Marlins 6, Braves 5
Atlanta Braves vs. Florida Marlins – Box Score – September 19, 2011 – ESPN.
I just don’t understand it. It doesn’t make any sense. Having rallied back from 4-1 down to take the lead, with the Marlins down to their last strike, the Braves lost when Chipper Jones lost a chopper in the lights and Craig Kimbrel, who previously had hardly ever allowed home runs, allowed a two-run walkoff homer to Omar Infante, of all people.
Mike Minor gave up solo homers to Giancarlo Stanton in the first and the third innings. Jason Heyward cut it to 2-1 with a solo homer in the sixth, but Minor allowed a two-run shot in the bottom of the inning to make it 4-1.
Dan Uggla homered leading off the seventh, and then the Braves got three more runs, all of them being driven in without balls leaving the infield — an infield single my Michael Bourn, a bases-loaded walk to Martin Prado, and an error letting Chipper reach.
Eric O’Flaherty allowed a couple of baserunners but got through the seventh, and Jonny Venters pitched a 1-2-3 eighth, though two of his outs were flyouts which indicates he’s still messed up. Then that happened.
BLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
September 19th, 2011 at 9:05 pmFor Fredi detractors complaining that overuse was likely going to lead to something like this…well, here we are.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:06 pmWe are in trouble.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:07 pmThe Cards took 3/4 from Philly. How much you want to bet the Phils take 3/3 from the Braves?
September 19th, 2011 at 9:07 pmTime to make up words. The Braves are playing like a bunch of ninnysloppers.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:08 pmLooks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:08 pmI think it’s over; I expect them to win no more than two games the rest of the way.
I’m sorry, I don’t buy the overwork excuse. He just blew it. He sucks at this point like the whole team.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:09 pmI think it’s over; I expect them to win no more than two games the rest of the way.
I’m sorry, I don’t buy the overwork excuse. He just blew it. He sucks at this point like the whole team.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:09 pmIt’s over for us. 2 1/2 up when we find new ways to lose and the Cardinals CAN’T lose, it’s over. Cannot believe we found a way to lose this game. Just an embarrassment.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:11 pmSussudio. If not now, when?
September 19th, 2011 at 9:13 pmThis is the strongest medicine of which I am aware.
Simon Collins, Phil Collins’s son, does electro-rock.
U-Catastrophe
September 19th, 2011 at 9:15 pmWe can still make the playoffs
September 19th, 2011 at 9:15 pm@11
“Catastrophe” is appropriate on multiple levels.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:16 pmThe whole state of Florida sucks
September 19th, 2011 at 9:17 pmWonderful thing about technology is that I can just keep not updating my twitter timeline which is currently stuck on sometime around the 7th inning and it’s like the rest of the game never happened. Looks good for a Braves win you guys!
September 19th, 2011 at 9:17 pmDon’t lose hope, guys; we’ve got this!*
*NOTE: This is a lie. We are cooked.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:19 pmPete, I envy you in the past. Life sucks here in the future.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:19 pmI don’t even want to think about this team anymore after that one.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:20 pmThis one really hurts(:
September 19th, 2011 at 9:24 pmDefinitely most crushing loss since the Brooks Conrad game
September 19th, 2011 at 9:24 pmill always remember that shitty ass football stadium for nights like this. god i hate that place. good riddance.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:24 pmNothing makes sense. I’m going to go watch Vanderbilt football highlights to cheer myself up.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:27 pmwe still lead by 2.5… it’s not ideal… but it’s better to be up than behind
September 19th, 2011 at 9:27 pm@ 23
That’s what she said.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:29 pmouch.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:32 pmThis is a great thread. It’s in response to a terrible thing, but most of us are really down, and ILoveEmmaStone is the one trying to keep our spirits high.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:32 pmWHAT?!?!?!?!
Emma is confident now?
September 19th, 2011 at 9:32 pmah yes the gut-punch loss. I’d almost forgotten the feeling.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:33 pmDon’t understand why you guys keep acknowledging/responding to the troll.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:34 pmClassic trick by trolls in order to get fed.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:36 pmFredi, after last game of regular season: “you’ve just got to tip your cap.”
It wouldn’t bother me so much if it was any team other than LaRussa’s.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:36 pmAstroturf?
September 19th, 2011 at 9:37 pmMac, it’s time to put the DOOMED thing up there in the page subtitle again.
We are doomed…..DOOMED!!!!!!
September 19th, 2011 at 9:38 pmBeing negative didn’t work. Maybe if i try to be positive things will get better.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:39 pmwe still lead by 2.5… it’s not ideal… but it’s better to be up than behind
I thought you were just charmingly soft-headed, but you really are yanking people’s chains. I didn’t think you were a troll in the classic sense, but I was totally wrong about that.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:39 pmFor the morbidly curious, 78.2% according to CoolStandings. Down 10.6% for the night.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:43 pmWhat’s with all the pessimism? We’ve got Venters and Kimbrel warming up and they’re usually money!
September 19th, 2011 at 9:43 pmThe Braves have gone from a team who does just enough to win close to a team who does just enough to lose close. Funny how that happens.
#pitching
September 19th, 2011 at 9:53 pmGot nothing good to say, but these guys better figure it out and win these last 3 series
September 19th, 2011 at 10:12 pmIf we blow this, I’m blaming Mac. I mean, everybody with a brain could see he needed to get Phil Collins up and warming in the ‘pen, but Noooooooo….
He’s had to go all Frediot on us and keep Phil in his ‘proper closer position’.
This is all on you Mr. T.
September 19th, 2011 at 10:17 pmDammit, Twitter finally auto-updated. Hypothesis: The season started a downhill slide when Scott Proctor was released – baseball allows only so much talent in a pitching staff, so when Proctor departed, the suck had to find a new repository and it spread amongst the remaining pitchers.
September 19th, 2011 at 10:21 pmI blame it on Sam. When the toilet bowl started swirling a couple weeks ago, he was all over us for prognosticating the potential for future defeats. He’s been pretty scarce of late.
September 19th, 2011 at 10:22 pm“Charmingly Soft-Headed” will be the name of my punk band some day.
And I second the Phil Collins notion. If we lose tomorrow, Cannibal Corpse may be in order.
September 19th, 2011 at 10:22 pmWell the Cards get to play the Mets, Cubs at home and then end with the hapless Astros at Houston .. Braves finish with Marlins, our nemesis Nationals on road and home to face best team in baseball (who just dropped 3 of 4 to Cards) .. the schedule sure doesnt fall in our favor .. it may be over folks .. wonder why St Louis aint ending with the Brewers.??
September 19th, 2011 at 10:25 pmIt’s hard for me to feel bitter about the Cardinals’ schedule. The Braves have nobody to blame but themselves. If anything, right now I’m feeling bitter towards the Braves–I suppose this is my de facto position in times of absurdity.
September 19th, 2011 at 10:28 pmThis isnt a schedule issue. We were playing the Mets at home while St Louis was playing in Philly without Matt Holliday. Schedule has been in our favor for a while and we are just playing like crap. It started with the blown save in the 1st game in St Louis.
September 19th, 2011 at 10:35 pmcsg is right. The schedule has totally favored us going back a couple weeks. We’ve just lost all chance of exploiting it. No rest for any regulars, gotta go full out the rest of the way. It’s playoffs time right now.
Hopefully by Thursday morning we’ll have treated the Marlins like our bitch and won 2 out of 3. That would be the normal course of things any other time… maybe by some miracle it will be that way. We’ll see.
September 19th, 2011 at 10:41 pmhttp://adamlawsonsportswriting.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/90/
September 19th, 2011 at 11:23 pmWe are in Free Fall: this team has looked bad for weeks and my hopes for it once it gets into the playoffs have not been high. Yet, I am not sure that I am ready for associations with the 1964 Phils, the 1978 Red Sox, and the Mets of 2007 and 2008. But these losses have been pathetic and I am trying to finda way to be at peace for the worst–if and when it comes…..
September 19th, 2011 at 11:33 pmAt this point, it really doesn’t seem to matter if the Braves make the playoffs or not. If they don’t remember how to play baseball, it’s just a difference of a 162 game season or 165. And right about now would be a good time to remember. Better yet, last week sometime.
September 20th, 2011 at 12:42 amWow. Way to support your team! Geez, I hope if the Nats ever get close and maybe need to get over that last bump their fans don’t desert them like you guys.
September 20th, 2011 at 2:01 amTime to break out the “DOOOOOOOOOOMED!” tagline.
September 20th, 2011 at 5:33 amThe man’s name is McCann and if he shows his stuff, we’ll be fine.
Go Braves!
September 20th, 2011 at 7:02 am@6 Love the ‘Airplane’ reference.
EGADS. Wasn’t it just a couple of days ago all here were saying it the Braves were really going to have to try to lose the wild card? I swear. a lot.
Trying to be a glass 1/10th full guy I guess we have to remember that this team has overcome some adversity this season. Sigh.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:02 amLast night will do one of two things; 1) It will snow ball and we will be cooked.
2) We get pissed and steamroll these fools.
As inconcsistent as our hitting has been, our pitching has been the goat. Our two best pitchers blew the last two games for us. Two fifths of our rotation is hurt. One of the other starters has fallen a part. We have two rookies who are good fo five innings and Hudson.
It is time to go to a four man roatiaon and try to get Hudson three more starts. If he wins those and we can find two more wins somewhere, we will be fine.
I think we the we can at least hold on for a one game playoff, but who knows.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:25 amTo me, the problem is the Braves can’t get ahead and coast. This was another game where the combination of bad starting pitching and inability to score early put them behind the eight ball. Even if they had won, they aren’t playing solid baseball. It’s been this way all year, really, but things are catching up to them. How many times have the Braves scored early, built on the lead, and won comfortably? Not may, I bet. When you are always relying on the bullpen or late rallies to bail you out, this is what can happen.
And, of course, it doesn’t help that the Cards got hot right now. This will probably keep LaRussa in St. Louis for another year even if they don’t make it.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:04 amFredi gets the blame from me. He played small ball, dumb frediball, forcing close games, and so abused the best pitchers in his bullpen until they couldn’t do it as well. I also blame Larry Parrish for whatever it is he didn’t do. If he turns out to have damaged the arms of a couple of the best young relief pitchers the Braves have seen in the last decade, he should be fired for damaging corporate assets.
Even if the Braves limp into the playoffs, Fredi already burned up the bullpen.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:06 amMarc,
I only remember one game the Braves were comfortably ahead, 5 to 0, and they lost that one.
I would take any Braves pitcher with a winning record in AAA over Lowe right now. He’s just about a guarnateed loss.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:08 amI also think after the “Second All Star Break” we turned it off. We decided to rest guys and coast. Now we need to turn it back on and it has been hard.
We did score five runs last night. But what we really need is Delgatto to be great tonight. That is a lot to ask. We also need Lowe to step up. On top of that we face the Marlins hottest pitchers and then Strasburg.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:11 amWas Joe Simpson crying in the postgame last night? Saw this in the previous thread…it sure looked like it.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:17 am@59
I didn’t see, I was too busy yelling. Anyone know about this?
September 20th, 2011 at 8:23 amI’m not ready to step onto the ledge yet. The great thing about baseball is, like Smitty said, this loss can provide a catalyst for some play that could take us all the way through October.
After all, if the Braves were gonna be ice cold, I’d rather it be now rather than two weeks from now. We just need some guys to get hot and carry us through. It’s happened all last decade to the D-backs, Angels, Giants, Red Sox, etc. Historically, the teams that peak in early September rarely continue their peak in October.
This can still be our year.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:28 amI love Rob, even if he is a Gator.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:33 amI dare say… I’ve never seen a ground ball get lost in the lights before. How unlucky can you get? Still figured that Kimbrell had it though, and somehow Infante turned on a fastball. Just unreal.
I don’t blame Fredi for overusing the bullpen. When you play a ton of close games your best relievers tend to get used and it’s the fault of the offense for not getting on base and scoring early runs so we don’t have to use all three key guys every single game. What else is Fredi supposed to do in so many 1 run games? Trot Linebrink out there? Then we’d all be bitching about how dumb that is… He’s really done as good a job as he can in managing the innings they’re going especially in the second half.
Still up 2.5 with 8 to go. Let’s not panic… yet.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:57 am@63 – Everything is Fredi’s fault.
@61 – Ahhhh, the voice of reason.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:15 am63- Honestly, I’m thinking of Bump Bailey in the movie of The Natural.
Bump: I lost it in the sun.
Pop: (looks up at clouds) Blinding.
61- Not to belabor the obvious, but we’d better find a peak real fast in late September (the Mets seem unlikely to help us, running Pelfrey out there against Edwin Jackson in St. Louis tonight) or there won’t be an October.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:46 amI’m traditionally the portrait of optimism, but after something like that, i gotta wonder if there’s some kind of ‘hand of fate’ at work here. Infante off Kimbrel? insanity.
But as some have said, who cares? We’re still in it, and we’ve already experienced a full decade of clinching early and resting everyone and then losing in the first round. How we’re playing this week really has no bearing on the playoffs, as long as we can play well enough to get in!
Hanson might be ready for that 163rd game vs. stl
September 20th, 2011 at 9:51 am@66
He might be, but they wouldn’t start him. Hudson is slotted for 162 so that means it would be Beachy’s turn, agaist proabaly Kyle Loshe or Carpenter.
September 20th, 2011 at 10:01 amDoesn’t feel any better today either.
However… we’re still ahead & still have the best opportunity of the 3 teams to take the Wild Card.
Just gotta win a few ballgames, starting tonight.
September 20th, 2011 at 10:05 amIf you want to start feeling better about the Braves, do what I just did:
Go to Facebook, log onto the Baseball Hall of Fame poll and vote for Ernie Johnson to make the short list for the Ford C. Frick award. They’re taking the top 10 vote getters and making them eligible for induction into the hall. Even if Ernie doesn’t ultimately win, just by making the shortlist his profile will be raised, respect further garnered, and more discussion about his important legacy as a broadcaster that truly did bring baseball and the Braves to the whole region of the South.
https://www.facebook.com/baseballhall
You can vote once a day every day for the rest of the month.
September 20th, 2011 at 10:20 amI hate rooting for the Mets. This is ridiculous.
September 20th, 2011 at 10:26 amNote: Boston, a team that’s in the same boat, has to pull for the Yankees. Both Wild Card teams hope their biggest rivals, each from New York, win their next few games.
Sads.
September 20th, 2011 at 10:28 amSo this is about how I feel about the human race right now:
-Jim Knipfel, “These Children Who Come At You With Knives And Other Fairy Tales”
September 20th, 2011 at 11:35 amIf the Braves don’t get hot but St. Louis struggles too, then I won’t matter because they’ll be one and done. The Braves have to get hot in the last week, not only to win the Wild Card, but also have a shot in the playoffs. I’m not rooting for NY; I want the Braves to win their way to the playoffs, not backdoor to the playoffs.
September 20th, 2011 at 11:41 amWe need some positive thoughts. Here’s one:
Do y’all realize that in a few months it will be twenty years since Magic Johnson announced he had contracted HIV? Back then, I never thought I’d be typing those words. So happy to be able to do so.
September 20th, 2011 at 11:52 am60 – I’ll tell you what I saw and maybe someone can corroborate. Joe’s eyes looked like they had welled up a little bit. Joe and Chip were both obviously upset. Chip had his arms crossed as they went back and forth with the Braves Postgame Live folks (Jordan and the other guy). Chip looked p*ssed; Joe looked unnerved, almost like he felt real bad for Kimbrel. I was thinking it and then my wife said “Is he crying?”
September 20th, 2011 at 11:56 amNot to be overly optimistic, but this reminds me in some ways of 2006, when the Cardinals were gagging down the stretch and the Braves beat Houston a couple of times to save them. Then they ended up winning it all. Not suggesting that will happen here, but baseball is a funny game.
However, as noted before, my preferred approach is to assume the Braves are toast and hope to be pleasantly surprised. It makes it less painful. It’s no fun having your team struggle down the stretch, even if they do make it–and even if they were to win the WS. Frankly, I find it hard to respect a team that can’t play in September for whatever reason. If I was a Cardinal fan, I would feel like the 2006 title was somewhat tainted considering their poor record and how lucky they were to get in. Of course, like the Braves, they could point to previous years where they won 100 games and didn’t win.
September 20th, 2011 at 11:57 am74 – Yes that’s amazing. Magic appears to be in great health. Unfortunately, Tommy Morrison does not.
http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/09/17/tommy-morrison-is-aging-in-different-person-years/
There was an article in March ’11 that noted legions all over his body. Very sad.
September 20th, 2011 at 12:07 pmI have an acquaintance that has been infected with HIV for several years and remains in good health. It’s amazing considering what the outlook was a few years ago.
September 20th, 2011 at 1:25 pmWho wouldve thought??
September
September 20th, 2011 at 2:39 pmJhey – .261/.407/.370
AAG – .352/.373/.574
Bmac – .183/.310/.300
Prado – .243/.273/.338
Well I caved and bought mlb.tv for $10 for the rest of the season, now I can watch the collapse in realtime!
September 20th, 2011 at 2:46 pm@79 – it sure seemed to me that Heyward was taking a ton of walks (and .407 OBP confirms). Too bad no one is stepping up & driving him in (though I know that at least some of those walks are of the ‘earlier in the year-McLouth-in-the-8-spot’ pitching around you to get to the pitcher variery – but they still count)…
September 20th, 2011 at 2:46 pmI nominate Phil Collins’ “Hang In Long Enough” for tonight’s video.
September 20th, 2011 at 3:29 pmwildcard race article posted on Grantland.com. Not sure if it makes me feel better or worse. but it does help pass the time before first pitch.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6996725/braves-struggle-stay-playoff-bound
September 20th, 2011 at 4:08 pmI will be in Italy for the remainder of the MLB season. After watching the ending to last night’s game, I’m hoping a little ignorance will be bliss.
September 20th, 2011 at 4:36 pmGotta feel like Cards have the better team at the moment. Still, our odds are supposedly just below 80%, though personally I wouldn’t lay anyone better than 2-1. Perhaps last night can be the jolt to get this team fired up.
September 20th, 2011 at 4:56 pmGeez, how many jolts do they need?
September 20th, 2011 at 4:59 pmVincituri te salutant (We who are about to lose salute you):
Bourn cf
September 20th, 2011 at 5:05 pmPrado lf
Jones 3b
Uggla 2b
McCann c
Freeman 1b
Gonzalez ss
Heyward rf
Delgado p
@86, About as many as Nicholson took in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
September 20th, 2011 at 5:07 pm“Was Joe Simpson crying in the postgame last night? Saw this in the previous thread…it sure looked like it.”
That was me that asked, and no one answered. Seems others noticed Simpson appeared to be actually crying tears during the start of the post-game show.
September 20th, 2011 at 5:28 pmThe problem with talking about “odds” and “probability” is that it sort of assumes that the games are random, like flipping coins, ie. a sort of 50-50 odds each game. But they aren’t random; you can’t just assume that a team will win x percent of their remaining games.
This to me is also the problem when teams get way ahead and start saying all we have to do is, say, play .500. But winning games doesn’t just happen.
September 20th, 2011 at 5:31 pmSure win for the cards tonight so an absolutely must-win game for the Braves or things will really get dicey. Oh, and Heyward should be batting second.
September 20th, 2011 at 5:32 pmSo how will the Braves lose tonight’s game?
September 20th, 2011 at 5:52 pma. no offense
b. sucky starting pitching
c. imploding bullpen
d. Fredi f***s up
e. all of the above
I’ll take one from column b, two from column c, and an infinite quantity from column d, Ray.
September 20th, 2011 at 5:54 pmI think tonight’s loss will be of the more usual mediocre-starting-pitching-combines-with-generally-weak-offense variety. So, 5-2.
September 20th, 2011 at 5:57 pmIf only the Mets fired Randolph after the 2007 season, we’d have precedent in which to demand Gonzalez’s dismissal after the completion of this collapse.
September 20th, 2011 at 5:58 pm@93 That sounds about right.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:06 pmunsurprisingly, the marlins announcers are spinning the whole “let’s hope we can ruin the braves chances” angle
September 20th, 2011 at 6:08 pmNice start—let’s cash in.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:13 pmWhat was that 3-1 swing from Chipper?
September 20th, 2011 at 6:16 pmCurrently on braves.com:
GAAAH!!!
September 20th, 2011 at 6:19 pmYay, another game of listening to some drunk in the background.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:20 pmSecond and third, no outs, no runs. Guys, just forfeit the rest of the schedule if this is the level of effort you intend to give.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:23 pmI’ve seen this movie before…
September 20th, 2011 at 6:23 pmI can’t believe they didn’t score there! Terrible swing at ball four by Chipper.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:24 pmThe more things change, the more things stay the same.
That inning died when Chipper decided to swing at a 3-1 pitch in the dirt and basically bailed the Marlins’ pitcher out.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:24 pmYeah, at 3-1, Chipper got fooled on a change, then he sat on a change & took a fastball down the middle.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:25 pmAfter that inning, just to rub salt in the wound, the first commercial was a “get your Braves’ postseason tickets now!” one.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:28 pmIs it just me or does Joe Simpson seem pissed off? He’s really being harsh on the team for pitch selection.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:32 pmAAG!
September 20th, 2011 at 6:33 pmGONZO!!!
September 20th, 2011 at 6:34 pmAlex is trying his best to keep hope alive.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:34 pm100- How on God’s green earth did Mark Bowman (or any other sentient human) write this article and headline? Even if they haven’t paid attention to Venters’ or the Braves’ play in September, since when to tired pitchers pitch better or have lower injury risk? This isn’t about 2011 anymore, it’s about the career of a potentially great reliever.
AAG. Sure. Why not? Nothing else about this team makes sense anymore…
September 20th, 2011 at 6:34 pmYes! I feel good about this one.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:34 pmBiggest hit of the season so far?
September 20th, 2011 at 6:34 pmfairly efficient start by delgado there. keep it up kid.
Ububba, the thrashers / jets are playing their first exhibition game tonight. a split squad affair against columbus. and this town is berserk. neat to see big league hockey where it ought to be. Maybe the Marlins can find the same when they finally move.
edit: great start!
September 20th, 2011 at 6:35 pmWe can get the hits, just not in the right order.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:36 pmI don’t know whether to be happy or throw more stuff after that HR by Agon.
The braves need a couple of those with a couple of people in the next week and we will be all set.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:36 pmGreat base running
September 20th, 2011 at 6:36 pmNice hustle, Jason.
#100
September 20th, 2011 at 6:38 pmIt’s been a bit of “conventional wisdom” about sinkerballers. You always heard the same thing about Chien-Ming Wang (different kinda sinker, of course…)
Someone finally got a hit with a runner in scoring position!
September 20th, 2011 at 6:39 pmWow!
September 20th, 2011 at 6:40 pmGreat steal.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:40 pmThere you go…
#115
September 20th, 2011 at 6:42 pmI certainly have mixed feelings about the Thrashers/Jets move, but there’s no doubt that hockey’ll get the attention it deserves up there.
We need to score 14
September 20th, 2011 at 6:43 pmWe should send Prado
September 20th, 2011 at 6:43 pmJonny Venters Batters faced 2010: 375. 2011: 343.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:45 pmCraig Kimbrel 2010: 318. 2011: 296.
This includes the minors of course, but still, I think we’re kind of overreacting on the “fatigue” thing.
gotta love the drunk fan you hear on camera
September 20th, 2011 at 6:45 pmAnother game of listening to some drunk moron. Sometimes hearing a specific fan constantly is amusing (Pirate girl), but this ain’t one of those times.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:47 pmThere’s almost always a drunk guy heard on camera in Miami, it’s probably the same guy.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:50 pm“Uggla, you’re a scrub! Uggla, you’re a scrub!”
Ah, the fun of low attendance games.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:50 pmthe bottom of 2 feels very important.
#123, for sure, and not to gloat at all. I know exactly how it feels to lose a team. Frankly, I was hoping Phoenix would come back. For the poetic irony and all that.
anyways, sorry for the interruption, go braves.
September 20th, 2011 at 6:51 pmHeld the lead and didn’t let them clear the pitcher! There’s some good news.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:02 pm@130: In the nineties, I was at a Mets game at Shea where this kid yelled at Lance Johnson for the entire game. “Johnson, you suck! You suck, Johnson!” non-stop, for three hours. At first it was annoying, then excruciating, but then, strangely, sometime in the third hour, it became very Zen-like. To this day, when I’m really stressed, I say to myself “johnson you suck you suck johnson.”
September 20th, 2011 at 7:03 pmThere you go, Randall.
#131
Well, I’m really a Devils fan, but I do have friends who were genuine fans of the Thrash. I really feel bad for them.
Went to a Coyotes game once in Glendale. Couldn’t say it was the most enthusiastic hockey crowd I’ve ever seen. Everybody seemed to be doing everything except watching the game.
#133
September 20th, 2011 at 7:06 pmEver sit in the bleachers of the old Yankee Stadium?
There’s the AAG we all know and despise.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:07 pmWe need to warm up somebody in the pen. Delgado has nothing tonight. Of course Fredi won’t do that
September 20th, 2011 at 7:15 pmWow, what luck lol
September 20th, 2011 at 7:16 pm@134: All the time–back then Yankee Stadium bleacher seats were cheap (6 dollars?)and easy to get. My first bleacher seats game was a Tigers game–the Yankees had just traded Ruben Sierra, and this was his first game back. I cannot repeat the vile things screamed at Mr. Sierra that afternoon, but they were quite shocking for this sheltered Southern boy.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:17 pmI thought surely we weren’t getting out of that.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:17 pmNot Hibernation Mode! Not now!
September 20th, 2011 at 7:23 pmmets push one across in the first.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:25 pmOMG, Marlins local broadcast had an interview with a fan dressed as a “Miami Princess Leia” on Star Wars Night at the park. Wow. Anyone else see that?
September 20th, 2011 at 7:28 pmDelgado has looked horrible. Everybody’s hitting stuff hard
September 20th, 2011 at 7:30 pmJeff, I saw that. I’m down in Florida watching on Fox Sports South.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:34 pmHibernation mode, it is. We are just swinging at complete crap right now.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:36 pmJohn, I only wish she had been wearing the slave costume.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:37 pmMarlins broadcast has an Erin Andrews-like sideline reporter. Who do we have? Jerome Jurenovich?
September 20th, 2011 at 7:38 pmTake Delgado out… NOW
September 20th, 2011 at 7:46 pm147: She’s not as hot as Erin Andrews, but she’s still hot.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:47 pmBut of all people why is Varvaro up in the pen
September 20th, 2011 at 7:47 pmChipper looks tired out there.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:48 pmPlaying with fire there. Phew.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:49 pmWay to bear down on Stanton, R-Del!
September 20th, 2011 at 7:49 pmTo my discomfort, I agree with certain people here. Delgado has delivered all that he’s going to. Falling behind 3-0 to Stanton is a bad way to live.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:50 pmWhew. Dare I say… maybe this is our night?
#138
Oh, yeah. Certainly unrepeatable.
When I moved to NYC in 1990, I’d go up there all the time—$4.50 for bleachers back then—and it was the same couple-hundred crazy people every game. They all lived in the neighborhood.
The chants were vile & the hazing of the opponent’s RF was relentless, but occasionally it was really funny. I’d bring friends from Georgia & they were genuinely appalled, but they’d leave laughing. (I still hear “The Manny Ramirez Song” in my sleep.)
But I quit going out there in the mid-’90s when they quit selling beer. It had gotten way too stupid.
Tack-on time…
September 20th, 2011 at 7:50 pm@149 – Yeah, High A Erin Andrews, but better than our Chewbacca.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:54 pmThat’ll work.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:54 pmFREDWARD!
September 20th, 2011 at 7:54 pmFREDDIE!
September 20th, 2011 at 7:55 pmHibernation Home Run!
September 20th, 2011 at 7:55 pmFreddie!
September 20th, 2011 at 7:55 pmNo longer Freddie, now just Fred
September 20th, 2011 at 7:55 pmWow, how hot is Gonzo.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:56 pmI’m glad to see him putting a good swing on the ball, his bat had gone to sleep of late.
I know the old saw about how sinkerballers like being tired — hell, I basically relied on a variant of that when I argued that the Braves should sign Derek Lowe as a free agent, because I said that a sinkerballer might be likely to age more gracefully.
In fairness to me, I was arguing that the Braves should go for Lowe instead of A.J. Burnett, Oliver Perez, Ben Sheets, C.C. Sabathia, and Ryan Dempster, and all but Sabathia and Dempster have utterly fallen apart. So we didn’t get the worst guy on the market. But my argument about why Lowe would be good was pretty bad.
September 20th, 2011 at 7:59 pmI liked the Lowe deal at the time, for similar reasons. Not ashamed to say it today.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:01 pmWinnipeg Jets first goal in 15 years.
Braves up 4-0.
Cards down 3-0.
Pretty good night so far.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:01 pmAck. Gonzo hurt and coming out of the game.
Muscle tight?
September 20th, 2011 at 8:02 pmWhat’s the matter with Sea Bass?
September 20th, 2011 at 8:02 pmOur hottest hitter out of the game!
September 20th, 2011 at 8:04 pmNot sure. Looked like a strained groin/hammy/quad, or something of the like.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:04 pmUnfortunately the Cards are about to take the lead on the Mets
September 20th, 2011 at 8:09 pmMcCann was grimacing there.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:23 pmToo typical.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:25 pmHeyward’s played some fine defense tonight.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:29 pm1st inning- 2nd and 3rd no outs, 0 runs
7th inning- bases loaded no outs, 0 runs
Even winning 4-0 is discouraging.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:30 pmSixteen pitches in two innings. I thought only our hitters could have innings like those.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:31 pmC-Mart Fan Club thinkth heeth awethome!
September 20th, 2011 at 8:36 pmHeyward was out.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:37 pmI hate Heyward sliding headfirst, but he’s made good use of his speed today, getting that hustle double, beating out the potential GIDP, and then stealing second there.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:38 pmOh, he’th fabulouth. Thothe thix inningth he threw againtht Pitthburgh really thold me on the Lithp’th abilitieth. He might get to pitch more important inningth down the thtretch ath Venterth and Kimbrel wear down.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:38 pmJohn, I’m not so sure from the replay. I think that he may have gotten in under the tag because the 2B had to bring his glove up.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:39 pmStrained right calf for A-Gon. Day-to-day.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:47 pmMets lead 5-3, top 5th. Pelfrey with an RBI double.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:54 pmStrained right calf for A-Gon. Day-to-day.
Guys like Uggla and McCann are gonna have to pick it up to replace his productivity.
September 20th, 2011 at 8:54 pmBet you never thought you’d be typing that sentence, huh?
September 20th, 2011 at 8:58 pmI typed it with a hint of smartass. I think B-Mac heard me, though! Good poke to right there…
September 20th, 2011 at 9:00 pmAfter that swing, I’m no longer so sure, but I think I would be in favor of sitting McCann tomorrow and giving him two days off. He needs something to change. Of course, as I said, as soon I was about to type that he scalded that ball to right.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:04 pmOog. Cards have tied the Mets 5-5.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:04 pmHeap has certainly hit the ball harder the last couple days. Nice to see one fall in there for him. He probably hits the longest singles in baseball.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:05 pmHere comes the 5-run homer.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:05 pmWow, McCann is really slow. I know it’s been stated before, but hits to the wall should be doubles instead of singles.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:06 pmBallgame. Nice work by The Lisp and Varvaro.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:12 pmwhy didn’t Fredie use his best set of relievers last night?
September 20th, 2011 at 9:12 pmHuzzah!
September 20th, 2011 at 9:13 pmAn undramatic win. We need about six more of those.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:13 pmWell, that was certainly good to see. Stop the bleeding from that horrific loss last night right away.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:13 pmAlright, nice going, fellas.
Let’s go, Mets.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:13 pmPapelbon was brought in during the 8th inning with 2 on, 1 out, and a 5-4 lead. He struck out the 1st guy then gave up a single to load the bases. He then gives up a 2 out bases clearing double. Sox down 7-4. He’s a douche
September 20th, 2011 at 9:16 pmVery strong outing from Delgado. Lowe better step up tomorrow.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:17 pmThis game is kinda maddening. I’m glad we won, but it just makes me angry to think how many innings all year we sunk into absolute no talents like Proctor and Linebrink when we could have been using guys with actual stuff and upside like C-Mart and Varvarro.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:17 pmCardinals announcers are talking more about the Braves than their own game.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:18 pmRecapped.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:19 pmI haven’t really wanted to say much, as we have our own problems over here, but there is nothing that isn’t funny about the current Red Sox predicament.
Particularly ironic is all the stuff about how no team who started as badly as the Red Sox did has ever made the playoffs. They found themselves with the best record in baseball and everyone kind of forgot about it. If they wind up not making the playoffs because of a monumental collapse after all of that, it would be fairly amusing.
September 20th, 2011 at 9:21 pm