2012-08-04 Brewers (Rogers) at Cardinals (Wainwright), 6:15 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 6–1]

[hawing]

pretendastronaut's weekend absence continues; thus so do my fairly weak but well intentioned IGT lead posts.

Tonight's game features throwback uniforms to the 1982 World Series. Decide for yourself whether that's good news or bad.

 

Less classy but more lovable team:

CF Carlos Gomez

RF Nyjer Morgan

LF Ryan Braun

1B Corey Hart

2B Rickie Weeks

C Jonathan Lucroy

SS Cesar Izturis

3B Cody Ransom

RHP Mark Rogers

 

Apparently Everything Good About The Game:

SS Rafael Furcal

1B Allen Craig

LF Matt Holliday

RF Carlos Beltran

3B David Freese

C Yadier Molina

CF Jon Jay

2B Daniel Descalso

RHP Adam Wainwright

[Eye Black]

Good Article on Mark Rogers from a Maine newspaper. I sure hope he can stay healthy and provide a bright spot over the next couple of months!

[TURBO]

No doubt, if this lost season provides Fiers and Rogers as future top to mid rotation guys because they got the chance, it wasn't so lost after all...

[RWeeksFan23]

Sucks Ramirez is out again, that bottom third of the lineup is as brutal as you'll ever see.

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

You think the Cards will introduce the true MVPs of the 82 series? Rollie Finger's dead arm and that crappy AstroTurf they would pound the ball into. Should have beaten them in 5.

[DHonks]

Rogers curve sure looks nice, although I hate the CF cam. He got screwed on the perfect first curve to Descalso

[AZBrewCrew]

Wow, this got ugly fast.

[The stache]

Double, double, single, single, single, single, walk.

 

Is Roenicke sleeping in the dugout? Or has he gone out there to at least talk to Rogers?

[bullox]

It looked like there was a faucet in Rogers' hat when he looked down and sweat came pouring off the brim. I don't know if I've ever seen something like that before.

[rluzinski]

Rogers curve sure looks nice, although I hate the CF cam. He got screwed on the perfect first curve to Descalso

 

I love that it's not the traditional crappy offset view (Milwaukee has one of the worst). You can actually see where the ball crosses home plate. I realize the pitcher partially obscures the strike zone during the wind up but there is usually a clear view after the delivery. I'll take that over having to guess if an outside pitch really was a strike.

 

Brewers' view ranked 26th here:

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/not/index.php/ranking-baseballs-center-field-camera-shots/

 

Cardinals' is ranked 4th.

[The stache]

Sometimes I really love fangraphs. Well, that's most of the time.

 

Ok, all the time.

[RWeeksFan23]

Seems like most of Rogers' pitches have been either right down the middle, or out of the strike zone.

[The stache]

Quite a contrast to Rogers' last half of the inning. Nice and easy 4th for Wainright. Now, can Mark get back into a rhythm?

[trwi7]

I'm surprised the Twins are ranked 10th. That's the best view I've seen.

[RWeeksFan23]

He sure did, the stache. Nice inning by Rogers.

[bullox]

Rogers did a great job of settling down, two straight good innings. Reward him with some runs.

[RWeeksFan23]

There's something ya don't see every day.. K-Rod with a perfect inning.

[DHonks]

Rogers should have been out of that inning with 2 runs. the hit to right-center wasn't catchable by Morgan, but should have been cut off for a single. Gomez easily should have caught the blooper to center, but he started back and then froze before coming in.

[brewmann04]

I still do not understand why RR does not start Gomez all the time . Looks like Mark will be getting a 3 start.