2014-07-28 Brewers (Lohse) at Rays (Odorizzi), 6:10 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 2-1]

[topper09er]

horrible call there

[stoutdude04]

He did just strike out Longoria...errr wait.

[adamb100]

Doh!

[yfinn6]

Thanks Bob Davidson - continues to be one of the worst umps in MLB.

[lcbj68c]

When you only throw 1 borderline strike in a sequence of 7 pitches, it's tough to get a call.

[coolcool]

What an absolute joke of a call.

[dlk9s]

When you only throw 1 borderline strike in a sequence of 7 pitches, it's tough to get a call.

Whatever, man. He walked a guy, gave up a nubber off the end of the bat that beat the shift, struckout walked Longoria on what looked like an obvious home team/star player call, and then gave up a bloop single.

 

And why would/should it be tough to get a call because of a series of just seven pitches? That makes no sense.

[BallFour]

A Major League Umpire shouldn't flinch like that, any other Rays batter that is strike 3. Coming from an umpire that has had his fair share of flinches.

[DuWayne Steurer]

Now that we're down by a run, everyone is going to try to hit a 12 run homer.

[coolcool]

Now that we're down by a run, everyone is going to try to hit a 12 run homer.

 

Yeah dude, they should roll over and ground out on fastballs instead.

[yfinn6]

Now that we're down by a run, everyone is going to try to hit a 12 run homer.

 

I'm pretty sure that's what they've been trying to do in every situation.

[folly412]

They might want to put a second right fielder out there as insurance, since that's obviously where we'll try to launch it.

[AZBrewCrew]

Wow. Molina is Johnny Estrada slow.

[brewmann04]

what has happened to the O

[lcbj68c]

Meat for sale at the front door...nobody home

[folly412]

Odoreater, Boxcutter. Guess we're smelly boxes tonight.

[Bombers]

Odorizzi reminded Brewers fans the flip side to trading a top arm (like we would be in Nelson) for a 1.5 year rental in Greinke (like if we traded for Price)

 

Now I know we went to the NLCS and flipped Greinke for a nice haul but that isn't always the case

[adambr2]

Are we really blaming the ball 4 call?

 

It was a 50/50 call that we didn't get. Extremely close to the corner but not an obvious strike. Definitely could go either way. Can't expect to get every one of those. We didn't. Buckle down and get the out. We didn't.

 

If you're looking to assign blame for tonight, I'd look no further than an offense that has combined for 1 run in the last 2 games.

[yfinn6]

Was Gomez walking back to the Ray's dugout? I thought they were in the 1st base side?

[adambr2]

Offensively, the 8th and 9th inning tonight for us have been as embarrassing of a sequence as I have seen from this team all year.

[bm1090]

Pitching didn't deserve to lose this one. Should have been 1-0. Damn.

[brewmann04]

so again the pitches did their job while the offense takes another day off . Disgusting

[adambr2]

Big boys really letting us down. Gomez, Lucroy, Braun and A-Ram are 1 for 28 in the last 2. That won't win you games.

[folly412]

Are we really blaming the ball 4 call?

 

It was a 50/50 call that we didn't get. Extremely close to the corner but not an obvious strike. Definitely could go either way. Can't expect to get every one of those. We didn't. Buckle down and get the out. We didn't.

 

If you're looking to assign blame for tonight, I'd look no further than an offense that has combined for 1 run in the last 2 games.

 

Agree. How many of those borderline calls do we get that go unmentioned? I'll fault Johnny and his nine hitters for terrible approaches all night over one borderline call going the wrong way.

[TooLiveBrew]

I got excited for a second after Braun put the ball in play in the 9th. He juuussst missed it.