6/19/08 Non Brewers IGT

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

Not sure if anyone is out there...but Marmol just loaded the bases and hit a batter to bring the Rays within 1 at 3-2...still loaded and no one out!!! GO RAYS!!!

[datrain711]

Cubs up 3-1 in bottom of 7th but Marmol walks first 2 he faces then plunks Gabe Gross.

 

Go Rays

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

GRAND SLAM CRAWFORD!!! Rays up 6-3!!! I love Eyre you big meatballer!!!

[BradyCoo28]

Grand Slam! Wooooo! 6-3 Rays!

[datrain711]

grand slam Crawford!

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

Upton triple...pile it on!!! Still nobody out!!!

[NYChez]

Any bullpen that gives up 6 runs in an inning must suck! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Ennder]

This is the other side of Marmol that so many have been talking about. He doesn't throw strikes and once the league learns to sit on his pitches more that ERA is going up up up ala Turnbow (though Marmol is better than Turnbow don't get me wrong).

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

Any bullpen that gives up 6 runs in an inning must suck! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif

 

Hilarious!!!

 

Now 8-3 Rays!!!

 

We can only hope Zambrano's injury has the same cascading effect on their bullpen the Sheets injury had on ours. Nothing but tired arms.

[datrain711]

This is the other side of Marmol that so many have been talking about. He doesn't throw strikes and once the league learns to sit on his pitches more that ERA is going up up up ala Turnbow (though Marmol is better than Turnbow don't get me wrong).

 

Well this is probably a bit too extreme, however, I do hope that teams are going to start to figure him out. He can definitely be wild sometimes, but usually pulls it together before any real damage is done.

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

2 out of a wild card and 5.5 behind the Cubs...c'mon Brew Crew!!!

[ELCABALLO45]

HAHAHAHHAHA I just saw this!!!! Not the great Carlos Marmol!?!?!? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Glennron]

The Cubs haven't been swept this year? Wow. Plz no comeback by them tonight.

[sdcheezhd]

Looks like another W for the mighty Grant BallFour.

[ELCABALLO45]

Grant Ballfour.. .dealing...

[BrewCrewForever]

And Crawford is on my fantasy team. Thank you Carl!

 

2 back of the wild card, 5.5 of the division lead, Brewers have won 4 straight and I got my Huntsville hat in the mail today! Whoo hoo! What a great day.

[1Badgerfan]

Well if the Rays can avoid giving up 6 runs in an inning (although that seems to be the thing to do today), it will have been a heck of a 3 day swing for the Crew. Don't know that you can ask for much more than getting a sweep and having the two teams ahead of you get swept. I guess it could get even better if Zambrano is out for awhile.

[sdcheezhd]

Fun fact. Cubs are 2-4 at home against the Brewers this year and 27-4 at home against everybody else.

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

L

[ELCABALLO45]

RAYS WIN!

[ELCABALLO45]

Carlos Marmol: 0ip 0h 4r 4er 2bb 0k 0hr 2 hit batters

 

Is that Turnbow? or Rick Ankiel?

[datrain711]

I definitely love the momentum we have, but lets just hope we don't lay an egg this next series. To me we absolutely HAVE to have a good road trip next week. Hopefully we can hang tough with the Cubs and start chipping away at the lead.

[mls4]

We just gained 3 games on the whole NL Central.

Cubs? Check. Swept by Tampa.

Cards? Check. Swept by KC.

Astros? Check. Swept by Baltimore.

Reds? Check. Swept by LA.

Pirates? Yep, them too. Swept by the Sox.

[SeriesFinale]

Fantastic game; they said on the Rays broadcast that Crawford's Grand Slam was only the Rays' second swing of that inning...this after a run had already scored. That it came against Marmol, who was laughing before he came on, was even better.

 

I love me a Cubs meltdown and the sadness and anger and disappointment on the faces of snowbird and transient and traveling Cubs fans who thought they were gonna "take over" an opposing team's stadium for three games but got swept out of town instead. The Rays' TV people obviously relished it, too--some great shots of the remaining Cubs fans who had the guts to stick around for the end (few and far between) and a great rant from DeWayne Staats.

[MillerParkSouth]

living in Chicago, that game was ridiculously sweet. Marmol is filthy, but he does have a tendancy to put quite a few guys on when he's not feeling it. Usually it seems like he'll just strike the next 3 guys out and escape the jam. I was thrilled to see that that wasn't the case yesterday.