Crew in South Beach

Weeks getting hot just in time for the trade deadline?

Aoki's slide on the third run was just perfect. He does so many things right.

Crew wins, 6-1, Yo pitched 8 shutout frames.
Gomez with another big night with 3 more hits.

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Originally posted by BrainDed:
OK, we won a game yesterday. If we win today, it's called "two in a row". And if we win again tomorrow, it's called a "winning streak"... It has happened before! - Lou Brown

Since they won Friday, Saturday, Sunday and now Monday, that's 4 in a row. I'd call that a winning streak now. We don't need no tomorrows. Maybe the starters are coming around. Back to back 8 inning stints.

12 more and they're .500!

Aoki and Segura and Gomez and Ramirez are hitting about as well as you could expect. Braun is Braun (i.e. really good) and Lucroy has recovered nicely from a dreadful start to the season. It's the pitching that has not held up their end of the bargain, but if they can duplicate more of what we've seen recently this team could get back into the race. They need to be at or above .500 by the AS break though for them to have any realistic shot and that still might be a challenge.

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Originally posted by Tschmack: It's the pitching that has not held up their end of the bargain...

Specifically the starting pitching. Pen has been as good as you can expect with the workload.

So much for the bullpen

Is there any reason (I thought at the time) Peralta, who was pitching lites out with only 60 pitches thru 6 innings, can't bunt(isn't that what pitchers supposed to do)?
That really frosted my behind!!

It proves the improvement in the BP performance is related to not having to pitch meaningful innings.

I wouldn't call Henderson's outing anything to panic about.

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Originally posted by Music City:
It proves the improvement in the BP performance is related to not having to pitch meaningful innings.

So, relief pitchers pitch better when up or down by several runs?

And, hitters hit worse when up by several runs?

I don't remember seeing a three triple game before

Can't ever remember the Brewers having this kind of speed. Lots of triples this year and aggressive baserunning. If the starting pitching comes around, we can still make some noise this year.

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Originally posted by El-Ka-Bong:
I don't remember seeing a three triple game before

NL club record.

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Originally posted by The Nerve:
Can't ever remember the Brewers having this kind of speed. Lots of triples this year and aggressive baserunning. If the starting pitching comes around, we can still make some noise this year.

I am cautiously optomistic at most. You must realize it was the Marlins...Cincy will be more of a test, obviously.