Thurs. 7/4 - Rookies in the AM, Will there be Offensive Fireworks at Night?

[Joseph Zarr]

10-for-his-last-35. His name is Reece Walling. You may have heard me 'Stan'? He has Yophery at 3B here with two down. Mudcats trail 3-0. Walling was stranded earlier in the game after his dub. Let's see if he can't amend and knock one across.

[Joseph Zarr]

Walling takes the free pass. Noice! Makes this pitcher work a little bit. That's what we want to see. The young man continues to experience fantastic results at the dish over the past couple weeks. Hop aboard. Plennnnnnty of room aboard my Superfan Bullet Train.

[Joseph Zarr]

Meanwhile, I'm condensing to two games. Two screens. On my Independence Day Brewers baseball celebrations. Henderson just stranded a runner at 3B in the bottom of the 2nd after inducing a 2-2 shallow pop fly in LF. EBJ chased it down and caught it while running all over that grass chasing it. 

[Joseph Zarr]

David García just rocked an absolute rocket off the high RF wall. AND, just like that he has his 23rd and 24th RBI's of his season. Man, he crushed that 3-2 pitch. His 9th dub. It is a 3-2 game. Let's GO!!

[Joseph Zarr]

Sparks just ripped a two out single into left CF. Have I mentioned: He's HOT?

[Joseph Zarr]

Ok. Ok. Pull my leg. Timber Rattlers on Screen #3. Let's go!

[Joseph Zarr]

Fitzy with a clean first frame back in Wisconsin.

HEY FOLKS WE GOT A SHOUTOUT FROM CHRIS EDWARDS BABY!

2:12:40 on the MiLB.TV broadcast @damuelle my Sweet Prince.

[Joseph Zarr]

AREINAMO BOMB!!!!

[Joseph Zarr]

Oh. Sweet Mammy. He absolutely obliterated that high heater. BOOM. 1-0 Mudcats. Just absolute bomb over the LF high wall. Glorious. Two games. Two long John Silvers. First AB. 17 game hit streak extends in style.

AND, Luke Adams is indeed back after a 2 game rest post-plunking. Noice!

[wiguy94]

1 minute ago, Joseph Zarr said:

Oh. Sweet Mammy. He absolutely obliterated that high heater. BOOM. 1-0 Mudcats. Just absolute bomb over the LF high wall. Glorious. Two games. Two long John Silvers.

Absolute moon shot. Breakout season for Areinamo.

[Joseph Zarr]

Hendo leaves the third on a full count swinging K. Change-up. Three scoreless. 0-0 ball game.

[Joseph Zarr]

Yoshwar ties it on a groundball single up the middle past the diving SS - 109 mph grounder. Yowza. Yes Sir! It's a 3-3 game. His 29th RBI. Men on the corners. Two down. Briceno will see if he can get his bat a swinging with impact.

[Joseph Zarr]

AND, the hit and run on, Briceno knocks one through the 2B side! It's 4-3 Muddies baby. Let's friggin GO! Di Turi to the dish.

[Joseph Zarr]

Meanwhile, Fitzy just grabbed a K swinging to open the 2nd frame. Heater. Batter behind. 

Di Turi, in his last two AB, has hit into outs on two pitches. Might want to see some pitches next AB.

[wiguy94]

With Curt Hogg reporting that this will be Hall's last rehab start, I feel like I don't want Hall in the MLB. His rehab assignment has been very unimpressive even with the velo slightly up. I just don't think he deserves to be in the MLB over any of the 13 pitchers on the roster right now (assuming Civale replaces Junk)

[Joseph Zarr]

Brailin just gave up a no-doubter hanging breaking ball bomb over the LF wall. His first long ball of the year. Pollard had been really laboring at the dish. Can't throw that pitch. Gotta try to get him to chase. Poor execution. 4-4 game. Nobody down.

[Joseph Zarr]

1 minute ago, wiguy94 said:

With Curt Hogg reporting that this will be Hall's last rehab start, I feel like I don't want Hall in the MLB. His rehab assignment has been very unimpressive even with the velo slightly up. I just don't think he deserves to be in the MLB over any of the 13 pitchers on the roster right now (assuming Civale replaces Junk)

100% agree. Way too much easy contact. The velo is up but that heater is extremely hittable. It doesn't move. Very easily sat on. My opinion is: he needs to keep working and keep improving the shape of every pitch. It's that classic 'rostered' game. Patrick should absolutely be in his stead taking those MLB innings. He's earned it. He's pitching his best baseball. BUT, the game of the 40-Man dictates this. As does the silliness of the sentiment of "...well, we traded RHP Corbin Burnes...and that package mandates he has to pitch." Some of it is understandable. But, in a vacuum and with objectivity it doesn't make sense. 

[Joseph Zarr]

 Henderson just saw an inside high heater oppo lined for a lead-off dub to open his 4th frame. Still 0-0. 

Meanwhile, in Wisco we are still 1-0 T-Rats. Bottom of the 2nd frame.

[Joseph Zarr]

Brailin running into two out trouble here in the 5th frame. Walked a guy after ahead 1-2 in the count. Just saw a single ripped into shallow LF. Men on 1st and 2nd. Two down. He'll have to dig deep. Bullpen is active with Nova beginning to throw. He's 2-0 on the next batter.

[wiguy94]

3 minutes ago, Joseph Zarr said:

 Henderson just saw an inside high heater oppo lined for a lead-off dub to open his 4th frame. Still 0-0. 

Meanwhile, in Wisco we are still 1-0 T-Rats. Bottom of the 2nd frame.

Hall's defense has been lackluster in LF tonight. That's 2 doubles for the M-Braves that probably should have been held to a single.

[Joseph Zarr]

Falling behind 3-0, Rodriguez gets a swing and a foul back to the netting. 3-1 count. He gets the weakly hit dribbler before the mound. He turns and casually fires to 1B.

Henderson just hung a hittable heater inside of the dish for an RBI poke to LF. It's 1-0 Braves. One down. Bottom of the 4th in Mississippi.

[biedergb]

Hall - can he be optioned to stay in AAA?

The other option is put him in the bullpen to work on his pitching?

[Joseph Zarr]

Henderson's change-up is just a ridiculous pitch for a starting pitcher. My goodness. 

[wiguy94]

Not that Henderson is being hit hard or anything, but his lack of faith in his slider is so apparent on nights like tonight where his FB isn't as sharp as normal. Feels like every AB has been a grind today because that FB isn't getting the swing and miss.

[wiguy94]

Luke Adams with a grand slam. An absolute line drive laser beam that barely cleared the high wall in LF.