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Brewers (11) @ Pirates (3) 8/30 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Jeff Suppan–Set a Brewes record by winning his 5th game in the month of August. Another 7 strong innings and only two runs allowed. At least he’s earning that $44 million in the key parts of the season.
Brewers offense–6 of the 8 Brewers position players had multi-hit games. When that happens you’re usually going to win. Weeks and Hardy set the table at the top and the bottom of the order was just as good with Mike Cameron making a big contribution with a home run, double, and 4 RBI.
Less Filling:
Seth McClung–Gave up yet another run in a relief role. He’s pitching himself out of the bullpen rotation for the month of September with all the call-ups. It looks like he’ll only be used in blowout and long relief situations for now. A long way from being the third or fourth best starter as he was for a while earlier this year.
Prince Fielder/Ryan Braun–Once again these two went 0′fer, but this time the rest of the lineup picked them up.
Brewers (6) vs. Pirates (3) 8/23 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Jeff Suppan–Soup always seems to flirt with danger whether its allowing early runs or allowing leadoff baserunners. But like he has the last month or so Suppan made it work. He allowed 3 runs in 7 innings and looks to be continuing his career-long improvement the last two months of the year.
Ryan Braun–Came up big hitting a solo home run after getting buzzed up and in and then later doubling in two runs as well.
Hitters 1-4–In addition to the aforementioned Braun, the rest of the top hitters in the order produced big as well. This foursome produced 6 hits, 6 runs, and 5 RBI.
Less Filling:
Bill Hall–Gotta start asking yourself why he’s still in the lineup. His average has dropped to .219 despite playing significantly against lefties, who he has killed throughout his career. Not only did Billy go 0 for 4 (again), he struck out two times as well. Oh how I wish we would have traded him in the off-season.
Brewers (5) @ Padres (2) 8/12 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Jeff Suppan–Took full advantage of the pitcher-friendly dimensions at Petco Park. He pounded the strike zone and dared the Padre hitters to try to elevate the ball and hit it far enough to go out. He gave up two solo home runs and a couple others that went for deep outs, but only allowed 4 hits in 8 innings. He’s been a much better pitcher in August and September in his career and he is showing that again this year.
Prince Fielder–He hit that ball out to right about as hard as you can hit a ball. He generates so much power when he goes all out like that. He’s been on a tear for the past couple weeks and has increased it even more since that dugout fracas.
Mike Cameron–This blog was quoted on the MLB.com front page only 3 day ago with a statement that Cameron is a streaky player and needs to be playing every day during this hot streak (article originally published 8/6). Cameron’s certainly proving me right on that one. Picked up two more hits including his second home run in 5 games since I made that statement.
Less Filling:
J.J. Hardy–Grounded into two double plays, including one in a bases loaded no out situation in the 7th. The Brewers were only up 4-2 at that time, and tack on runs are huge. Hardy was fortunate the Padres committed an error on the next play to allow one run to score, otherwise he would have been largely responsible for the Brewers not scoring with the bases loaded and no one out.
Brewers (6) @ Reds (3) 8/6 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Rickie Weeks–I am an admitted Weeks apologist. I do like the addition of Durham though and am fine with a soft platoon. That being said, I think Weeks is breaking out of his slumber and about to get it going. His stats have improved over the last month or so. Continuing to bench him is not going to allow him to blossom and improve. I’m fine with Durham playing 1-2 times a week, but not more. Especially if Rickie is starting to play well. A big 4 for 5 today including some clutch hits.
Mike Cameron–Cameron has been swinging the bat well lately, so you can bet Ned will have him on the bench the first game of the Nats series. I’m hoping not, but that’s been Ned’s MO. Cameron hit the ball the other way with authority, which is always a sign of a hitter that is locked in. He’s a streaky hitter and you have to ride him when he’s hot. He should start every game this series.
Jeff Suppan–Started out kind of rocky, but got out of the damage early and pitched 7 strong. Need that kind of performance out of him down the stretch. His ERA in August and September is much better than the other months.
Eric Gagne–He only threw three pitches. But they were all quality pitches in a tight spot. That last fastball to Encarnacion was 94 on the black. If he can do that a little more, watch out.
Less Filling:
Craig Counsell–0 for 5 with 5 men left on base.
Ned Yost–Regardless of what Kendall did today or the day before he should have been out of those games. One of Kendall’s hits Tuesday was a weak flare into right, and today he had a standard grounder up the middle that the pitcher missed. Ned will continue to land here until Kendall gets a day off like he should have a week ago. Also, JJ finally broke his 0 for 28 slump with two hits on Tuesday, so what does Ned do? He benches him. Are you kidding me? Then he’s played Craig Counsell 5 games in a row now. And on the fifth day Counsell goes 0 for 5. Craig is in good shape for his age, but his talent level and age should dictate him to be a 1 to 2 games a week guy if that.
Brewers (9) @ Braves (0) 8/1 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Welcome back Brewers–The Who’s in Right Field? Blog would like to welcome back the Milwaukee Brewers professional baseball team. After disappearing for four days, they finally returned.
Rickie Weeks–He’s been much-maligned lately, and rightly so. Especially for his defensive performance in Monday’s game against Chicago in which he botched a double play ball allowing 2 runs to score and booted another ball earlier in the inning. But he has been swinging a good bat lately, and he put together some nice approaches last night. A couple base hits on hard hit balls up the middle and the other way plus drew a walk. I think he’s ready to get on a roll here much like last year and we need to ride it out. Using a late game defensive substitution with Counsell isn’t a bad idea though.
Prince Fielder–I’m a little reluctant to put him here since he only had one hit in five at-bats and struck out three times, but it did mark the third game in a row he’s homered. I called a Prince home run binge a few games ago and it looks like we’re in the midst of one. Sure makes things easier when he’s productive.
Jeff Suppan–Another bad outing may have meant a move to the pen. But instead he put up 7 scoreless innings of 5 hit ball. Did get in a couple jams early and you had to wonder if we were seeing Sunday’s game all over again where he got staked to an early lead only to give up a big inning. He settled down, though, and was nearly flawless the last 3-4 innings. He also dropped down a sacrifice bunt.
Less Filling:
Hard to find anything here. JJ and Corey both had 0′fers, but both found ways to contribute RBI’s.
Brewers (6) vs. Astros (11) 7/27 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Ryan Braun–Another 3 for 5 with another home run. Superlatives exhausted.
Rickie Weeks–On base 2 of his 5 plate appearances and scored 2 runs. We’ll take that every day.
Less Filling:
Jeff Suppan–Cruising right along then hit the wall in the 5th. Is he pitching himself out of the rotation for a while?
Ned Yost–How the hell do you allow your starter to give up 7 runs in the 5th inning? And then trot him out for the next inning too? It was like Ned decided once the Brewers got behind that he was going to give up on this game and save his bullpen for the Cubs series. What an asinine idea…..and manager.
Seth McClung–He’s been much better this year as a starter than a reliever, and showed that again last night. Failed to keep the Astros in check to allow for a potential comeback.
I really hope Sunday’s game about the 4th inning wasn’t the high water mark for this season. At that time the Brewers were tied with the Cubs in the standings and up 4-1 on the Astros in the game. The Cubs meanwhile were down 5-0 to the Marlins and in danger of being swept at home. Within a half an hour the Cubs were winning, the Brewers losing, and first place just out of reach.
Brewers (4) @ Cardinals (3) 7/22 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Jeff Suppan–Sure looked like he was heading to Less Filling territory once again after giving up 3 early runs, but was able to settle down and work 7 innings and not give up any more damage.
Prince Fielder–A couple hits including an opposite field single to give the Brewers their first run in the 7th.
JJ Hardy–A couple more hits today including a big run-scoring two-out single that tied the game in the 8th.
Rickie Weeks–A day after struggling in the field, Weeks made a couple really nice plays defensively and drove in and scored key runs in the 8th inning.
Bill Hall–Looked like another tough night for Billy until his two-out home run in the 9th put the Brewers on top. One of the bigger moments of the year for the Brewers.
Less Filling:
Cameron/Kapler–Both went 0 for 4 with a couple strikeouts. Cameron looked terrible on multiple swings.
Brewers (11) vs. Pirates (6) 7/6 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
JJ Hardy–A day after his 16 game hitting streak ended, he came back with a vengeance. Two more home runs and a double to boot.
The offense–Everyone pitched in and the Brewers ended up tying franchise records with 9 doubles and 12 extra-base hits.
The bullpen–Suppan put them in a tough place, and they responded with 6 innings of 3 hit and no run baseball.
Less Filling:
Jeff Suppan–Soup, come on man. You’re a great guy and battle every time out, but we need some production out of you lately. He got off to a pretty good start, but has struggled lately. With the impending addition of Sabathia he (along with McClung and Bush) could be in danger of losing their spot with continued poor performances.
Brewers (8) @ Diamondbacks (6) 7/1 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
JJ Hardy–Wow, what a hot streak. Two more homers to go along with 3 runs scored and 3 RBI. Threw in a stolen base to boot.
Corey Hart–3 hits, 2 runs, 1 RBI, and 2 steals. Quite an all-around game for quite an all-around player.
The Replacements–Rivera, Kapler, and Dillon combined for 4 hits, 5 RBI’s, and a couple runs scored. Plus some good defense as well.
Defense–Some great plays made including a couple by Bill Hall, the dive and tag the bag play by Rivera, and some nice running catches in the outfield. Suppan was getting hit pretty hard so the guys had to be on their toes for sure.
Less Filling:
Jeff Suppan–Staked to a 6-1 lead early on he allowed the D-Backs to chip away.
Guillermo Mota–Yet another run allowed for our “8th inning guy”. He had a 6.48 ERA in June and didn’t start July on a good foot either.
Brewers (2) @ Braves (4) 6/25 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Rickie Weeks–A double and a triple today. Keep it up Rickie.
Less Filling:
The offense–I know its good to win the series, but why not a sweep? Well, when your offense does its quite common “Make a scrub/average pitcher look like an All-Star” act, its hard to get anything going.
Jeff Suppan–I give him credit for making it through 6 innings, but he gave up a lot of hits and chances along the way. He got a bit lucky to only allow 4 runs.
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