2011-05-17 Brewers (Wolf) at Dodgers (Kuroda) - 9:10 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 3-0]

[bucksman4]

Everyone says Wolf has a "complex" set of signs. Does anyone know what that means? Seriously.

More like it.

That's awesome. I like it.

[ELCABALLO45]

To be fair to Wolf. Narveson at times has had a problem working with Lucroy as well.

[BuckyBrewer61]

Also, why let Wolf hit here? He's been getting hit hard, walking batters, and he has 91 pitches. No way he goes more than one more inning, and we'll be lucky if it's scoreless.

[Fear The Chorizo]

I think all the mound visits and multiple signs are Wolf's way of trying to lull opposing batters to sleep so he doesn't get shelled - sorta like the Doug Davis 15-second windup and catnap between pitches, only more annoying to Brewer fans.

[bucksman4]

Love Rock for calling out Wolf there. "It's tough for a catcher to call a game for a pitcher that can't consistently throw any of his 4 pitches for strikes." Thank you, and I hope the people that claim Rock is a homer and apologist were listening.

He's still a homer for catchers.

[ELCABALLO45]

Also, why let Wolf hit here? He's been getting hit hard, walking batters, and he has 91 pitches. No way he goes more than one more inning.

He has given up 3 hits and 1 of them was a slow chopper to a terrible shortstop. He has been walking guys but lets not say he is getting hit hard

 

 

[BrewerTerp]

i'm not sure why people are siding with lucroy over wolf considering the history of both players.

[BuckyBrewer61]

Love Rock for calling out Wolf there. "It's tough for a catcher to call a game for a pitcher that can't consistently throw any of his 4 pitches for strikes." Thank you, and I hope the people that claim Rock is a homer and apologist were listening.

He's still a homer for catchers.

Yeah...probably true.

[ilovebeer]

What is the history of them?

[bucksman4]

i'm not sure why people are siding with lucroy over wolf considering the history of both players.

Don't buy that rationale. Do you see any of the other 4 starters call Lucroy out to the mound nearly as much as you do with Wolf? There's a trend here.

[rluzinski]

Seeing the actual location of pitches really makes me appreciate pitchers more. That strikeout pitch on Hart looked nothing like a strike because we see where the catcher catchers it, not where it crosses home plate. Sure enough, right on the outside corner.

[Hammer]

He has given up 3 hits and 1 of them was a slow chopper to a terrible shortstop. He has been walking guys but lets not say he is getting hit hard

 

Are you watching on TV? He has been giving up some rockets tonight...as well as one slow chopper to a crappy shortstop. Even a lot of the outs have been drilled...

[ELCABALLO45]

i'm not sure why people are siding with lucroy over wolf considering the history of both players.

Don't buy that rationale. Do you see any of the other 4 starters call Lucroy out to the mound nearly as much as you do with Wolf? There's a trend here.

Narveson has in the past if I recall.

[Fear The Chorizo]

one more mound visit and Lucroy's going to channel Crash Davis this inning when Kemp comes up...

 

"here comes the deuce - and when you speak of me, speak well"

[Gobias Industries]

To be fair to Wolf. Narveson at times has had a problem working with Lucroy as well.

So our 2 worst starting pitchers have a problem with our catcher for whatever reason. They should probably be looking at themselves, as they simply aren't good enough to miss their spots (it seemed like that's why Narveson was ticked off at Lucroy for that one game).

[bucksman4]

i'm not sure why people are siding with lucroy over wolf considering the history of both players.

Don't buy that rationale. Do you see any of the other 4 starters call Lucroy out to the mound nearly as much as you do with Wolf? There's a trend here.

Narveson has in the past if I recall.

My guess is you would surely recall if it was nearly as frequent as Wolf does.

[Fear The Chorizo]

lost in all this Wolf ranting and raving is the fact that the offense forgot to show up to the ballpark tonight thus far.

[bucksman4]

You guys see Braun fake out the crowd with the mock ball toss after he caught that fly ball? Classic. They must be razzing him pretty hard out there,

[ilovebeer]

Maybe the offense doesn't want to get Wolf a win.

[SenatorShriv]

Wolf and Lucroy don't normally work together. Clearly they aren't on the same page with the strategy. I don't mind the mound visits if it means we're not getting shelled on bad pitches / mis-communications. I would be interested to have a reporter dig into what is actually going on post-game.

Do we send Wolf back out there next inning? He is over 100 pitches...

[UeckerAddict]

It's games like this that I miss Ben Sheets. He could throw 4 pitches in the time it takes Wolf to throw 1.

[UeckerAddict]

Braun looked so awful for the last AB and most of this one, but it's unreal how he figures it out.

[rluzinski]

Wow, Fielder crushed that.

[dlk9s]

There's no way CF is only 395 there. Fielder just demolished that.

[ilovebeer]

Prince just missed.