Boy that was a pitiful AB by Braun. Our #1-#3 hitters today, Villar, Santana, and Braun are hitting .150, .077, and .200 respectively for the season. That's not going to cut it.
Yeah I know BA and Rock were saying 'great pitch', and I'm not saying it was a bad one, but that got a little too much of the plate for my liking for an 0-2 pitch.
I'd say that Ball 2 to Captain Kirk is called Strike 3 about 99 times out of 100. Villar, if you're turning down big guaranteed money to bet on yourself, you better get it together sooner or later.
I still don't agree with it and I'm surprised it didn't backfire, but I'm sure glad about it. Nice outing, Jimmy. Now can we please get him some run support?
I don't know why he didn't just PH for Nelson and try to push a run across. He's thrown 81 pitches and it's his first start. At best he gets through one more inning and he'll be on a short leash already this inning. So he has him go up there and do...I don't even know what he was doing, just to try to maybe squeeze 3 more outs of him at best. Is it really worth it, Craig?