07/22/2004 - Brewers (Sheets) at Cardinals (Marquis)

[batman]

07/22/2004 - Brewers (Sheets) at Cardinals (Marquis)

 

Big Ben will need to play the familiar role of stopper today or the Brewers will fall back to .500. He's 9-6 with a 2.28 ERA while Jason Marquis is 9-4 with an ERA of 4.03. Game time is 7:10 PM CDT.

 

Here are the rest of the matchups in the NL Central, thanks to SlideBernieSlide:

 

- Cubs at Reds [Cory Lidle ( 6-7, 4.79 ) and Greg Maddux ( 8-7, 4.18 ) ]

- Astros at Diamondbacks [Roy Oswalt ( 8-8, 3.99 ) and Casey Fossum ( 2-8, 6.04 )]

- Pirates at Braves [Kip Wells ( 4-6, 4.61 ) and Russ Ortiz ( 11-6, 3.50 )]

 

Hopefully the offense can put together a few runs and cut down on the doomsaying for at least a few hours. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

 

~Bill

[7rebmun]

I predict a 1-0 win in 45 innings tonight. Sheets will go 33 1/3 scoreless innings. Podsednik will go 2x13, but be caught stealing both times he reaches base.

 

Solo homer by Gary Bennett, catching his 24th inning, to win it.

[brewcrewkid14]

This could be the biggest "Must win" ball game of the year.

 

-The Brewers are only 1 above .500

-They are falling behind in the WC race (5 games back)

-They are going to probably have the first losing month of the year. As of now they are 6-12.

 

Just a few important facts about tonight.

[brettac1]

Agreed, definitely the most important game of the season up to this date. Hopefully, we'll be able to say that about every game from here on out, though.

[DHonks]

I'm going to brand these 4 games the key 4. We can escape losing tonight if we can take 2 of 3 in Houston. No matter what, we need at the very least to take 2 of these 4 games.

[tyguy20204]

I know Lasorda has a great deal of respect for Sheets.

 

I expect Sheets to throw a good game tonight.

[brettac1]

They are going to lose touch with the Cubs and Reds here pretty soon if they don't start getting it done. Cubs are about to win again today, leading 12-2 in the 7th.

[tyguy20204]

Not to mention the NL West teams.

[ja002h]

On a happy note, out of all the games involving WC teams today, almost every one went our way.

[ja002h]

It's a little nonsensical to say they're going to lose touch with BOTH the Reds and Cubs when in fact they're playing each other. Really they're guaranteed to at worst keep pace with one of them.

 

Cubs meltdown update: Zambrano suspended for 5, Hawkins for 3.

[ja002h]

Tonight's lineups are brought to you by -- Holy change up Batman!! Helms 4? Overbay 5?? The only thing crazier would be to bat Grieve 3 and Jenks 7 tomorrow. Who knows, Nedley's getting creative in his old age...

 

 MILWAUKEE ST LOUIS AVG HR RBI AVG HR RBI Scott Podsednik CF .254 9 27 Marlon Anderson 2B .247 6 20 Brady Clark RF .264 4 23 Edgar Renteria SS .292 8 43 Geoff Jenkins LF .250 14 52 Albert Pujols 1B .320 27 70 Wes Helms 3B .271 2 18 Scott Rolen 3B .332 20 86 Lyle Overbay 1B .341 10 62 Jim Edmonds CF .284 22 62 Keith Ginter 2B .249 10 35 Roger Cedeno RF .286 2 7 Chad Moeller C .229 4 22 John Mabry LF .280 5 21 Craig Counsell SS .245 2 14 Yadier Molina C .270 0 4 Ben Sheets RHP .059 0 1 Jason Marquis RHP .282 0 5 (9-6, 2.28) (9-4, 4.03) 

[tyguy20204]

Can't worsen things, thats for sure.

 

Santos should have batted towards the top yesterday, as he was the only one with an extra base hit (I believe).

[pitchleague]

I like it. Helms maybe needs this to give him some confidence. Lyle needs this to get his head screwed on straight. Too bad Yost didn't bump Jenkins to 6th though.

[ja002h]

Wouldn't it be just like them to get a run in the first inning this game?

Not that I'd complain...

[JaNelson52]

Yeah...let's move our best hitter DOWN in the order...that will certainly make things all better.

 

Good grief.

[ja002h]

Nope, just stranding runners like always...

[Cyanogen5]

Why not Lyle 3rd and Jenkins 5th? Other than that I like it.

[ja002h]

That's what everyone else is saying...

[ja002h]

Darn it, there goes the no-no. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

 

And the shutout. Oof.

 

Double oof. 2-0, no outs.

[tomwopat]

well, there goes this game.

[JaNelson52]

I'll bet LaRussa had trouble holding back the giggles when he got the lineup card this evening.

 

Imagine him telling the St. Louis media: "Well, we only scored one run last night, so I decided to swap Pujols and Rolen's spots with Roger Cedeno and John Mabry. That sounded like a good way to get things going to me."

[JaNelson52]

...And the wheels have officially fallen off....

[Past Member]

I like that Ned is getting creative with the lineup. Hopefully something can jumpstart this offense. I'm not so sure about Overbay in the five slot, but we'll see. Benny's location tonight has been downright bad. You don't need to put the ball over the middle of the plate with an 0-2 count.

[ja002h]

Hallelujah! An out!

 

edit: there's K #1

[tomwopat]

pujols stole second... why haven't we beaned edmonds yet?