Brewers (4) vs. Cubs (6) 7/28 -- Tastes Great, Less Filling

Tastes Great:

Ryan Braun--What a stud.

JJ Hardy--His home run got the Brewers off the schnide and into the scoring column.

Russell Branyan--Had been awful to terrible the last month, but had gotten a couple hits lately and finally put a good swing on the ball to tie it up in the 7th.

CC Sabathia--Other than a couple missed pitches to Soriano and bit too much nibbling in the 7th he did good.  Its not bad when your "off" day consists of going 6 2/3 and allowing what should have been 2 earned runs.

Less Filling:

Rickie Weeks--0 for 4 with 2 strikeouts.  Credited with one HUGE error on the double play that didn't get turned.  Somehow wasn't credited with an error on Fukudome's grounder that he should have made the play on.

Official scorer--Needs to be fired.  There's been 6 to 8 times this year with Weeks alone where there's been plays that should have been made quite easily yet he wasn't given an error on.  Hey, scorer....DO YOUR JOB PROPERLY AND DON'T BOW DOWN TO THE PLAYERS!!

Salomon Torres--Got ahead of the hitters ok, then wasted pitches and nibbled allowing consecutive walks.  Then it only takes one hit to score runs, which of course occurred.  Gotta go after people at some point.

Bottom of the order--Has been terrible lately.  Hall's got the three game winning hits but hit sub-.200 overall since the all-star break.  Cameron we all know about, but has been even worse lately to the tune of .206 since the break.  And Kendall, God bless his heart, has been great with the staff and throwing guys out, has hit only .212 since the break (and .187 with 4 RBI in July).  Throw in the pitcher's spot and that's 4 pretty sure outs at the bottom of the order.  Its hard to get anything going consistently when you have to rely so much on 3 or 4 guys in the lineup.

Ned Yost--Sometimes I wonder why Ned even stays in the dugout during the game for the lack of actual managing that he does.  We've discussed the lack of bunting, hit-and-running, and overall movement ad nauseum.  And I think most would pretty much agree he does not know how to manage a pitching staff.  So in the other key game management area, pinch-hitting, he does nothing either.  How many times do we get to see Cameron strikeout late in games, or Kendall fly out weakly to right?  When did these .250 and below hitters become too good to be pinch-hit for?  Its ridiculous.