Greinke's gotta be careful with the meatballs tonight. As I'm sure Rock will remind us 17 times in the 1st inning, the Cubs ambush fastballs, and he was leaving them over the plate in Chicago and got rocked. OTOH, look at Fielder's slash line vs Z. Wow. I predict he snaps out of the homer-less funk tonight.
Curveball pitchers like Yo always scare me in the high altitude at Coors. I remember Sheeter always struggling there, and more recently Chad Billingsley also has had trouble getting good break on what is usually one of the league's nastiest curves
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but CC's last walk-off Sac Fly before today was on the last day before the All Star break in 2008...against Cordero and the Reds.
This seems as good a place as any to point out that Rickie Weeks has baseball's third highest WAR since the start of 2010, trailing only Bautista and Votto, and beating out guys like Pujols, Hamilton, and Cabrera
I don't mind the infield in. I'd like to see numbers, but it seems like the odds of a hit through the infield don't increase too much with the infield in, at least not enough to outweigh the potential saved run
Its a shame TBS is blacked out here. I would love to hear BA as a neutral observer. Also, this is probably our best defensive outfield since 2008, at least.
Crap, I thought I was the only one feeling a blowout tonight. No it's not a rational thought, but I feel like Narve will give up 4 in the 1st and Z will get 11 Ks in 7 innings. Edit: or there's a rainout. That works too.