6/27/08 Brewers (McClung) at Twins (Blackburn): 7:10 PM CDT

[pebadger]

Holy cow! A single!

[Bruce Ciskie]

I like Weeks a lot, but man does he look lost at the plate a lot. And I'm still not convinced he could hit a fastball even if he knew it was coming.

 

He'll turn it around. Hopefully soon.

[crewcrazy]

Did Uecker just say "true dat" while talking to Jim? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Bruce Ciskie]

Yeah, about that "looks lost at the plate" thing. Yeah.

[LaprilOne]

1-0, it's over? You are sooooooooo positive.

Nononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononono

 

Sorry. I meant that I had conceded this game yesterday when discussing the series. I figured the Twins would win Friday, we'd win Sunday, and Saturday was a tossup that depended a lot on how the inconsistent Hernandez threw for Minnesota.

 

It's not like I sit down to watch and keep saying to myself "We're gonna lose". It's not like that.

 

But, yeah, I do think we'll fall tonight, especially if McClung continues to struggle throwing strikes.

 

Branyan is the only lefty to homer against Blackburn this year.

 

OK, yes, tough match up. Let's hope Seth channels Cy Young and we win 2-1!

[pebadger]

Rickie looked good in Atlanta, but looks like he's jumping at pitches again tonight. Showed a good eye in the middle of that AB, but his swings in both ABs have not looked good.

[Bruce Ciskie]

Rickie looked good in Atlanta, but looks like he's jumping at pitches again tonight. Showed a good eye in the middle of that AB, but his swings in both ABs have not looked good.

 

This is what worries me. About the only thing he does well now is work the count, but he blows a lot of potential walks by swinging at terrible pitches.

 

And the fact that he looks like he's just closing his eyes and swinging (I know he isn't really doing that) doesn't help.

[crewcrazy]

Nice and easy 2nd inning for Big Red. Get some more runs and I'll relax a little. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Bruce Ciskie]

Nice and easy 2nd inning for Big Red. Get some more runs and I'll relax a little. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

From what I've seen of Blackburn this year, he appears to be a tad hittable tonight. Gotta take advantage of this before he dials in (assuming that happens).

[trwi7]

Thanks for the insight Bill. When the Brewers hit homeruns, they're going to score a lot of runs.

[Bruce Ciskie]

Thanks for the insight Bill. When the Brewers hit homeruns, they're going to score a lot of runs.

 

Sadly, it's not even true. They've hit two home runs tonight, and they only have two runs. That's not a lot.

[trwi7]

Dillon you idiot! Weeks was there covering, throw to him.

[Bruce Ciskie]

How could we be that unprepared for bunts from two guys who do it all the time?

[thunderbat30]

Fielder is not a great defender at all but it appears Dillion is worse or at the minimum looks very shaky at 1B.

[pebadger]

Looking for my blood pressure medication. At this point will be happy to get out of this inning tied.

[LaprilOne]

dp

coming up

[Bruce Ciskie]

We'll be lucky to get out of it with just the one run.

 

Also lucky Kendall didn't get impaled by that bat.

[LaprilOne]

o heck

[Brewcrewin07]

I'm sorry but starting an inning with back to back base hits is being a wussy. Bunting for a base hit is something you did in Little League if you couldn't hit the opposing pitcher. One guy doing it, ok. Guys doing it back to back.....lame.

[sheethead]

Back to back bunt hits?!?! That makes me really HATE the Twins. Totally lame!

[LaprilOne]

Only one, we were not lucky, we were good!

[pebadger]

That kind of lame baseball has won the Twins multiple Worlds Series and even more division titles in the time it has taken the Brewers to put up 2 winning seasons.

[trwi7]

Back to back bunt hits?!?! That makes me really HATE the Twins. Totally lame!

 

Even more pathetic is this is the second time Gomez and Casilla have done it to us. You think we would be aware of it after the first time.

[Gobias Industries]

And I'm still not convinced he could hit a fastball even if he knew it was coming.

This is true.

 

He's somehow turned into a horrible fastball hitter, which is amazing considering how awesome he was at killing them when he first came up.

[crewcrazy]

Back to back bunt hits?!?! That makes me really HATE the Twins. Totally lame!

You'd have to admit that it'd be really cool if the Brewers had a couple guys who could do that consistently ahead of Braun and Fielder, though.