2009-08-16 Astros (Oswalt) at Brewers (Looper) : 1:05 PM CT [Brewers lose, 8-5]

[hawing]

The infusion-of-youngsters boost meets the Sunday Plus package curse. Which superstition will win out? Tune in to see.

 

(Also, how much rain will fall on the hawing party on the drive to Milwaukee and back? I'll have to estimate that later.)

 

It's too early for lineups, so I trust one of you will add them once they're available. Go Brewers.

[hawing]

http://www.westland.net/coneyisland/articles/images/con-loop.jpg

Loop.

 

 

 

[RightFieldCoder]

Per Witrado JSOnline:

 

BREWERS

2B Felipe Lopez

3B Craig Counsell

LF Ryan Braun

1B Prince Fielder

CF Mike Cameron

RF Frank Catalanotto

C Jason Kendall

P Braden Looper

SS Alcides Escobar

[Oldcity]

Wouldn't have minded seeing Gerut in center today for Cameron. I'd like to see Gerut get more time, and Oswalt seems like a good pitcher to give Cameron a day off against.

[ilovebeer]

i wonder what oswalt we will see todqy?

[Schlitz001]

Versus Oswalt......

 

Jason Kendall - 44 AB, .438/.455/.892 OPS

Prince Fielder - 31 AB, .156/.161/.318 OPS

 

Hopefully we get the Oswalt that gave up 6 ER in 5 IP to the Marlins his last time out.

[stalton]

I didn't realize Lopez had a 12 game hitting streak and Braun is really mashing the ball well this series. Lets keep it up!!

[Yeti73]

BLUMNIT!!!! That guy owns us.

[brewdude15]

Well, that figures....Blum, a Brewer killer, hits a 3-run HR off Looper, who's practically the Santa Claus of giving up HR's.

 

Time to break out the bats again...had to figure 2 runs wasn't gonna be enough.

[jeffy]

These guys seem to miss more calls since replay was implemented. How does the umpire not see that the ball stayed in front of the foul pole there.

[derflotr]

Looper giving up a HR? No way! Nice straight fastball on 2-1 there. Time to get the bats going again.

[brewmann04]

Looper a loser he gives up way to many Home Runs Hopefully Bush will take his spot in the rotation

[stalton]

Prince just gave Looper a nod and told him "Don't worry, I've got your back"

[liveforoctober]

Looper a loser he gives up way to many Home Runs Hopefully Bush will take his spot in the rotation

This is wrong in so many ways...

 

Looper is 10-6. Yes he has gotten awesome run support, but there could be a good argument made that Looper has saved our rotation this year. Where would we be had we not signed him? McClung/Villa/Chase Wright as our #5? We'd be 6 games under even right now...

[davemakovec]

Funny, I was tracking this on Gameday, then Looper hit Lee, and I had to take my dog outside. Seeing who was next, I figured, "Well, here comes a 3-run HR from Blum." I get back, and sure enough, it was.

 

Hopefully the offense can continue to overcome the Geoff Blum onslaught and get Looper a (not so) well-deserved W.

[liveforoctober]

Oh.. and it is pretty apparent to me that as long as Prince and Braun are batting 3-4 in our lineup we are a .500 team... regardless of how bad our pitching staff is (see: 2009). Prince needs a long term deal. Period.

[liveforoctober]

ahh.... the beauty of speed.

[logan82]

FOr those who have watched Escobar play a lot, does he pound alot of balls into the ground? I haven't been watching the games very closely the last few days, but the only ball I saw him hit hard was a flyout to left field.

[Schmidlap]

FOr those who have watched Escobar play a lot, does he pound alot of balls into the ground? I haven't been watching the games very closely the last few days, but the only ball I saw him hit hard was a flyout to left field.

He had three hard hit balls yesterday....Two singles and a line drive right at Pence.

[wibadgers23]

I think that was actually the first time Escobar has grounded out. The rest have been line-outs or fly-outs.

[owbc]

Escobar should have to do 20 pushups every time he hits a fly ball.

[Vgmastr]

Who picks out the text questions to feature on air? "If the ball hits the foul pole, is it a home run?" Really? I guarantee you 99% of the people watching already know the answer. Feature questions that will actually be interesting to baseball fans. For that matter, who sends in a question like that? Just Google it, for crying out loud.

[Yeti73]

That cannot be an actual question. They probably just ran out of questions.

[jeffy]

Prince needs a long term deal. Period.

What will that cost, maybe $20 million per year? I can't see the team being willing or able to devote 25% of the payroll to Fielder.

[logan82]

Escobar grounded out his first two at bats on Thursday and hit was a dribbler up the line which barely made it halfway before being picked up just before it stopped. Besides, I was asking people who watched him in the minors, not his tiny amount of at bats in the majors this year.