2011-05-15 Pirates (Correia) at Brewers (Greinke) - 1:10 PM CDT [Brewers win, 9-6]

[crewcrazy]

Greinke at 78 pitches after that double by Snyder. Over 30 pitches this inning with this Cedeno AB.

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

Ugh, he's run into trouble in the late innings again. 33 pitches and counting this inning

[cnycerveceros]

Ugh, he's run into trouble in the late innings again. 33 pitches and counting this inning

The 5th inning isn't really late.

[TwinsBrewersWorldSeries]

Good point. What i meant was that ZG has run into trouble in the 5th inning again. Fatigue from the short spring? He's been lights out in IP 1-4 in his past 2 starts.

 

YIKES! 5 extra-base hits this inning

[Oxy]

Ugh. Things change fast. Hopefully after a few more starts Greinke can get things figured out once he gets up to 75 pitches.

[chickinbrickin]

Come on Zack, this is getting sickening.

 

Alright RR! How much longer are you going to let this go on! Someone should have been in up in the pen after the third double!

[Mr QL]

okay time to go Greinke

[Glennron]

He's literally going to double his pitch count this inning.

[cnycerveceros]

This is rough to watch. From a fun one to a tight one, just like that.

[Glennron]

That was easily a strike to Jones, you didn't even need the FoxTrax to see that. Not what Greinke needs here.

[Oxy]

Ouch. that 2-2 pitch was a strike, and the call was missed at a bad time. Hopefully ZG doesn't get burned here.

[crewcrazy]

Greinke's arm is probably built up enough to throw 100 pitches over the course of an outing, but 20-pitch innings like the 4th still probably wear on him more than they normally would. Hasn't looked sharp at all in the 5th, and 40+ pitches is a ton for anyone to handle...let alone someone who's realistically one start or so removed from "spring training."

[cnycerveceros]

I'm probably just focusing on the negative innings, but it seems like Brewer pitchers allow a lot of multi-run innings, and not a lot of 1 run innings. They seem to really lose it, when they lose it.

[kestrel79]

okay time to get someone up in the pen. Give me Estrada for 2 innings.

 

They just had a free live look in on the mlb gamecast...boy are the Pirates announcers annoying. I wanted to mute it after about 10 seconds. I'm glad we have our guys.

[trwi7]

47 pitch inning. Not that bad.

[Oxy]

47 pitch inning. Not that bad.

It could have been worse. I think.

[chickinbrickin]

Some of you are chirping about having Lucroy bat 2nd. That sounds like a terrible idea. He would ground into DPs on the regular. It's either Hart or Gomez that should bat 2nd.

 

Yeah, it would be terrible having a guy with a .371 On Base Percentage bat in front of Braun and Prince. **FACE PALM** Gomez and Hart with their sub .300 OBP are much better options.

[cnycerveceros]

47 pitch inning. Not that bad.

Good way to wrap up a quality start.

[GamelToe]

Some of you are chirping about having Lucroy bat 2nd. That sounds like a terrible idea. He would ground into DPs on the regular. It's either Hart or Gomez that should bat 2nd.

 

Yeah, it would be terrible having a guy with a .371 On Base Percentage bat in front of Braun and Prince. **FACE PALM** Gomez and Hart with their sub .300 OBP are much better options.

Yeah, and Lucory is totally going to keep that up the entire season. Surely Hart will continue to look awful all season.

[Oxy]

It's funny how if a guy cruises through 4 innings then gets rocked but leaves with a lead I can focus on the positive aspects of the start, but if he leaves down 5-0 it seems like a terrible start.

[COBrewerfan]

Lucroy is not going to bat 2nd. Maybe a game somewhere but I highly doubt it. And if it happens it will not be for an extended amount of time.

[crewcrazy]

Honestly, I'm just glad that Greinke's going through this arm-building phase against teams like the Padres and Pirates. It could be worse -- the schedule could have given him more teams like the Braves his first few starts. His next start will be against Colorado, which will be a real test.

[TeeJayh1980]

darnit, MLBTV offered the Brewer game for free just a few minutes ago and allowed me to watch a full inning before it stopped and said the game was blacked out for my area. DOH!

[Glennron]

Lucroy is not going to bat 2nd. Maybe a game somewhere but I highly doubt it. And if it happens it will not be for an extended amount of time.

Fine, but there's no way he should be batting any lower than 6th. Gomez and Betancourt are inferior hitters. Not only does Betancourt make out nearly 75% of the time, it seems like most are week fly/pop outs and ground balls. Even a decent amount of his hits seem to be bloopers of soft liners.

[BuckyBrewer61]

Betancourt's OBP is currently .252, remind me why he hits in front of Lucroy? Or anyone besides Nieves for that matter?