2009-04-12 Cubs (Dempster) at Brewers (Suppan): 7:05 PM CDT [Brewers Lose 8-5]

[bucksbeat]

Why does Soriano continue to see fastballs in his career? That's all he hits and people keep giving them to him.

[Gormans sideburns]

I'm pretty sure that 50-60% of us on this board could hit an 84mph fastball down the middle of the plate from Suppan.

But there's a lot of game left, so hopefully we can score 10 runs to keep us in the game.

[GormanHarvey]

Why does Soriano continue to see fastballs in his career? That's all he hits and people keep giving them to him.

It was a change up he hit out last night and I don't know if you can call any of Suppan's pitches a "fastball"

[GormanHarvey]

Good lord JJ. What is the hurry there? You had so much time to turn that DP on Bradley you could have rolled it to first

[UeckerAddict]

I think the Brewers are throwing Suppan past his "use by" date.

[RU Rah Rah]

When I'm President, I will sign into law a measure banning people in the stands from waving to the camera while talking on their cell phones. That really bugs me.

[GormanHarvey]

Obviously it stinks the way the game started, but it really did not surprise me one bit as we have seen what Soriano can do when he is hot. What bothers me is the fact that just about every pitch he made the rest of the inning was a quality pitch and thanks to JJ he had to throw about 15 extra pithes (just a guess, I didn't actually look up the number)

[GormanHarvey]

Nice piece of hitting Rickie. Way to get on top of that and muscle it out there! Good start...

[GormanHarvey]

Let's jump all over jazz hands here tonight and put a whoopin on the Scrubs! Still amazes me how often Counsell gets walked

[GormanHarvey]

Seeing that weak attempt by Lee coupled with that idiot cub fan falling on the field was hilarious! Braun does not look right

[thablingster]

That Cubs fan falling over the railing was pretty funny.

 

The Brewers are set up to get at least one here, lets hope they can capitalize.

[Gobias Industries]

Yeah, no kidding. I can't believe he had a .355 OBP last year.

[GormanHarvey]

The cubs are seriously trying to give us runs here. Lets take them!!

[adamb100]

Hart is a rally killer.

[Ennder]

I'm starting to really worry about Braun, he is just not hitting anything with authority since his injury.

[GormanHarvey]

Good swing by Corey there - I can't fault him at all. I thought maybe with the bat breaking like that it would die in front of Bradley but it really carried quite a bit. Just missed it. At least we got the run back and got the pitch count up. What was it btw?

[uwisfan]

that whiff on 2-1 at junk after a wild pitch was sad

[Tedaldtada]

Must say Rickie is looking pretty good on D so far this year.

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

Besides his botched throw on a potential DP yesterday that cost us the game. Otherwise, yeah.

[RU Rah Rah]

Why do teams throw Braun strikes? It makes no sense to me. He'll go lunging after that slider off the plate every single time.

[uwisfan]

Must say Rickie is looking pretty good on D so far this year.

It was only a weakly hit ground ball right to him, but I totally agree. He isn't thinking and rushing anything. He's just "fluid" and seems to know what he is doing in the field right now.

[GormanHarvey]

I honestly think Soup looks pretty good tonight. The first pitch was a mistake but he has recovered nicely.

 

Anyone else having problems with their HD picture tonight? When they go to the view from behind the mound the background is looking pretty grainy for me...

[GormanHarvey]

Besides his botched throw on a potential DP yesterday that cost us the game. Otherwise, yeah.

Prince dug that throw and it was an out that the ump missed. If you really want to point to that as costing us the game, you really have to look at the ump there. Not saying it was a good throw, but it happens and who is to say a throw would have gotten there any quicker? He was out and the inning should have been over

[Ennder]

Must say Rickie is looking pretty good on D so far this year.

He is 7th in UZR/150 at 2B so far this year. He was improved last year as well, especially in the first half. The question is just consistency, can he keep it up over a full season.

[RU Rah Rah]

Kendall is just brutal so far.