Show #147: Braves Get Another Series Win Against Phillies
Characterizing the Braves. Chipper’s knee. Heyward’s shoulder. Uggla at the plate. And the Civil Rights game.
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May 18th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Hate west coast games! I’ll be asleep in the second inning.
May 18th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
I dunno how everyone’s fixed for t.v. tonight, but this is the mlb.tv free game if anyone is stuck.
May 18th, 2011 at 9:39 pm
That is, unless you live within one Galaxy of Atlanta, apparently. Sigh, blacked out.
May 18th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Bub, seeing Kelly in ugly snake colors would have been too difficult for you anyway.
May 19th, 2011 at 12:06 am
good to see another quality arm in the pen to go with Linebrink. Proctor almost certainly will improve on his 2008-2011 era of 6.00+. He is off to a good start.
May 19th, 2011 at 1:00 am
Kimbrel. Ugh.
May 19th, 2011 at 1:09 am
We weren’t too slick around the basepaths tonight. We ran into three outs that might have been 1 or 2 runs.
May 19th, 2011 at 2:18 am
4 blown saves over the course of the season is fine. But 4 blown saves concentrated in less than 2 months if worrisome. He’s our future so we live and die with him. If only Wagner would have stuck it out another year.
May 19th, 2011 at 2:26 am
Pretty sloppy game all around. Hopefully the jet lag wears off by tomorrow.
May 19th, 2011 at 8:36 am
It’s like a bad cliche:
Joe Saunders came in with an 0-5 record in eight starts, and was 2-12 with a 5.11 ERA in 19 starts since early August.
May 19th, 2011 at 10:18 am
It makes me wonder what kind of outing Julio could have if he got to face us…
May 19th, 2011 at 10:58 am
#111 – Awesome question. And hilarious.
May 19th, 2011 at 11:03 am
Not only do the Braves play down to their competition (or up), but they ALWAYS lose the first game of a west coast road trip. Always. Doesn’t matter if we are facing Ted Lilly or Joe Saunders. As soon as they cross the Mississippi, they get a 24 hour losing/non-hitting bug.
At least they’re consistent?
Slightly worried about Kimbrel . . . . when does Fredi start doing a lil flip-flop with Most Everyday Johnny?
May 19th, 2011 at 11:28 am
Bobby Cox is missed more on some days than others. Not a sharp game.
The “ifs” from the spring still have time to develop.
If: McLouth can have a good year
Kimbrel can be a solid closer
Chipper can stay healthy
Freeman can hit in majors
Heyward can get even better
Bench is strong enough
Prado can play left and be happy
Uggla is worth the trade and the money
In just a couple more months, most of these “ifs” will be answered. About half of them are on track.
May 19th, 2011 at 11:30 am
I’ll join ham in the slightly worried about Kimbrel club
May 19th, 2011 at 11:33 am
Scott Proctor looks a little iffy, too.
May 19th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
How did Proctor give up an earned run? His line shows no hits and only one BB.
May 19th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
I think it becomes earned when the guy scored from 2nd on a wild pitch. that one has to count against you, doesn’t it?
May 19th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a play as bewildering as that one. It kind of summed up the entire game.
May 19th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
From Wikipedia:
Earned Run
In baseball, an earned run is any run for which the pitcher is held accountable (i.e., the run scored as a result of normal pitching, and not due to a fielding error or a passed ball). Any runner(s) who tags his base and reaches home plate is scored against the pitcher as an earned run(s). An error made by the pitcher in fielding at his position is counted the same as an error by any other player.
So a pitcher that makes an error is considered as any other fielder making an error, but a wild pitch doesn’t exempt him from acountability for the run. A passed ball would have…
May 19th, 2011 at 12:35 pm
#96
Unfortunately not. They will continue using him in situations where it counts as (appearently) “hope springs eternal”…
He was ok for one batter, mostly I think because he didn’t have to throw too many pitches. I wish some team would have everyone facing him to take every pitch and see if he could actually get enough pitches in the zone to get three outs… without a run scoring…
May 19th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
How did a guy score from 2nd on a wild pitch? I didn’t see the game.
May 19th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
McCann couldn’t find the ball and Proctor had to run and get it. By the time he got there and threw to McCann covering, the guy had made it home.
Worst part about Proctor is that there were several teams vying for his services when he was at Gwinnett, but the Braves guaranteed him that they would bring him up come May 15, so he stuck around and here he is.
May 19th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Thanks Curt. Weird things seem to happen to the Braves in that ballpark. I’m glad it’s only a two game series.
May 19th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Depressing analysis of Fredi: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=13967