Lets play 10!

Ten innings that is, the Brewers are now 4-0 in Extra Innings winning all 4 games in the 10 inning.

I do feel bad for Suppan though this is the second time he has gotten screwed out of a win when he left with a lead. Both times against the Red and the Pen gave up a game tying home run. The team won both games but Soup lost his Win both times. Back in World War 2 they had a statistic for fighter pilots called "Probable" which was awarded when a pilot was seen on his gun camera hammering a enemy fighter but no other pilot saw the plane crash or blow up.(which sometimes happen after the gun camera stopped they only worked when the trigger for the fighters gun was being pulled.)

I want to invent a stat. Called a "Probable Win" or PW for short. By my count Sheets has one PW this season and Suppan already has 2 PW's. To qualify for a PW you would have to leave the game with a lead and not be responsible for the tying run but then your team came back to win the game. Example today Soup was responsible for the base runner who scored the second of the Reds 3 runs but Shouse was responsible for the 3rd run the guy who hit the home run. Now if both runs had been pined on Soup no PW. It would be a way of showing some sort of result for starting pitchers who lose a lot wins due to a shaky bullpen. I know the Win stat is way over rated but there should be some way of showing good pitching performances like Soups today even though he got a no decision. What is the world coming to when Cavemen like myself are trying to invent stats.

Enough of that back to the game. I am pretty sure when Reds fans tell scary stories to their children Billy Hall is always the Bogyman in those stories. When it is the Reds the dude is like Jason from the Halloween movies no matter how fucked up he seems he finds a way to kill the hopes and dreams of the Reds. Thom Brennaman even quipped what ever the scouting report is they have been using for Hall for the past 3 years tear the damn thing up and start over.

It was funny I went back and watched the 10 inning over on MLB.TV to hear how the Reds announcers called the winning hit. The thing I noticed was the sense of impending doom they all had just when Billy came to the plate to start the at bat. It is amazing how no matter how bad Hall is struggling he sees the Reds and gets it done most of the time. He also made some very nice plays at 3rd moving him back to 3rd was a brilliant move no matter how he hits just his glove at third is going to save them 2-3 games this season.

Brennaman also echoed what a lot of Brewers fans have been saying. You have to be very happy at where the Brewers are in the standings ecstatic really when you look at the batting averages of a lot of their star players. They are 11-6 with FIVE starter batting under .250 hell Weeks is batting below 200. In his defense he smoked the ball today but always right at someone.

Braun is in a bad place when he does try and lay off the outside pitch the fraking Umps are calling it a strike. We have seen some terrible strike zones in the last week. I can understand why Ryan does not want to lay off the outside pitch when he keeps getting rung up on that pitch.

Back to my original point can you imagine what this team will be like when they actually start to him? They are going to do bad things to opposing pitchers Hell just wait till they get Gabe Cabana Boy Gross out of the every day line up lol.

How about my guy Guillermo Mota two strong innings in relief go get the win and then another nice inning by Eric Gagne I have to be honest at the moment my urge to hate Gagne is fading. He seems to be finding a groove and he is starting to look like the LA Dodgers version of Gagne. You know the guy who when he came into the game the score board at Dodgers Stadium would flash "GAME OVER" I really hope he can keep it up.

So the Crew takes another series that is 2 of 3 on this road trip they also are guaranteed a winning road trip wow. They go into tomorrows game playing with house money. Yes they are catching Harang but trust me as someone who has Harang on his fantasy team other than that one night against Milwaukee he is not been unbeatable.

I think we are going to see the Return of Yo to the starting line up tomorrow at least that is what Brian and Rock were saying. Speaking of Rock is it just me or is he actually saying what he thinks now not what the PC answer would be. There have been a couple of times I have actually said "Damn preach brother Rock preach"

Quick congrats to Cory Hart for his first "Big Fly" of the year. Cory always strikes me as the 5th Beatle after Prince Braun Weeks and Hardy but unlike Peter Best Hart is going to stick around and get paid lol.

St Louis lost today so the Brewers and the Cubs are both tied with them in the loss column and both teams are with in .5 in the standing since the Cards have played one more game than the both the Brewers and Cubs. The Brewers will have a chance to settle a few scores with the Cards starting Monday at Miller Park.

So 11 and 6, 5 games over .500 nice 79 wins to a 90 win season. And a chance to sweep the Reds tomorrow.

Hurray Beer
Chris