2009-09-03 Brewers (Parra) at St. Louis (Smoltz) : 1:15 PM CT [Brewers win, 4-3]

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[BrewCrewForever]

Pujols's "bat flip" on a walk is very disrespectful to the game.

[pretendastronaut]

Late start today due to a meeting running long, so no time for pics. Here's the lineup;

 

2B Craig Counsell

RF Frank Catalanotto

LF Ryan Braun

1B Prince Fielder

3B Casey McGehee

CF Mike Cameron

C Mike Rivera

SS Alcides Escobar

LHP Manny Parra

[BrewCrewForever]

Parra off to a promising start.

[Eddiehitsthefoulpole]

Is Lopez hurting? With Smoltz's lefty-righty splits you would think that we would have both him and Counsell in the line-up today.

[hawing]

This feels like one of those days where a two-run deficit might as well be 20. But I'll try to hope for better...in between a zillion tasks at work.

[hawing]

Albert made an out? Is that legal? How unclassy of the Brewers.

[pete]

Pujols disrespectful? How about not running out grounders or pop-ups? How about routinely admiring HRs or fly outs for that matter? I can only imagine how much time he spends in front of a mirror admiring his greatness.

 

Ryan's clown costume is a mystery as well.

[Eddiehitsthefoulpole]

Manny has a curveball today. IMO that is the difference between good Manny and bad Manny. It seems that too often he throws nothing but fastballs early in the count in order to set up the splitter. Then when the hitters start sitting on the fastball he tries to nibble. We know how that goes. Today he has had the Cardinal hitters off balance. Speaking of Albert, he hit a walk-off about a week ago and crossed home plate about 3 days later. It is a good thing he respects the game.

[stalton]

Way to Go McGehee, and catch on fire right when I sit you in Fantasy Baseball. Seriously though its good to see a lead in the 5th inning in an afternoon game.

[sdcheezhd]

4 ABs this series with a go-ahead RBI for McGehee.

[hawing]

Ooh, ooh, a lead! I'll step out again so as not to jinx them further.

[pitchleague]

hmm, Vargas against Pujols? Can this possibly end well?

 

Hope so . . .

[olliegjw]

Vargas vs Pujols with the bases loaded.....this should end well.

[pete]

Vargas versus His Royal Highness, the Most High Lord Pujols with the bases clogged. A real deja vu feel to this one.

 

His Majesty getting the special strike zone of course.

 

And Claudio wins.

[stalton]

Went to a long chess match and a 7th inning broke out......

 

I'm glad I can breathe again

[crewcrazy]

Huge spot to get out of right there. Hopefully they can tack on a couple more runs to avoid any repeats of that nervous inning.

[hawing]

Oh, good lord, Vargas got out of that? I guess we did call him Houdini his first go-round here.

[sheethead]

Pujols disrespectful? How about not running out grounders or pop-ups? How about routinely admiring HRs or fly outs for that matter? I can only imagine how much time he spends in front of a mirror admiring his greatness.

I'm sure more than I saw his royal Pujol admire his pop-fly ground rule double down the line yesterday. He looked like he sat in the box for a good 3 seconds before deciding what to do.

[ilovebeer]

yes picked off nice job Vargas

[ilovebeer]

nice job Vargas giving up no more runs. 3 outs to a win

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

Rasmus must have fallen asleep over at first during the human rain delay between pitches. Very sneaky Claudio!!!

[hawing]

Ohhhh, finish them, Trevor! If it comes down to DeRosa facing you, it'll be like my maddening dream from the other night come true.

 

Edit: I guess it won't probably be DeRosa, will it?

Another edit: Hah! Siddown, Albert!

[ilovebeer]

brewers win

[SeriesFinale]

I know it was meaningless, but that was a really nice comeback win, especially striking out Pujols as the walkoff winning run.

 

Avoided the sweep at the least.

 

(And at the top of the game, out of anger in the 1st I demanded Davey Nelson tell me why on Earth I should follow this team the rest of the way!)