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Brewers (5) vs. Blue Jays (4) 6/18 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Ben Sheets–Another solid outing by the club’s ace, despite him not having great stuff. As I’ve said before, that’s what separates Sheets from the rest of the guys; his ability to get the job done time after time even when he doesn’t have his A-game.
Craig Counsell–3 hits out of the leadoff spot.
Corey Hart, Mike Cameron–Both used their legs to create runs. Hart got a double then advanced to third on a shallow sac fly. He scored on a 10 foot dribbler by Cameron that required excellent speed and baserunning ability. Cameron then stole second and ended up scoring on a sac bunt attempt by Sheets. Cameron also knocked a home run.
Salomon Torres–Had to come in for Mota and get a 1 1/3 inning save. He’s 8 for 8 in save chances since taking over for Gagne.
Russell Branyan–Yet another booming homer.
Less Filling:
Braun, Fielder–Combined to go 0 for 8 with 4 strikeouts and 8 men left on base.
Guillermo Mota–He’s cracked a few times in recent weeks and had to be bailed out last night after only getting two outs but giving up 3 hits and a walk.
Brewers (7) vs. Blue Jays (0) 6/17 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Manny Parra–Was able to go 7 innings, allowing only 4 hits. The 4 walks isn’t a good thing and he did get in trouble a little in the 6th and 7th, but unlike earlier in the year he was able to make quality pitches late in the game to get out of it. It helped that the offense provided him a cushion so each pitch wasn’t for the game. Like McClung, I am now feeling comfortable with him on the mound; that leaves Bush as the only one that I cringe at.
Ryan Braun–Man Crush alert!! Two more jacks and he’s now at 20 on the year. He also moved up to 4th in the All Star balloting. He definetly deserves to start, and hopefully will get voted to do so. If he doesn’t, he almost a shoe-in to be added by the manager.
Counsell, Branyan, Fielder–Each hit homers and Branyan narrowly missed another when he hit one into the 4th level in right field that was just foul. It was one of the highest hits I’ve ever seen that traveled so far.
Less Filling:
The offense–Yes they scored 7 runs and hit 5 homers, but where was the rest of the production? Despite what Ned thinks, you can’t simply rely on home runs to score. We saw what happened last year and early this year if there was a bit of a drought in home runs: the offense sputtered and had no consistency.
Brewers (4) vs. Twins (2) 6/15 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Seth McClung–Like Ben Sheets he’s really only a two pitch pitcher, but he throws pretty hard and his breaking ball is pretty solid, so he can get by as long as he is hitting his spots. When he pitches I feel comfortable that we’ll get a good outing.
Branyan, Cameron, Kendall–These three accounted for pretty all of the Brewers offense in this game as they were a combined 6 for 10 with 2 walks, 4 RBI, and 3 runs.
Bullpen–Outside of Tavarez they’ve been pretty solid lately and that continued today. Torres closed out his 8th save.
Less Filling:
13 strikeouts–Don’t like to see that many strikeouts, especially against a guy like Baker that isn’t necessarily a strikeout pitcher. Plus because of a passed ball 3rd strike, the Brewers had the dubious distinction of striking out 4 times in one inning.
Brewers (4) vs. Twins (9) 6/14 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Jeff Suppan–Another nice game for Soup. He’s a veteran pitcher that knows how to pitch, not just how to throw like some of the young guys. If he can pitch like this all year and keep his ERA under 4, that would be huge for the Brewers. Now the bats just need to pick up the slack and get him some runs so he can win some of these games he’s pitched so well in.
Russell Branyan–Talk about dramatic. That bomb he hit in the 9th off Nathan was one of the most exciting hits in recent memory for the Brewers; too bad they pissed the game away or it could have gone down in Brewer history.
Less Filling:
Julian Tavarez–And here comes his blowups, two in a row in fact.
Ned Yost–His deficiencies in game management raise their ugly head again. Despite having three relievers in the bullpen still, he allows Tavarez to load the bases in consecutive innings and Julian couldn’t recover the second time. So a guy loads the bases with no outs on two walks and a hit, and you leave him in? Terrible decision by Ned. Obviously there’s no guarantee that someone else would have done differently or kept no runs on the board, but you have to put your team in the best position to win the game and Ned failed to do that.
Corey Hart–0 for 6 but the big blow was his inexplicable error in the 9th to allow the runner to get all the way to third.
The offense–Sure they had 11 hits, but they couldn’t string any together to produce runs. Once again they’re simply relying on the longball to score, and if they don’t hit them or don’t hit enough they aren’t scoring.
Brewers (2) vs. Twins (10) 6/13 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Russell Branyan & Prince Fielder–Combined for 4 of the Brewers 5 hits. Branyan recorded two doubles and has really taken advantage of the playing time he’s received.
Less Filling:
Dave Bush–It sure would be nice to have some starting pitching depth either in the majors or the high minors, because there is no reason for him to be pitching in the rotation anymore. He’s proved over the past two seasons that he can’t avoid the big inning and its evidenced by his 5+ ERA in that time. That injury to Gallardo really hurt our staff.
Bill Hall–I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I really wish we would have traded him in the off-season when he had value because now we’re stuck with him, his K’s, constant pulling off outside pitches, suddenly porous defense, and terrible salary. His two errors yesterday led to 6 unearned runs. And his K with men on in the 7th certainly didn’t endear himself to the fans as they serenaded him with Boo’s; and rightfully so.
The rest of the offense–What happened to the team that was hjitting so well coming into play yesterday? Oh that’s right, we reverted back to our normal form of making marginal pitchers look like Cy Young winners. Happens all the time with this inconsistent, strikeout-prone group.
Brewers (9) @ Astros (6) 6/12 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Brewers Offense–Once again the Crew got the bats going big time, including a three home run second inning that staked them to a nice lead. Fielder, Cameron, and Hart all delivered shots in that inning. The key one was Hart’s homer with two out and two on. Sheets had drawn a walk to extend the inning and give Hart that chance.
Tack-on runs–Tack-on runs have been hard to come by for the Brewers at times, but they were able to add some big ones in this game. Kapler hit a bomb in the 9th to give them even more room. Braunie also had a nice day going 2 for 5 with an RBI, a run, and two steals.
Ben Sheets–Once again proved why he’s the ace. Didn’t have great stuff and was playing in a crackerjack park, but worked through 7 innings and put the Brewers in a solid position to win the game.
Less Filling:
The bullpen–Seems to be really hit or miss lately. Either they’re great and give up no runs, or they get smacked around for multiple runs. Mota allowed two in his inning of work and Torres allowed one in the 9th. Again, good thing we were able to add those tack-on runs throughout the game.
Brewers (1) @ Astros (6) 6/10 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
I apologize for the absence the last few days. We’ve had some very severe flooding concerns in our area. Our house is fine and not close to the river, but the city has had a lot of very major flooding. We were without power from Sunday night to Tuesday afternoon.
Tastes Great:
Seth McClung–A solid start for Seth. He’s really solidified his spot in the rotation.
Ryan Braun–Hit his 17th homer of the season to plate the only run for the Brewers.
Less Filling:
The offense–Ok, we all know Oswalt is a great pitcher, but he’s struggled this year and it always seems that the Brewers turn around the fortunes for whatever pitcher they face. Oh, and did I metion 11 strikeots and NO walks taken?
Julian Tavarez–Hmm….didn’t I call his blowup in one of my last blog entries? Not only was he getting hit hard, but he compounded things himself by throwing away an easy play to first.
Mike Cameron–Hard to imagine that we would have seen him here because of his defense, but that misplay on a liner at him cost the Brewers a bunch of runs. It ends up it probably wouldn’t have mattered anyway since the offense only scored one run, but those are the defensive mistakes that don’t show as errors that the Brewers make too much.
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.
Brewers (7) vs. Diamondsbacks (1) 6/3 — Tastes Great, Less Filling
Tastes Great:
Seth McClung–rebounded from a rough outing last time out and pitched 6 strong innings, allowing a few hits but no walks. Also picked up his first two Major League hits–off Randy Johnson no less. Seems to have cemented his spot in the rotation. Now just needs to build up the arm strength to go 7+ innings on occassion.
Ryan Braun–his towering home run sparked the once stagnant Brewers offense. Also made a nice catch in the left and threw a guy out on a very nice play at second.
Prince Fielder–Prince is heating up with the weather. 10-12 homers is a possibility this month.
JJ Hardy–He’s starting to get back to what I would expect out of him: .255-.265 batting average, ending up with 12-15 homers, 60-70 RBI, and playing solid defense.
Bullpen–Dillard and Shouse combined to go 3 innings and allowed only 1 walk with no hits. Shouse picked up the two-inning save.
Less Filling:
Bill Hall–Oh Billy. I find it hard to understand how a guy that is hitting and fielding terribly, and has been for a year and a half, can complain about being platooned. Rather than acknowledge his problems and actually correct them, he has his agent go to the media and complain about reduced playing time. I said in the off-season we should have traded him when he had value and we could have gotten rid of his salary. Now we’re stuck with a guy getting paid like an All-Star who is producing like crap. I and others shouldn’t have been surprised though; outside of two seasons he hasn’t produced on the professional level in the minors (.264 BA in minors) or the other 4 years in the majors. And then of course he goes out yesterday and ingratiates himself well to the already non-impressed crowd by striking out in his first two at-bats.
Mike Cameron–0 for 3 with 3 strikeouts and a walk. Ouch. As a total streak hitter though I’d still expect him to be at his career averages by the end of the season, plus he’s playing great defense.
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