2014-07-10 Phillies (Buchanan) at Brewers (Garza), 1:10 PM CDT [Brewers lose, 9-1; led 1-0 after 7]

[hawing]

Phillies:

 

CF Tony Gwynn Jr.

SS Jimmy Rollins

2B Chase Utley

1B Ryan Howard

RF Marlon Byrd

3B Cody Asche

LF Domonic Brown

C Cameron Rupp

RHP David Buchanan

 

Brewers:

CF Carlos Gomez

2B Scooter Gennett

C Jonathan Lucroy

3B Aramis Ramirez

RF Ryan Braun

LF Khris Davis

1B Mark Reynolds

SS Jeff Bianchi

RHP Matt Garza

 

SAVE US MATT GARZA.

[yfinn6]

Glad Segura is finally getting a day off.

[pacopete4]

Braun batting 5? Stupid.

[stoutdude04]

Braun batting 5? Stupid.

 

Surely won't help his confidence. What lineup would you prefer?

 

I do agree with you though. Even hurt he's still 3rd in ops and is only 1 point less in OBP then scooter.

[chadomac]

It'd be really nice to win today.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Like that 1-7 in the lineup. With the number of free swingers on the roster, the manager needs to split them up a bit by interspersing some of the less-free swingers.

 

Braun at #5 makes sense. With Gomez leading off, moving Gennett to #2 is the logical move. Lucroy has shown himself to be a good #3 hitter so far. So the question is whether to put Ramirez or Braun at #4. I have no problem with Braun hitting at #5 with his current year's batting approach and the effects of his injury.

 

Braun at #5 also prevents the black hole of OBP and strikeouts that could run from Ramirez-Davis-Reynolds-Bianchi/Segura.

[TURBO]

Not a fan of the free swinging corkscrew man, Carlos Gomez in the lead-off spot. I don't know that he understands what a lead-off hitter is supposed to accomplish.

[pacopete4]

Braun batting 5? Stupid.

 

Surely won't help his confidence. What lineup would you prefer?

 

I do agree with you though. Even hurt he's still 3rd in ops and is only 1 point less in OBP then scooter.

 

I'd rather see:

 

Scoots

Braun

Luc

Ramirez

Gomez

Davis

Overbay/Reynolds

SS's that his like pitchers

Pitchers

 

Why have one of your best hitters hitting 5th getting less ABs? Dumb.

[jjgott]

Braun batting 5? Stupid.

 

Surely won't help his confidence. What lineup would you prefer?

 

I do agree with you though. Even hurt he's still 3rd in ops and is only 1 point less in OBP then scooter.

 

Why have one of your best hitters hitting 5th getting less ABs? Dumb.

 

RRR said that in case Braun has to come out of the game, didn't want to mess with the top of the order.

[pacopete4]

Having Scaffer in the 2 hole later in the game screws up nothing. He's been pretty good as of late getting on base.

[adamb100]

Please don't get swept.

[Bombers]

Come on guys. Lets get this one going. And lets try and have one of those 1, 2, 3 first innings on defense. Haven't had a 0 frame on defense in the first inning since we won last Saturday.

[Bombers]

and can the Cubs win 1, just 1 in this 5 game series vs the Reds. Jeez. 5 game series and they may not win 1 game.

[yfinn6]

Oh my, a 1,2,3 inning!

[TauPentaRei]

Braun batting 5? Stupid.

 

Surely won't help his confidence. What lineup would you prefer?

 

I do agree with you though. Even hurt he's still 3rd in ops and is only 1 point less in OBP then scooter.

 

I'd rather see:

 

Scoots

Braun

Luc

Ramirez

Gomez

Davis

Overbay/Reynolds

SS's that his like pitchers

Pitchers

 

Why have one of your best hitters hitting 5th getting less ABs? Dumb.

 

 

...and so then Gomez with the team's 2nd highest OWAR batting 5th in your ideal line-up makes sense how?

[Bombers]

Krush would love to have that one back. Gameday shows a belt high 91 mph fast ball.

[AZBrewCrew]

Why do we like Bianchi? Because he gets on base.

[markedman5]

Is it too much to ask to get some runs off of mediocre pitcher like Buchanan?

 

1 hit through 4......

[stoutdude04]

Is it too much to ask to get some runs off of mediocre pitcher like Buchanan?

 

1 hit through 4......

 

That tends to happen when you swing at everything. I'm not able to see this game, but is guess they are swinging an everything.

[Roderick]

Not a fan of the free swinging corkscrew man, Carlos Gomez in the lead-off spot. I don't know that he understands what a lead-off hitter is supposed to accomplish.

 

Nobody on this team other than Lucroy makes the pitcher work, so their pitch counts are still good come the end of the game. Some of them are just not good enough to foul of pitches or have a good enough eye to lay off pitches once they get two strikes on them, so they want to get a hit before that happens.

 

With Gomez ahead of Lucroy if he gets on base he can steal and Lucroy will have a hole at second to hit through.

[cnycerveceros]

On the plus side, they aren't losing yet.

[AZBrewCrew]

And Garza is pitching a pretty decent game too.

[adamb100]

LETS SCORE SOME RUNS!! BREAK OUT THE BATS!

[yfinn6]

Is it too much to ask to get some runs off of mediocre pitcher like Buchanan?

 

1 hit through 4......

 

That tends to happen when you swing at everything. I'm not able to see this game, but is guess they are swinging an everything.

 

They are - the game looks a lot like last night. Grounders to short and 3rd all game.

[jvrocksaz]

I am not sure if this was posted anywhere else...

 

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/07/10/brewers-expected-to-call-up-pitching-prospect-jimmy-nelson/