2014-08-03 Brewers (Garza) at Cardinals (Lackey), 1:15 PM CDT [Happy 31st birthday, Mark Reynolds!; Brewers lose, 3-2]

[igor67]

It would be a great time for some power from Hererra.

Not going to complain about a walk though

[Pugger]

Missed the game, what did RRR do?

 

May have pulled garza after one hit 70 pitches to pinch hit over bay with 2 outs and a guy on first in a 2-0 game.

 

If this was RR's thinking he's a goof. It doesn't make any sense AT ALL.

[BraunyBoy08]

Khris needs to take 2nd..

[SRB]

Ok, that's pretty stupid. But Duke has been one of the best RP in the NL this season, so I don't know if it's Shouse-v-Burrell level stupid, even though it appears to have blown up in his face.

[AZBrewCrew]

Just saw an interesting theory on Garza. Perhaps RRR pulled Gaza as a precaution since he was moved up in the rotation

[PeaveyFury]

No pinch runner for the guy with a bad leg at first?

[BraunyBoy08]

Just saw an interesting theory on Garza. Perhaps RRR pulled Gaza as a precaution since he was moved up in the rotation

 

Except he was on his normal rest period

[yfinn6]

Just saw an interesting theory on Garza. Perhaps RRR pulled Gaza as a precaution since he was moved up in the rotation

 

With the day off, I hardly think that's the case.

 

Nice at-bat, Herrera.

[sargennm]

I tell you what, Eli has grown a lot on me this series. How many other Brewers K on that 3-2 pitch?

[yfinn6]

No pinch runner for the guy with a bad leg at first?

 

Watch him bunt with Scooter..

[superfly]

Cmon Scooter!

[DuWayne Steurer]

Garza seems like a gamer (I could be wrong.....). Just seems like if something was wrong, it had to be something really wrong for him to say something vocal enough for them to take him out of the game.

 

All conjecture of course. Nobody knows what's going on.

 

Maybe it's a blister, maybe it's the mysterious 'pulled quad' that's bothering half the guys on the team. Maybe it's just that RRR is actually as much an idiot that we think him to be.

[BraunyBoy08]

I tell you what, Eli has grown a lot on me this series. How many other Brers K on that 3-2 pitch?

 

Honestly, all but Lucroy and maybe Aramis

[AZBrewCrew]

And Scooter is limping pretty bad now

[SRB]

Might as well just try to IBB Gomez, he's going to try and hit a HR on anything you throw at him and K anyways.

[yfinn6]

Garza seems like a gamer (I could be wrong.....). Just seems like if something was wrong, it had to be something really wrong for him to say something vocal enough for them to take him out of the game.

 

All conjecture of course. Nobody knows what's going on.

 

Maybe it's a blister, maybe it's the mysterious 'pulled quad' that's bothering half the guys on the team. Maybe it's just that RRR is actually as much an idiot that we think him to be.

 

The fact that Garza was ready to bat tells me that he wasn't really hurt or didn't want out of the game at all.

[DuWayne Steurer]

Swing really hard at everything..........

[sargennm]

If GoGo wants to be that elite player he thinks he is, this is his spot.

[sdcheezhd]

Duke hasn't been able to close out 2 straight games because he couldn't throw a strike in situations where a walk was worse than a home run. Here he goes 3-0 on Holliday and then grooves the 3-1 then grooves the 1st pitch to the next guy. He (RR) did the same thing before the break when he kept going to Smith who was in a bad patch (including the Phillies game where he pulled Garza who was throwing a shutout with 1 out left to get in the 8th so that Smith could give up 7 runs).

[AZBrewCrew]

Gomez ends the game spinning around like our old buddy Ned Yost

[adamb100]

Roenicke'd.

 

I can't wait for the press conference.

[Bombers]

When is the last time the cards blew a save to the brewers 2006?

[bucks2281]

Taking a break from this team for awhile. Thanks, Ron.

[SRB]

If GoGo wants to be that elite player he thinks he is, this is his spot.

 

Gomez is an elite player either way, but that's not the kind of situation he exceeds at. Saw a huge swinging K coming a mile away.

[sveumrules]

Garza seems like a gamer (I could be wrong.....). Just seems like if something was wrong, it had to be something really wrong for him to say something vocal enough for them to take him out of the game.

 

All conjecture of course. Nobody knows what's going on.

 

Maybe it's a blister, maybe it's the mysterious 'pulled quad' that's bothering half the guys on the team. Maybe it's just that RRR is actually as much an idiot that we think him to be.

 

The fact that Garza was ready to bat tells me that he wasn't really hurt or didn't want out of the game at all.

 

A player will never ask out of a game, they play hurt all the time as a point of pride. Of course he didn't want or ask to be taken out. It's the manager and coaching staff's job to protect them from further/more severe injury in certain instances.