7/21/2004: Brewers (Santos) @ Cardinals (Williams)

[7rebmun]

Someone has got to get this bandwagon rolling again, so I took it upon myself. You people can't actually be working at work today, can you?

 

Victor Santos (9-3, 3.80) squares off against Woody Williams (6-6, 4.2http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/glasses.gif at Busch Stadium tonight. Santos looks to go 8-0 on the road this year, and bring the Crew back to 3 games above .500

 

"Victor-y goes against Williams tonight, and tries to continue his brilliance on the road (7-0, 2.84) and at night (7-1, 2.47). Williams has handled the Crew in the past (9-5, 3.31), but in two appearances this season has been hit fairly hard, and beaten in one while picking up a ND in the other, which was a 9-4 Cardinal win thanks to the brilliant pitching of one Adrian Hernandez."

 

~ brettac1

 

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[rluzinski]

Board has been suspiciously quiet since the lost yesterday afternoon. Perhaps we are collectively hungover from the angst that game filled us with?

 

I'm thinking a win is IN ORDER FOR TONIGHT!

[RyDogg66]

I for one feel good about this series, and tonights game in particular. I think we can get to Williams and force STL to put up 6-7 runs to win, which most nights is no problem for them but I think Vic can throw a beauty tonight and get us back on the winning track. We have 5 more games on this road trip and I see us going 3-2 to get back to 3 games over .500 heading into the next homestand.

[brettac1]

Guess I took a tad too long to get the other one going, we must've started about the same time. Oh, well.

[7rebmun]

brettac1 - I took the liberty of posting your commentary and links in the thread as well. Didn't want to lose your good work.

 

Jenks aparently owns Williams http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[brettac1]

Thanks, don't know how to delete my other game thread, guess wel'l just bury it or something. Great minds apparently think alike at exactly the same time.http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/happy.gif

[7rebmun]

Evidently, the Brewers season is over. 2-4 over a 6 game stretch and no one is excited anymore?

 

Well I'm guessing they are going to take it to the Cards tonight. Jenkins and Overbay have been hitting well, and I'm sure since Cousell is batting .115 against Williams we'll see Bill E Hall in there tonight. Or at least I hope. It would be nice to see a big first inning and let Victor take over from there. So that's what I'm predicting. 7-3, on the strength of a 5 run first inning! GO CREW!

[DuWayne Steurer]

For some reason, I'm thinking this is prime time for the Crew to break out of the offensive doldrums. 7-3 sounds good.

[whizkid]

Whoever is capable of doing so should change the subject of the thread.

[brettac1]

I already did, I just changed it to be about David Wright, since I was going to start another thread about him anyways.

[whizkid]

This thread still says Reds.

[7rebmun]

A schooner is a sailboat . . . . Cardinals are red, stupid-head http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[ja002h]

As a bonus pick me up for your game thread, here is the Cubs sched through Aug.

 

CIN,PHI,MIL,PHI,COL,SF,SD,LA,MIL,HOU,MIL,HOU,MON.

 

They're toast.

[DHonks]

gotta say I like our chances here. We seem to be holding our own with the Cards. We all feel comfortable playing the Reds. But our multi-year slumps vs the Pirates and Reds really hurts. We need to have a good 5 games here vs the Cards and Astros

[brettac1]

What are the match-ups in Houston? I believe its Clemens, Redding, and Munro - which hopefully means at least two out of three for the Crew.

 

By my calculations here's the match-ups:

Santos v. Williams: Even

Sheets v. Marquis: Ad. Brewers

Capuano v. Clemens: Ad. Astros

Hendrickson v. Redding: Even, due to Redding's history v. the Crew

Davis v. Munro: Ad. Brewers

 

I think they should go no less than 3-2 in these five games, and would hope for 4-1 - IF they can score some f'n runs!

[JohnBriggs12]

"2-4 over the last 6 games and no one is excited anymore"

 

Well, they are actually 2-5 in the last 7, 3-7 in the last 10 and 6-11 in the last 17.

 

Against the Bucs and Reds they are 1-9 since July 2nd.

 

No matter how you slice it, those are not encouraging numbers.

[kdeval31]

http://www.deboekenplank.nl/naslag/antho/scan/vampier2_1972.jpg

 

I feel very confident when The Vampier takes the mound.

[7rebmun]

What if I slice it like this . . .

 

The Brewers are 47-45 in their last 92 and 4.5 back of the Wild Card with 70 games to play.

[ja002h]

7rebmun, your sample size is clearly too large http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[ja002h]

More on scheduling: The Reds schedule thru Aug. is virtually identical, except swap STL for MIL. So they have it tough too. The question, is who will be better over the next month - the NL East or the West? Because we play the East almost exclusively in August...

[ja002h]

Today's lineups are bought to you by Ben "I'm glad to be back, but shouldn't I be in the 2-hole?" Grieve.

 MILWAUKEE ST LOUIS AVG HR RBI AVG HR RBI Scott Podsednik CF .251 9 27 Tony Womack 2B .304 4 25 Craig Counsell SS .249 2 14 Edgar Renteria SS .290 8 42 Geoff Jenkins LF .251 14 52 Albert Pujols 1B .322 27 70 Lyle Overbay 1B .344 10 62 Scott Rolen 3B .335 20 86 Ben Grieve RF .271 4 21 Jim Edmonds CF .286 22 62 Bill Hall 2B .254 6 33 Reggie Sanders RF .261 16 47 Wes Helms 3B .271 2 18 Mike Matheny C .262 2 30 Gary Bennett C .203 1 10 So Taguchi LF .267 2 14 Victor Santos RHP .050 0 0 Woody Williams RHP .182 0 1 (9-3, 3.80) (6-6, 4.28) 

[Jaylyn]

After watching the Cards-Cubs game yesterday, I came away being totally impressed with the Cards offense, an awesome lineup. The pitching is the weakpoint, in order to win, the Brewers better put up some big numbers. Too bad our offense is not as powerful as the Cards, I'll take a split and be very happy with that!

[pitchleague]

The Brewers should be able to garner a split this series, especially with Sheets going tomorrow. And Santos, who knows, maybe he'll keep up his masterful road/night performance.

 

Score some runs and I think a sweep could be in order.

[pitchleague]

Maybe a way to get the Brewers to pull together and start smokin' the ball would be to pull out a card board cutout of Wendy and have Yost tell his club, "Every time we win, we peel a section!"

 

 

Wait a minute, EEEEW! Maybe he'd need to say, "every time we lose, we peel a section". That'd REALLY get the Crew to start smokin' the ball!

 

(sorry, long day of work as we just started school today--yes I'm a teacher, and not a student! )

[RoseBowlMtg]

Let's get some runs!