Show #162: Irene 2, Braves 0
Hanson’s injury. Lowe and JJ on the upswing? Potential NLDS rotations and the post season hope meter.
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August 31st, 2011 at 8:43 pm
WTG Lowe and great to see Matty contributing on his first night back. Go Braves!
August 31st, 2011 at 9:35 pm
WOW. What a game! If Lowe can keep pitching like this…the postseason rotation looks more like this:
Huddy
Lowe
Beachy
Livan Hernandez
Still holding out hope that we can get Livan on a waiver deal, or one of those Nationals-cut-him-and-Atlanta-signs-him deals in September. Kidding, of course.
But seriously, if Lowe can have another September like he had last year, that’d be huge. And seriously — don’t pitch JJ against Washington again!
August 31st, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Great to get back on track. In the future, Gonzo bats 9th when Lowe is pitching.
August 31st, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Braves acquire Jack Wilson from the Mariners for a PTBNL.
August 31st, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Hopefully the Jack Wilson acquisition means two things:
A) see ya Julio Lugo in 2011 and
B) see ya Alex Gonzalez in 2012
Heck, even one of those would be acceptable!
August 31st, 2011 at 10:34 pm
Great to get Jack Wilson for a month but lets get one thing straight. Alex Gonzales is far and above a better player than Wilson. Wilson has no power nor does he hit for average. He has no offensive value and shouldn’t be anybody’s starting SS.
August 31st, 2011 at 11:05 pm
#75, Chipper and Bourn have been carrying the team offensively, right?
#77 – Problem is, midnight tonight is the deadline for an acquisition to be on the post season roster.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:51 am
#80, it might mean see ya Julio Lugo for the rest of this year, but I don’t know how much of an upgrade he is over Lugo. I got excited when Buster Olney mentioned we might be pursuing Jamey Carroll for Lugo’s bench spot, but that obviously did not happen. I think your Braves’ SS for 2012 is Alex Gonzalez. Hopefully we can just leave Alex in the 8th spot in the order from here on out and just hope he can clear the pitcher’s spot in the order every once in a while.
#82, I’ve been wanting Fredi to move Chipper closer to Bourn for a while. I was thinking they should batting Chip second since he is our best hitter and by far our best situational hitter, but with Mac struggling I might just give him the 3 spot back. Prado and Mac have looked pretty bad at the plate for a while now. Sorry, Leah. I still love Martin.
September 1st, 2011 at 11:07 am
Tread lightly Nate…
September 1st, 2011 at 12:54 pm
I actually just read that the proper translation for Prado is middling…
September 1st, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Curt…unnecessary. He’ll bounce back, just you wait.
September 1st, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I love it when Curt gets whistle-blown for unnecessary roughness.
September 1st, 2011 at 3:13 pm
5 for fighting
September 1st, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Let me get into the fight……..Welcome back Diaz, just add in Francoeur and the Braves are complete!
September 1st, 2011 at 5:33 pm
@ 88
Yeah, that’s the hockey spirit!
September 1st, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Went to the TweetUp tonight at the stadium. Pretty cool to hear from the Braves organist, Medlen and Jim Powell.
The crowd was absolutely dead tonight but then the Venters drama and Kimbrel’s entrance livened things up. We were sitting in the right field bleachers (a part of the stadium I almost never sit in) and our section was really, really mean to Ankiel in right. I felt bad for the guy. He probably doesn’t care BUT he has an absolute huge homerun in Braves post season history. I mean, c’mon people.
September 1st, 2011 at 10:49 pm
When Medlen was asked who on the team is least likely to start tweeting he answered, “c’mon, you know, Chipper. And then Fredi Gonzalez.”
September 2nd, 2011 at 12:02 am
What happened to the talk of Chipper needing to retire or take a pay cut?
September 2nd, 2011 at 8:35 am
Does Wednesday mean Derek Lowe doesn’t suck anymore? I have conflicting feelings about my opinion on him now…
As for last night, Huddy was still dominant. Venters needs a rest or something, though. He was completely on edge and off his game.
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:55 am
94- I’m willing to believe Lowe is good again until he isn’t. We know he has it in him, so it’s not the craziest thing in the world. Regarding Venters, I don’t think that rest is the issue. He just loses the strike zone every once in a while, but seems to be able to buckle down just in time.
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:00 pm
A two-week stint on the DL has reportedly done little to help Jair Jurrjens’ sore right knee. [And] now he’s planning to travel to Vail, Colo., to get a second opinion from knee specialist Dr. Richard Steadman. Jurrjens was scheduled to pitch Sunday against the Dodgers, but that’s doubtful now. The Braves held back Randall Delgado in Triple-A Gwinnett so he can pitch in that spot. They’ll still have Julio Teheran available to pitch the second game of the doubleheader in New York on Sept. 8. Jurrjens said his concern now is not finishing the regular season, but being ready for the postseason. This same knee kept him out of the postseason a year ago.
Read more: http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/304593-regular-season-in-jeopardy-for-jurrjens?xid=siextra_090211#ixzz1Woc7zKiw
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:21 pm
95- Agreed on Lower. Also, that’s a good point you made about Johnny. He literally zoned out to get those last two.
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:22 pm
*Lowe
September 2nd, 2011 at 2:37 pm
#97 – I though that “Lower” was intentional. It works, G-Dawg.
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:02 pm
#99 was me, btw.
Did y’all see this from Bowman’s blog today? Spectacular:
As I was leaving Turner Field around midnight Tuesday, I was told Martin Prado was still in the clubhouse taking batting practice while his mother was across the hall watching television in the room reserved for family members of players and coaches.
When I casually asked bullpen coach Eddie Perez, who threw the BP pitches, why Prado had chosen to keep his mother there so late, he said, “She’s the one who told him to stay in there until he got things right.”