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Cubs @ Braves 4/8: Game Thread 2

Maybe a new thread will wake up the Braves' bats.

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Gah -- NO MORE MARSHALL

Glaus better come through this time.

Ugh

Marshall warming up, I hate that guy

C'mon Glaus.

Glaus it over the Glausfield wall.

Were about to crack into the ’pen. Lets get some runs

Hey Troy – now would be nice.

Love a man who follows instructions.

What’s the need for a new thread?

Post limits or some such.

Had a couple requests...

Over 1000 comments, apparently laggy?

Me. My roomie is downloading multiple seasons of Eureka.

Wow! Nice rip Glaus!

WOOOOOO TROY
Longest. Single. Ever.
wow, no kidding

he may be slower than big mac

Freddie Freeman’s over-the-wall spring training single. That he got called out on.

I never stopped loving you Troy

Ugh…can’t believe Infante didn’t score.

Whoa. Who was that?
Nice hit Glaus

Only a single. Alright I’lll take it. Come on Esco. You’re time

woo! 1st and 3rd!

Oh no Yunel, don’t do it.

Please work the count, Esco

let’s get at least 1, Yunel

Who is slower

Troy Glaus or a one legged blind man to first

Does the blind man have a cane?

Let’s go Esco!

Let’s go Nelly!

ESCO. 1st & third – 1 out.
1-0. thank you….

C’mon Esco. Need a clean hit here.

carpengui, where’s your rally cap img

That’s NCChopper… !

I was getting it but they FAILED before I could post it.

2-0… pitching around him to get to Heyward….. foul.

Find one to drive Yunel

sac fly please

go fuck yourself yunel

maybe that was uncalled for but hit the goddamn ball the other way

ARRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGHHHHHH

wow

just fuck fuckity fuck

3rd DP tonight
Oh, lord.

This is getting redonkulous

positively redonkulous

SOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bye guys, the liquor shop closes in 23 minutes. I gonna need it tonight.

ARGH!

Second runner-on-third-one-out DP of the night.

Mothers of all fucker that was argh.

When do we hit the panic button on our offense?

Heyward has to move up in the order

The two hats in front of him keep making sure he is leading off an inning

Dammit.

dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit.

I’m very glad I didn’t go to this game.

It’d be a swan dive off the LF cow.

Yunel w/ runners on:

Double play or multiple RBI hit. No in between

I’m not even allowed in Mexico

Well played, Mauer.

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Love this commercial

how many LOB is that now

Not enough

We keep erasing them with DPs

Yunel is so inconsistent it’s not even funny. I’m sick of watching his GIDP year after year

I hate his league leading .373 with RISP too!

His great defense sucks as well

How many rally’s has he killed in the past 3 seasons?

Apparently fewer than anyone else in MLB besides Han Ramirez
We need to make sure

That Yunel only comes up with runners on 2nd and 3rd, not on 1st

hopefully we’ll get into their ‘pen soon and get out of the Wells’ double play ball-zone

Maybe we can hit their pen again?
As long

as marshall doesnt come in

He can't still be able to pitch, right?

I mean, how many innings has he thrown already?

he’s in the pen

up in the pen, that is

yeah

He is already up in the pen

I look forward to it.

as long as it’s not that Marshall guy

Heyward needs to be ahead of Esco….quickly

EOF still out there

1 pitch… 1 out, 6-3

Wells out

Soriano PH

god those meth commercials are creepy…i’m not trying to watch requiem for a dream right now

breaking bad, so good
dish network alt channel

=no commercials, just overhead turner cam….love it

but I’m only gonna try meth once, c’mon

Surprised we are sticking with EOF

Cool.

Reason number 5 why I like the NL. Pitch hit the pitcher.

Thanks for putting this up

Another 6-3… two down.

nice inning EOF, time for runs

Great work by EOF

The BP this year has been beastly.

The bullpen

Gives up as many runs as the offense scores…

Nice snag Troy!

HEYWARD. SAVE US. PLEASE

Ugh

Marshall coming in maybe Lou will make him pitch the rest of the way

Nice quick inning. BRING THE BATS.

LINEOUT to first…. quick half inning.

eof solid today

quick work

Good job EOF

Now, Marshal is gonna make our hitters look silly again.

Hopefully he's tired

Thrown 3.2 already, can’t have much in the tank

ugh

we can’t hit sean marshall worth #(*&#

Our bullpen is awesome…and out starter only gave up 2 runs in 6 innings…Too bad our offense is anemic against a AAAA pitcher

I think Wells is better than that, in all honesty.

He's decent,

but not this good. A solid #4 guy.

I thought Wells was Webb

And there I thought it was a really tough pitcher, could have fooled me

root root root for the “cubbies” was way too audible there

as of right now who is the p2c?

anyone is a stretch at this point

Maybe Prado? I’d hesitate to pick anyone so far.

dunno. I’ll have to think about it

that was honestly the shortest half inning i think i’ve ever witnessed

Did you miss all of those games

Where GA hit third followed by Francouer than Yunel

A few three pitch innings

Let's Go HeywarD!

what the FUCK was with that “cubbies” chant in ATL’s 7th inning stretch??? jeez…

this is what I hate about the turner field crowd

too nice to the opposition, that shit wouldn’t fly elsewhere

At least the Phils lost.

Does this rally cap count?

I'm pretty sure

the jersey counteracts the hat, and then some

AAAAAAAAAA, Burn it with fire!

ummmm…. apparently so.

lol

Yunel needed it, but it’s not too late

Let’s go HEYWARD

Heyward

A little slow against Marshall

YOU DID NOT JUST CALL HEYWARD OUT

I’m sick of all these close plays.

I'm so sick and tired

of being sick about the plays at first.

Mclouth against lefties

Is painful to watch at times

There we go.

That’s more like it

Took my very own Braves cap, turned it inside out and snapped a photo.

matty d up next?!??!

he looked safe

replay showed

he was actually out, sadly

Jason Heyward

Is too awesome for replay.

give me another pair of glasses cause he still looked safe

Replay

Shows he was clearly out

nah, half step, definitely out

Replay looked like he was out, but it was close.

Caveman due up

Come on Matty D

Its not over yet

Remember they still have Carlos Marmol

Lets hope

Its the Marmol who cant even find the batters box version

This

Lets please be paitent when he comes in this is his first appearance of the year

Eric Hinske time.

It looked like Nate hit that harder than it really was.

this is pretty pathetic

Ernie is a scorebook geek.

I like the color coding
was that marmol now?
no

Same guy who was in last night, cant remember his name

The Marshall plan is over.

Ha. Ha.

sarcastic clap

Does anybody on here keep a scorecard?

Cause I do not.

INTERNET is your friend

Bringing in a righty to face Diaz. Little do they know that Matt Diaz is going to hit .460 this year.

and still

come off the bench

You know what the problem with this line-up is

The two biggest GIDP threats are batting consecutively in the line-up. You know who I’m talking about. Actually, your third biggest risk is batting right in front of them most nights, too.

Plus we have an instant out at the top and bottom of the lineup right now

8
9
1

Its like a free inning right now

Who is gonna be the hero tonight???
Caridad... We can hit him
Oh, good, it's Matt diaz.

He can tie this thing up with one swing.

yes that bases empty 2 run homer

Do not underestimate the power of the Diaz.

two run homer

with no one on?

There are no questions in the Diaz zone.

Not in this AB he can't

I think you missed the sarcasm

i like this new pitcher’s name. sounds like one of our minor league players.

sounds like a met

Most Hispanics do

i just think it’s cool when the guys with really obscure names make it to the bigs

you are on fire right now man

captain caveman!

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH
Yeah. This is why we don't start Matty vs. Righties

K.

And Melky is doing how much better?

yeah, he's had good ab's
Better than that AB?

A good amount

Matt Diaz ....

Eh.

We're gettin goosed

Hinske switch hits, correct?

Can only hit righties
Nope

LH batter

Yep you’re right, for some reason I was unsure.

This is painful to watch.

At least – we won the series.

Gotta win more series than you lose to get to the BIG series.

winning 2 out of every 3 gives you 108….i think ill take it

3 out of 5 is still good

Win 2 out of 3 at home and play 500 on the road.

indeed, but i’m greedy

Oh shit

Jesse RBI Chavez is in

I'm afraid.

But not as afraid as I would have been if it were Acosta.

True

has he got into a game yet for the ole Mets

It's not over!

Their closer is not that great.

Chavez is in

we have thrown the white flag?

Heyward should have one more at bat (:

wait, resop is in?

resop is the backup left fielder you know this

of course, you're right

gotta save some guys – play in SFran tomorrow.

Good point

Also, we have 2 more innings

A comeback here can send Cub nation into suicide watch

I feel it coming……

All the more reason, then

Sounds like a plan.

Jesse Chavez

Oh boy…

he is lights out on 2k10

The Show > 2K10

Without playing the show I agree…but I have a 360 and realllllly cant afford a ps3

do you have cod

not mw2…i know i know i should be shot

its 2k10, its not real

now, if it were MLB 10 the show then…..

when the hell is the patch going to be out with heyward’s real name

i dled the rosters from 2kshare and he’s on there…the one problem I noticed is Freeman could pass as wesley snipes son

with his real name? i checked yesterday and didn’t see, but i’ll check again after the game

its not the official roster updates…some guy added in the top prospects

Fukudome. flyout to deep CF

Oh hey look...

The TRUE home run king!

For some reason, I wanna call Chavez “Beetlejuice”

Chavez' stuff looks good to me

HIGH pop to Glaus… 2 down.

2 outs...

That’s kinda surprising.

He's better than he was in ST

Of course, so is everyone

except glaus

Yeah,

2 hits today. He’s terrible

Nono, dont get me wrong. I aint passing judgement on him yet. I am just saying it would be about impossible for him to do better than he did in ST.

Oh.

What I meant earlier was that everyone would be better than Chavez was in ST

I like you Chavez, I like you

that was impressive

solid inning…bullpen looks great

Great pitch by Chavez there

CY YOUNG!

95+ FB, 90 Slider with good movement, in the zone

What’s not to like here

Control is for suckers ask Manny Acosta

Plz

Manny Acosta had nothing like the sliders Chavez just through.

and

through = threw

Wow!

Looked great there.

Nice job Chavez

Good time to look like an idiot

Chavez I am mistaken

Don't look now

but Chavez was impressive

Damn, Chavez looked like a power arm there.

who was that chavez kid?

Traded Raffy for him

Straight deal for a salary dump. Rays got him from the Pirates for Iwamura

If he can look like that each time out, I couldn’t complain.

Stupid Gamecast

LET'S SCORE SOME F'ING RUNS!!!

Such a better motto then this is Braves Country.

I concur. Die Hard fan right here until the last out.

I wonder

If our bullpen can hit?

BOTTOM EIGHTH

HERE… PUT THIS ON…

looks like the hat stinks

my pick to click: Lets go Melky

MELKY…. grounds out to short.

Fucking Melky

King of slow grounders

Thata baby Marteeeen!
Prado!

Another base hit

Prado with another hit

Wish he’d done that last time up

odarp… that looked outside for 1-2… but

Prado!! Ok. Time for Mac or Glaus to plant one in the seats

OK… lets get it started, odarP!

Unless McCann hits a three run homer in a minutes here

 Prado is your P2C

I hope he does

McCann’s on my fantasy team.

Prado, so smooth

three hits for odarp

Prado is our offense tonight.
ugh

Infante just under it

OMAR…. 1-for-Chipper so far….
flyout to LF. TWO OUT.

If we get shutout tonight, I’m gonna be super-pissed.

Like I said in the other thread...

Glaus hits a deep fly ball in the 4th and Esco hits a deep fly ball in the 6th, we’re tied.

pleeeeeeeeeeeease Heap…get on base

Come on Heap!!!
We need ya here.

Yeah, a long one ties it up.
Prado + Glaus: 5 hits

Everyone else: 2 hits

I feel like Heap has been over aggressive thus far, patience Brian.

Reyes in the 9th if we don't even it up here?

I’d guess Saito.

why not just call on acosta?

We would if he hadn’t been released.

reyes is just as bad

This just in….

Lets make it two off Grabow

Come on Heap

one goose egg and 7 hits???

thats what happens

When you hit like a small ball team, but play like a long ball team

Gradow’s hat is a disaster and it’s only his second appearance

So he can use foreign substances on the ball, presumably

Mac on base= Marmol comes in= floodgates open

If we tie this game - our BP is better.

HERE WE GO. LETS GO MAC

They're choppin
Come on Mac

work the count, make it count

WALK

Come on Glaus

Hey Troy – it’s TIME baby.

pinch run for mac?

Yes.

lol little moments that make me feel like I could manage a MLB team

If Bob Brenly could do it

I’m sure you can

Good eye!

Come on Glausy!

Good AB, Heap.

BB

Good idea, B-mac

Now, go-ahead run at the plate!

Walk!! COME ON TROY. MAKE MY P2C PICK LOOK AWESOME

Walks are good. come on troy

nice walk…ALRIGHT GLAUS YOU FUCKER, DO WORK

Marmol In

Lets hope he is wild

BB Mac

Lets go Glaus. Redemption time

hit and run would be good here

2 outs and with low contact hitter?

How about

no.

Great job Heap

Gawd Marmol can throw heat.

and as I recall Glaus isn’t catching up to anything.

Marmol

Has to throw strikes though, should be amped for his first game

maybe that loooong single will get Troy goin...
Lou emptying the BP for a W tonight
Fuck you Lou

You could at least show a little hustle…

Marmol can be a bit wild

And not in a good way. Let’s see.

GLAUS UP… Marmol coming in for Grabow, Pinch runner (Conrad, likely) for Mac.

Marmol coming in with 1 out, runners on first and second.

I hope he’s got some cobwebs to shake off, because he can be unhittable, or he can be a disaster.

2 out

sadly

You are correct, sir.

fingers crossed for disaster

hahaha

Reminds me of the giant, mutant possum I saw in my backyard today.

Conrad in for Mac

Ok Troy!! Make my P2C pick come true!

Autodraft gave me Marmol

whoops

There went your WHIP

already losing whip anyway

Be the hero Glausy!
Glaus going to be swinging

Looking for the gas

Just a bit outside

1-0

First pitch WAY outside. Good sign.

Nice Troy. Wait for your pitch

Hurray for patience

that pitch hasnt been called all day

Troy did NOT like that call
Ugh

Hanson did not get that strike

That was not a strike
Where was that for our guys tonight?

Nice rip there

damn

Just missed it Troy

BIG pitch here.
Daaaamn

Glaus was almost on that one.

2-2… first strike way outside.

Bat speed Troy

Glaus so slow

ugh 3 out

Damn. It. Damn. It. Damn. It. Damn. It.

Out of the inning. 2 LOB…. here come the expletives.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

Well at least Heyward gets one more AB

Troy cussin’ and pissed. Think it was that low strike call.

I smell

Esco hit, Heyward HR to tie in the 9th

I hope you’re a bloodhound

Heyward will save us in the 9th. 2-run bomb to tie it.

How many LOB do we have this game alone?
16

Actually 8 lol

Wait shit, nope, you’re right

But 3 more who came off the basepaths early.

must be a lot.

Gotta keep it 2-0 here...

Esco, Heyward and McLouth up next.

I personally thought he painted the corner with it.

Yeah

but had not been called all night

this

it was a fine pitch, but the ump hasn’t been calling it

I wasn’t watching until the last couple innings

I think the gripe was it was low

That’s MY gripe with it.

But so did Hanson all night
More Chavez

Interesting.

more Chavez

Lets see

Interesting...Chavez out for inning #2

Chavez stays on to pitch.. nice

That pitch was a mirror of the one to Glaus... Ball
That pitch was a strike to Glaus!

I just screamed that at my TV

Can't develop

mechanical umps fast enough for my tastes

Jesse still out there… Ross in for Mac.

I think sticking with Chavez is a good move.

Catch-22 again!

Deep to Heyward (the new name for right field). 1 OUT.

Smoltz. Scorecard fail.

Yea he almost seems sad.

Glaus with the nice play down the line

chavez looking really good

Something in the water in the BP cooler
he looks like Hanson but a reliever
Nice play, Glaus.

Joe & Ernie picking on Smoltzie’s inability to use a scoresheet.

Not a bad play there

Glaus...

Very fast over short distances.

natural sprinters!

+10 nerd points to you for quoting LoTR.
+12 nerd points to myself for recognizing the source.

+15 to myself for recognize that it’s misquoted slightly.

TWO DOWN, 1-3 in Smoltz’s scorebook…. or not.

Smoltz wanted to say thirdary lol

2/3 of our game on point.

Just that one part that we need we are lacking. Apparently that’s the one that wins games. Freaking Offense.

Wow

Chavez is on.

lights out outing for jesse

Blew it by him

nice work Chavez

Tipping my cap to Chavez!
Man...

Chavez is trying to win me over. And he’s not doing a bad job of it.

Our pitching certainly does not suck.

The decision to put Chavez on the roster

is looking really good at this admittedly early stage.

last year

we were all scratching our head with EOF too

Chavez was just malingering all spring

Setting up every opposing batter. Now he breaks out the Fawesome.

Come on. lets do this

At least

The Cubs cant bring a lefty in to face Heyward/Mclouth/Hinske assuming Yunel or someone gets on base

Na

Marmol will stay in there regardless.

thats what i am saying, no more lefties

One more time....

There we go! Yunel on base.

Yunel and Nate on base – Hinske up.
Let’s DO this!

Silver lining to a nonproductive game...

Chavez looks better than what he did two weeks ago in Spring Training.

This for sure.

Alright, now or never. Opposite field single for Yunel, please

frankly don’t care if he gets hit by a pitch.

THIS IS BRAVES COUNTRY lets go

Important to be patient here

Marmol is wild if you give him a chance

It's our first bottom 9th of the year!
Lets make it a walkoff
Let's go!

It’s not over!!!

Just a bit otuside

1-0

Wayyy outside… 1-0.

hahaha, smoltzie

needs to take up golf.

Smoltz with the pun.
ugh

come on Yunel

Nice job Esco!!

damn

almost a double

And good idea not to push it.

Hits boys. lets go

LETS GO HEYWARD
w00t Esco

part 1 of my prediction has come through

so what's the attedance
Rip this shit Heyward!
I heard this Heyward guy

is pretty good

heyward looking pretty terrible

Heyward's Patience

out the window

You know why San Francisco has such a big stadium?
Cause there are Giant fans in the seats.

Rut roh… 0-2….0-3.

That

was not a good at bat.

ugh.

He’s better than this.

Heyward looked baaaaaaaaad

Heyward looked like a rookie there

Ugh.

Marmol made Heyward look like the rookie he is. 3 pitch K.

wow heyward very impatient, game over mclouth sucks

never threw him a strike

where’s Langerhans?

actually

DFA’d by Seattle

Seattle

Though I don’t know why you’re asking.

hat tip to Marmol -- those were nasty

Aww, Heyward… :(

dang he is good

Let’s go Nate!!! Come on

I think Mr. Heyward had a major league lesson there.

Maybe he can put that Dartmouth DNA to good use...
McLouth: 5/7 vs. Marmol

1-2 to Nate… was looking away.

How. Do. You. Take. That?

ugh

Why the good Marmol tonight

thank you for that non-call…

C’mon Nate, get Nasty

come on

Work it for Hinske

NICE JOB NATE. LETS GO HINSKE!!

another triple would be legit


FIRST and SECOND. 1 OUT.

walks are nice

Hinske Take us to the World Series.

HINSKE!

Show us your tats!

Nice, Nate was patient

Time for Greg No…. wait a sec…

I refuse to finish that thought…

Just a bit outside

1-0

did anyone notice that Gondeee made a second game thread too?

Its on the main page…been sitting over there wondering where you guys were…

Come on Marmol FALL APART

OH GOD. Hinske JUST missed that

ugh

so damn close

Wow

I thought that was the game.

Melky’s next…..and I heard he was clutch

easy to be clutch in New York with everyone on in front of you

nope, not good enough…

fsad;fjweivnkdflsv;kewjiao;fjoi;ewiaoflsd;af
Melky up

game over, goodnight everyone

ON THE TRACK…..flyout.
ESCO TO THIRD.

warning track power

Come on Melky! Get it to Prado

Melky finished several games to the yankees, come one give us one now

Well, he finished it all right.

Melky Ks

No surprise

Really not his fault there

yeah he had another stellar game

At least hide his bat in the 8 hole, instead of another 0-fer at the top of the order

OH COME ON. THAT WAS NOT A STRIKE

embarrasment of a fucking game

fuck this ump, man. seriously.

I swear to god if Diaz doesn’t start tomorrow.

THAT was outside.

BS CALLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK THE UMP!!!!!!
Can't win 'em all!
This is true....

any more of that fifth left?

goner… but there’ll be another one tomorrow night!

CRAP

BALL GAME

Ugh can we at least

Get melky out of the leadoff spot, he is like a cancer

Now that looked like it missed

Bummer. 159 more to go.

See you guys tomorrow. I’m loving this MLB extra innings.

yea lets all blame the ump

the call on Glaus was terrible. don’t forget that

well, when it’s not a strike and it’s called a strike who else should we?

Umpire just wanted to go home. Screw that

Blah. Check for NAHWAL in about 20 minutes

Tied with the Phillies, darn

Headed west....we need contributions.

Where do I send the money

Maybe we can trade Melky away too

Suckage.

I hate to lose one like this, by getting shut out like little bitches. But to quote the president in Mars Attacks, “Tow outta three ain;t bad.”

any word on the attendance?



Team LOB: 10.

Ihate that.

We only give up 4 hits, get 8, leave 10 on base, and lose 2-0. That’s just a failure to convert scoring opportunities.

dont play small ball

and dont have the horses to play long ball

All those baserunners – did we even ATTEMPT to seal a base?

How did they lose that?

Still win the series.

We just have to get those Giants. At least Heyward got some high pressure situation reps. It’s just the beginning of the season but our bullpen looked really good tonight. The Solos cost us but that’s cool. The bats no show but that happens. Let’s take it out on the Giants tomorrow.

I’m extremely impressed with our bullpen.

We won the series,

and that is a good thing!

Enjoy tomorrow y'all...

I’ll miss the game as it’s played live. Will catch up later in the evening.

GO BRAVES!!!

Good night all,

see ya tomorrow, when we beat the Giants!

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