7/4/05 Brewers (Sheets) @ Marlins (Olsen) 5:05 CST

[dogs with bees in their mo]

I don't really get why you have to take him out once he gets a base runner. Just so he can't get a loss? It's an infield hit. Sheets is still the best pitching option right now.

[AJAY]

Keep Sheets in. They are not hitting him hard. I totally disagree with Schroeder.

[batman]

I don't really get why you have to take him out once he gets a base runner. Just so he can't get a loss? It's an infield hit. Sheets is still the best pitching option right now.

 

For a dog with bees in its mouth, you're a smart canine. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

I agree.

 

~Bill

[whizkid]

That's stupid. Ben's a big boy and can win or lose it on his own. He doesn't need protecting from himself. You at least let him face one more. It was a cheap hit.

[Bruce Ciskie]

Put the book down and manage this game. There's no way you lose if you keep Sheets in.

 

Turnbow? With a runner already on base? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/sick.gif

[brewerjamie15]

Turnbow time.

Castillio tobunt Pierre over...

[lithium75]

oh no...

[Brian the Automator]

We should so get a do-over on that one.

[brewerjamie15]

...and Hall muffs it. Runners at 1 & 2 and no outs.

[Bruce Ciskie]

For those who shrug their shoulders when I complain about "formula managing", this is what I'm talking about.

 

No book can tell you how to handle this situation, because the book doesn't know how well Sheets has pitched in this game.

 

If the intention was to take him out after one runner got on with a cheap infield hit, then Turnbow should have started the ninth.

[WV Brew]

Game, set and match. Take the out, Please!

[AJAY]

I have a sick feeling.

[Ennder]

How exactly is that a single for castillo.

[batman]

If the intention was to take him out after one runner got on with a cheap infield hit, then Turnbow should have started the ninth.

 

Yep.

 

~Bill

[lithium75]

nothing about this looks good

[brewerjamie15]

GIDP would be nice here... perhaps a 6-5-4 varitey?

[Brian the Automator]

The key there is that Castillo didn't advance.

[Bruce Ciskie]

I don't get why this is such a common move by managers. I can't think of a single closer who would prefer to start an outing with runners already on base in the ninth. You get in a rhythm as a closer, and something like this is anti-rhythm for most of these guys.

 

I just don't get it. Win, lose, or extras, it's a bad move IMNSHO.

[Brian the Automator]

Domo arrigato, Carlos Delgado.

[tomwopat]

can i stop having heart attacks please?

[lithium75]

that should have been a game ending double play

[Shootkick1000]

OOOOooooo...barely effective, but I'll accept it.

 

This is Old-School White Sox-style "winning ugly".

[brewerjamie15]

F-9.

1 out

Maddux out to the mound to talk with Turnbow.

Runners at first and third for Carlos Delgado, a lefty.

Bow bluffs a throw to third.

Delivers, outside for a ball. 1-0.

Turnbow looks in to Miller.

Grounded to first! 3-2-5-2-5.

Two outs

Juan Encarnacion is up.

Turnbow fires, fouled straight back for an 0-1 count.

Weeks with the stab! Has trouble getting out of his glove! up to his knees! throws in time!!!

Game over! Ben Sheets wins a game!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brian the Automator]

Woah... looking at the replay, why didn't they go for the DP there??...

[dogs with bees in their mo]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!