2014-04-22 Padres (Kennedy) at Brewers (Gallardo), 7:10 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 2-1, 12 innings]

[brwrsfan]

Kennedy had 73 pitches through three and still gets through 6 innings. That's really quite annoying. Offense having a rough go tonight so far.

[brwrsfan]

That pitch hasn't been a strike all night and is clearly a few inches off the corner and he rings him up.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

This is beginning to feel like a game that may have to be won in walk-off fashion.

[brwrsfan]

This is beginning to feel like a game that may have to be won in walk-off fashion.

 

It's also unfortunately becoming a game that may head to extra innings and tax the bullpen even further

[coolcool]

That was a bad call.

[danzig6767]

Kennedy had 73 pitches through three and still gets through 6 innings. That's really quite annoying. Offense having a rough go tonight so far.

 

The offense is going to struggle on a number of nights so long as the majority of the players swing way to often at pitches out of the strike zone and don't draw enough walks.

 

Right now the Brewers sit 5th in batting average among all teams, but only 15th in OBP because they don't draw walks at a good enough rate.

[brwrsfan]

That pitch from Duke was just as close as the one to Gennett. Closer even on Fox Trax. Don't bother ringing him up though. Way to be consistent....

[brwrsfan]

Kennedy had 73 pitches through three and still gets through 6 innings. That's really quite annoying. Offense having a rough go tonight so far.

 

The offense is going to struggle on a number of nights so long as the majority of the players swing way to often at pitches out of the strike zone and don't draw enough walks.

 

Right now the Brewers sit 5th in batting average among all teams, but only 15th in OBP because they don't draw walks at a good enough rate.

 

Very true. No argument, just hope we can adjust, even a little bit.

 

I really disliked the Duke signing and the fact that he made the team, but he's been very impressive so far this season. Wow. Feeling a Braun dinger here to lead off the inning!

[DoubleSwitch]

Lefties get strikes called more often on the outside corner. I'm not quite sure why this is, but it is a pretty consistently observed phenomenon.

 

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2013/6/7/4391656/investigating-the-lefty-strike-pitchfx-sabermetrics

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Duke looked to be mixing pitches pretty well that inning. The 89-90 mph fastball seemed to pop, and he got some swings and misses with it.

 

Wonder if Ron gives him another inning, depending on what the offense does here. He didn't work yesterday after the couple innings in Pittsburgh, so I guess we'll see.

[coolcool]

Kennedy had 73 pitches through three and still gets through 6 innings. That's really quite annoying. Offense having a rough go tonight so far.

 

The offense is going to struggle on a number of nights so long as the majority of the players swing way to often at pitches out of the strike zone and don't draw enough walks.

 

Right now the Brewers sit 5th in batting average among all teams, but only 15th in OBP because they don't draw walks at a good enough rate.

 

Wouldn't their BA drop if their approach was to draw more walks though? I would imagine 'trying to draw more walks' would cause an increase in strikeouts and decrease the amount of hits since batters deep in a count tend to take more of a defensive approach, whereas hitting a ball early in a count would have a better opportunity to be driven or put in play.

 

Don't know if that's true, but I think it's probably more complicated that telling them "okay, be more patient"

[SoupTown]

You get the feeling a win is coming... much harder than it should have been. We have six outs to use. They have three.

 

A bottom of the 9th win may be good to keep Frankie on the bench for a day.

[DoubleSwitch]

Yeah I expect Braun and Davis' patience to improve over the course of the season, but guys like Gennett, Segura, and Gomez are never going to be big walk guys, and you would probably do more harm than good to mess with their approach too much.

[DoubleSwitch]

Darn. He left a pitch up and Davis hit it hard, that's all you can ask for.

[dlk9s]

Benoit has some pretty tough stuff. I was surprised that Davis was the one to get the best wood on the ball.

[brwrsfan]

You guys have more faith than me. This feels like a game we're going to kick ourselves for losing. Gave up a free run basically and left several scoring chance out on the bases. Plus Henderson scares me. Hope I'm wrong.

[chickinbrickin]

Davis seems to be settling in a bit. That was a good AB there against Benoit. A weeks ago he would have looked silly.

[craigharmann]

Henderson looked fantastic!! Let's walk it off, boys!!

[DoubleSwitch]

Great to see Henderson looking dominant out there. Duke/Smith/Thorny/KRod has been working so well sometimes I forget he's out there. Not to mention a pretty darn good pitcher in Kintzler presumably ready to come back in a week or so.

[danzig6767]

Kennedy had 73 pitches through three and still gets through 6 innings. That's really quite annoying. Offense having a rough go tonight so far.

 

The offense is going to struggle on a number of nights so long as the majority of the players swing way to often at pitches out of the strike zone and don't draw enough walks.

 

Right now the Brewers sit 5th in batting average among all teams, but only 15th in OBP because they don't draw walks at a good enough rate.

 

Wouldn't their BA drop if their approach was to draw more walks though? I would imagine 'trying to draw more walks' would cause an increase in strikeouts and decrease the amount of hits since batters deep in a count tend to take more of a defensive approach, whereas hitting a ball early in a count would have a better opportunity to be driven or put in play.

 

Don't know if that's true, but I think it's probably more complicated that telling them "okay, be more patient"

 

How would waiting for better pitches to hit cause the hitters to see a drop in their bating averages?

[craigharmann]

Lucky break.....so let's capitalize!!

[DoubleSwitch]

Players that see more pitches strike out more often. 'Waiting for your pitch' inevitably means letting some borderline stuff go that gets called a strike. Example 1A of this, Rickie Weeks, is at the plate right now.

[igor67]

just need a hit here Rickie

[brwrsfan]

Come on Rickie, give us one last good memory of you....just a single will do.

 

Darn, Segura had that stolen easily but it was a strike. Rats.

[jjgott]

More frustrating to watch...Yuni or Rickie?