Cards & Brews -- 2011 NLCS IST

[Frayed Knot]

Braun has 5 RBIs in the series, but 4 of them were in the first few innings of the first game.
He's gotten his hits since (8 overall - 4 for XB) but has done zippity-Duda with men on. Even Hairston's given them more ('til he let that ball shoot thru his legs last night anyway)

Throw in Prince having all of 3 Ribbies while both Gallardo, Grienke & Marcum are all pitching like shit and it's like they're trying to win without their biggest guns at the same time that their 'D' is just handing the Cards runs on a platter.

If it wasn't for Wolf bailing their asses out they'd already be home.

[MFS62]

If the Cards win tonight, the Series will produce a managerial match-up of an admitted ex-Cocaine user and an ex-Lawyer.
What a quandry.

Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Brewers so deserve this.

edit: This meaning the humiliating beatdown they're absorbing in this 1st inning of a must-win game.

[G-Fafif]

From deep down in my stomach, with every inch of me, I pure, straight hate the Cardinals. But goddammit, do I respect them!

[Frayed Knot]

BOMBS AWAY !!!!!

[G-Fafif]

Glad I'm a National League fan where everything isn't about swinging for the fences.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Marcum's teammates showing some heart.

But now Punto at the bat with the sacks juiced. Let's go, GiDP.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Gowch, Brewers. Stop digging.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Gl@vine himself couldn't pull a better Gl@vine job on the Brewers than Marcum has in this series.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Dane Iorg is the Brewer first-base coach?

I wonder if observant, long-time Cards fans are starting to get paranoid and scan the crowd for Denkinger.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Phee-yew. Man, could I use a Sazerac and soda right about now."

[Guest themetfairy]

Is there a mercy rule in the NLCS?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not for Cargo Pants, who singles and goes from first to third on a wild pitch.

Six more of those, and this could get interesting.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I have find memories of my times in St. Louis, and I do think the Cards have great fans. But I'm a little tired of seeing them in the World Series. Was hoping for a series with two teams that have not won it before.

Freaking choking Brewers.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Cheap calls at first ("getting Ortaed?") won't help-- even ones that make Dan Lozano gasp.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Somehow, we just need to convince LaRussa to bring in John Lackey.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Funny thing about the Cards is that every time you get Pujols out, it feels like momentum shifts in your favor.

(And yes, that attitude may expose you to socks to the jaw from the Molinas of the world, but I'm going with it.)

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Well, Frankie hasn't changed much.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Did he just punch somebody?

Seriously, wait 'til we start voting for the Tug McGraw Award tomorrow. Your tune may change.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Hey, Prince. The fans who have been paying your salary just gave you a standing O after your last at-bat as a Brewer. Would it have killed you to at least wave to them for a moment?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Fourth and 26 for the the Beermakers here.

Maybe moreso, considering Prince is breaking up the Revolution.

[Guest Edgy DC]

UNESCO Benneton, swinging at trash, is out number one.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Potsie Webber is crying.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Is Prince a Red Sock yet?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Thanks in large part to a three-run homer by Prince Fielder in the All-Star game back in July, the Wild Card Cards are your home-field-advantagers this World Series.

Thanks, Prince!

[Frayed Knot]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Well, Frankie hasn't changed much.

If the rest of the Brewer team had played at least average-ish like Frankie did (3 IP - 1 run) they wouldn't have gotten their collective asses handed to them by a clearly inferior team.
But starters Marcum, Greinke & Gallardo sucked, Weeks & Fielder sucked, Braun never got a hit that mattered after game 1, and their defense really sucked.
Their pen in general and the run Frankie gave up last night in particular was like #28 on their problems this week.

[Frayed Knot]

StL just won a six game series where their starters went: 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 4.1, 4.2, and 2.0 innings.

Totals for the series:
Starters: 24-1/3 IP; 18 ER; 36 Hits
Relievers: 28-2/3 IP; 6 ER; 15 Hits

Also, no [u:26l0logx]Un[/u:26l0logx]earned runs in the entire series.