04/16/2006 Brewers (Sheets) @ Mets (Bannister) 12:10 PM, CST

[Team Canada]

Bannister's gone after 4. We'll get to face some long relief joker. Then things'll change. Yeah, that's the ticket.

 

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[Bikeage77]

8 guys stranded in 3 innings, awful. It's no wonder that our pitchers can be lights out and not get wins.

[Team Canada]

Both bases loaded had 0 outs.

 

Nope, this inning was 1 out.

[sheetswannabe]

Sheets has his 1st K. Now maybe he will be more relaxed.

[JoeH33]

Well Sheets is pitching. We should come to expect this type of offensive futility on days he toes the rubber.

[sheetswannabe]

Nope, this inning was 1 out.

Yeah you're right, im just mad, I forgot about Lee's popout. Either way we should be winning. The most interesting thing about this game is the way the ump calls strikes. He sounds weird.

[timeisnow34]

when the end of the season comes and we missed the playoffs, by lets say 7 or 8 games, you can point to games like this that we will end of losing.

 

Playoff teams dont have these things happen in back to back innings.

 

Teams that miss the playoffs do.

 

Sad, just sad. New year, same ole inconsistent Brewers offense.

 

I know its the players up there hitting, but can it be anything about Butch that causes these problems too? Its almost as if they are thinking TOO much up there instead of just relaxing and seeing the ball and hitting the ball. I think Butch puts TOO much emphasis on what to do with RISP. I dont know, frustrating to say the very least.

[Giraldo8]

C'mon Brewers, lets start another rally. 3rd times the charm.

[sheetswannabe]

That was the best K of the year for a Brewer pticher, well probally the funniest, Delgado thinks he walks, then 3-1 count, gets him looking, 3-2 goes to Fielder and he trys to keep it fair, then Sheets just K's him out.

[sheetswannabe]

Darn, that would have at least been a 3-bagger.

[jloos19]

Of course, now Gross gets a hit.

[sheetswannabe]

Runner on 3rd, 1 out. GET A RUN!

[sheetswannabe]

Thank you JJ, you should have had a single, but you got the RBI. 1-2

[Team Canada]

Hey, it's a run!

[JoeH33]

Omg......we scored a run.

[wisconsinfan47]

WHhhhhhhhhhhhew...Something...Thank you!

 

Still 2-1...Let's get it going!

[DHonks]

good to see a run in. Nice job JJ and Gabe.

 

I saw Bannister's last two starts on tv, and this is different. In the others, he threw strikes at a similar rate to Bush. Not this Ohka-like control

[Team Canada]

I think it's safe to say Geoff is seeing the ball much better now.

[jloos19]

Nice Geoff! Now we can just add to our total of LOB!

[sheetswannabe]

Nice double Jenks, Now Lee crank one outta here.

[jloos19]

Carlos hit that pretty well... they were playing him pretty deep.

[hawing]

Curse you, Xavier Nady.

[wisconsinfan47]

OK, one back

 

Let's keep Sheets pitch count low and hopefully Mr. Bannister will make some major mistakes before he gets pulled.

 

Come on Ben!

[sheetswannabe]

Yeah they did play him deep because it looks like Nady just ran sideways, Ugly catch. Good inning, I'll take 1 run an inning from here on out. Now is that Bannisters last inning? 96 pitches 53 for strikes. But only 4 innings.

[RightFieldCoder]

Whew, I can take off he rope from around my neck. Too bad JJ didn't get a hit there. The Jenks double would have tied the game.