2011 NLDS: Diamondbacks vs. Brewers

Gm 1	ARI @ MIL	Sat	Oct. 1	2:07 PM	TBS
Gm 2	ARI @ MIL	Sun	Oct. 2	4:37 PM	TBS
Gm 3	MIL @ ARI	Tue	Oct. 4	TBD	TBS
Gm 4*	MIL @ ARI	Wed	Oct. 5	TBD	TBS
Gm 5*	ARI @ MIL	Fri	Oct. 7	TBD	TBS

brew crew in 4

predix are silly, rootin' Brew

Baseball is silly.

As I was saying...

AdamMcCalvy
Yee-haw! Joe West is crew chief for #Brewers-Dbacks. Crew includes Ron Kulpa, Alfonso Marquez, Bruce Dreckman, Jeff Kellogg, James Hoye

brewers in 5

seriously they're scheduling game 2 at the same time as the Packer game!? >:(

predix are silly, rootin' Brew

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, September 29, 2011 3:10 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

didn't these threads used to be POLLS?

Brewers in 3

brews in 4. a phils/brewers NLCS would be crazily entertaining imo.

brewers in 5

btw I don't want to jinx this (the Brewers have not won a playoff series in my life) but I can't imagine they don't have a huge pitching advantage here

they also have a HUGE 1B advantage.

Brews in, lets say, four.

they also have a HUGE 1B advantage.

yeah, I'd say it's pretty MASSIVE

are there actually any Brews/D'Backs fans in here? or is it just me?

as far as i'm aware, you're the only Brews fan of note.

Brewers in 5

Regular season results: Dbagz 4, Brewies 3

Brewers in five mostly very fun-to-watch games. Not pulling for either team -- really like them both.

Brewers I think I guess

in 4?

Brewers put the Dbacks to bed in 4.

Brewers in 5. Guessing here. Honestly know nothing about these two teams.

D'Backs should have a small pitching advantage Game 1, but Games 2 and 3 should be Milwaukee. Both offenses are quite similar, though Milwaukee has a better 3-4-5. Plus Milwaukee easily has the better bullpen. Still should be a good series, really hoping for a Brewtown sweep!!

I want to root for the brewers to go all the way but that left side of the infield is a black hole. Their defense cant be good on the whole either.. #secretsauce

Believe it or not, McGehee is actually a plus defender this year. Yuni B still sucks though. Honestly the defense isn't as bad as we'd thought it would be (worst in the league), Hairston is probably gonna get a lot of playing time and does well at any position, and Counsell is still one of the best utility men in the league (though he really cannot hit anymore). In the outfield, both Nyjer Morgan and Carlos Gomez are great defenders (Gomez may actually be the best CF in the league right now)

Can't vouch for the rest of those guys though

Brewers in three

Follow @injuryexpert for Miller Park decibel readings.

BrettAnderson49
Ian Kennedy has a pretty strong ginger beard

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSENLlOXzpKo3Agnl3jhFfbH4AN_eI_HZkeQX_6WwwXAL5hqnjk

Having a hard time adjusting to a scruffless Kirk Gibson. (I just invented a new word.)

A Diamondback is going to get drilled at some point.

btw I am missing all the key plays of this game, watching mlb.tv's whirling circle of dots. What a product!

what do you expect for $6?

For the pictures to show up

(and I paid $20, which is the price for everything through the LCS)

do you guys not have TVs?

at the moment, no

the lighting in this game is really dramatic.

OK, i saw the Vegan's HR; I have the tight home plate angle, and if I try to add another, the whole thing crashes.

Did they say what the temp in Milw is that they "had to" close the roof?

How dumb was it to let Kennedy pitch to Fielder in that situation, especially with a base open? That's one of those managerial decisions that shows you don't deserve to win the series.

yeah Kirk Gibson, "I don't believe what I just saw"

it's 51 degrees there, so yeah pretty chilly for baseball
awesome that after the first inside pitch to Fielder he had this weird smile, like "if he throws another one there I'm jacking it out of here"
sure enough

meanwhile, aaron hill has three hits today

YUPTON

upton is an animal

poor Zach

tony plush

Sounds like Victor Rojas' microphone is covered by a blanket (was like that yesterday, too).

one more!

Dbacks are fucked now that collmenter is the last line of defense

Collmenter shut down the Crew last time though

I do agree though, Kennedy/Gallardo was their best matchup. Hope they can sweep and rest their starters for the NLCS. Any team facing Grienke/Gallardo/Marcum twice each is going to have problems, Phillies or not (though I'm hoping not)

How dumb was it to let Kennedy pitch to Fielder in that situation, especially with a base open? That's one of those managerial decisions that shows you don't deserve to win the series.

Not dumb at all considering Weeks was up next. Fielder's not better than Weeks by enough to justify the IBB. It seems like one of those decisions that only comes up because it didn't work out.

Rob Neyer thought what wd've worked out was a new pitcher.

At the postgame press conference, Gibson realized he had set himself up to be second-gussed, and he confessed his mistake after barely being prompted.

"I left him in, it was a bad decision on my part obviously," Gibson said softly. He must have been seething on the inside.

"Ultimately that's what he wanted to do, and it was my decision to let him do it that way," he said. "It didn't work out."

Kennedy was terse, angry, disappointed. Maybe it's because manager Kirk Gibson let him make the decision to face Prince Fielder, and Kennedy chose poorly. Or maybe he's just an extremely sore loser, which explains why he wins so often.

Either way, he took a shot at Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy, who fisted an RBI single to give the Brewers a 2-0 lead in the sixth inning. At the time, pitcher Yovani Gallardo was in the on-deck circle.

"It was a guy who can't really hit and Gallardo can swing it a little bit," Kennedy said. "There was no thought at all for me at least."

Rob Neyer thought what wd've worked out was a new pitcher.

mathematically, it's close once you figure out platoon splits, but it still doesn't work out. the only way you can really justify it is if you figure that getting the out gives you Hairston/Betancourt/Lucroy next inning instead of Weeks leading off. either way it's super close, not "clearly wrong" as sportswriters are putting it.

If it's the regular season, then you might leave Kennedy in. But in the playoffs every game is too important so you have to manage against the worst case scenario, which in this case was Fielder hitting the ball out of the park and basically ending the game. And if you're going to carry 500 pitchers on your playoff roster, then facing the other team's best power hitter down two in the 7th on the road when your starter is obviously tiring would be a good time to make a pitching change.

kennedy is such a dick

with the yankees, he would get rocked and afterwards be all like, nah, i pitched well f u

wait a minute I totally misread that thing I quoted
I'm not sure if the D'Backs really have a good lefty to bring into a situation like that

well a tiring kennedy is not the solution, so a fresh righty or lefty is probably the best bet, regardless of how much "better" thay are than ipk. ipk is still a soft tossing control guy, remember.

btw I didn't mean to misrepresent Neyer -- he thought Gibson mighta done the best thing. I'm not convinced.

let's go Brew Crew!! one more we can do it!!!

Marcum does not look sharp at all

yeah he's not throwing like any strikes whatsoever

can i just say this collmenter dude is a lot of fun to watch

Hes dialed in but let's see how long he keeps it up

mehhh, Milwaukee's smacking them all over, missing a bunch of HRs by 10 or so feet

lol that is homer nonsense

collmenter is from homer, michigan

hah

lol goldschmidt

goldschmidtty

wowwww marcum, way to fuck up that double play ball that could have gotten you out of it

i am such a fan of goldschmidt

altho obv i only refer to him as PAULY G

at the IBB, were they chanting Bullshit or Goldschmidt?

this is (probably) over, so g'night.

so sick that the ball popping out of Marcum's glove cost them 5 runs
sigh we'll get 'em tomorrow I guess

Berman & Sutcliffe are doing this one on radio, so fuck that

I am often so convinced that Ryan Braun represents an evolutionary leap in the history of the male animal that I have to remind myself of how he dresses off the field.

wow

where/what was that pitch?

That Roberts pitch was a cookie. Roberts was sitting dead red ready to pull and he absolutely destroyed that pitch.

Marcum and Wolf look like crap in this series. Finesse pitchers comin to az to die.

well, this might be a bloody one

You have to be careful here.

this fucker is gonna take 4 hours

As a Jays fan I really wanted to see Marcum doing well in his first postseason start, but a 3:3 K:BB ratio for me speaks of him being off his game.
His K:BB has always been high, and game to game he seems to need a good ratio to win, keeping those guys off base. It's true for every pitcher, but that's just what I've observed over the years.

Is it fair to want teams that are at relatively full strength to win? I mean, I'd like to see Wainwright for STL and Drew for ARI in there, but because they're not, I'm favouring their opponents

why would you root against a team because they have players injured?

(unless you are planning ahead and need a fully stocked team to beat the yankees/phillies, of course)

I think that's pretty much the reason - a subconscious desire to have a full-strength team take down the Yankees.

The tbs guys seem to think Gibson switching Roberts and Young in the lineup meant something. Thought them hitting back-to-back HRs tonight would've shut them up about that, but no

was not expecting the D-backs coming back to tie this series

Definitely didn't expect this series to go five. Have there ever been three Game 5's in the LDS in one year?

Was wondering how the heck Randy Wolfe was chosen to start this game. Is it usual for a team to start their 4th guy in a five-game series?

I just talked about Marcum, I don't know what my brain is thinking. I thought I heard Wolf was starting before the game began, my head is stuck in an alternate reality right now, haha
I digress.

OOOOOOohh, I'm just stuck in yesterday. The blowouts/workdays are blurring together

Was wondering how the heck Randy Wolfe was chosen to start this game. Is it usual for a team to start their 4th guy in a five-game series?

it happens all the time - AJ Burnett, Porcello, and Oswalt have also started playoff games

Definitely didn't expect this series to go five. Have there ever been three Game 5's in the LDS in one year?

2001:

Yankees-A's
Mariners-Indians
Diamondbacks-Cardinals

but there hadn't been a division series game 5 since 2004. now we got them in spades.

also I was pretty sure the dbacks were gonna come back, but milwuakee's homefield advantage is massive.

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/740513/KennedyFocus2.gif.opt.gif

kirk gibson is either autistic or the worst manager/coach interview i've ever seen

a good craftsman never blames his tools, nyjer

lol @ jerry hairstons reaction to that young catch

would you have taken Kennedy out there? tough call...

BB-Rod showin up

^^^

was gonn asay never saw him do this IN THE 8TH before, but I did vs Mets in Aug.

motherfucker

is young really this much of a pull hitter?

just lol

not that it matters to k-rod

that was such a horrible 3-2 pitch

gonna be Billy Beane and not watch the screen for awhile

what does RyRob have tattooed on his neck

cowgill totally flashing signs out there on second

bah

smh

Chris Berman just said "And the Brewers are 3 outs away from the Championship Series"

smdh

And he just said it again!

Maybe he meant "The Brewers will have the quickest 3 out inning in the history of the playoffs"

lol 1st pitch smoked

oh shit

john axford really is not good, i have no idea how he hasn't blown a save since april

^yeah this

welp, I gotta go to the Mekons show after the 9th, so somebody win it

anecdotal evidence but he saved three straight games vs the marlins and in all three games the bases were loaded while he was pitching

good game, right to the wire

Blanco rules

thought the D-backs were going to pull it off there.

extra innings seems about right

(Sorry I'm confined to radio right now)

Berman is playing such a homer for Milwaukee.

it'd be funny if Axford tested positive for testosterone supplements to support whisker/whisp growth

Arizona put 6 guys on base in the 8th/9th and only have 1 run to show for it.

plush

did the Brew Crew just win the WS? you would think so by the celebrations..

Fantastic post-game chaos! Morgan gets a mike stuck in his face as he leads on the crowd: "Fuck, yeah--fuck, yeah!"

yeah, i guess it wasn't on tape delay

Wow.

Think the Brewers will remember Kennedy plunking Morgan once and Weeks twice?

oh yes

and also saying gallardo was a better hitter than lucroy

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/10/7/2476396/nyjer-morgan-game-winning-hit-interview-video-f-bomb

Nyjer Morgan: YEEAAAAHH. FUCK YEAH. FUCK YEAH. WOOOOOO. GUUUUUUUHHH.

Sam Ryan: He's enjoying the moment guys.

Nyjer Morgan: Sorry about that, Sam.

shame on a nyjer

― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, July 10, 2009 10:25 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

brewers more like the who?ers

ciderpress, congratulations, citation needed, A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre, and Fig On A Plate Cart all picked Brewers in five.

john axford really is not good, i have no idea how he hasn't blown a save since april

he strikes out 10.5/9 and has an ERA under 2. he's pretty good.

did the Brew Crew just win the WS? you would think so by the celebrations..

give 'em a break, this is their first playoff series win in nearly three decades, most of those guys have no playoff experience whatsoever. hell Nyjer Morgan's been stuck on last place teams his whole life so I don't blame him for being jacked up