I still hate the Dodgers. I also hate the way this team is hitting.
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I still hate the Dodgers. I also hate the way this team is hitting.
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It’s funny how the Giants had no problem picking up “malcontent” Jose Guillen, but the “good clubhouse guys” Braves didn’t. Give me a break. How long before stress of so many close games wears out the pitching staff? Oh well, it’s not like we haven’t seen this movie before.
1. Infante 2B, 2. Ankiel CF, 3. Gonzalez SS, 4. McCann C, 5. Glaus 1B, 6. Hinske LF, 7. Conrad 3B, 8. Cabrera RF, 9. Jurrjens
Honestly, it’s time for the Braves to stop giving Heyward every Sunday off. He’s not Seventh Day Adventist or Jewish, and the only way for him to learn how to play every day is to… well, play every day.
@ as i see it…
1. infante 2. hole 3.hole 4. mccann 5. hole 6. hinske 7. 7th inning commando 8. hole 9. jj
I, too, wish the Braves had gotten Jose Guillen. I mean, can anyone deny that he is great at playing baseball?
It’s a great day to break out of the offensive slump. Let’s go Braves!!! [/end of cheerleading]
Ugh. Is Bobby wanting to retire as early as possible?
Doooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmed
Fingers crossed for a few bombs from the Braves today, because it’s the only way a lineup with this many holes is going to score.
Looks like the Braves are doing their best to not score more than one hand’s worth of runs in this series. Ugly, ugly lineup.
When nobody is hitting, it really doesn’t make much difference what order they bat in…
this team needs a makeover that starts with a figgins and ends with a freeman.
It’s like 1968 with the low scoring games. When is Pat Jarvis going to pitch?
since the break
Infante – .345/.382/.417
Ankiel – .246/.325/.362
AAG – .240/.315/.406
Bmac- .271/.374/.553
Glaus – .193/.301/.273
Hinske – .192/.344/.423
Conrad – .194/.275/.472
Melky – .297/.369/.487
3rd best hitter hitting 8th, I spared showing you August numbers for this bunch
I had to pinch myself after reading Melky’s line to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but yeah, he should be batting third.
Heyward’s knees are sore again, per DOB.
How can a first-place team field a lineup like that? Wow.
Yeah. I hate that lineup. What’s Diory Hernandez gotta do to get a start, right?
OUR BEST PLAYERS ARE HURT, GUYS.
Prado had a pain free BP today, said he may go to Gwinnett for a couple of games. Heyward may need a cortisone shot in that knee
nate’s now hitting .233/.705OPS at Gwinnett, can we make him blind again
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I’d rather bat Melky 2nd than Ankiel, and of course move McCann, Glaus and Hinske up to the middle spots.
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I’d like to thank Jim Tracy for having Theriot bunt there. If he hadn’t, this game might have been over almost before it began.
According to Chip, Padilla just fielded Infante’s grounder for the “game’s first out” in the BOTTOM of the first inning.
@23: Wait, what?
I still can’t see how we will score any runs today…
Our best players could be dead. Doesn’t change the fact that the lineup is terrible. Just because it’s the best you got doesn’t mean it’s good.
25- That greatly reduced the chance of a big inning, and when JJ struck out Ethier, that made it possible for JJ to escape without any runs scoring at all. And Lord knows we can’t afford a big inning, or even a small one.
Vicente Padilla has pitched six straight seasons with an ERA over 4.40. Since 2004, his ERA is 4.62. Even with the Sundayest lineup ever, we should be able to score off him.
still doomed.
Of course, his ERA this year is 3.29.
Hopefully it will not be another 6-pitch inning.
Not only that, but he has the highest K/9 and lowest BB/9 of his career. I recognize that Dodger Stadium makes people a lot better, but… he’s sucked for six years straight. I refuse to believe that we can’t beat up on him.
Thanks a heap, Torgo.
Ugh. It’s going to be a long day.
When did Padilla start throwing an eephus pitch?
Glaus sucks. BARBARO!
The Braves should just get me to play first base. At least I would only make 1 out every time I came up…
You have failed us, Torgo.
I hate Troy Glaus.
@20 Mac, I know my finnish. That’s just a compelling case for bringing Freeman up with a random comment accusing Francoeur’s parents of being Norwegian donkey herders.
Obviously from a fan. Of the Braves. Not Norwegians.
Can Greg Olson play first?
Someone shoot Chip Caray.
Poor JJ…so let me get this straight. Heyward’s headfirst slide basically ruins his rookie year, now a defensive play has him sore like a 35 y/o. Now I see why his father didn’t want him to play football. And why is Melky batting 8th?
The Dodgers and Braves are doing a Deadball Era renactment.
It looks to be a long day for the Atlanta cranks, as they have met a formidable opponent in the twirler for the Los Angeles nine.
lol, Conrad almost ate dirt.
Our hero, Melky Cabrera. (sob)
At this point (gulp) is it actually okay to maybe start liking Melky? Just a bit?
This Melky Cabrera guy is the man!
The Melkman likes lollipops.
Starting to like Jim Powell more and more. “One Eephus too many” is a simple and excellent bit of broadcasting that, say, Chip would never stumble upon in a thousand years in the booth.
Omar!
Blow out!
“UP THE MIDDLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Drew,
I like Powell a lot. He and Sutton are good together, except when Don is doing play-by-play.
This is the Braves’ third 2-run (or more) inning in the last 43.
I think you send Ankiel here.
Now it is unreachable. Ball game
A legit rally.
Way to go, New Guys.
Heck YES!!!
This lineup sucks.
No way I give McCann a pitch to hit the rest of the season.
I hate this f’in lineup!
Wonder if Glaus can catch up to that soap bubble pitch?
Come on, Troy, lean in and take one for the team.
You have failed us Torgo. For this you must die.
Well Joe Simpson, if his legs are as bad as you say, why isn’t Glaus on the DL?
Alex was right, Padilla sucks.
Glaus got to 450 PAs last night, so his $350,000 incentive kicked in. He gets another at 500 PAs. (Per DOB)
Bobby is pissed at Melky on that one.
And that is why we hate Melky.
96? Wow, Jair.
Melky looked like that shitty kid on your little league team getting his league-mandated three innings.
Melky sucks at life.
Yeah, that 96 mile an hour gas was really impressive. Take that, Cousin Ronnie!
I was confused about what was happening. Melky sucking made me feel grounded again. My world makes sense again.
For some reason, a “run producer” is what announcers call a guy who plays a hitting position but can’t really hit.
TBS announcers suck. Stupid to walk somene intentionally with 4 run lead
“Run producer,” “leadership skills,” “good teammate,” “hard-nosed,” “the kind of guy coaches love”: what other cliched synonyms are there for players who suck ass?
Professional hitter.
Will JJ hit wall after 90 pitches as he has done recently? Looks really good today.
@80, you forgot “great clubhouse guy”
/baseball-ese for “she’s got a great personality”
Scrappy?
Watching Omar hit since Martin went down, it really makes me wonder why they weren’t hitting 1-2 for most of the year.
Nah, “scrappy” is usually a middle infielder. (Eckstein is the platonic ideal of scrappy.) Keith Lockhart, scrappy; Jeff Francoeur, run producer.
“Worth a run (or two) a game” is usually applied to people who are short of that by a factor of ten.
Shut up, Chip.
“Scrappy” is usually a middle infielder, though it can be applied to a crappy outfielder who can’t hit. (See: Blanco, Gregor.)
Attaboy, AAG!
“He does the little things that don’t show up in the box score” is a favorite of mine.
“He’s one of those guys you just love to have on your team”
“Really fills a uniform out”.
For really fat players when you can’t think of anything positive to say.
91- Or “gets a uniform dirty.”
Strike out or DP? Strike out or DP?
I’m filled with suspense!
TORGO!!!
TOOOOORRRRRGOOOOOOOOO!!!
And BOOM goes the dynamite!
GLAUS!
Nice, very, very nice.
The Groundhog sees his shadow.
He lives!
It’s nice to know that we are capable of scoring runs
And “knows his role”. As in has accepted he’s barely on the team to begin with.
Glausosaur!
By the way, I’ll take credit for demanding that we beat the crap out of Vicente Padilla.
Good, now there’s no reason at all to not knock Podsednik down next inning.
Thank God for Vicente Padilla.
This is the first time since August 4 that the Braves have scored 2 or more runs in two different innings.
@106 It’s too bad Chavez is gone. He could have just come in for one batter every time we needed to reek our vengeance.
Oh no. Please be okay, JJ.
Fisted!
I think Theriot just got Rickrolled.
getting thrown out at 3rd down by 8 runs? goodness
Let me just say: Gregor Blanco would have NEVER made that throw.
Frankiel!
Always a perfect throw when taking an extra base when down by a bunch
Down by 8, running on a pitcher in CF, that’s got to be the dumbest baserunning of the year. Thank you man.
Alright, this looks like our day. (The Beast Is Back?) Nobody else get hurt, OK?
How many times do you see this? A guy makes a great play in the field and then comes up fourth in the next inning. So classic.
The only thing is, all of our backups are already in the game. How do you take the guys out and protect them from injury?
We’ve scored nine runs on ten hits. When has this ever happened?
Gary Sheffield or the RF they got from the Jays. (Shawn Green.)
Mondesi?
@123 correct
Shawn Green?
121- The Braves scored 10 runs on 10 hits against the Reds on May 20 (Conrad’s first PH GS) and against the Marlins on July 24 (Conrad’s second PH GS- Thanks, Trace).
Yeah, it’s Mondesi.
Shawn Green. 1998.
126, so both times Conrad’s hit a pinch hit grand slam.
Green’s 1998 was in Toronto. It’s Mondesi.
Omar turned that DP really well there.
My mind has been warped by pornography. I can’t see DP without giggling.
I’m like Mac and some others on here. It is sweet to pound the Dodgers.
No-No Alert.
Thru 7 IP vs. Oak, Twins’ Kevin Slowey hasn’t given up a hit.
jd,
None of ya filth!
134—Gleeman says his day is done.
132, 135- Get your minds out of the gutter; they’re crowding mine. We’re all just lucky Bethany hasn’t posted lately.
On June 18, Derek Lowe went to 9-5 with a 4.77 ERA. Since then, he’s made 10 starts with a 3.55 ERA — and is 2-5.
I am chastened. Apologies all around.
Let Ankiel pitch the 9th!
Apparently, Slowey won’t come out for the 8th.
A combo no-no?
Game on MLB network. Rauch gets the first guy in the 8th. Five to go.
AAG!
@141 It would be like Luke Wilson in the Royal Tennebaum’s. He’d have his shoes off, walking around the mound in circles, crying.
@141 Which is only to say he should totally pitch. That would be super fun to watch.
Oh good! We apparently traded Melky!
End of no-no.
During 75 games with the Braves this year, Yunel Escobar had 12 extra-base hits (all doubles) and 19 RBI.
During 28 games with the Braves this year, Alex Gonzalez has 10 extra-base hits (5 2B, 2 3B, and 3 HR) and 14 RBI.
Rains, pours.
From Gamecast
T Glaus singled to right center, O Infante scored, B Hicks to third.
I feel like that doesn’t capture the…what happened..of the play.
Wait — what happened?
Well there was an instant replay for you, only moved to center field.
We ACTUALLY traded Melky?
Sorry, jd. Didn’t mean to get your hopes up.
The Dodgers are playing like the Mets.
same thing that happened to Henski’s
Dammit! I got excited.
Melky has been very good for us lately. As Peter pointed out on Twitter, he was probably — gulp — the third-best player in today’s starting line-up.
why is DOB reporting that Glaus is reaching certain incentives? Wasnt the whole offseason spent trying to convince us that they had already factored in all these players reaching their incentives in our payroll? I thought thats how they explained the drop from $92-93 down to $84mil.
This lineup, and this game in general, worked better than they had any right to.
would be nice for some help tonight
csg,
Agreed that DOB is playing up the incentives too much. Where it “might” make a difference is if we had any decent chance to have picked up any pretty good 1B (say Derrek Lee, whoever) then that new starter would knock out that much cost so part of the payroll didn’t have to be made up.
I think if we could trade Melky now we’d be unloading him for a good value. The problem is the only teams that could talk themselves into it are probably title contenders who wouldn’t want to give anything up we could use.
And then there’s all the waiver stuff I don’t understand that makes it impossible I would think.
Good to get most of the pen guys some rest (the ones that needed it).
So, going into tomorrow, Venters and Saito have one day of rest. Moylan and Wagner have 2. And EOF pitched today at Gwinnett (his 2nd rehab appearance) Maybe they activiate him by Tuesday or Wednesday.
Somewhere (on EsPN, I think) somebody said something about trades having to be completed within 48 hours of waivers. I thought that was only trades completed pursuant to a waiver claim.
Like say, if Lowe had cleared waivers a week ago and a contender lost a key pitcher, then we oculd trade Lowe to that contender for minor leaguers or for any Major League player that had cleared waivers.
Isn’t my position right?
Recapped.
Every team in the division has a losing road record, and nearly every one a winning home record (Marlins are 29-30 in Miami), led of course by the Braves’ absurd 41-16 home mark.
Upshot of this is that we really have to put a little distance between ourselves and the Phils, and ideally the other division leaders, before we hit the last couple weeks, when it’s three away series in the division before closing at home against the Marlins, who are so far the best NL East team in others’ parks.
DOB is merely doing his job as a reporter.