2009-04-09 Brewers (Parra) at Giants (Cain): 6:05 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 7-1]

[trwi7]

Awful patience from the Brewers. 17 pitches in two innings for Cain.

[yfinn6]

Craig Coshun going for the reverse mullet look? Looks like his bangs have gotten curly. Prince has warning track power!

[trwi7]

Hart took three pitches in a row. That has to be a record for him.

[yfinn6]

Cripes. Corey Hart leads off with a double, and Jason Kendall grounds out to SS on the first pitch.

 

Looks like Cain has hung a few of his offspeed pitches. The change to Prince was up, that curveball to Corey hung a little bit.

[trwi7]

And of course, after Hart doubles Kendall swings at the first pitch grounding out to SS. At least try to hit it to the right side Mr. Small Ball.

[trwi7]

Weeks has smoked the ball twice and has no hits.

[yfinn6]

Randy Wynn might be a real good OFer, but I've seen him make some straight up ugly catches in RF. A lot of those basket type catches where you're really not sure if he's going to make the catch or not. Could be a touch wind at that park, or a tough place to see, or whatever. Just my opinion.

[Vgmastr]

What a terrible AB by Kendall. If he does his job and moves Hart to third we have a run on Parra's groundout.

[GormanHarvey]

Love the approach by Rickie. It will all even out so he is do a couple hits

[Gobias Industries]

If Svuem has somehow got Weeks to go the other way on a consistent basis he's gonna be a monster offensively.

[trwi7]

Could be a touch wind at that park, or a tough place to see, or whatever. Just my opinion.

According to gameday the wind is blowing out to right field at 13 mph. So it's probably part wind and I'm also guessing it's partly due to the dimensions. That's an odd right field.

[trwi7]

Starting to rain.

[trwi7]

According to gameday, there's been a few pitches out of the strike zone that have been strikes for Cain and a few pitches in the strike zone for Parra that have been called balls.

[crewcrazy]

Good old-fashioned pitching duel so far. So many close calls early, but at least Manny's looking good tonight. I wasn't able to watch any spring games, so it's going to take me awhile to seeing him wear #26.

[trwi7]

"Kendall hits that one well to left."

 

Ball is caught about 175 feet from home plate.

 

Good call Brian.

[nate82]

Hardy and Hart look lost at the plate. J.J. more so than Corey.

[trwi7]

Ugh, Parra walks Cain on four straight.

[crewcrazy]

Looks like Manny's still having trouble working very deep into games. It's looking like the Giants are starting to make more solid contact in every AB, and that leadoff walk to Cain is pretty bad.

 

Edit: Costly error by Counsell letting the run score, but it's hard to fault anyone...looks like he slipped as he was throwing across the diamond, and that caused the ball to sail on him a bit. How about a nice DP to end this inning?

[PeaveyFury]

Wow, way to almost make an effort to go after that ball, Prince. Gugh.

[trwi7]

Wow, way to almost make an effort to go after that ball, Prince. Gugh.

Yeah, that was disgusting. No way Winn should score from first on that.

[crewcrazy]

King of a rough outing for Manny...doesn't even get through the 5th. Hopefully DiFelice can get out of this quickly.

[yfinn6]

Doh! 0-2, and another double by Molina. Is this series over yet? Molina is destroying Brewer pitching.

[Oldcity]

Good to see Parra is just as frustrating in 2009 as 2008.

[Schlitz001]

DiFelice could not have made a worse pitch to molina there. Right in the heart of the zone. I worry about our bullpen.

[Oldcity]

Another "Rickie Weeks" day for Weeks. More crappy luck.