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phil
April 30th, 2012
7:42 pm
We don’t want a bunt every time.
Just once in a blue moon….the first AB was nice.
richbrave
April 30th, 2012
7:42 pm
‘Big Jim’ is movin’ on up. Can’t wait to see if he can rake AA pitchers like those he buried in the Carolina League.
I’m also curious to see how 2B TOMMY LaSTELLA handles someone else behind him in the order. LaSTELLA typically hit third, GATTIS fourth. TOMMY is stroking the pill at a .362 clip right now with six doubles and 20 RBI.
phil
April 30th, 2012
7:42 pm
Can minor at least swing? Good grief.
cabravesfan
April 30th, 2012
7:42 pm
phil-
He does bunt, probably more than once in a blue moon
Mixxo
April 30th, 2012
7:42 pm
Big 2 out hit c’mon Michael!
Bat Masterson
April 30th, 2012
7:42 pm
Sure thing, phil
Disgusted
April 30th, 2012
7:43 pm
What Pastornicky lacks in polish in the field at short, he is showing he can handle the bat.
I am not down complely on Tyler in the field, I do think he has the tools to get better and be servicable enough out there. Needs more experience and he will get better.
Can he be as good as Blauser????? Why not.
bravesgrl4life
April 30th, 2012
7:43 pm
Just got a chance to sit down but I’ve been watching from the kitchen. Good game so far. Lets do this, Michael, and make ‘em pay for that blown call at 2nd last inning.
phil
April 30th, 2012
7:44 pm
Another wasted inning…sigh.
richbrave
April 30th, 2012
7:44 pm
Smoove Criminal
April 30th, 2012
7:41 pm
“…..Pastornicky is on fire right now. Just comes up with hit after hit. All the Andrelton Simmons lovers are puking right now watching his success……”
WRETCH! E-e-e-e-w-w-w, clams for dinner
Smoove Criminal
April 30th, 2012
7:44 pm
Is it just me, or does anyone else seem to think by watching this team that the Braves have the worst bunting set of pitcher in the NL?
phil
April 30th, 2012
7:45 pm
He does? When?
cabravesfan
April 30th, 2012
7:45 pm
Minor wasn’t bunting there…
phil
April 30th, 2012
7:45 pm
Enter your comments here
richbrave
April 30th, 2012
7:46 pm
GATTIS had seven doubles and 29 RBI
cabravesfan
April 30th, 2012
7:46 pm
phil-
He’s actually tried it at least once or twice this season, and he was successful a time or two last year
Cap: Where's My Tip
April 30th, 2012
7:46 pm
that hitting with runners in scoring position stat is taking a hit these last two games
phil
April 30th, 2012
7:46 pm
He bunted at the first pitch and missed.
And yeah….our pitchers aren’t bunters anything like they once were back in the day.
ChrisfromSacramento,Ca
April 30th, 2012
7:47 pm
Cabravesfan
Ya, like that was his best swing in weeks. One time is not the start of a trend or adjustment. see your golden boy sucky hurtward. Two good weeks and you were slurping him up
But you being a woman and playing baseball sometime in you’re life know that though?
cabravesfan
April 30th, 2012
7:47 pm
phil-
they were saying it appeared that Minor missed a sign on the first pitch…no way they try a suicide squeeze with Hinske on 3rd (not to mention he was anchored to the bag…)
phil
April 30th, 2012
7:48 pm
I don’t recall but don’t doubt you either.
Get Livan in there!!
iTiSi
April 30th, 2012
7:49 pm
“Disgusted” mentioned Jeff Blauser. Where’s he at now? I remember many saying his last 2 yrs. he would make a great manager.
phil
April 30th, 2012
7:49 pm
I was thinking safety squeeze, not suicide.
It wouldn’t have worked most likely but would’ve been better than a k.
cabravesfan
April 30th, 2012
7:49 pm
Chris-
So because I am a woman and didn’t play beyond little league, I don’t know anything about baseball?
(And again, big difference between thinking Heyward is a good player and declaring him a HOF candidate. You understand that, right?)
bravesgrl4life
April 30th, 2012
7:50 pm
Fast moving game so far. already in the third. Dang it, Minor. Now you need two BIG K’s here to get out of this one.
Disgusted
April 30th, 2012
7:50 pm
Phil—Hey, I have coached kids and always told them the difference in how they should behave in the kids league and that the pros who argue, well that is their office, their business. Most of the arguing is generally not tolerated in kids leagues. In basketball, the kids league I was in, the kids just started to run their mouth, it was a TECH, and correctly so.
That is what sometimes goes on in the game at the higher level.
Of course you would never go off like that in a real world office but the game does not reflect the real world.
Some of the tactics used in coaching sports at the high levels are never used in the real world. That is why its a game.
Tomahawk Mafia
April 30th, 2012
7:50 pm
Minor looks to be fighting it a bit tonight thus far.
phil
April 30th, 2012
7:50 pm
Chris with yet another sensitive, thoughtful remark.
Don’t have to be a total ass…
JC Brave
April 30th, 2012
7:51 pm
Unbelievable, Braves pitching has been batting practice for this guy… double after double…
Fols
April 30th, 2012
7:51 pm
Chris is a repeat offender…therefore…ignore!
Mixxo
April 30th, 2012
7:52 pm
Minor to Gwinnett.
JC Brave
April 30th, 2012
7:53 pm
Jesus Christ, wtf?
Who the hell is josh harrison?
Tomahawk Mafia
April 30th, 2012
7:53 pm
Crap. That needs to be the end of Pirate scoring.
Mixxo
April 30th, 2012
7:53 pm
Bucs “want” this.
Cap: Where's My Tip
April 30th, 2012
7:54 pm
tied, oh well. Braves have been hitting McDonald pretty well so there should be no problems on the scoring side (just need to start getting those big hits with runners on)
richbrave
April 30th, 2012
7:55 pm
DOWN ON THE FARM
ROME
ROME has a team with poor hitting and reatively weak pitching. A bad combination. They were mashed today by KANNAPOLIS 7-0
LF JAKOB DALFONSO [.381 BA] 1-4. Here’s a bat. SS NICK AHMED was pulled from the line-up after some good success because he evidently fell into some bad habits. CHASE LARRSON the only other bat with consistant positives is currently shut-down and on the DL.
RHRP JOHN CORNELY [2.79 ERA[ 2.0 IP, 2 H, zeros, 1 BB, 2 SO is decent most of the time, and was last night. Of course, the game was well in hand by the time the 8th rolled around.
MISSISSIPPI
Travel day. EVAN is on the way.
Mixxo
April 30th, 2012
7:55 pm
Robbed!!!!
LAG
April 30th, 2012
7:55 pm
Wow.
Brava
April 30th, 2012
7:56 pm
Man these umps blow.
poison avery
April 30th, 2012
7:58 pm
Enter your comments here
poison avery
April 30th, 2012
7:59 pm
Okay, Let’s get it back
brian
April 30th, 2012
8:00 pm
McCann needs to get untracked
TBbravesfan
April 30th, 2012
8:01 pm
now let’s see how fast we can get minor back out there.
brian
April 30th, 2012
8:01 pm
rich – ahmed – bad habits hitting or other bad habits
poison avery
April 30th, 2012
8:01 pm
C’mon Mac
Tomahawk Mafia
April 30th, 2012
8:01 pm
McDonald seems to be settling down.
phil
April 30th, 2012
8:01 pm
Mac…sigh.
ChrisfromSacramento,Ca
April 30th, 2012
8:01 pm
Cabravesfan
Ya adjustment made! Mac is locked in!
Carroll Rogers
April 30th, 2012
8:02 pm
Tomahawk Mafia, i was just going to type the exact same thing.
phil
April 30th, 2012
8:03 pm
ROME
ROME has a team with poor hitting and reatively weak pitching. A bad combination. They were mashed today by KANNAPOLIS 7-0
******
we let them win in honor of Earnhardt….
TBbravesfan
April 30th, 2012
8:03 pm
wow that’s how to work a pitcher
cabravesfan
April 30th, 2012
8:04 pm
Sorry, I missed where I said Mac was locked in…or had made adjustments. Just pointed out that he hit the last ball to left field
Sopheee
April 30th, 2012
8:05 pm
ChrisfromSac – if this question is offensive to you, don’t answer but how old are you?
Cap: Where's My Tip
April 30th, 2012
8:05 pm
sheesh, that reporting a comment system is harsh … but sometimes it’s worth going through the effort
richbrave
April 30th, 2012
8:05 pm
DOWN ON THE FARM
GWINNETT
Postponed
LYNCHBURG
HILLCATS are behind 1-4 in the middle innings. 2B TOMMY LaSTELLA is 1-2. they’ve moved the new guy in to the power slot, TIM SMITH. He’s pulled an 0′fer so far and drawn a walk.
Pitching is bad. RHSP DiMASTER DELGADO [6.75 ERA] gets cuffed around, then knocked out in the fourth. LHRP BLAINE SIMS [6.00 ERA] on in relief can’t get an out before giving up a hit and a run.
Bravofan
April 30th, 2012
8:06 pm
Ugh
AB Critique
April 30th, 2012
8:06 pm
Pretty funny! 1-2 count and the defense completely changes to throw the shift at McCann. You could practically see the wheels turning in Mac’s head so in response….. he wifs on the next pitch.
bravesgrl4life
April 30th, 2012
8:06 pm
DOUBLE DAMN
Mixxo
April 30th, 2012
8:06 pm
Uh oh…..this is getting ugly quick.
Brava
April 30th, 2012
8:06 pm
Minor is losing it.
ChrisfromSacramento,Ca
April 30th, 2012
8:06 pm
How the hell can he cupcake one to the best player on that team. Loss of focus
phil
April 30th, 2012
8:06 pm
Clint Hurdle is the red-faced picture of robust health….a role model for Mac.
Minor is not exactly foolin em tonight.
CaptMudd
April 30th, 2012
8:06 pm
Just in time to witness the Bucco Blast….poop
Tomahawk Mafia
April 30th, 2012
8:06 pm
Minor is really struggling.
JC Brave
April 30th, 2012
8:06 pm
Another single from another nobody. A nobody hitting .071.
And then, just like that, they hit a HR and take the lead.
The PITTSBURG PIRATES…
The goddamn PITTSBURG PIRATES…
Carroll Rogers
April 30th, 2012
8:07 pm
four earned runs off Minor in first four innings are as many as he’d allowed in his past three starts
Tomahawk Mafia
April 30th, 2012
8:08 pm
I guess Minor was bound to give up some runs, the Pirates were bound to score some runs.
tommykk
April 30th, 2012
8:08 pm
A nice picture of Clint hurdle..where is his cat?
http://40acresandacubicle.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/blofeld.jpg?w=640
poison avery
April 30th, 2012
8:08 pm
Mimor’s leaving some fat ones over tonight tho that Alvares sure looks like a good player
Cap: Where's My Tip
April 30th, 2012
8:08 pm
pirates almost at their stopping point, they haven’t scored more than 5 runs this season and once the offense kicks it back into gear, they can reclaim this game.
AB Critique
April 30th, 2012
8:09 pm
Ump is having a rough night. His strike zone changes by the second.
JC Brave
April 30th, 2012
8:09 pm
4 runs in two innings by a team that struggles to score 3 runs, day in and day out.
phil
April 30th, 2012
8:09 pm
Another big fatty with a sore oblique….
I recall chris chambliss pulling an oblique back in 82. Spent some time on the DL.
phil
April 30th, 2012
8:10 pm
Spare the gd, JC.
Please.
richbrave
April 30th, 2012
8:11 pm
DOWN ON THE FARM
Turns out AHMED is in LYNCHBURG, and has been all along. Things are so bad in ROME’s hitting department, I’ve gone off the deep end, and confused him with KYLE KUBITZA….sorry.
poison avery
April 30th, 2012
8:11 pm
Damn. Minor is laboring
tomahawk: new generation
April 30th, 2012
8:12 pm
Minor struggling vs crap team… why pitched a gem vs d-backs and brewers,,and good game vs dodgers???? and now struggling???
SADLY
Martinez or Medlen start to warm up NOWWWWWWWW
COOL MINOR WALKED THE PITCHER
YOU ARE SO STUPID RIGHT NOW MINOR YOU LOOK WORST THAN JURRJENS NOW
phil
April 30th, 2012
8:13 pm
Fire Richbrave!!
CaptMudd
April 30th, 2012
8:13 pm
I really feel–for what he was acquired to do; he has underperformed thus far this campaign….Uggs, homers….lack thereof.
phil
April 30th, 2012
8:14 pm
tomahawk: new generation
April 30th, 2012
8:12 pm
**************
from whence do people like this come?
Amazing.
Sopheee
April 30th, 2012
8:15 pm
The new generation is scary.
Brava
April 30th, 2012
8:16 pm
Uggs!!!!!
Mixxo
April 30th, 2012
8:16 pm
His name is Dan!
bravesgrl4life
April 30th, 2012
8:16 pm
Uggla!!!
BFChris27
April 30th, 2012
8:16 pm
Uggla!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
poison avery
April 30th, 2012
8:16 pm
Nice inside out Uggs
TBbravesfan
April 30th, 2012
8:16 pm
need a long one here.
CaptMudd
April 30th, 2012
8:17 pm
But more base hits…and in the park wallops…that’s why I like the Uggly hustler
richbrave
April 30th, 2012
8:17 pm
brien:
Hitting problems I imagine. 3B KUBITZA was stroking it, then just fell off a cliff. Could be an injury of course. They don’t announce much of that sort of thing in the minors unless it a luminary like an ED SALCEDO for instance.
Mixxo
April 30th, 2012
8:17 pm
Good job Hoss.
Bat Masterson
April 30th, 2012
8:18 pm
from whence do people like this come?
Amazing.
From Chris From’s baseball & rhetoric academy
phil
April 30th, 2012
8:18 pm
Another runner in SP…less than 2 outs. Let’s see.
richbrave
April 30th, 2012
8:18 pm
With the BRAVOS averaging 5+, we’re still in this horse-race sports fans.
CaptMudd
April 30th, 2012
8:18 pm
C’mon give me some real Hinske
poison avery
April 30th, 2012
8:19 pm
McDonald seems to have lost some command this inning- hope we can take advantage
Brava
April 30th, 2012
8:20 pm
Woohoo Hinske!!!
BFChris27
April 30th, 2012
8:20 pm
Ski!!!!!!!!!!!!
phil
April 30th, 2012
8:20 pm
Yes sir!
Tomahawk Mafia
April 30th, 2012
8:20 pm
Sweet. Hinske with RBI.
ray k
April 30th, 2012
8:20 pm
Nice Eric