2014-04-02 Braves (Harang) at Brewers (Garza), 12:10 PM CDT [Garza's Brewer Debut, DAY BASEBALL!] [Brewers lose, 1-0]

[dlk9s]

I don't know why the Braves don't just bunt it back to Garza every AB.

[craigharmann]

Garza is pitching really, really nicely. The way he set up Heyward in that last at-bat was fantastic. Down and away to strike him out? Very nice!

[trwi7]

4 runs in 23 innings against a team that lost two of their best starting pitchers to season ending injuries.

[trwi7]

Need at least two runs to win now. We're screwed.

[Fear The Chorizo]

I don't know what's more impressive - how good Garza has pitched so far, or how bad the Brewers offense has been against Harang.

 

and never mind, I guess the answer is bad Brewers offense after Garza gave up the HR

[jjkoestler]

There goes the no no and shutout. Garza definitely has no hit stuff today.

[brewcrewdue80]

Let's out a big sighing exhale.

Come on if we don't score 2runs off Harang My entire tune on this season changes. Our "expecting good Offense" is a joke and we won't win 72 games this year because of it's inability to score runs when its not via the HRs once again!

[Fear The Chorizo]

shoot - if I'm the Braves' manager I make the pitching change right here with Harang at 90 pitches, the heart of the order up, and some shutdown relievers ready to go...

[craigharmann]

A-Ram!!!!!!! Love that!!

[trwi7]

Please pinch hit Gennett. Please pinch hit Gennett. Please pinch hit Gennett.

[brwrsfan]

I shouldn't carry over past years frustrations, but the Brewers repeated (probably not, but i'm upset right now) to do something simple like hit a sac fly is frustrating to say the least.

[Fear The Chorizo]

RR playing the matchup...up to the player put in a good position to produce now - c'mon Rickie

 

not so much

[AZBrewCrew]

Of course. Leave it to Rickie to ground out to end the inning

[Baldkin]

I shouldn't carry over past years frustrations, but the Brewers repeated (probably not, but i'm upset right now) to do something simple like hit a sac fly is frustrating to say the least.

 

Shh. We can't blame anything on Lucroy. It's all Rickie's fault.

[trwi7]

Of course. Leave it to Rickie to ground out to end the inning

 

Or we could place more blame on Lucroy for not getting the runner in from 3rd with less than 2 outs. But blaming Rickie is more fun!

[JohnBriggs12]

Roenicke playing bad percentages (Weeks' .118 with RISP in 2013) and Rickie lives up to that.

 

Segura was the better choice there.

[brewmann04]

well at least this will be the last season we have to see Weeks ,but Geez we get steelar pitching and the Bats go silent .

[Fear The Chorizo]

Segura's got one of those "days off" to rest - he's probably fighting a nagging injury but the Brewers won't DL him. Instead they'll let one of their 25-man roster spots twist in the wind uselessly, even during part of a game that would be an ideal spot for him. The Brewers are notoriously great at that. Hold a guy out for up to a week before retroactively DL-ing him, all the while playing games with less than 25 bodies.

[liveforoctober]

Is Garza really about to throw a 2 hit complete game and lose?

 

Ahh, he is up 3rd. Roenicke will throw Reynolds out there to swing hard. At least we will get to see Braun and maybe Ramirez against Kimbrel to end it.

[JohnBriggs12]

well at least this will be the last season we have to see Weeks ,but Geez we get steelar pitching and the Bats go silent .

 

We didn't "have to see" Weeks. They just had to pay him one more season. Apparently they don't understand the distinction. They'd be getting a better bang for their buck if he were elsewhere.

[Baldkin]

Segura's got one of those "days off" to rest - he's probably fighting a nagging injury but the Brewers won't DL him. Instead they'll let one of their 25-man roster spots twist in the wind uselessly, even during part of a game that would be an ideal spot for him. The Brewers are notoriously great at that. Hold a guy out for up to a week before retroactively DL-ing him, all the while playing games with less than 25 bodies.

 

If it's his shoulder (which I assume it is) and they have a day off tomorrow, it makes it even dumber, considering they could've retroactively DL'd him and he could've played on Friday ANYWAY.

[torts]

8 IP, 7 K, 1 R, fantastic start to his brewers career!

[RobDeer 45]

Man, great start Garza. Come on, we have to score a run...don't we?

[JohnBriggs12]

8 IP, 7 K, 1 R, fantastic start to his brewers career!

 

We can only hope for his sake they get him some runs at some point. Great effort appears to be wasted.

[stalton]

4 runs over 21 innings from our big 3...if we can get that consistantly we are going to do just fine