Monday, April 8, 2013

Live Blog - Eighth Inning

Oh, oh!  Marmol!  One pitch to Braun, double to left.  Boos from the fans when he comes out.  More boos after the hit.  This is a lost game by now, but I wonder what this outing, in the long run, proves.

Weeks strikes out, but he walks Lecroy after throwing a wild pitch.  Deshaies is saying Marmol needs to go down to Iowa and reinvent himself.  Maybe he's right.

Marmol is hard to watch.  He manages to strike out two guys and get a popup to end the inning.  Every third or fourth pitch is a good one, but every pitch is an existential struggle for this guy.

Gorzellanny on the mound for the Brewers.  Is this an attempt to rub it in or not?  Clever to go to a lefty in relief, though.  Sappelt bats for DeJesus and flies out on the first pitch.  Castro strikes out.  Rizzo continues to struggle against lefties.  Called third strike.  I know everyone thinks Rizzo is a future star, but his numbers against lefties are really bad.  This is an aspect of his game that needs to improve.

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