Postgame comments following Sunday’s loss to Marlins
BOBBY COX
On McLouth’s double play:
“The last one was absolutely a bullet. Nate couldn’t have hit the ball any better, a Screaming Mimi that was right at (Hanley) Ramirez. He hits it softly, they can’t turn it. He hit a bullet.”
On Jurrjens:
“JJ pitched a heck of a game. The four runs in that inning were just stupid runs. A dribbler up the middle, a dribbler to the right side, a hit-and-run dribbler and one ball hit good – (Wes) Helms. That was it, four runs. I thought he was outstanding. Just a shame that we lose that game.”
CHIPPER JONES
On thwarted bases-loaded chances:
“That was the story. We left a ton of guys on hitting into double plays. We had a chance to really bury them there in the first inning popped up and couple double plays late. We should have never been in the extra-inning situation (if) we take advantage of our opportunities, which we’ve been really good at doing for the most part of the year. Just didn’t happen today for whatever reason. You let the other team off the hook that many times, eventually they’re going to cash in and beat you.”
On McLouth’s double play:
“The ball was middle way, he hit it right on the button just right at somebody. It’s kind of a microcosm of his whole year.”
On losing their first NL series since early May
“It’s never good to drop a series especially when you’re within the division but we played well. A bounce here a bounce there we sweep the series. We feel good about the way we played. We keep playing solid baseball we’re going to win a ton of games. We’ve just got to find some holes, or find some outfield with the bases loaded and less than two outs. Maybe we’ll have a little different outcome.”
JAIR JURRJENS
On the pitch to Helms:
“I slipped, lost control of it and left it over the plate. The whole inning started bad when the umpire missed a pitch on Hanley – a 2-2 slider – I thought it was a strike. Everybody thought it was a strike. When you give a guy like that an extra pitch he’s going to take advantage of it. Then I lost my control a little bit, slipped, triple. They played a hit-and-run. Just bad luck.”
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131 comments Add your comment
Chad
July 25th, 2010
6:48 pm
Tough luck. Gotta get the Nats.
Chief Knockahoma
July 25th, 2010
6:48 pm
That Sucked.
Chief Knockahoma
July 25th, 2010
6:50 pm
It’s crystal clear now that we need to aquire a solid center fielder. No doubt in anybody’s mind that Nate is, and will continue to be a huge hole in our game.
Chad
July 25th, 2010
6:50 pm
Carroll,
Just want to point something out to you: when you blog and say “Have to like our chances with {fill in pitcher’s name} going,” the Braves typically lose. I am superstitious. But, it has happened frequently, though.
I do appreciate your bloggage, though.
Supes
July 25th, 2010
6:55 pm
Bobby just STOP IT!!! Stop the madness. McOut should never seen a meaningful AB the rest of the year and today’s AB’s were 2 more too many!!!
Also, inserting Jessie Chavez into a game that isn’t a one sided blow out is like waving the white flag of surrender…
Mike Hunt
July 25th, 2010
6:56 pm
McLouth must come out of the line-up. Period.
rowland office
July 25th, 2010
6:57 pm
cant keep sending mclouth out there…………
Calzone
July 25th, 2010
7:00 pm
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Michael
July 25th, 2010
7:02 pm
I want to know what McClouth had to say.
rob
July 25th, 2010
7:05 pm
Please Trade, Release, Demote or export Nate McLouth and we are a better team. Philly won – i am very worried about them we need to get a real outfielder by Aug 1st
Tom
July 25th, 2010
7:07 pm
This time I do not like Bobby taking up for Nate!! Bases loaded with 1 out, his job was to get the ball in the air for a sac fly, not hit a grounder or line drive, giving the Marlins a chance at a double play to end the inning. The count was 2 and 0, hitters count, no excuse for a grounder at all. You pick out the next best pitch and put it in the air. How many games have we lost since he came back and was in the lineup as a hitter. I knew this was coming because when he rehab at Gwinnett, his numbers were terrible. Something like 1 for 4, or 1 for 5 every game. His game has gone south for some reason only he knows why?? Blanco needs to be promoted and Nate released!! Forget Ross of the Marlins, he showed nothing this series at all. Give the CF job to Blanco, Infante to shared with Melky!!
beekay
July 25th, 2010
7:09 pm
Where is KK ? Why is Chavez still on the big league roster? Send Nate and Chvez down for blanco and Marek…put KK on the DL with some kind of ailment if you have him covered in moth balls in the pen
Yunel's Cartel
July 25th, 2010
7:11 pm
………NO MENTION OF CHAVEZ………..
beekay
July 25th, 2010
7:11 pm
Has a reporter asked Bobby what KK is doing and why he hasn’t pitched but once since he was sent to the pen?
steve
July 25th, 2010
7:13 pm
Why was Infante on the bench when he hits over 300 against right handers? We brought him in after Nate hits into a D.P; makes no sense to me why a 165 hitter is batting with the bases loaded and a 300 plus hitter is not, Chavez can not come in when the game is tied as he cannot handle the pressure, this loss is once again on BOOBY.
Tap
July 25th, 2010
7:13 pm
Anyone else think Braves should bat Gonzalez 2nd and Heyward 3rd, with Chipper going down to 6th?
Randy
July 25th, 2010
7:14 pm
First, the obvious. McLouth sucks. Although I am starting to think he is not even good enough to suck.
Second, just because the Braves are stuck with his contract does not me they have to play him. Or is THAT in his contract??? Of course not. Wren has made solid moves since he has taken over but everyone has one that backfires. McLouth is a trade that just did not pan out. He sucked last year. He sucks worse this year. Let’s cut our losses…pun intended… and move on. Bobby fielded a very successful outfield for the glorious month McLouth was out. Chemistry was good. Everyone contributed. Braves rolled. No need for a big money/big name trade for the outfield. Our 5 game lead was built while Nate was in la la land.
Dee
July 25th, 2010
7:15 pm
McOut gotta go.
Gregor Blanco
July 25th, 2010
7:16 pm
Why am I on the farm?
McLouth sucks!!!!!!! And now I wonder about you, Bobby!!!
Nate has got to go
July 25th, 2010
7:17 pm
If Nate is allowed to continue playing and Bobby keeps trotting Chavez out there the Braves can kiss their playoff chances goodbye!
Largo
July 25th, 2010
7:18 pm
McLouth and Chevez – Cocks keeps using them and they lose the game. Is he really this stupid? Infante, a 300 hitter keeps sitting with the bases loaded and McNothin screwing up.
MCLOUTH SUCKS
July 25th, 2010
7:18 pm
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pdt
July 25th, 2010
7:22 pm
News to Bobby: McClouth sure as hell could have hit the ball better. If he has to be in the lineup he should be prohibited from swinging the bat if anyone is on base. At least that way he won’t hit into a double play and there’s a slight chance he could walk.
Maynard Jackson
July 25th, 2010
7:22 pm
I hope the next thing I read about McLouth is in the Obituaries. Bobby could even find something positive to say about Obamacare.
McLouth sucks.
MoBrave
July 25th, 2010
7:24 pm
Chavez needs to be sent to the farm. We have FAR too many good pitching options at Gwinnett to put up with his mediocre performances. And Nate. OMG, he needs six more months of a rehab assignment. Dude has completely forgotten how to hit.
Ben
July 25th, 2010
7:24 pm
McSuck.
Nate McLouth = Braves demise
July 25th, 2010
7:24 pm
Bobby: Why leave an All-Star on the bench and let that caveman club swinging fool ruin the game.
BUBBA GUMP
July 25th, 2010
7:27 pm
Nate McLouth may have to pack his bags for a permanet position on the Richmond team. Man just ain’t gettin it done. Don’t deliver and you don’t stay in the bigs. Tough way to lose a series.
Skip Caray
July 25th, 2010
7:28 pm
McLouth sucks. Outside, 2 and 0.
Tom
July 25th, 2010
7:28 pm
Chavez throws hard(94-95), a very straight fastball. He has no second pitch(slider, curve or changeup). He needs to go down and develop that 2nd and 3rd pitch, in order to be effective in the majors. Or they will continue to light him up in the bigs, he needs COACHING bad, to develop these pitches.
A.J. Green
July 25th, 2010
7:30 pm
I was never in Miami!!
And McLouth sucks.
Fans want McLouth's head
July 25th, 2010
7:30 pm
Heyward needs to run into McLouth again. Hopefully this time he’ll break his leg. j/k but damn!
Johnny3Steps
July 25th, 2010
7:30 pm
McLouth has got to quit eating S…t sandwiches before the games. My grandmother hits better than he does.
Georgia Tech Football
July 25th, 2010
7:31 pm
Go easy on Nate, we too know what it is like to suck.
Fans want McLouth's head
July 25th, 2010
7:33 pm
Send Nate McDoubt down, NOW!!!
Frank Wren
July 25th, 2010
7:35 pm
Bubba Gump –
Our AAA team left Richmond 2 years ago and is now by Mall of Georgia. Which has some nice stores that I hope can employ Mr. McLouth.
McLouth sucks. But our owners won’t let us release him. $$$$
"WE WANT BLANCO, WE WANT BLANCO"
July 25th, 2010
7:36 pm
Or sign me for season tickets. I can do better than Nate McLouth.
Greg Norton
July 25th, 2010
7:38 pm
McLouth sucks. And that’s coming from ME.
My name is Nate McLouth
July 25th, 2010
7:40 pm
And I am where runners in scoring position go to die.
Omar Infante
July 25th, 2010
7:41 pm
McSuck comes off the bench before me. Great call, Booby.
McDonald's
July 25th, 2010
7:46 pm
Now on the menu: McSuck sandwiches. They cost $17.99 and are made of sh-t, but we have to sell them because the ownwers won’t let us cut them from the menu even though they do us no good. For free we’ll throw in our new Chavez fries, but warning: they cause a bad case of the runs.
John McCain
July 25th, 2010
7:49 pm
Illegals should be shot at the border, Sarah Palin does look great naked, and McLouth sucks.
Charlie Manuel
July 25th, 2010
7:51 pm
Great move putting in McLouth instead of Infante, Bobby! Thanks!
Nate McLouth
July 25th, 2010
7:51 pm
“I am more useless than t*ts on a nun”
John Oxendine
July 25th, 2010
7:52 pm
I look great naked and behind bars. And McLouth sucks.
Fred Flintstone
July 25th, 2010
7:55 pm
WILMA!!! Why was McLouth in the game??? He SUCKS!!!
MarlinsFan2010
July 25th, 2010
7:55 pm
Waaaaaahhhh! Waaaaahhhhh!
SCBravesFan
July 25th, 2010
7:59 pm
KC is trying to acquire Franceour. I wonder if they would take McLouth also.
The Vast Majority of if not ALL Braves Fans
July 25th, 2010
8:00 pm
McLouth sucks and does not belong on the 25 man roster. Frank and Bobby, you’re gonna let him ruin a great season. Do the right thing.
Vino Fino
July 25th, 2010
8:02 pm
Does anyone know how many times the Marlins have walked off against us in the last three years? I swear it happens at least once every time we go to Florida! Wes Helms must be hitting .400 against the Braves career. Can we get him back on the team just so he can’t keep beating us?
Tom
July 25th, 2010
8:05 pm
Franceour is ALL-World compared to McLouth!!!!
Vino Fino
July 25th, 2010
8:08 pm
Wes Helms- career batting average- .262 / as a Brave- .234 / against the Braves- . 308
Tom
July 25th, 2010
8:09 pm
You can’t send Nate down, he couldn’t make our Gwinnett team. Maybe Mississippi is a possibility??
rc35
July 25th, 2010
8:23 pm
Maybe somebody in Braves’ management will notice that McLouth has the lowest batting average of ANY National League outfielder with at least 200 plate appearances–by over 50 points! Nothing personal, but the guy has to go–at least to AAA until he gets his groove back.
Nate McLouth
July 25th, 2010
8:30 pm
Problem is: McOut is on a major league contract. He can’t be sent down unless he agrees to it. They’ll have to put him on waivers or trade em for some bats and balls.
veryveryunhappybravesfan
July 25th, 2010
8:43 pm
And McOut strikes again. Who swings at the 1st close pitch on a 2-0 count when the guy pitching has just walked the two previous hitters and why? Nate “the only way I could hit a ball is if it was sitting on a tee ball tee and even then I might still strike out” McLouth needs to go back to the farm team. During the game last night the announcers said that he is 6 for 63(not including today’s disasters) since his return from the DL; at this rate he’ll be hitting .000 before we know it.
jason
July 25th, 2010
8:46 pm
Why was McLouth replaced after he hit into the DP? Bottom of inning, Infante was in LF with Cabrera in CF.
Gary Buczkowski
July 25th, 2010
8:47 pm
Wait a minute! Let’s take a look at Pendleton! Jeff Francouer ( under TP ruined!) Nate Mc Clouth ( under TP runied) Jason Hayword ( under TP last
home run?) Anyone else have any hitters that we have gotten that TP has not helped but hindered? Is it all Jeff’s and Nate’s fault?
Let’s put the blame where it belongs.
DaveinNEPA
July 25th, 2010
8:48 pm
CR. Don’t any of you writers get tired of Cox trying to make a manure pile sound like a pot of gold?
Brick tamland
July 25th, 2010
8:48 pm
marlins fan, gtfo
nate sucks
chavez sucs
glaus needs some days off
that is all
Comic Book Guy
July 25th, 2010
8:48 pm
Worst Outfielder EVER!
rugburn
July 25th, 2010
8:50 pm
and to think, andruw is only hitting .205, but even that is nearly 50 points higher than mcclouth. frenchie has been benched for hitting nearly 90 points higher than nate. nate isn’t the problem. the problem has always been bobby cox
The Job Market
July 25th, 2010
8:50 pm
I’m just glad something is worse than I.
BravesinTN
July 25th, 2010
8:50 pm
Why is Infante not playing every farging day????
jason
July 25th, 2010
8:51 pm
Gary, yes it is. Francouer is just as sorry with the Mets. They are trying to trade him now (given up on him, also). Mclouth deemd to only perform for losing teams, Can’t handle the pressure of producing for a competitor. As for JHey, the thumb injury could be the reason for the power outage. Not saying TP is all that, but Prado is dominating in avg. and power from the leadoff spot. TP won:t get credit for that, though.
The Housing Market
July 25th, 2010
8:52 pm
Agreed!
Thanks Nate.
JohnSmith
July 25th, 2010
8:53 pm
Chavez got burned on some good pitches. Can’t fault him for this one.
Nate McLouth, however, should be burned at the stake, er, I mean, cut from the team. Like, yesterday. If the Marlins were looking at him as a potential outfielder, they’re probably looking elsewhere by now. Gotta cut bait.
JT
July 25th, 2010
8:56 pm
Here’s an interesting stat. Here are the bottom five batting averages in the majors for hitters with at least 130 AB:
Andruw Jones – .202 in 203 AB
Willie Harris – .194 in 134 AB
Ryan Church – .188 in 165 AB
Garrett Anderson – .181 in 144 AB
Nate McLouth – .169 in 183 AB
Anyone notice a pattern?
We can only hope that McLouth joins the others on the list as ex-Braves. I was really pulling for Nate, but he isn’t getting it done and is hurting the team. He’s not even making up for the lack of offense with stellar defense–and there have been too many times that he hasn’t even tried to make a throw.
I hope Nate gets things turned around… but we can’t afford to let him keep trying here. Get it together in the minors or on another team….
jason
July 25th, 2010
8:59 pm
I have a feeling McLouth is on the way out. No sooner had he hit into the DP, he was replaced by Infante in LF with Cabrera moving back to CF.
Nate McLouth's bat:
July 25th, 2010
8:59 pm
“If I go down, I’m taking everybody with me”
rugburn
July 25th, 2010
9:00 pm
did anyone other than bobby cox really think something positive was going to happen with mcclouth? 2-0 count, why would anyone let him swing. we should let tim hudson hit for him as he is a much better hitter and if the truth were out there, huddy is a better outfielder and can throw
Poppa Woody
July 25th, 2010
9:02 pm
McLouth sucks.
Poppa Woody
July 25th, 2010
9:05 pm
Only reason McLousy came out in bottom of inning was Bobby did a double switch, put Chavez in McLouth’s spot (3) since he made last out, and put Infante in pitcher’s spot (9).
And McLouth still sucks.
jason
July 25th, 2010
9:08 pm
Poppa, thanks, and yes McLouth still sucks.
Bama Brave 74
July 25th, 2010
9:09 pm
I’m with everyone on Mclouth but I don’t think Ross is the answer. I would really like to see someone like Marlon Byrd whom the Braves were after pre-season. The price would be high but the return would be great.
Andruw Jones
July 25th, 2010
9:17 pm
Miss me?
"OFF WITH HIS HEAD"
July 25th, 2010
9:22 pm
McLouth’s that is….
Wat Wat Wat
July 25th, 2010
9:22 pm
Jesse Chavez is the human white flag/victory cigar. Whenever JC’s up you know you are about to be going home.
Just like Acosta last year. I think the braves wanted to get the heck out of miami, and be home for dinner.
T'VILLE DAWG
July 25th, 2010
9:25 pm
This team with so much promise is in serious trouble. Bobby Cox why wait please retire now, you sent down .300 hitter Gregor Blanco to make room for Mclost. Blanco can drag a bunt. Mclost is your latest pet. Cox would rather be liked as one of the boys than make a decision that must be made, and whiled I’m pissed why not put David Ross at 1st and play everyday. The team can’t carry 2 or 3 .150 hitters. Play those that are hot and let the rest fight it out, Do you remember being puzzled when the Nyets released Billy Wagner out of the blue last year, do you think they knew something? Anything straight as an arrow is hittable no matter how fast it’s thrown
gene garbage
July 25th, 2010
9:32 pm
“Mclouth hit a bullet….”,,hint hint, any takers? he can hit the ball hard every once in a blue moon…any takers?? guess not..put him on waivers by the end of the day tomorrow.. never be able to trade him..
BUT, I made a bet with my girlfriend at the beginning of the inning, when i saw Chavez in the game, aaannnddd, I’m about to get a very good back rub…guess i can’t complain too much..
Kenny J
July 25th, 2010
9:38 pm
Relax, boys. This was the perfect weekend because the games we lost and could have won took the bloom off the rose just in time. This team is good, hard working, solid top to bottom, but after the pseudo-euphoria of the last few weeks everyone saw the gaping holes during these two losses. Wren/Bobbie being able to simply correct it ain’t so easy, but at least they can’t pretend any longer. The team needs another piece or two. Time to get real serious about that, and the lesson came just in time. Wren might have stayed back if we took two from the fish or swept them, but now he knows he can’t. Be thankful we missed out this series — for the action it brings between now and August 31. Still gotta win in October no matter what the moves, and what to do with major league contracts he wishes he didn’t have — oy, tough one if you’re Wren. But let’s let him figure it out, because he saw the same thing we did. It’s possibly just a tad harder for him to move things around than it is for us to blog about it. I love this team, and hop it can be finally shaped for the big flag.
Ralph
July 25th, 2010
9:45 pm
How dare Bobby call anything “STUPID”
stew
July 25th, 2010
9:46 pm
I wonder why he was given a green light instead of a take sign. I prefer when there’s a take situation for the batter to take. Don’t batters know how to work a walk? I want runs without swinging the bat. Why swing when you don’t have to. That being said it’s too early to give up on Nate. Melky is no bargain. We seemed to play better with the dynamic that Blanco gave us out of the 8 hole.
rob
July 25th, 2010
9:46 pm
Call me Crazy but we need to trade for a real outfielder AND a starting pitcher. It would allow us to put Medlen back in the pen which would keep Chavez out of Games. It will also be nice when EOF returns this week. We will not win this division without making a deadline move….oh yeah And McOut sucks
jason
July 25th, 2010
9:48 pm
The one glaring need is a power bat in the OF. FW as well as BC knows McLouth is not the answer. We had to lose another series eventually. Not that we lost the series, just that now we know what we don’t have in CF.
willie g reallyreally hates bill shanks
July 25th, 2010
9:49 pm
ALL YOU IDIOTS TALKED CRAP WHEN YOU GOT NATE OH AN ALL STAR FROM PITTSBURG FOR NOTHING THATS ALL YOU IDIOTS TALK ABOUT NOW THROW HIM AWAY RIGHT YJE PHILLIES ARE GOING TO CATCH THE SORRY BRAVES IGUARANTEE IT AND I HATE THE PHILLIES BUT ATLANTA LOSING TO THE BREWERS FOR 2 GAMES AND MARLINS FOR 2GAMES NO WONDER THEY SUX
willie g reallyreally hates bill shanks
July 25th, 2010
9:50 pm
NO WONDER THIS TEAM HASNT WON IN 4YEAES
willie g reallyreally hates bill shanks
July 25th, 2010
9:51 pm
YEARS
willie g reallyreally hates bill shanks
July 25th, 2010
9:52 pm
this team cannot win on the road now the padres have a 2game lead for best record the braves are in trouble.
Baldemar Huerta
July 25th, 2010
10:07 pm
Once again, Booby wasted spectacular performances with his stupidity. I think we had the Booby with the goatee for a while from the Alternate universe, and the Moron booby figured out how to get back to his dimension.
OldFan
July 25th, 2010
10:08 pm
Although they’re starting to look like the Braves we’ve come to expect, let’s see how the rest of the road trip goes. Losing happens. It’s how they lose that matters. And if they lose a few more on this trip they way they have so far, our old Braves are back.
murphy47
July 25th, 2010
10:09 pm
McLouth…now in Norton country…and I swore I would never say that name again!! His first atB he somehow manages to pull a pitch and screws up…then..yes I understand you usually want to drive the inside half of the ball (jeter) and stay back…but when you have a 2-0 count and the pitcher nails the outside corner- that is a PITCHER’S PITCH…leave it alone you clown…it’s like the one time you get to come out of your shoes waiting for a “get me over” fastball that floats middle-in…this conversation is college stuff…take the pitch, at worst it’s 2-1. That said…were like 16 games over .500 and got a three game series against a sub .500 team, take 2 on the road and then were 17 over .500… I’ll take it!!
Go Braves!
July 25th, 2010
10:16 pm
It’s starting to feel like April again…..
Jesse Stone
July 25th, 2010
10:29 pm
just think…if we’d gotten just minor leaguers in the Vasquez trade, we could’ve afforded Marlon Byrd, but we took “Chubs” Cabrera, who cost us $3M.
McLouth has been horrible, but it’s not like he’s loafing or not trying out there. Yes, I would like to see someone else playing besides him, but I don’t quite understand the personal attacks on him.
Nate McLouth's mom
July 25th, 2010
10:32 pm
I love him but he really does suck, doesn’t he?
Jesse Stone
July 25th, 2010
10:33 pm
we are stuck with Nate. Who would eat that contract?
Nate McLouth's mom
July 25th, 2010
10:42 pm
Jesse,
Prince Fielder might eat it.
Brick tamland
July 25th, 2010
10:45 pm
how could people think he’ll turn it around?? he blows balls and wont get it fixed
CSpin
July 25th, 2010
10:48 pm
Wait, who is Mimi and why is she screaming?
CSpin
July 25th, 2010
10:50 pm
Well said, Kenny J.