Show #164: The Braves Stumble on the Road
Looking at where it all went wrong this week. Plus Chipper batting second and the post season hope meter.
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September 16th, 2011 at 7:57 pm
I’ve been moderately upbeat about Lowe up to this point. Big game pitcher, great Septembers, etc, etc – but that inning was an absolute atrocity.
September 16th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
He needs to make some serious adjustments because he’s throwing batting practice. Weak sinkers up in the zone will always be hammered.
September 16th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
@93
Think he could play third? Are his errors more fielding or throwing?
We had a guy on a softball team I played for. At shortstop, he tried to play everything off to the side… he was terrible. They moved him to third. He didn’t have time to move to the side, so he caught EVERYTHING that was hit that way.
September 16th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Lowe maybe just pitched himself out the postseason rotation.
September 16th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
#104 – I wonder. Not convinced.
September 16th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Eta brought the valley of sucktitude with them.
September 16th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Mets…I mean.
September 16th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Phillies tie it up! And have the winning run on 2nd in the bottom of the 9th!
I hate to root for the Phils, but it’s definitely a necessary evil through Monday.
September 16th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Just checked in and saw “Hamburglar” in the recent tweets. That told me everything I needed to know.
@103, I probably shouldn’t be as hard on him as I was. He is just very inconsistent in the field. He has good quickness, and he’s got a nice arm. Those things usually add up to a solid defensive player- except in the case of a former SS who shall remain nameless. His numbers show that he has made great offensive improvement over the last year. If he can do the same with his defense the Braves might have a very nice piece to add in 2012.
We really, really, really need Tommy Hanson back.
September 16th, 2011 at 10:07 pm
@ 108, indeed.
September 16th, 2011 at 10:49 pm
3 1/2 game lead. Gotta win tomorrow.
September 16th, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Trying hard not to think about the year(s) the Mets fell apart and let a team that got hot late in the season into the playoffs…
September 16th, 2011 at 10:56 pm
20 hits given up to a team that has been just terrible lately.
September 16th, 2011 at 11:07 pm
I really hate that our fans booed Heyward. He has had a disappointing year. He’s also 22.
September 17th, 2011 at 12:38 am
Don’t read the postgame comments.
September 17th, 2011 at 12:47 am
Read this whole article as it will serve to divert your disappointment in several new directions. But this one note was particularly irritating:
- Interleague play continues to create huge inequities. Here’s one example regarding the two top teams in the NL East. The Phillies (15 games) and Braves (18) don’t even play the same number of games against AL teams. The Braves get road games against the Yankees, Red Sox and Rays; the Phillies play none of those teams on the road (they get the Orioles, which is like a home game, Blue Jays and Twins on the road). They don’t play the Yankees at all.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/tom_verducci/09/16/philadelphia.phillies/index.html#ixzz1YBKhpm1q
September 17th, 2011 at 1:20 am
A Marlins pitcher got trapped in a bullpen bathroom for 13 minutes on Thursday night. Seriously.
@116, Thanks MLB. I guess the road series in Citizens Bank in 2010 wasn’t enough.
September 17th, 2011 at 2:07 am
Thank God college hockey started to night! :/
September 17th, 2011 at 8:55 am
Don’t get me wrong, I always want to make the post season. But if we’re gonna play like this? What’s the point?
September 17th, 2011 at 10:09 am
@113
But they were a team whose, for lack of a better term, “manhood” was publicly challenged by their manager prior to this series.
That combined with the “Lowe point” of our starting pitching rotation spelled trouble…
September 17th, 2011 at 2:11 pm
@119
Anything can happen in the playoffs. A team is only as good as the starting pitcher sometimes. And Lowe always sets a negative tone in his starts and it allows the other team’s starting pitcher to relax more. Lowe doesn’t need to pitch in another meaningful game the rest of the year.
September 17th, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Solid Solid win. Vets came through.
September 17th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Wow, what a game. Gramps can still do it. The guy’s amazing.
Several observations:
- I’m very grateful that we won’t have to face Livan Hernandez, Chris Capuano, or R.A. Dickey in the playoffs.
- Huddy really saved our bacon today. To go 8 innings after The Hamburglar (great nickname, btw) went only 2.1 was huge.
- Lowe has received $1 million per loss this year. The wins are his pro bono work.
- I don’t know what was worse: the entire game last night, or reading Fredi’s postgame comments.
- Oswalt is through 6 innings with a 2-0 lead. I hate to say it, but go Phils.
September 18th, 2011 at 9:27 am
What’s our magic number now? Can’t keep track.
September 18th, 2011 at 9:29 am
I think Kate should manage the Braves. She has led our fantasy league ALL SEASON. Or maybe that just shows the state of the rest of us.