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Friday, May 02, 2008
[The ending] provoked manager Lou Piniella into a postgame tirade after he smacked a dugout water cooler in the fateful ninth inning.
“You got a two-run lead going into the ninth and you let one get away… it’s a tough loss,” Piniella said.
He was just warming up.
The following question—the one that set Piniella off—was whether he’d thought about replacing sore-legged left fielder Alfonso Soriano with Reed Johnson in the ninth inning. Soriano helped the Brewers’ ninth-inning rally get started when Gabe Kapler’s fly ball sailed over his head for a double.
“You’re damn right I thought about it,” Piniella snapped back. “You think I’m stupid or something?”
The briefing ended with Piniella muttering profanities on his way out the door.
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Posted: May 02, 2008 at 12:52 AM | 29 comment(s)
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Marmol: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 4 K, 0 BB (note: those 4 k's were consecutive)
Kerry: 1 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 HBP
Methinks Lou has a decision to make...
He almost... ALMOST... gave us a commemoration of Lee Elia.
Defensive alignments aside, Wood hasn't been too bad in the closer role. The problem is - he's clearly the 2nd best reliever on the team. Personally, I'm not so much in love with 'naming' Marmol the closer as much as I am ensuring that it's Marmol who pitches the key situations.
All that said, any half decent reliever should be able to get 3 outs when spotted a 2 run lead.
Probably? I like my eight-year-old's chances on one like that; he certainly couldn't have butchered it worse. Soriano should've been charged with an error. And Fukudome had even less excuse on his, since he is at least theoretically healthy. I guess Wood could've r'ared back and struck 'em out, but at a certain point your defense has to execute.
I'm guessing he wanted to keep his teeth. Also note that if Wood had struck out the side, nobody would be asking him either of those questions.
Right. If Marmol had pitched the 9th, Wood would have pitched the 8th and we're in the same situation. These things happen.
Doesn't "The ________ ended with Piniella muttering profanities on his way out the door" work for all events in Lou's life? I mean you fill in the blank: "wedding," "funeral," "bris," "oral boards," "colonoscopy" ... the list is endless!
He doesn't have much of a choice right now. The real problem is how bad Howry, Weurtz, and Hart are pitching. Marmol is the only reliable guy out there now, and he's pitching a lot. He can't pitch 3 innings every day.
I agree it wasn't all Wood's fault, but it most definitely was mostly his fault. By definition, his stuff couldn't have been great because he was getting smacked around. The Cameron AB was the only time he really did what he wanted to do. His location was off.
Agreed. I'd also better about Wood being around if Howry'd stop sucking. (Or Wuertz, for that matter.) I've been a little disappointed in the Cubs' non-Marmol relievers this year. Well, Lieber's generally been good, but he's usually in the game when things are out of hand anyway.
Take it to the Todd Jones thread.
That's going to be hard for people to do if he keeps blowing saves. For some reason, people place more emphasis on those appearances for closers that the other times they're out there.
It's too early to even begin to speculate whether or not he has the makeup to close or if he's LaTroy Hawkins, but that's not gonna stop people. And if he's only giving up runs in those situations, well that's only going to throw more fuel on the fire.
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What's the big deal? It's not like it hujrts anbody. ####### #### #### ####.
Rotoworld reporting that Gallardo might be out for the year. Yost must be feeling awful for pulling a Dusty yday.
brewers put him on 15 day dl, recalled bush. gallardo's basically done for this year.
EDIT : just being facetious
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