Damn

Ugh.

We had Zimmerman OUT at home. **** they botched that. We can’t afford to be just giving games away like this.

Oh for ****s sake this is bullshit. Zimmerman was out and Bader was ****ing safe. ****ing bull roar.

Man that’s two replays we got ****ed on.

Infuriating. Can not lose games like this right now.

Hudson get a case of the yips for a bit there? He looked shook up and was sweating bullets. That one pass ball came off his hand as if his hand was drenched with sweat. Dude has seemed tired lately.

And now we have Molina in pain... I hate having to rely on fending these guys off with a one run cushion compared to the comfy 6 run cushion we had. :#

Eat shit, Bryce.

Come on Ozuna...keep the positive juju going!

Midnight has struck and Carpenter has turned back into a pumpkin.

I had to turn it off. It's like watching a car wreck in slow motion. :shake:

I know what you mean.

Just struck Zimmerman out looking with a backup slider. Looked nice.

Should have been the game right there. Can't believe how badly Carp ****ed up that earlier play.

No doubt. That and the two botched calls and if Bader would have made that play in center, it’d still be 7-2.

If we eat out of this, it’s an ugly, ugly win.

What the hell is up with this team having horrible at bats with the bases loaded?

Nice!!! And Fat Matt was like, “suck my dick, Nats!”

Thank God.

Jesus they almost pulled a Braves - good win fellows.

The horseshoe they had up their ass in August fell out as soon as September rolled in.

Yeah, they won tonight, but that was ****ing sad.

I don’t fault Badger for not catching that ball.

Martinez has been like this every since he first came up. He can walk the bases loaded and then strike out the side with his stuff.

I like him as our closer. I think pitching the 9th will focus him and allow his natural high level stuff to work it’s magic.

I don’t fault him either. Just “what if’s.”

this is his first time facing MLB hitters. And in a pennant race. He’s relieving because of his innings pitched this year. So like you said, maybe he’s tired too?

Yeah... I mean, yeah, that’s what I think the case is.

It's really the worst bullpen I've ever seen. Martinez is the only dit in the entire pen that has an out pitch he can control.

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Jose Martinez can suck my ****ing nuts. What a worthless ****ing shitbag.

Tie game.

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Not for long Norris is pitching and he is already at 2-0 on the first batter.

Unsurprisingly Carpenter has turned back into a big pile of steaming shit who cant hit or field.

Welp I am officially done with these ****ing morons for the season.

Shildt is a ****ing fraud. Better than Matheny, but a fraud nonetheless. No execuse to keep going to Norris in these situations. He's lost three games for this team in six days.

no excuse. This is total BS. You have other options.

Wainwright still sucks? Who would have thought.

No one could have seen this coming. :)

BIG ****ING CITY!!

My heart cannot take this shit.

Brewers just beat the Cubs again. :thumb:

yeah they had to get on a winning streak to get themselfs in position to compete for the playoffs. Then the inevitable back to earth patch happened. Now they have 18 games left. They are going to have to earn a spot in the WC. Any wins from here on out are great.

We throw Flaherty in the WC game, we got a “real” chance at winning. That’s more fun that I could have thought possible 6 weeks ago.

It would be a tough call between Flaherty and Mikolas in the WC.

That's a shame. :)

Chris Carpenter told Mo he wanted to work with individual pitchers instead of these clinics or talks he had been doing for the team in the minors. Mo asked Carpenter which pitchers he would like to work with. He only said one name, Flaherty. Mo asked why. Carp said because I see a lot of myself in him.

Flaherty was talking with Bob Gibson on an old timers day. He was asking about his slider. A friendship began. Flaherty seeks counsel from Gibson all the time now since Gibson gave him his personal phone number. Gibson told him he watches all the games. Flaherty asked if he can call him after the game about pitch choices during the game and how he would have approached that at bat. First time he has given his number to a pitcher. When asked why he said, I see myself in him.

No, Flaherty has not reached his full potential but he's ready to take the ball in a winner take all game. Two of the greatest bulldog pitchers in our history think so, I'm with them.

Just because they think he will be great doesn’t mean he’s ready for that yet. Carpenter wasn’t the same guy in Toronto that he was his last few years here.

I’m also not trying to be overly argumentative because I wouldn’t have a problem with either. A lot of it will depend how the rotation falls because I doubt we have a spot clinched going into the last weekend against the Cubs.

6 weeks ago I think it's probably a close question. 2 weeks from now it could be again.

But Mikolas is a guy that pitches backwards and has to do crafty righty stuff. Teams can/will eventually adjust to that. Moreover, he just looks like he's a little tired right now.

Meanwhile Flaherty can just come right at you and beat you with raw stuff. That's how you win in the post-season. Better still, Flaherty - at least right now - doesn't appear to be tiring.

Obviously things could change between now and then. Frankly, we may not have the luxury of setting up our rotation and maybe Gomber has to take the start. But if I could set up my rotation any way I wanted for the WC game, it would be Flaherty without question.

Matheny would have gone with Gant..."because he has the hot bat right now."

Mikolas has an average of 6+ runs of support every game. Many pitchers will have his success with 6 runs every time. Lefties are hitting .500+ the last 10 games he’s pitched. He can’t get inside on them.

Two eighth inning explosions saved the team the last two days.

Weaver...

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I actually like the Giants announcers - not homers and don't bitch about borderline calls - not insulting - they seem nice, overall. Certainly better than ****ing Chip Caray and Joe Sinpson.

If you can’t trust a pitcher to hold a 10 run lead with only 3 outs to go, why are you still on the club? He needs to go work on getting a MLB ready curve ball and not until then.

Was at the game tonight. If there were more than 1000 people left in the 9th Weaver would have been booed off the mound. Throw a first pitch strike for God’s sake.

Leadoff triple

Only 1 hard hit ball after

Day games, man.

They seem to always come out flat in them. Sometimes they have an inning where they get 2-3 runs and that's enough to pull out the W but they just don't seem to come out with much energy for day games. Combine that with the fact that they'd already secured the series win and it just feels like one of those class "LaRussa getaway days" where he pretty openly couldn't have given less of a shit about the outcome.

we are even playing against Pitt’s “C” lineup. But as it’s been this way all year, winning or losing is determined by our play not whoever we are playing. We beat good teams and lose to bad teams.

Overall we are on track to make it into the WC. Fired Matheny and a WC berth is way better than I thought this year was going to turn out.

Well, at least they're making it interesting.

:facepalm:

Carp has been a stud this year but that was ugly.

3 innings runner at third with less than 2 out and they didn’t get any of them in.

Not sure what Carpenter was looking for there.

Dude loves that inside pitch and he gets one at 89 with little movement. They're giving him the RF line and he just stares at a game-winning double.

Just a ton of shitty ABs with runners at 3b today.

Just need to move on to bitch slapping the Dodgers.

if we don’t at least split these 4 games, we are back on the WC bubble.

We have a brutal schedule ahead. I thought I read 13 of the last 16 are with teams in first or second place. We are eliminated from the division title- now it's all about the WC.

It’s definitey a long shot, but 3.5 back in the division and 3 games each against the Cubs and Brewers, we are not eliminated from the division.

16 left. 9-7 gets us 90 wins. That should be good enough for the WC.

2 weeks ago 90 wins seemed like a cakewalk. Unfortunately they've pissed away the start of September and have just scuffled along at .500 the whole time.

They really should have a shot at 93-94 wins but they've just lost a ton of momentum due to really poor situational hitting.

Don't worry. The Dodgers suck now. :facepalm:

on the flip side, considering they were .500 until Matheny was fired and we have now the 4th best record in the NL, it ain’t so bad.

Every team in the NL besides the Brewers, has been inconsistent lately. How do you think the fans of the Dodgers, D-Backs, Rockies and Cubs feel right now?

We went to LA and swept them. Rockies and won the series. We have been Kershaws kryponite. 4.20 ERA. 2-6 W/L. We beat him tonight the WC is almost ours.

I think I could hit off Norris.

defintely going to need some strong kryptonite tonight. Kershaw 114-3 when given a 3 run lead.

Going to need more than 3 if Gomber can't find a put away pitch.

Feeling like it's game 6 and 7 of the WS all over and Maddon forgot how to manage baseball. Cubs are in the middle of a 23 or so game stretch with no day off and it's taking it's toll on the players but Maddon has been epically stupid.

Might have just lost Strop for the remainder of the season because with the bases loaded in the 10th and only 1 out he decides to let Strop hit after he was brought in during the 8th and he ends up pulling his hammy running to first.

I’m getting tired of those same pathetic AB’s from Martinez. He just looks at a get over strike. No intention of swinging. Then he gets shit from the pitcher the rest of the AB. Finishing up with a pitch in the dirt way over in the other batters box that he swings at like it’s little league. And they keep batting him 3rd.

Does our playoff hopes die this weekend?

We need a split. 1-3 leaves us tied with the Dodgers and momentum behind them.

Ran into some tickets for tomorrows game. They look to be good seats in the Home Redbird Club. I haven't been to a game at the new stadium and I am looking for suggestions for parking. I will be coming in from Columbia via I-70.

I sat in the same section earlier this week. Nice seats with a privateish option for food with some tables you can actually sit down and eat at.

We parked in the garage at the northwest corner of the stadium. $20 may not be the cheapest but you are literally one turn onto 64 and can get onto 70 that way.

Scanned through some recorded MLB network shows this afternoon. All of them think we are dead man walking. The Dodgers have too much talent and our schedule is the worst.

Thanks for the info!

This team is back to being unwatchable trash again. The extension for Shildt was a mistake.

Shildt bringing in Norris now to make my point.

its not Shildts fault they have two hits. Carp is looking to walk instead of mash.