Brewers (Rea) vs Orioles (Burnes): 4/14/24, 12:35pm

[yfinn6]

Blah, hittable pitch and Ortiz pops it up. Dangit. 

[HarryDoyle]

Just strike out, Weimer.

[Bulldogboy]

Wiemer can make a statement here

[Bulldogboy]

Just now, Bulldogboy said:

Wiemer can make a statement here

Forget it

[yfinn6]

Useless. 

[adambr2]

Wiemer you've got to be more aggressive in that situation. Got to. Even Ball 2 was arguably too close to take. 

[Bulldogboy]

A guy who should be hungry to make a statement and say I'm back take a called third? Brutal 

[BruisedCrew]

Three miserable ABs with runners on second and third and nobody out. 
 

[yfinn6]

That was a really frustrating sequence. 

[brooks_quichenick]

Frustrating to not get more there but Burnes really buckled down. Made him work for it at least, keep scrapping boys

[HarryDoyle]

3 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Wiemer can make a statement here

Yeah, that statement is "I'm a AAA player at best".

[IntentionalHBP1]

They cleaned up Joeys hands/flailing, now they should clean up his take pitch approach. Diving over the plate, dropping his hands and moving his feet can’t be good either right?

[adambr2]

6 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

Three miserable ABs with runners on second and third and nobody out. 
 

I can tolerate the physical mistake of popping up a ball because it happens. 

What I can't tolerate is the mental mistake of Wiemer just standing there with the bat on his shoulders with 2 strikes and 1 out in a situation where he just needs to put the ball in play to score a run. 

 

[wildcat83]

Nice quick inning by Rea.  Put Burnes back out on the mound quickly after he had a long inning.

[wildcat83]

8 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

Three miserable ABs with runners on second and third and nobody out. 
 

No issues with the AB from Ortiz.  Took him to a full count and just missed one and popped up.  The result sucked but not a bad AB.

[duewizard]

8 minutes ago, IntentionalHBP1 said:

They cleaned up Joeys hands/flailing, now they should clean up his take pitch approach. Diving over the plate, dropping his hands and moving his feet can’t be good either right?

Just what I was thinking. Same as last year. He is following the pitches with his body and it seems to me it leaves him unbalanced.

[yfinn6]

Sigh. 

[Bulldogboy]

We have seen this exact game from Burnes for a while. Tons of pitches and baserunners.

[sveumrules]

Adames Ks on seven balls.

[yfinn6]

Eh, Willy, not sure any of those were strikes. Oh well. 

[sveumrules]

Would have been nice to get more, but 5 IP | 3 ER vs Burnes is about as good as you can realistically hope for.

[Brewcrew82]

At least you knocked Burnes out of the game. His stuff was good today. Fortunately, the Brewers made him work for everything.

[Bulldogboy]

Jackson Holliday looks overmatched

[BruisedCrew]

Brewers are 2 for 13 with RISP and the 2 hits were a bunt and infield hit that didn’t drive in runs. 

Plenty of missed opportunities, though at least they got 3 runs and drove Burnes out of the game. 
 

 

[edfunderburk]

I had a hard time pulling for Burnes when he pitched for Milwaukee 

it is now easy to root against him when he pitches elsewhere 

IMHO … He’s always been a whiny complainer

No doubt, he’s a good pitcher … but I don’t consider him great

Yes, he had one great season … but overall he’s very good

Good riddance … I like Ortiz & the potential I see in Hall