2009-04-21 Brewers (Parra) at Phillies (Moyer): 6:05 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 11-4]

[moofnelson]

Apparently Bill Castro's pitching philosophy is: Don't throw strikes.

[tristarscoop]

I'm mad at Ryan Braun for lulling me into a false sense of hope about this game only to have Julio steal it away.

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

And Swindle joins the fun by walking him. Time to change the channel.

[razzzorsharp]

Hey Swindle: Welcome to the Brewers, where throwing

strikes is not mandatory nor is it generally expected.

[tristarscoop]

That curveball was gorgeous! Holy crap would I like to see more of that.

[moofnelson]

I wonder what the MLB record is for bases-loaded walks in a season. The Brewers must be getting close to it and it's still freakin' April.

[bucksbeat]

Oh my.

[crewcrazy]

This inning is just hilarious, aside from the fact that I'm so frustrated.

 

Get what you can tonight and go get them tomorrow, I guess. At least this isn't how they got eliminated from the NLDS.

[pebadger]

I was a better-played high school game before I got home to watch this half-inning. Maybe I can stop the bus and get them to play two.

[tristarscoop]

I'll remind you that Julio had two outs and the pitcher up with a 1-2 count and that was 5 runs ago.

[Marc Newfield of Dreams]

Between the incredible gravity curve, walks, wild pitch, and error its a freaking circus out there.

 

This team is killing good baseball.

[razzzorsharp]

Chaclk this up to another game that the pitchers could not locate. I would love to hear the reasoning behind it. Can a MLB pitcher just not throw strikes sometimes? That seems like a PGA player duffing a drive, which you don't see. I am at a loss.

[brewtank34]

I am so utterly disgusted! This game is straight up horrible. Julio needs to learn how to throw strikes. Swindle's in an unfortunate role of saving the game and chokes big time! I want to say so much more but I'm afraid of getting booted from this site...so I'll just stop by saying...Just Disgusting!

[bucksbeat]

Thankfully it's over until next inning.

 

I will say that curveball turns me on.

[razzzorsharp]

Marc Newfield of Dreams wrote:

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Between the incredible gravity curve, walks, wild pitch, and error its a freaking circus out there.

 

This team is killing good baseball.

[derflotr]

Well, this is embarrassing.

[trwi7]

If I wasn't laughing at how awful our pitching was, I'd be curled up in the fetal sucking on my thumb and crying.

[wibadgers23]

Call up Jeffress. But seriously, would he do any worse than 90% of our pitching staff?

[jeffy]

Maybe it'll end quick with some rain

[Invader3K]

Can we please do something about the pitching situation ASAP?

[pebadger]

I just looked this up:

 

Brewer runs scored: 49. Walks allowed: 56

[tristarscoop]

One of the things I do to entertain myself in these times is to imagine what the post-game Yostian presser would be like. Today's game is proving difficult as there are no obvious "he's a former MVP/All-Star" excuses for Julio and Swindle

[bucksbeat]

Have to remember to stand up Telly.

[T B0NE 10]

I'm really starting to question the hiring/promoting of Bill Castro to pitching coach.

[eanelson4]

I hope Macha loses sleep about taking Parra out after the 4th....