2014-04-18 Brewers (Lohse) at Pirates (Morton), 6:05 PM CDT [Brewers win, 5-3]

[chadomac]

Man is Segura frustrating to watch right now. I know he had a ton of infield hits last year, but it just feels like he's lunging and slaps at anything he can get his bat on and is trying to leg out grounders EVERY SINGLE TIME. Wait back, square it up, drive the ball. How long is he going to do that before he realizes it's not working?

[razzzorsharp]

Lohse with a great game so far today, keeping them in it early and dominating later on.

[trwi7]

Cue the awkward interview where the short sideline reporter has to reach over a fence to a bent over assistant GM to talk about the cover being hit off the ball.

[chadomac]

Heh my wife was just saying how weird that interview was

[Eye Black]

Tough break on the Ramirez at-bat, he scorched the fastball. Khris Davis' at-bat was really poor, at times he looks totally overmatched at the plate.

[TURBO]

We are so sloppy...4 errors in a single game?

 

Pitiful.

 

Amazing thing is, we are ahead.

[chadomac]

Khrush is definitely pressing.

 

I suppose that Aram out is fair givin the flailing duck baseball incident from the prior inning

[adambr2]

Just once when we get a leadoff runner on in an inning, can we just leave him be and try to get him home via the old fashioned way of trying to get additional hits, rather than proactively trying to make outs?

[adambr2]

Tough break on the Ramirez at-bat, he scorched the fastball. Khris Davis' at-bat was really poor, at times he looks totally overmatched at the plate.

 

He's pressing badly. I think he's putting too much pressure on himself especially with no HR's yet this year.

[Thhhza]

We seem to be making a lot of mistakes but none of them has cost us a game yet /touchwood

[sdcheezhd]

Earlier in the game Ueck was talking about how dumb it is to throw a breaking ball on an 0-2 count. Smith wasn't listening.

[valpocrewsader]

Just once when we get a leadoff runner on in an inning, can we just leave him be and try to get him home via the old fashioned way of trying to get additional hits, rather than proactively trying to make outs?

 

Yes, yes, a million times yes. Sig worthy.

[TURBO]

Is there any human reason why K-Rod can not pitch 4 outs? Henderson just looks like he is going to blow the heck up.

[AZBrewCrew]

Here comes the Menards Big Inning....sigh

 

EDIT: Whew..a pop up for out number three

[TURBO]

WHEW...

 

That just seemed like it was going to end badly.

[trwi7]

[phnxcrew]

Good lord with the baserunning.

[SRB]

Braun and A-Ram are up, what are you doing? Ugh...

[TURBO]

Hey look, a base running blunder... How freaking odd.

[chadomac]

Wow. Winning this game almost feels wrong. Almost

[SoupTown]

"Hey look, a base running blunder... How freaking odd."

 

A prophet you are, turbo!

[Thhhza]

Wow. Winning this game almost feels wrong. Almost

At the end of the day, good pitching trumps everything else (most of the time).

[phnxcrew]

here we go

[Thhhza]

Well I eat my hat, walks Martin with McCutchen/Alvarez/Walker coming up /sigh

[SoupTown]

I am not up for a Frankie heat stopping save. But better than a Frankie heart wrenching blow.

 

But I have faith.