mkm13

Was anyone else extremely frustated when we were playing the shift and they hit a slow bouncer to the same side as the shift and the ball still got through easily? Neither Betancourt or Weeks were able to get within 5 feet of it..even though they were playing a shift. It looked like Betancourt moved 1 step. That was a key "hit" that allowed 2 runs.

It is tough to have so much money tied up in terrible defenders. If Prince loses his hitting ability and turns into only an above average hitter..he has nothing else to fall back on that provides any value at the major league level.

Well if it wasn't obvious before we are for the most part below average to terrible defensively at almost every position (except center field when Ron actually plays our 2 center fielders)...especially now with Weeks not 100%. I don't know what happened to Hart..but he is not even close to as fast as he used to be. I feel bad for our pitchers...both game 3 and 5 of this series our pitchers numbers would have looked significantly better with just an average defense.

I believe because Kotsay did not make the play a normal centerfielder would have (including Nyjer), we let up 3 extra runs. His offense gave us 1 extra run. Who knows if Nyjer would have given us any offensive production if he was in the game...but even if he didn't..I do believe if Nyjer was in we would have only let up 1 run in that game (that is obviously assuming our pitchers pitch just as good after the 1st inning). He didn't specifically win or lose the game for us as the game could have ended differently if we had a major league caliber outfield in there, but Kotsay had a significantly negative impact on the result of the game.

That button should have been pushed much sooner.

Ryan Braun or Matt Kemp are the 2 best hitters in the game. Pujols is right behind them though.

If it were a guarantee that pitching at home would guarantee a brewer victory, pitching him in game 6 would be the obvious choice. The fact is, Greinke pitching at home is FAR from a guaranteed victory so waiting to pitch him in game 6 does not make sense. Pitching Greinke in game 5 gives the brewers the best odds to win the series and set us up for the next series if we are lucky enough to get there. That said, Ron has not always gone with the option that gives the team the best chance to win (starting a right fielder in center field), so who knows what he will do.

It may not have cost us the game, but putting him in center cost us 3 runs in a game we lost by 1. You could argue it cost us 2 runs as Kotsay hit a solo homerun, but he could have hit the solo homerun playing right field as well.

Yo doesn't have his best stuff but is pitching good today. With a normal outfield, he would have only let up 1 run and have about 20 less pitches thrown.

The results on the field in anygame do not matter in terms of whether or not a managerial decision was a good one. The fact is playing Kotsay in center field will more often than not be worse for the team than our other 2 options. That is the issue most people have.

Gomez probably wouldn't have got to the Pujols hit just because he plays shallower than Kotsay and it was hit hard. Gomez would have made the blooper look routine. There is also no excuse for Hart not catching that ball.

I never said anything about if he took the 1st pitch he would then take the slider. If he walked the bases would have been loaded. If he didn't chase the terrible pitching the dirt 3-1 the bases would have been loaded with Marcum up. Obviously Marcum could have hit into the double play..but he could have also had a hit as well.

Hart has much more power than Lucroy..I will take my chances anyday with the bases loaded over Lucroy with a guy on 1st and 2nd.

Terrible decision to go up there hacking 3-0, I don't care if the pitcher is batting behind you. Then to compound the problem chasing a 3-1 slider in the dirt makes it even worse.

Unless Marcum is hurt it would be a terrible decision to not start him in game 2.