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Interesting observation...now that you mention it I can't think of a single memorable player with that number, pitcher or otherwise. I can think of 2 MVP SS, Barry Larkin and Jimmy Rollins, and Drew Bledsoe

major league baseball players getting hits off a guy who throws 85? Who knew

Top of the order has been mostly quiet, now we go

4th pitch was a foul ball

It was a strike You’re funny. Most of the 6 circle is outside of the box. It isn’t a foul line. Thanks for that though Yes it is, any part of the ball over any part of the plate is a strike MLB rules, pg 149 A STRIKE is a legal pitch when so called by the umpire, which: (b) Is not struck at, if any part of the ball passes through any part of the strike zone;

It was a strike

sit down Baez you disgrace to the number 9

Not sure Aguilar makes that play

Braun has an interesting amish-ish beard but no sideburns look

Come on Bandy, you should be looking to swing at anything close considering the pitcher is on deck.

Nice throw from Bandy

"The original plan may have been to ship off one of our depth pieces but instead of paniking when the market wasn't right, he stood pat. That is a smart move by a GM and it has paid off whether you want to give credit to him or not." You are objectively wrong about this. First of all, the original plan most certainly was to ship off one of our depth pieces, namely Domingo Santana. We do not know what the market was, and if he stood pat or not. He may have been actively trying to not stand pat all winter and had no takers. It may well have been the other 29 GMs standing pat. It has objectively NOT paid off so far, as Santana has contributed nothing to this team, is sporting a sub 600 OPS and has been worth negative WAR. I do expect this to change, but so far it has done the opposite of paying off. "You mention trotting out Suter as if he is the only pitcher we can try in that spot. It isn't and it sure as heck doesn't justify any pitching acquisition from this past offseason as just about every one of them have been terrible." Nowhere did I say anything about any free agent, we are talking about the OF/1B depth. It doesn't matter what we could do, right now we have been forced to start Brent Suter and he has been horrible because he is not a talented major league pitcher. "Smile, he is doing a good job." I didn't say he wasn't doing a good job, however I do not think he deserves any credit for how our depth has worked in our favor this month because I do not believe he actually planned for this. "You mention a lot of other scenarios to try to make a point and whiffed." I mentioned these other scenarios to illustrate the point that David Stearns did not set out this off season to build a team that had starter caliber players as backups on the team. If that was his plan then he would have actively made moves to do that. The fact that he just held onto Santana is not the same thing. If signing Cain was just a depth move, why didn't we make other such moves at other positions? My point was excellent. "I'm really sorry that it upsets you that some want to give credit to Stearns for building a roster that has withstood some injuries" Again, Stearns did not build this roster intentionally, he had some plan with Santana that did not work out. This roster was unable to sustain injuries by Pina (Bandy) Arcia (Sogard) and Yelich (Santana), and would be unable to sustain injuries to Shaw, Anderson or Davies. The only injury that has worked out to not significantly hurt us are Knebel, so Stearns gets credit for the strong bullpen, and Thames, who will now be replaced by the same guy who would have done it last year.

Yes! He's so good, he predicted these injuries! Sheesh Expecting there to be some injuries isn’t too unrealistic considering the players we have. Banking on the depth is turning out to be a very, very good move (or non move) on his part. Do people honestly think his plan all along was to have an all-star caliber player on the bench at all times? Something went wrong in his plan, we are benefiting in the short term, but last time I checked we are still trotting out Brent Suter in our starting rotation. We just happen to be lucky that some of our injuries happened to occur for players we have good depth behind. What if Shaw went out for 8 weeks instead of Thames? What is Stearns' genius plan for that? 8 weeks of Hernan I guess. If he was actually trying to acquire all-star backups, why didn't we sign Moustakis in reserve for Travis Shaw? What is Stearn's amazing backup plan for Manny Pina going down? Jett Bandy and his sub Uecker hitting line? Why didn't we sign Lucroy? What if Arcia is out for 8 weeks? Why didn't Stearns sign Zach Cozart... point is our depth was not planned, it may be helping right now, but lets not give Stearns credit for luckily having the right guys hit the DL.

Sweep the Cubs and free burgers Monday

It is 12 in a row, in 1987, and you are the one who is the treasure

Hader now tied for 12th in the NL for Ks

We need some electrolytes, bring on the Haderade

Pina doing something Bandy could not, block a spiked Barnes pitch

My TV must be delayed because it doesn't show us leading by 18 runs

Leaving a lefty reliever making his debut in to face Braun was ... Um.... Odd. I feel better about Counsel now. Lol. Yosted

Looks like the Cubs allowed a run to score from first on a bunt, heading into the 9th down by 3 now

Did they put in a new rule this year where the starter cannot enter the 7th inning?

In the live ball era (since 1920) the lowest pitch count in a 9 inning CG is 74, with the Brewers victim of one of them Carlos Silva, 74 pitches, MIN 7 MIL 1 May 20 2005 Aaron Cook, 74 pitches, COL 10 SD 2 July 25 2007 In Silva's game, no Brewer even got to a 3 ball count. He had a 3 pitch inning in the 6th, single, GIDP, F9

He's spent less time on the field all night

Good baserunning from Sunday, tagging to second and scoring