5/8 Game Thread: DBacks at Braves (Corbin vs Foltynewicz)

[dak]

[Julio3000]

The good old Sunday Lineup, like when Bobby used to clear the bench on Sundays to keep the scrubs sharp.

Or, as we like to call it now, "the lineup."

[nsacpi]

Expecting a yuge game from Jeff Francoeur.

[CrimsonCowboy]

Flowers at cleanup?

[bravesfanMatt]

Flowers at cleanup?

At least he is catching. We now can really see if aj is junk or not.

[Millwood1Hitter]

Fredi: "Do you really expect us to win this game, I mean look at who our starting pitcher is today? I'm scared as hell, in that ballpark be lucky to not give up 4 homers in the 1st. Some guys need to get some playing time, so today is a good day to run them out there, see what they got you know. And some guys in the pen need work as well, they're assured of that, I told everyone to be warm and throwing after 1st pitch. You never know, some of these guys might surprise."

[Garmel]

Folty looked like an MLB pitcher that inning.

[Ozzie Swanson]

I love Inciarte in center field.

[mossy]

Excellent play by Ender.

[Garmel]

Folty with a 7 pitch 2nd? This is Twillight Zone type stuff.

[bravesfanMatt]

Amazing how much better Folty looks with a real catcher.

[Ozzie Swanson]

Aybar seems to be turning it around.

[dak]

Amazing how much better Folty looks with a real catcher.

He's still missing the target quite a bit, but he's mixing pitches and locations reasonably well . . . and the misses aren't high and over the middle of the plate. His stuff is good enough that he's not gonna need impeccable command to be a solid back-end starter.

[bravesfanMatt]

He's still missing the target quite a bit, but he's mixing pitches and locations reasonably well . . . and the misses aren't high and over the middle of the plate. His stuff is good enough that he's not gonna need impeccable command to be a solid back-end starter.

Folty could throw a no hitter and you wouldn't like him. The fact is every pitcher misses his spots from time to time. But what is important is flowers is calling a game that is keeping guys off balance and it shows. Also he has gotten at least one boarder line pitch called a strike which is huge in a game like this.

[bravesfanMatt]

And why is ender batting second. Nick needs to be #2

[Garmel]

We can't catch a break it seems.

[UNCBlue012]

If only this team would capitalize we might be okay

[Ozzie Swanson]

I know it has been said a million times but it's amazing how many more strikes Flowers steals for our pitchers than AJ.

[Ozzie Swanson]

Folty looks really good today. Mixing his pitches very well and locating.

[Garmel]

I know it has been said a million times but it's amazing how many more strikes Flowers steals for our pitchers than AJ.

Flowers stole a K right there.