2011-06-17 Brewers (Marcum) at Red Sox (Lackey) - [Brewers lose, 10-4]

[Menotti80]

Pleeeeeeeeease get out of this...

[PrinceEatMeat]

With Marcum seemingly having some control issues, we better hope our offense and bullpen step up tonight.

[Oxy]

Not only can the Sox hit but they are just annoying as heck at the plate. Taking every pitch 2 inches off the corner and fouling off every pitch on the corner. Just waiting for the pitcher to make a mistake.

[Funketown]

With Marcum seemingly having some control issues, we better hope our offense and bullpen step up tonight.

It doesn't help when the corners aren't considered part of the strike zone. He should be out of this inning.

[UeckerAddict]

To this day I still wish the Brewers had held onto Scutaro.

[sdcheezhd]

Well he was out of it, too bad it was called strike 3 instead of ball 3. It helps your patience if you know you'll get calls like that.

[owbc]

This is like the Bucks vs. Lakers, even the umpires are on their side.

[Tailgat0r76]

There's nothing more infuriating than a close pitch called a ball only to extend an already long inning.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Ball 4 to Scutaro seemed to get a lot of the plate.

[PrinceEatMeat]

With Marcum seemingly having some control issues, we better hope our offense and bullpen step up tonight.

It doesn't help when the corners aren't considered part of the strike zone. He should be out of this inning.

Yeah, I would agree with that. But he's having control issues nonetheless.

[danzig6767]

Well he was out of it, too bad it was called strike 3 instead of ball 3. It helps your patience if you know you'll get calls like that.

That blown strike three could cost us multiple runs

[dlk9s]

This long inning is all part of the master plan to get Lackey cold and stiff on the bench, rendering him ineffective.

[bucksman4]

He may not even make it to the 4th at this rate.

[dlk9s]

Oh crap, I was thinking, "At least the pitcher is up next." Fail.

[TheCrew07]

This pitch count is getting excessive for a single inning, our minor league pitchers would have been pulled at 30 pitches.

 

I hope he gets out of the inning here without getting hurt.

 

well it looks like he tweaked something... get somebody up in the pen.

 

edit. Estrada just got up as he gets out of it

[PrinceEatMeat]

The amount of balls fouled off this inning has been ridiculous. They have so many great hitters in their lineup who can work counts.

[dlk9s]

Marcum is exhausted. Please get Drew here.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Yeah, they have to pull him now. He's laboring way too much. The last thing we need is for him to get hurt. But whew, got out of it. That was a scary inning.

[logan82]

So who do we have in AAA stretched out to start?

[Schlitz001]

44 pitches? Ouch.

[Tailgat0r76]

Now we need a long inning (which is a joke considering the bottom of our order) to give Marcum a nice water break.

[owbc]

The offense absolutely has to take some pitches, step out of the box, and get Marcum 10 minutes of rest.

[danzig6767]

It looked like he might have a groin strain or something with his left leg

[Oxy]

Is it possible to throw more than 44 pitches in an inning yet only give up 2 runs? I know 44 is possible, since it just happened.

[PrinceEatMeat]

So who do we have in AAA stretched out to start?

No one any of us wants to see start in the MLB. I'd take Peralta over anyone in AAA. DiFelice is getting stretched out currently though, and he's been good.