5/8/07 Nationals (Simontacchi) @ Brewers (Bush): 7:05 PM CDT

[tommyboy42609]

i dont get why people are against bush either, im more confident when he's on the mound then when vargas is.

[patrickgpe]

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will be drinking Bush beer tonight in Bushs honer

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now thats taking one for the team http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[BrewCrewForever]

E Young 2B

S Podsednik CF

R Sexson 1B

G Jenkins LF

J Vander Wal RF

W Helms 3B

E Perez C

R Clayton SS

G Rusch P

 

That is sad.

Weeks>Young

Hall>Podsednik

Fielder>Sexson

Jenkins=Jenkins

Mench/Hart/Gross>Vander Wal

Helms=Graffy/Counsell

Estrada>Perez

Hardy>Clayton

Bush>Rusch

 

Wow we are way better now. And its awesome.

[ttsather]

Nothing to do before the game?

 

deadspin.com/sports/good-...258574.php

 

Good ol' Deadspin . . .

[rluzinski]

Gross or Gwynn works for me. Both have been swinging hot bats

 

Prior to Gwynn's nice game on Sunday, he had only 1 hit in his previous 10 AB. It only takes a 2 hit game to label a batter "hot" and justify putting him in the lineup?

 

I think Ned should focus more on maximizing the ABs of the guys who are going to be the better player day in and day out than trying to chase the mostly mythical "hot-hand".

[SlideBernieSlide]

Havent seen the Brewers' yet, but Washington Post has the Nats line-up for tonight posted.

 

blog.washingtonpost.com/nationalsjournal/

 

Tonight's lineup:

# = corresponding field position

 

Lopez -- 4

Guzman -- 6

Zimmerman -- 5

Church -- 7

Kearns -- 9

Schneider -- 2

Fick -- 3

Logan -- 8

Simontacchi -- 1

[Oldcity]

Bush is finally going to finish off a good start tonight. Man, the Nationals are bad.

[bjkrautk]

didn't Simontacchi play for Italy in the World Baseball Cup? Or was that the Olympics I'm thinking of?

 

I was thinking it too, so I had to look it up.

Simontacci was a member of Team Italy in the 2000 Olympics.

[endaround]

I predict that if the Brewers played the Nationals for 162 games it would be awfully boring.

[crewcrazy]

I'd be fine with a boring game...I have about 12 papers due in the next week and a half. The last thing I need to be doing is following a game pitch by pitch. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Giraldo8]

Gross in right and Counsell at 3rd. Rest is as usual

[DannyKmilw]

Per JSOnline:

 

Nats

 

F. Lopez, 2B

C. Guzman, SS

R. Zimmerman, 3B

R. Church, LF

A. Kearns, RF

B. Schneider, C

R. Fick, 1B

N. Logan, CF

J. Simontacchi, P

 

Crew

 

R. Weeks, 2B

J. Hardy, SS

P. Fielder, 1B

B. Hall, CF

J. Estrada, C

G. Jenkins, LF

G. Gross, RF

C. Counsell, 3B

D. Bush, P

[razzzorsharp]

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Prior to Gwynn's nice game on Sunday, he had only 1 hit in his previous 10 AB. It only takes a 2 hit game to label a batter "hot" and justify putting him in the lineup?

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That's a pretty small sample to be quoting him as not "hot". Why don't we up the sample size to his last twenty at-bats previously, to which he his hitting .350 (7/20). Then again you just can't discount a good game because it proves your point so lets add in the last game as well so then he is at 9/23 which is .391.

 

Just playing devil's advecate here, as I do actually dislike Gwynn greatly.

[BrewCrewForever]

Glad to see Gross get the start in RF tonight.

[soup can for prez]

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Bold prediction: Brewers lose 4-1 and JJ's hit streak ends.

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way to be optomistic

[endaround]

How sad is it that the Nationals were "celebrating" the return of Guzman and Logan?

[littledoc83]

During the pregame "Keys to the Game" the second one was...

 

"Don't allow runs by the Bushel"

[patrickgpe]

not off to a good start for bush

[hurricanecrush]

Game over.

[Oldcity]

Hah. First batter.

[soup can for prez]

Bad start

[DannoMac21]

Please bring up Yovani soon.

[sheetswannabe]

Please bring up Yovani soon.

 

1 darn run and people already say this.

[DannyKmilw]

Curveball hanging and fastball up and missing the spots early...

[BucketheadBrigader]

1 darn run and people already say this.

 

Actually, it's several sub-par outings in a row that are causing people to say this. This isn't a good start. He got out of it with only a run allowed, but he didn't appear to be at all sharp by that inning's work.