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You should apply to be Brewers' pitching coach. You can bark at these guys to quit throwing the ball right down the middle. Stupid pitchers! Pitch to the corners! Every time!

Man, I was fooled. You were just messing with us the whole time. That was a good one.

Thought Gomez went. Yep, he did.

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The best guess I have for the last two games are the Brewers are up there guessing.

They weren't hit for extra base hits, therefore they were smart pitches.

Smart swing there by Ramirez.

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You have no evidence to prove this one way or the other. You're just upset that the Brewers have done a 180 in the last two games and it's against the Cardinals who have had their number.

It worked for Lynn last night Because he fooled them all night by focusing on the outside part of the plate and set those pitches up. They had no clue what was coming and that's what smart pitching will do. So the trick to pitching is just pitching outside, and you'll fool the batters? It's not mixing your pitches, changing speeds, moving around the strike zone with your fastball? The Brewers were very smart when they won 9 games in a row. We now have a dumb team again. When the Cards got beat in the World Series? Dumb.. very dumb. I'm sorry to pick on you, but you're really coming off like an old man shouting at people from his porch and doesn't really seem to have an idea of what's going on. Baseball is funny. Sometimes you're great, and sometimes you're bad. It's just how it is. The Brewers weren't going to win 100+ games..

Uh huh.

The Cardinals are finding holes and the Brewers bats have holes in them. Man they're a smart team..

My point was that he's likely trying to hit the corners and keep the ball down. Wanting to do that and doing it are two different things sometimes. It's not as easy as just wanting to.

Yep, Estrada is not trying to hit corners at all. He's up there just laying it down the middle of the plate on purpose and hoping the Cards just hit the ball right at someone. If the Brewers win it means they're smart. If they lose, it means they're dumb. Makes perfect sense.

"Nice of the fans down the left field line to get out of Davis' way to make that catch." Yep, the empty seats did a terrific job of giving Davis some breathing room.

You've really never heard of Mark Ellis? Isn't he one of the better defensive 2B in the league - most consistent anyway. Played for several years with the Athletics and most recently with the Dodgers.

No this is a pattern with the Cards and Brewers and why the Cards own us, and it's because they are smarter. Their pitchers live on the outside corners all game long no matter who is pitching. I saw it this game and every Cardinals game. They also have great control, so they don't miss much and the Brewers hit their homeruns off of mistakes. Take mistakes out of the game you eliminate the Brewers main method of scoring, home runs. That means the Brewers need back to back to back hits to score runs vs the Cards, and the only way that will happen is if you go the other way so often vs the Cards that you force them to pitching you inside and that's the number 1 place where a pitcher will make a mistake and the ball tends to get to much of the plate and ends up in the wheelhouse of the batter. The sooner the Brewers realize this and make this their game plan heading into EVERY cards game they will continue to get owned by them. You realize this is basically the strategy of every team when they're in the field, right? Make the other team beat you with consecutive hits. Most of the time mistake pitches are hit hard and a lot of teams hit most of their HR from mistake pitches. Sometimes a HR comes from a good pitch and there's nothing the pitcher can do. That's why walks are so detrimental. What, did Lynn walk 1 batter tonight and the next batter (Gennett) was called out on strikes. Lynn didn't make mistakes but he wasn't in much of a worry of doing so because of that one walk and the Brewer hitters were either getting themselves out by swinging early and often or just swinging right through pitches. It was almost if they were behind every fastball Lynn threw.

If they were trying to pull everything they would have rolled over a lot more grounders. They were swinging at a lot of borderline pitches and being over-aggressive, in my opinion. Lynn was just one point with his fastball and no one could square it up. It happens.

Actually they failed to go the other way with the ball and pulled everything. That's why. How can you tell that based on following along online? Combination of over-swinging, chasing bad pitches with over-aggressivness, and Davidson's strike zone is as wide as a smart car. It was the trifecta of crap.

Did she just really say "Joe-Han Santana"?

It's not a green laser?

Looking like the Peralta HR, actually. Quite possibly. But that 3 run HR probably sucked the life out of them a bit more considering the plays that led up to it thinking they could get out of that inning.

Two great defense plays by the Brewers wiped out by freakin' Jon Jay's homerun. Go figure.

Davidson is all over the place with his zone, as is tradition.

Walks Ramirez on 4 pitches..Lucroy swings at first pitch and lazily pops out. Yep, one of those nights. It is what it is.