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Great at bat Gomez!

Aramis at 2-0: slider (check swing), slider (swing), slider (weak grounder). None of those pitches in the strike zone. Oy vey..

Nice at-bat, Gomez.

Aside from a nice defensive play here and there, it's almost like Segura is trying to play his way off this team.

Good job, Segura.

He's just struggling with his command a bit. I'm not going to write him off after a half-season worth of starts.

Ramirez with maybe the worst at bat I've ever seen.

Oh boy, can't wait to see Chris Johnson be a tough guy while standing behind the umpire again.

Really Estrada? Ellis' 1st homerun of the year.. cripes. Down 3.. not lookin' good.

Just hold onto it, Reynolds. Ugly.

Ugh, not how I wanted to see the 9th started.

I hope he gets sent out in the 9th for a shot at the CG. No chance. It's a save situation, so I fully expect K-Rod in the game.

Really Gomez?

I'm here, but am mowing and moving a bunch of stuff. Plus, the in-game chats only seem to get a lot of traffic when things are going poorly. More people want to come and vent.

I had a 6th sense about that homerun. I just had a feeling it was coming.

No kidding.

Now that's an error.

Please make this error hurt. Assuming that's an error (my MLBtv feed is horrible tonight). Edit - and it's a hit. My bad.

Throwing strikes is overrated.

I have never seen that happen. Puig breaks his bat on the check-swing; of course the bat had to have been broken but how do you not tell it's broken while you're taking your swings?

Lohse with 41 pitches already? Geez

It would really be something if Matt Kemp was one of those named.

Except that he pulled Garza because of an injury. Honestly, I get that some fans are convinced Ron is a moron, & nothing he can do or not do will change that. But imo you have to suspend reality pretty far to think that it's reasonable to conclude that he pulled a guy working a 1-hit shutout, on 71 pitches through 6 innings, so he could have Overbay hit. Roenicke has never done anything like that in his entire tenure with the Crew. And then the report comes out that Garza has an oblique issue. And some still choose to believe it was just incompetence? Let's be objective here, folks. If Roenicke had left Garza in the game, only to see him get injured worse, this forum would (rightly so) be enraged. But he did the right thing & protected the player from himself. If he hadn't we would've had weeks of posts about how inexcusable it was -- which would be correct. Again, I understand that some fans' minds are made up on Ron. But if you aren't also going to be fair, then I don't understand how anyone can expect to have a realistic conversation. I'm with you. I was pretty agitated to not see Garza out there, particularly given the result by the end of the 7th. I figured we'd get word about why he wasn't pitching before the game was over. As fans, we're not entitled to that, but usually get it anyway. Someone made a good point that RR sticks to the 100 pitch rule, which made a lot of sense. I know a lot of us were wondering what was going on, and there was a lot of "if there's NOT any injury.." type posts. Since the injury news broke, we've all been silent because we have nothing to complain about. It comes down to the bullpen not doing their job. Maybe Garza was a late pull from the top of the 7th, which is why he had his helmet on? Maybe RR was thinking about it and then just decided to be safe with a 2-run lead against a Cards' offense that looked anemic. Who knows. Either way, the bullpen blew it and the Crew lost. It's a frustrating loss, but the offense went to sleep today, too.

Glad to see the Cardinals get so much hate.

A lot of people posted the "if Garza isn't injured, there will be some seriously explaining to do" type of posts. At least we got our answer, but it doesn't mean this loss is any less frustrating. The bullpen still should have done their job.. and the offense could have been better than 2 runs.