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nolie
September 9th, 2012
3:46 pm
BALLGAME!!!
Mark
September 9th, 2012
3:46 pm
I suspect you suspect correctly!
Fredo
September 9th, 2012
3:47 pm
bourn you know you don’t have to strikeout at least once on almost a daily basis
Capt.Mudd
September 9th, 2012
3:47 pm
We just didn’t handle that Reeding assignment
T-Dawg
September 9th, 2012
3:47 pm
Uggggghhhh. Dang he strikes out way too much.
M.V.P.Heyward
September 9th, 2012
3:47 pm
No Chad Durbin please.
Ekim
September 9th, 2012
3:49 pm
He had a decent at-bat that didn’t end well. A ten-pitch strike-out isn’t an embarrassment.
David O'Brien
September 9th, 2012
3:49 pm
After Bourn strikes out on 10-pitch at-bat (6 fouled off), Kimbrel to pitch 9th for Braves.
Janish in at SS, Prado to third.
M.V.P.Heyward
September 9th, 2012
3:49 pm
WOW! Kimbrel time.
T-Dawg
September 9th, 2012
3:49 pm
Kimbrel? FG trying everything thing this week.
Brava
September 9th, 2012
3:50 pm
Agree, Ekim.
Bravefaninok
September 9th, 2012
3:50 pm
nolie
September 9th, 2012
3:46 pm
BALLGAME!!!
Fredi managing with some urgency here.I like it!
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
3:50 pm
Shaun has finally gotten into Fredi’s head.
Dum-Bass
September 9th, 2012
3:51 pm
FG has to be the most unpredictable manager than has ever existed. His convoluted thought process is completely reversed from what it was in the first half of the season, and even after the AS game. Just can’t figure him out.
Mark
September 9th, 2012
3:51 pm
Had to go outside for a minute.
Somebody explain to me why Freddi has Kimmys in the game.
PTBNL
September 9th, 2012
3:52 pm
Hmm He is only throwing 95-96.
Fredo
September 9th, 2012
3:52 pm
non save situation + closer = mystery inning
nolie
September 9th, 2012
3:53 pm
is it the dreaded “No Chance for a Save” Kimbrel? …..
T-Dawg
September 9th, 2012
3:53 pm
94-95 on the fastball
tony austin
September 9th, 2012
3:53 pm
Not a big fan in using Kimbrel in a tie game on the road.
T-Dawg
September 9th, 2012
3:54 pm
…and we play tomorrow
Ekim
September 9th, 2012
3:54 pm
I agree, tony austin.
Bravefaninok
September 9th, 2012
3:54 pm
David O’Brien @ajcbraves
Janish in at SS, Prado to third in 10th for #Braves. Kimbrel pitching in tie game. Fredi pulling out the stops (for him, this is big)
PTBNL
September 9th, 2012
3:55 pm
and…. seemingly no command of his slider. Could be trouble.
Dum-Bass
September 9th, 2012
3:55 pm
cabravesfan, I do like Target too. Got one less than half a mile from me, with food. Go there pretty often too. In fact I walk there a lot for exercise.
cabravesfan
September 9th, 2012
3:57 pm
Dum-Bass
The one closest to us is enormous- pretty much has everything you need (except a del/fresh meat & seafood section).
Capt.Mudd
September 9th, 2012
3:57 pm
Wal-Mart Shopach there—I hear he got 1st mitt there
M.V.P.Heyward
September 9th, 2012
3:57 pm
97!
T-Dawg
September 9th, 2012
3:57 pm
There’s a 97.
Fredo
September 9th, 2012
3:57 pm
kind of a long inning for CK
Dum-Bass
September 9th, 2012
3:58 pm
Would this be FG hitting the “Panic Button”? Had a sign at work years ago in a radio station, near the transmitter that said, “DON’T PANIC, THINK’! I changed it to, “DON’T THINK, PANIC.”
Brian from SC
September 9th, 2012
4:00 pm
Kimbrel in a non-save situation! I think it’s wonderful. Don’t save your best pitcher for an inning that may never come.
M.V.P.Heyward
September 9th, 2012
4:00 pm
Dan Uggly is not a solid 2nd basebase man,.
Kat
September 9th, 2012
4:00 pm
Free baseball for me!
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
4:00 pm
Definitely not going to be two innings for CK today.
Mark
September 9th, 2012
4:00 pm
I don’t understand that inning at all unless every other reliever is sick and puking and hooked up to IVs…
Dum-Bass
September 9th, 2012
4:01 pm
Dan (rag arm) Uggla almost blew that throw for a game-winning run. Good thing he doesn’t have to throw from third.
Fredo
September 9th, 2012
4:01 pm
so is the only reason Kimbrel is being used in a tie game because the Nats are losing?
nolie
September 9th, 2012
4:01 pm
There are a dozen posters here who bitch just about every time that Fredi does not use Kimbrel in this situation, now we gots folks complaining that its panic. Guy can’t win…….
Kat
September 9th, 2012
4:01 pm
Many Mets fans heading to the parking lot.
chipontheroad
September 9th, 2012
4:01 pm
Blair Walsh just hob-nail booted mularky to tie with time expiring guess his yips were a dawg thing
Dawgs hail yea Faaaaaaaaalcons!!!
Go Bravos
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
4:01 pm
Wonder who’s going to pitch the bottom of the 10th? Durbin? Martinez? Avilan? Moylan?
FIRE FREDI GONZALEZ
September 9th, 2012
4:02 pm
21 pitches. Gearin can close this out if we get a run.
Brian from SC
September 9th, 2012
4:02 pm
I don’t understand that inning at all unless every other reliever is sick and puking and hooked up to IVs…
So you are in favor of using an inferior reliever to try to get three game-saving outs? Just because he doesn’t get a number next to an “S” in the box score doesn’t mean he is not helping to save a game.
Dum-Bass
September 9th, 2012
4:02 pm
Could be a “heavy duty” poker game going on in that little room next to the bullpen. CK only one not involved in it.
Mark
September 9th, 2012
4:02 pm
Brian
Completely different situation than the other day when he came in in the 8th.
If we score 3 runs this inning that’ll still be a stupid move bringing Kimmy in on the road in a tie game!
Brian from SC
September 9th, 2012
4:03 pm
If we score 3 runs this inning that’ll still be a stupid move bringing Kimmy in on the road in a tie game!
Why? You do know that the three outs Kimbrel just got are WAY more important to winning the game than three outs with a 3-run lead would be.
M.V.P.Heyward
September 9th, 2012
4:04 pm
Prado with a infield single.
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
4:04 pm
Good start for the 10th. Need to score a few runs with the cream of the bully already in the showers.
Mark
September 9th, 2012
4:05 pm
If you use your inferior reliever logic why would you ever bring in another one.
We are on completely different pages here though Brian so lets just hope we can pull it out here in the 10th since Teeen just legged out an infield hit
Brian from SC
September 9th, 2012
4:06 pm
That bottom of the 9th were the three most important outs in the game so far. The Braves used their best pitcher to get those outs. That’s how it should be done.
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
4:06 pm
If the Braves don’t score here, the bottom of the 10th will be the same situation as the bottom of the 9th was. (Same for 11th … nth).
T-Dawg
September 9th, 2012
4:06 pm
Good hit and run.
Brian from SC
September 9th, 2012
4:07 pm
If the Braves don’t score here, the bottom of the 10th will be the same situation as the bottom of the 9th was. (Same for 11th … nth).
Exactly. So just like in the 9th, the Braves should use their best available reliever to get the outs in the 10th.
M.V.P.Heyward
September 9th, 2012
4:08 pm
I don’t like our chances with Uggly & BMac.
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
4:08 pm
Good time for a 3-run home run.
Brava
September 9th, 2012
4:08 pm
Make ‘em pay, Danny.
Dum-Bass
September 9th, 2012
4:08 pm
Yep, as bad as I had to say it, agree with this logic from FG. Just wish he had used it more before now. Don’t think “closers” should be one inning specialists, just because they are unionized. That’s what it reminds me of.
T-Dawg
September 9th, 2012
4:09 pm
Was Kimbrell already warming up while we were hitting in the 9th? If he was, and I suspect he was with a runner on third then all of this bickering is silly. You don’t want to warm him jump twice and then come in later.
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
4:09 pm
“So just like in the 9th, the Braves should use their best available reliever to get the outs in the 10th.”
Who is that?
T-Dawg
September 9th, 2012
4:10 pm
Dang autocorrect….
Brian from SC
September 9th, 2012
4:10 pm
I dunno, abeee…whoever Fredi thinks is his best option. If lefties are coming up, it might be Avilan.
It’s better to have to pitch Avilan or someone else in the 10th than it is to never have a 10th inning.
Fredo
September 9th, 2012
4:11 pm
just need a sac fly Mac O
Brian from SC
September 9th, 2012
4:12 pm
Managers do that all the time, T-Dawg, and it’s ridiculous. Closers sometimes have to warm up five times in an extra-inning game. That’s a good way to get someone hurt.
M.V.P.Heyward
September 9th, 2012
4:12 pm
Base on balls. nice at-bat, Danny.
nolie
September 9th, 2012
4:12 pm
obviously two different schools of thought on the subject, most teams do not do it
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
4:12 pm
Good time for a grand slam.
cabravesfan
September 9th, 2012
4:13 pm
That’ll work!
Yay MAC!
M.V.P.Heyward
September 9th, 2012
4:13 pm
BMac with a SF!
Brava
September 9th, 2012
4:13 pm
Yes! Sac fly BMac!!!!!!!!!
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
4:13 pm
Good play by Hairston to get to that ball. That was a rocket from McCann and should have scored two.
Ekim
September 9th, 2012
4:13 pm
McCann deserved more than a sac fly on that rope, but we’ll take it.
T-Dawg
September 9th, 2012
4:14 pm
Brian from SC……
That’s my point. You’ve used him a lot and having him warm up over and over is what FG wanted to avoid. Go ahead and get his one “guaranteed” scoreless inning and let him rest. Especially since we play tomorrow.
Dum-Bass
September 9th, 2012
4:14 pm
There never was this problem, or discussion back when pitchers were “real pitchers” and finished the game. I really miss those days.
Brava
September 9th, 2012
4:15 pm
Moylan to close?
chipontheroad
September 9th, 2012
4:15 pm
B Mc sac
Fredo
September 9th, 2012
4:15 pm
he’s racking up the Ks early in his Braves career
Brian from SC
September 9th, 2012
4:15 pm
No reason why it can’t be combination of Moylan, Avilan, and somebody else.
nolie
September 9th, 2012
4:15 pm
unfortunately Lyle has done nothing in limited chances so far
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
4:16 pm
Moylan in the 10th with a one run lead. I’m not going to have any fingernails left.
Overbay hasn’t exactly been what the doctor ordered to fix the ailing bench.
David O'Brien
September 9th, 2012
4:16 pm
it’s Moylan coming in to pitch the 10th for Braves
Jerry
September 9th, 2012
4:16 pm
Why is Overbay here?
Mark
September 9th, 2012
4:16 pm
Brian
One last thought. If someone had started the 9th and we got in a jam and could lose it then I could see it. Still wouldn’t love it but could buy it. But to start the 9th with nobody on – No
Now I’d love to have Kimmy coming in with nobody on up by 1 run!
nolie
September 9th, 2012
4:17 pm
he hit well in ‘zona this season, just onea them things
Brian from SC
September 9th, 2012
4:17 pm
Mark, I love the fact that the Braves got an opportunity to take the lead in the 10th, seeing as how the Mets did not win the game in the 9th.
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
4:17 pm
“No reason why it can’t be combination of Moylan, Avilan, and somebody else.”
Fredo’s blown your “best reliever left” theory, hasn’t he? <g>
nolie
September 9th, 2012
4:17 pm
Moylan? Interesting
Capt.Mudd
September 9th, 2012
4:18 pm
Just what we needed—a person at the plate sightseeing NY
nolie
September 9th, 2012
4:18 pm
I’m scairt
Jay Dubu
September 9th, 2012
4:18 pm
Pete closing it out makes me nervous.
Overbay did know he took a bat with him to homelate.
Brian from SC
September 9th, 2012
4:18 pm
How so, abee?
Dum-Bass
September 9th, 2012
4:18 pm
Every team has to have a “third out specialist”. Otherwise the games would never end. Overbay is now the Braves’ 3OS.
Jay Dubu
September 9th, 2012
4:19 pm
If he hit well in zona this season, why did they let him go?
abeeeewright
September 9th, 2012
4:20 pm
“How so, abee?”
I love Peter Moylan, but he’s not the best reliever left.
Fredo
September 9th, 2012
4:20 pm
giving you a free out Pete
Brian from SC
September 9th, 2012
4:20 pm
Fredi must have thought he was, abee. I’m not sure, myself.
Capt.Mudd
September 9th, 2012
4:20 pm
Heck as far as the pitcher situation….just support who we have in there!!!
PTBNL
September 9th, 2012
4:20 pm
Not sure that was the right pinch hitter, and I am certainly not real confident in Moylan. Hopefully, he is correct.
nolie
September 9th, 2012
4:21 pm
I am not really a Moylan fan
nolie
September 9th, 2012
4:22 pm
he’s all over the place too, up is a really bad place for Peter