2018-04-09: Brewers (Chacín) at Cardinals (Mikolas) 6:05 PM CDT [Brewers win, 5-4, 10 innings]

[TJseven7]

Sliders a beast tonight... dont pull him.

[wildcat83]

Orlando Arcia...wow is he a total turd at the plate.

 

Didn't he take that stupid leg swing away in the second half last year when he hit well? I remember a big deal about getting his front foot down early. Now it's back and he looks like a blind right handed Ichiro.

[MoreTrife]

So will Albers close if we're lucky enough to get there?

[TJseven7]

Hader vs. Carpenter, then Barnes, then Albers in the 9th.

 

Unless Arcia walks here or otherwise reaches without scoring the run.

 

Nailed it and i hope its not too cute.

[TJseven7]

Orlando Arcia...wow is he a total turd at the plate.

 

Didn't he take that stupid leg swing away in the second half last year when he hit well? I remember a big deal about getting his front foot down early. Now it's back and he looks like a blind right handed Ichiro.

 

Yeah he went more contact minded with 2 strikes and went on a 2 strike hit tear.

[Jeff-B]

Watching on the ESPN broadcast instead of the Fox Sports and Edwardo Perez was pretty hard on Arica and him not getting his foot down in time.

How can the Brewers not make this adjustment with him?

[Greenleaf1]

Starting to think Hader's a serious contender for the rotation sometime yet this year. He's been throwing that slider a lot more and a lot better which is only making his fastball scarier, and if he has a change up as a legit 3rd pitch to go against righties? How long did they keep Sale in the bullpen before they realized what they had?

[wildcat83]

Watching on the ESPN broadcast instead of the Fox Sports and Edwardo Perez was pretty hard on Arica and him not getting his foot down in time.

How can the Brewers not make this adjustment with him?

 

Yea, he looks like he's a third of the way through his swing before his front foot comes down.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Other than over the weekend when the defense did him no favors, Barnes has been a stud. Gotta like that!

[tmwiese55]

If I remember Hader through some change ups on Friday, or at least one. It was days ago so I don't remember for sure

[wildcat83]

Very nice inning by Barnes

[MrTPlush]

I don't know how the Brewers allow such a garbage approach and swing out of Arcia. He is just so bad at everything with the bat it is frustrating. How? Just how...

 

It isn't even consistent. He keeps wanting to go back to the horrid leg kick stuff.

[TJseven7]

Other than over the weekend when the defense did him no favors, Barnes has been a stud. Gotta like that!

 

Had a great string last year... consistency over the season will be big.

[Greenleaf1]

And add Barnes to the list of guys who look impressive in this bullpen.

 

Can't believe how good the bullpen has looked so far this year.

 

Even if Hader moves to the rotation, we've still got Knebel/Albers/Barnes/Jeffress/Williams for multiple years. Even Drake is looking solid now that he can be the the last guy out there instead of pitching in extra innings games. Jennings has looked solid too.

 

Bullpen should keep us in the hunt until we can get some reinforcements to the rotation in June/July.

[mtrebs]

Hopefully Cain isn’t injured now...

[MoreTrife]

Well thank god for OF depth......Cain looks hurt

[Eye Black]

Looks like Cain is getting pulled here. So much for our surplus of outfielders.

[pacopete4]

Uh oh... Good thing we have outfield depth.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Cain hit that bag pretty hard. On a cold night, that can hurt. Hopefully he'll be fine.

[mtrebs]

Now we’ll have to put a pitcher in for a pinch runner. I’m sure he’ll get injured on the basebaths now.

[stoutdude04]

Hurt because Martinez can't play first base.

[pacopete4]

Suter our there explaining the injury. Harvard nerd!

[badger3034]

Why did he pinch run?

[stoutdude04]

Why did he pinch run?

 

Cain got hurt cuz Martinez doesn't know how to stretch at first.

[MrTPlush]

Simply precautionary. He didn’t even go to the clubhouse.