Good News: The Phillies and Mets lost!
Bad News: That was an ugly game.
At this point, it's safe to say Tommy Hanson is either going to be brilliant or pretty awful. He went 5 innings and only allowed 4ER, but nearly every ball hit by the Brew Crew was destroyed. We need Tommy to be much more consistent if we're going to keep our big lead in the NL East.
Randy Wolf pitched pretty well and had the Braves looking awful in the first few innings, and ended up throwing 6 innings of 3-run baseball. The Brewers horrible bullpen found a way to shut the Braves down for the final 3 innings of the game.
The Brewers scored early and often on Friday. Alcides Escobar drove in the first run for the Brewers in the 2nd inning and Randy Wolf followed with a sac-fly to CF to score the 2nd run. Ryan Braun hit a 2-run HR in the 3rd inning to put Milwaukee up 4-0.
Troy Glaus got the Braves on the board in the 4th with a RBI-double that scored Heyward from 1st. Glaus was stranded on 2nd, and the Braves couldn't do anything else with the scoring opportunity.
Rickie Weeks and Corey Hart both drove in a run in the 6th to put the Brewers up 6-1 after the 6th.
The Braves showed a little life in the 6th and 7th. Brian McCann drove in Martin Prado with a single up the middle and Brooks Conrad came up with a big an rbi-single to score Alex Gonzalez from 3rd. The Braves trailed 6-3 with two on and no out. Martin Prado struck out for the 1st out. With the crowd going wild, Heyward drew a walk to load the bases with only 1 out. Chipper Jones popped up a 2-2 fastball and Troy Glaus flew out to deep center field. Opportunity wasted.
Kenshin Kawakami came in the 8th and failed to keep the game close. Prince Fielder hit a 2-out, 2-run RBI double and Corey Hart followed with an RBI-single to left.
Brewers win 9-3.
MVP:
Brewers Bullpen (Coffey, Braddock, Loe, Hoffman) - 3.0IP, 1H, 0R, 1BB, 2K
LVP:
Tommy Hanson - 5IP, 7H, 4R, 1BB, 5K
Tomorrow's game will feature Tim Hudson against Chris Narveson. 7:10EST start time.
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One of those shitty games that is over with almost before it starts and that you’re never really in. It happens.
Go out and kick their asses tomorrow, behind Huddy.
Sam Jethroe - July 17, 2010
Yeah, and I’d much rather lose a game like this than one where you leave a million on base and lose 1-0 or 2-1. Those are the worst. Looks like Philly and NY knew about that one tonight.
Scott Coleman - July 17, 2010
Kawakami
We get spoiled by the everyday great work coming out of the ‘pen. So much so that a meltdown like Kawakami’s last night comes as a shock. After the game, Bobby called it “rust,” but it looked more like “bust.” Maybe we can get ahead of somebody 10-1 and bring Kawakami in to knock off that rust. Wouldn’t feel too safe, though.
Buddy Holly - July 17, 2010
Hanson...
Even in the games Hanson has pitched okay I don’t think he’s been brilliant. He rarely gets passed the sixth inning b/c he throws too many pitches. If the game is tight he seems to put too much pressure on himself.
He’s definitely taken a step backwards this season. Hopefully he can get it together, because right now no one knows what to expect when he pitches.
mdhenshaw - July 17, 2010
Maybe our worst single game performance since April.
Since one stinker every 50 games or so is essentially unavoidable, its not exactly cause for widespread panic.
But a solid win tonight would be good.
fandave - July 17, 2010
I blame Bobby on this one
KK got luckier than hell even getting 2 outs. Moylan should have been brought in at that point. There was no way he was getting the 3rd out.
Chief Noc-A-Homa - July 17, 2010
And Jekyll/Hanson
this could be problematic……
Chief Noc-A-Homa - July 17, 2010
That one was not fun to watch at all.
2 errors, giving up 16 hits and a win to a pitcher with a losing record and an ERA of over 4.5
Hope that’s out of their system now.
Onto the last 2 games and let’s win ’em whadduya say?
At least with Marlins, Phils and Mets losing we didn’t lose any ground.
NCChopper - July 17, 2010
definitely silver lining
but Jekyll/Hanson needs to get his shit figured out.
Chief Noc-A-Homa - July 17, 2010
Hanson pitch count
He throws tons of strikes, but the problem is that he can’t put anybody away (especially if he’s struggling with location) so the batters end up figuring him out quicker. He needs a strikeout pitch because what he has just doesn’t cut it… it’s the difference between him and Halladay… if Halladay has two strikes on a batter in any count, the dude is probably going down. But if Hanson has two strikes, the batter fouls off balls until they get something they can handle. I hope Tommy can be more consistent and have that killer instinct to put batters away!
BahamaBrave - July 17, 2010
tommy has an out pitch – in fact he has a few. But what he needs to learn is how to use them to make the better swing and miss for the 3rd strike. He ends up nibbling too much and hitters can work the count off of him.
telemakhos - July 17, 2010
pretty cut and dry with Hanson, at least since the beginning of May. When he can’t locate his slider, he relies on his fastball. His fastball gets elevated and he gets hammered. There is something mechanical in nature giving him problems. When he can’t locate he’s just like any other one pitch pitcher – easy to hit.
CharlotteChop - July 17, 2010
tough game to watch
Cyborg looks like he needs to go to the terminator station & get re-programmed. And poor KK. I’m not going to beat that dead horse except to say the poor guy can’t get a break. Thought the Braves had some momentum going into the inning that he was called in to pitch. (I believe they had the lead cut in half.) Bobby wrote KK ‘s performance off as rust which is probably a correct assessment. Not so sure that is an appropriate time to work off rust. Work off rust when your team has a several run lead to play with not when they’re battling back.
adc62 - July 17, 2010
Well that sucked
go get em next time we got Huddy vs. Narveson…sounds like they have the adavantage…riiiiiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhttttt
bflobraves - July 17, 2010
We played like shit and lost. Luckily, so did everyone else that matters.
BullManUGA - July 17, 2010
Tommy has got to be tipping pitches, and there are clearly a couple of teams
who have zeroed in on that.
Fred Pen - July 17, 2010
Tommy Hanson
I have been disappointed with him this year. He has got to figure ot why some nights he look unhittable and some nights he gets crushed. Maybe Fred Pen is right, he’s tipping pitches.
ZC1 - July 17, 2010
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