2011-06-29 Brewers (Marcum) at Yankees (Burnett) - [Brewers lose, 5-2]

[ilovebeer]

Nice job Shaun getting out of that mess.

[endaround]

60 pitches in 3 innings for a guy coming off an injury. Maybe Kotsay was kept because he's working on a secret knuckleball?

[DuWayne Steurer]

We've had a lot of questions like "if you had to keep one of Greinke/Marcum, who would it be?"

 

I don't think there's anyone that would argue that Marcum's got better physical tools or 'stuff', but in watching him this year, and watching Greinke, it just seems that Marcum is a much more cerebral pitcher.........he just 'knows how to pitch'.

 

Marcum just doesn't seem to get rattled by situations.

[Yeti73]

Brauns ABs today finally look like he is back to what he was doing earlier this year. Great sign. Would love to see him take 2nd here.

[ilovebeer]

Braun has 19 sb this season, i didn't know it was that many.

[Yeti73]

Three innings, three DPs for the Yankees. Somehow Burnett is at 59 pitches. Pretty crazy considering he's essentially 'gotten' only 6 outs.

[ilovebeer]

I don't think anyone will do anything in the 5 hole this season.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Gotta love Plush. He runs full speed into the wall trying to make the catch, gets right up, and his only reaction is to be pissed that he didn't make the catch.

[chuckcrim]

Where the hell was that 2-2 pitch to Posada? Wow.

[Yeti73]

The patience and number of foul balls per at bat is infuriating. It is like they have 9 Craig Counsells. That pitch to Posada was pretty weak.

[jwill535]

And there ends my night of Brewer Baseball.

[Oxy]

This might be the most well pitched 4 runs in 4 innings for a pitcher this year. Marcum has been all over the corners. Yet another three run homer against the Crew. Wall scraper, no less--not that it wasn't hit well it's just kind of sickening to be 5 feet from an out in a bandbox with two guys on base.

[pebadger]

It's pretty hard to get upset about this when the Brewers have no more than two positions on the field, and none on the bench, that are better than the Yankees. And at first base it may be a push. Just the economic facts of life in MLB.

[Oldcity]

Yeah, I can't get upset either. Seeing the ridiculous Boston and Yankee lineups remind you how unfair the economics of baseball are.

[Yeti73]

Is there anyone other than RR who would rather see Dillard warming than Meat Tray? Maybe the Yankees hitters...

[Yeti73]

Wow. Really wish this site weren't dead tonight. Interesting inning here.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Bases loaded, one out with Fielder and Hart hitting. Needed more than just one run.

[chuckcrim]

Have to score more than 1 run when you have bases loaded and 1 out against a team like NY. Anti-clutch hitting that inning by Prince and hillbilly.

[NievesNoNO]

I'm not willing to call the Yankees the better team. They probably are by a small margin, but the pitching match ups have favored the Brewers in the first two games going in. The bottom line is they're just not getting it done thus far on the road again. I'm still thinking they might pull a comeback tonight yet.

[Oldcity]

Home run, right? God this park is a joke.

[Yeti73]

I just wish we didn't have the bottom of our lineup due in the 7th. That is pretty much our last opportunity against the Yankees. They're so strong in the 8th and 9th.

 

Dillard in breaking news still stinks. He is the slightly better Shaun Green.

[Raw Biz]

Well Roenicke's idiotic bullpen management comes back to bite the Brewers again. I don't care that the park is a joke, Dillard shouldn't be pitching to lefties/switch-hitters. And he did the bullpen no favors yesterday by pulling Greinke after 2.

[LouisEly]

Two home runs in two days off the top of the short porch in right... nice friggin' ballpark.

[trwi7]

Yes, let's blame the ballpark. It's not like the Brewers are hitting in the same one or anything.

[chuckcrim]

Brewers are playing in the same park and have every opportunity to hit short HR's too. Problem is that they're offensively inept on the road.