2010-04-20 Brewers (Bush) at Pirates (Morton), 6:05 CDT [Brewers win, 8-1]

[Invader3K]

Good win last night. Let's get another tonight and remind the Pirates that they're not supposed to be in second place above the Brew Crew.

[Ennder]

3 pitches "crushed" to the warning track and 4 walks is now a poor outing. Wow. For Doug Davis, 3 pitches crushed and 4 walks is a pretty decent inning.

Except in his last game Davis had I think 2 pitches crushed and he walked none, he just had a bunch of groundballs that went through holes for singles. I'm not sure Bush really pitched any better this game than Davis did in his last game. The results can just vary that much randomly.

[sheethead]

Except in his last game Davis had I think 2 pitches crushed and he walked none

 

I'm pretty sure he walked at least one on Sunday.

[RobDeer 45]

Was listening to the game on the radio so I didn't see it but I'm very happy with this start by Bush. Gave up some hard hit balls but battled to keep guys from scoring. It was not dominate but it was a good start.

 

Can't wait for today!

[Invader3K]

I'm not sure how anyone can complain about an in game 1.00 WHIP and 2.41 ERA from Dave Bush. It's not like he's supposed to be the staff ace, even though he is pitching like it right now.

[RobDeer 45]

I agree Invader. The way our pitching has been we should be dancing in the streets after this start!

[hawing]

I heard exactly one at-bat of this game on the radio last night (one of Dave Bush's when it was 6-0), despite being within radio range of Pittsburgh all evening. They must have put the Pirates on an alternate, low power station so the others could carry the Pens. In contrast, we had perfectly fine radio access to the Rockies-Nationals, Cubs-Mets, Rangers-Red Sox, and Phillies-Braves - so at least we had occasional score updates for the Brewers.

 

So, nice game; or at least, nicer end result than we've seen lately. I hope this means the Brewers have broken the "one slipped away loss, one beatdown, one scrapped out win" pattern of their last three series.

[rluzinski]

Who's complaining? Just an observation that Bush didn't seem to be pitching as well as the results might suggest. It's only one start, so it's not significant, either way.

[razzzorsharp]

If you look st Bush's control last night to his previous starts I wouldn't be opposed to saying he was little more off last night. That isn't to say he didn't pitch well but his walk totals the first two starts were a little better.

[sheethead]

Compared to what I am prepared to see on Saturday, Dave Bush looked like the second coming of Frank Viola out there last night.