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Brewers (11) vs. Rockies (1) 7/10 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Dave Bush–I’ve been hard on him this year, but he’s really gotten the job done in the last 4-6 weeks. Hopefully he can hold this form and be an asset to the team instead of a liability.
Brewers offense–Outta nowhere comes 12 hits and 11 runs.
2 out RBI–10 of the 11 runs came via 2 out RBI. Quite a departure from what the Brewers usually do.
Less Filling:
Mike Rivera–Was the only regular without a hit. Also allowed the Rockies to run roughshod on the bases. 3 steals plus a bad throw allowed an advance.
Brewers defense–Two errors today and that total has been increasing lately. Gotta get it shored up for the pennant push.
Brewers (3) vs. Rockies (8) 7/9 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Bill Hall–Had a couple hits, including a home run. Also scored two runs. Hopefully this isn’t just an aberration.
Mike Cameron/Ryan Braun–Couple hits for each.
Ben Sheets–Had some pretty nasty stuff. 11 K’s in only 6 innings. That was the problem though…only 6 innings. The Rockies forced his pitch count up and he couldn’t finish out. That meant the bullpen had to eat up more innings and we saw what resulted.
Less Filling:
Guillermo Mota–The Who’s in Right Field? blog has officially given him a vote of No Confidence. And now we’re hearing that he is likely to be designated for assignment and possibly released. About time.
Brewers offense–Yet another marginal major league starting pitcher (and another former Brewer) made us look like fools. Pretty sad when we trot out Ben Sheets and they trot out Glendon Rusch and the score ends up like it does. Disappointing to say the least. Now we have to win tomorrow just to salvage a series split. Not a good way to capitalize on the momentum of the last week (JJ’s hot streak, All-Star nods, and of course CC’s arrival).
Brewers (8) vs. Rockies (3) 7/8 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
CC Sabathia–Didn’t pitch great, but showed why he’s a great pitcher. I wish he would have challenged guys a little more instead of walking them, but I think there will be a period of adjustment between him and Kendall to figure each other out.
Ryan Braun–Hit his first home run in quite some time. It put the Brewers out to a nice 3-0 lead and took some pressure off CC.
Bill Hall–Nice to see him appearing in the Tastes Great column a few times recently. His two out single scored two and gave us some breathing room.
Less Filling:
Jason Kendall–I hate to be hard on him, but he went 0 for 4 at the plate. And I’m not sure if CC was shaking him off or what happened, but they just didn’t seem in sync yet. Too many off-speed pitches behind in the count. Again, I’m going to chalk this one up to unfamiliarity and am sure they’ll do better next time.
Brewers (3) vs. Rockies (4) 7/7 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
CC Sabathia–Welcome to town big man. Now go out and win us a playoff berth!!! 
Prince Fielder–His shot in the 8th was about the only good thing in the whole damn game for the Brewers.
Less Filling:
Not a good way to welcome your new teammate guys.
1) Let a guy that’s horrible on the road look like Cy Young.
2) Fail to take advantage of some early baserunners by not getting any clutch hits.
3) Get picked off………twice.
4) Starting pitcher can’t make 5 innings as he walks his way out of the game.
5) An error in the field allows an unearned run.
6) Bullpen allows two runs, one unearned.
7) Outside of one swing by Prince this was about as bad of a showing as you can get. Bad offense, bad pitching, bad defense, bad baserunning.
8) Tomorrow’s a new day and let’s welcome CC with about 8 runs of support.
Brewers (3) @ Rockies (2) 6/8 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great;
Jeff Suppan–Got himself in some trouble, especially with 5 walks in only 5 1/3 inning, but the crafty veteran bulldogged his way through it and kept his team ahead.
Joe Dillon–Filling in for Weeks and of course batting leadoff (Yost apparently feels you have to bat in the spot of your replacement; stupidest thing I’ve ever heard regardless of how Dillon did today). 1 for 2 with 3 walks and scored 2 of the Brewers runs. Also stole a base.
Gabe Kapler, Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder, Corey Hart–All had two hits today.
The Bullpen–back to being solid. 3 2/3 innings today and no runs allowed with only two hits and two walks. Torres really picked it up by coming in and going 1 2/3 for the save including getting out of a sticky situation with a guy on third and one out in the 8th.
Less Filling:
Bill Hall, JJ Hardy, Jason Kendall–The bottom of the order combined to go 2 for 14 and leave 9 runners on. Kendall also had another passed ball.
The elusive “Tack-on Run”–Where was it? Scored all 3 of their runs in the first two innings, then blanked, mostly due to failures to hit with runners in scoring position. I mean getting 11 hits along with 6 walks should mean double digit runs, certainly not only 3. The epitome of the problems came in the 9th when they got runners on 1st and 2nd to start the inning then didn’t score as they failed to get the ball out of the infield after that.
Brewers (2) @ Rockies (7) 6/7 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Corey Hart–Two hits today. Had slowed down a little lately, but still makes positive contributions on a nightly basis.
Julian Tavarez–I’m sure the inevitable blowup is coming, but so far he’s been a very good pickup for the Brewers.
Less Filling:
Dave Bush–Much like the Democrats on Iraq, I feel we should cut and run on Dave Bush. All he has proven over his career is that at his best he can be a decent number 4 or 5 starter. Unfortunately that was 3 and 4 years ago. His recent performances indicate that he should be in the pen or in the minors. Oh, two outs and no one on in the first…..Hell yeah, I’ll go ahead and give up 4 runs.
The offense–As too often happens, we took a no-name guy with bad stats (5.72 ERA coming in) and made him look like Greg Maddux. As I said, it seems to happen way too often.
Brewers (4) @ Rockies (6) 6/6 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
This is the kind of game that makes me hate the Brewers and what they do to me:(
Tastes Great:
Ben Sheets–Sheets battled through those innings as he didn’t have a curveball at all pretty much. But that’s why he’s your ace, even with his C game, he gets it done.
Less Filling:
I really hope this doesn’t trigger a swoon like we saw last year when bad things happened. Its the right situation though. A game, especially the first of a road trip, we were winning easily on the road, can’t tack on runs, bullpen blows it big-time. That happened last year multiple times and it always seem to set us back for a long time.
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