing the remote through my tv after this one.

[adambr2]

Well, since this has been a late game already, I'll sum up what Roenicke's press conference will be:

 

- Wolfie pitched great.

 

- Liked the matchups with Perez.

 

- Didn't want to use "Kam" as he had pitched the two previous days.

 

- Feels like they are ready to bust out, just need to focus on getting back to .500 and then go on a run.

[pebadger]

"He jumped out of the batters box like he just saw a snake"

Sounded like a classic exaggeration until I saw the replay. Not sure I've ever seen a "batter" bail on a strike like that ever.

 

It's tough making the transition from T-ball.

[Invader3K]

I fell asleep before the end of this one, and kind of glad I did.

 

Cesar Izturis needs to be replaced by someone who can hit more than popups and weak grounders.

[longball04]

I shut it off after the 11th. I knew where it was going to end. It's sad really. You have to win today because you know there is no chance that we win Wednesday with a poor man's Dave Bush throwing. Plus, with Braun probably out one if not two days with a sore groin, who else is going to get hits. Rickie fought one off for a hit to right, otherwise he looked pathetic. You have to hope that ARam, Hart and Lucroy pick them up tonight.

 

It's really getting hard watching this team play. I am going to take a new approach. I am going to try NOT to watch tonight and see how that goes.

[brewmann04]

wow i guess we have to wait to Grienke pitches next to have a shot. This team just can't carry any Momentum at all. Well Perez also has done nothing to warrant a stay up here and it time to play again as the reliever turns with the nashville club.

[Gobias Industries]

Rickie fought one off for a hit to right, otherwise he looked pathetic.

Disagree. This was his best day at the plate in about a month (that's pretty sad, but true). His balance was much better. He actually hit two balls on a line. His timing was just slightly off in his last at-bat where he hit a sky ball to 3rd. Very close to killing that pitch. His 4th ab against Romo was absolutely pathetic though. But I'm use to Weeks having 3 or 4 of those ab's every night. Baby steps.

[brewmann04]

the problem is Weeks not a Rookie he and the brewers can't afford baby steps

[Baldkin]

Rickie fought one off for a hit to right, otherwise he looked pathetic.

Disagree. This was his best day at the plate in about a month (that's pretty sad, but true). His balance was much better. He actually hit two balls on a line. His timing was just slightly off in his last at-bat where he hit a sky ball to 3rd. Very close to killing that pitch. His 4th ab against Romo was absolutely pathetic though. But I'm use to Weeks having 3 or 4 of those ab's every night. Baby steps.

 

Romo makes all RHB's look pathetic. Hard to fault Weeks for that one.

[longball04]

Here's my counter on the Romo comment. Don't you know that coming in? The guy is all off-speed basically. Heck Gomez basically fell down. Although Weeks might have been a tad more balanced, he was still falling across the plate. I didn't see that much improvement last night. I am all for letting him work through it as long as there aren't any better options out there. But I think we got a couple guys hitting over .160 don't we? At least 1? An out is still an out. The flyball to center was great. The groundballs not so much. I just want to see him rip one to the RC gap once.