I hope to God we clinch early, but I would love to do it with a win over them.
I hope to God we clinch early, but I would love to do it with a win over them.
It would be particularly satisfying to clinch in Washington.
BJ was on base 2 of 5 times.
Stole a base, got the count full three times or just two.
If this was any other player, that's a solid game.
But since it's BJ, he gets hated on, rightfully so.
Btw, if he was gonna be benched for anyone, I'd want Schafer playing over him.
Mad Dog Murph (08-03-2013)
Nah, most days, I like Gattis/Heyward/JUp. I know Gattis had a rough week, but he needs the AB's. He's gonna be the everyday catcher next year...
And I thought Beachy threw a pretty good game today.
Outside of the hanger to Mayberry, he pitched a really good game. Would of pulled him after 6 but what can you do.
Hopefully he can keep it up and build off it.
Yeah, Beachy did very good work after a tough start. I really didn't mind him starting the 7th at all. He was rolling and was under 100 pitches. If he had gotten Mayberry out, he probably would have finished the inning. Where I got lost was the decision to bring Ayala in and then the decision to pitch to Rollins.
It was more the decision to pitch to rollins IMO. No reason to do so. OK yes you don't want to put the go ahead run on base but you don't face rollins over Young.
There were still other options. I thought they wouldn't use Carpenter because of his heavy workload recently and wound up using him anyway. Regardless, if they had gone with a better reliever, they could have won the game in nine without using up nearly the entire group.
Anyways, we won the game. Hopefully Wood can go deep into the game tomorrow.
Heyward (08-03-2013)
Carpenter and Walden may be unavailable.
Walden could pitch but it's his third in a row, same with Kimbrel.
Downs, Avilan, Varvaro, Ayala are for sure available.
Carpenter is probably unavailable.
We could use Walden and or Kimbrel if it comes down to it.
The book on Ayala is that he's OK to pitch a clean inning. But if you pitch him with runners on base you're asking for trouble. That's what Fredi did and it was a really stupid move. He was overmanaging playing with fire, not only did it not save Avilan it almost cost us the game (and made us have to use almost the entire bullpen). The move to pinch run for CJ with Constanza was just as bad, if not worse. If not for Philly choking and walking Janish we'd be talking more about that too.
That said, thankfully the Braves won despite bad managing (including Fredi batting Uggla and BJ back-to-back).
Last edited by Braves1976; 08-03-2013 at 10:45 PM.
I am just saying he was used thursday and they were still trying to give him the day off today but ended up using him anyway. I would guess they try to give him the night off tomorrow. The only way Walden and Kimbrel pitch is if its close. Kimbrel did go 3 straight last weekend.
Heyward (08-03-2013)