Open Thread and NAHWAL: Braves at Nationals (4/11)
by gondeee on Apr 11, 2008 8:47 AM EDT
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PrintAtlanta Braves at Washington Nationals, Apr 11, 2008 7:35 PM EDT
Chuck James was sent packing back to
To replace James, we’ll get neither Bennett nor Buddy, but
Jorge Campillo. This was a pitcher who was cut in the middle of spring training
and I could have sworn had no chance of making the club. He’s pitched in 8
major league game in parts of the last three years, all for
There was a spot available on our 40-man roster, so we didn’t have to put anyone on waivers when we added Campillo. Does it scare anyone that this mix-n-match starter game we’ve already been playing is the same one we’ve played for the last two years?
Tonight’s starter is Tim Hudson, who gets another crack at the Nationals -- the team that roughed him up in the first inning of his opening day start. Of course, after that first inning he was pretty much unhittable. Let’s see if he can settle into that comfort factor from the first pitch of tonight’s game.
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Picks
1. 40,578; close to sold out
2. Matt Diaz
3. Chipper homers again, making two homers at Nationals Park, plans on naming next illegitimate child "Nat" short for uh... "Nathan"
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Not even close to a sell out
1) 25,356 (The Nats are on a 7 game losing streak, I'm thinking the fair weather's will be gone)
2) Tim Hudson
3) Mark Teixeira get out of the slump with a 2-3 night, 1 BB, 1 2 run HR
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Picks for a division Win
1. 21, 111
2. Hudson
3. Hudson has a 2:1 or better ratio of groundouts:flyouts
I think Campillo might be headed to the 'pen with Bennett to the 5th starter spot. Thoughts?
Picks
1. 38,421
2. Hudson
3. Yunel triples
Not so much worried about the shuffle this year as we're really only shuffling the one spot.
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by 6stringbeliever on Apr 11, 2008 9:48 AM EDT reply actions
Temp.
You have 80 as the temp. Its getting no where near that today. High of 73. By game time it will be 71 or so.
nahwal
1. 36.589
2. Huddy
3. Hudson goes 9, allowing 1 run.
Anyone seen the FSN commercial where Hudson holds the "Most Coverage" sign up, and has the stupidest grin on his face? Hilarious!
Picks
1. 31, 534
2. Chipper
3. Chipper and Tex each homer
Picks
1. 33,349
2. Chipper
3. Huddy with the complete game...shutout.
by theangelicdoctor on Apr 11, 2008 11:11 AM EDT reply actions
Picks
1. 29,693
2. Chipper
3. Hudson with QS and W
Picks
1. 35,345
2. Chipper
3. Braves bust out the wooping sticks with a 5 run inning.
Picks
1. 32,235
2. Chipper (sticking with MY hoss)
3. Mark gets a birfday homer, one K, and a single
Chico is....
....the best pitcher around for heckling.
CHIIIIIIIIIICOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
by Euruproktos on Apr 11, 2008 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I still love...
...the clip of him throwing a wild pitch over the 1B dugout.
by Smoltz's Beard on Apr 11, 2008 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Picks
1. 31,230
2. Frenchy
3. Bobby Cox ejected
picks
1. 35,235
2. Teixeira
3. Ryan Zimmerman does not hit a walk-off homerun, but Tex has a multi-homerun game, two maybe three. Depends on if they walk him after the first two...
Picks
1. 39,204
2. Hudson
3. Huddy goes all 9 and doesn't give up more than 2 runs.
Picks
1. 41,950
2. Tex
3. Yunel goes 3/4 including a double and 2 RBIs
Yo
1. 32,750
2. Larry
3. The Braves use 4 pitchers, the Nats use 6
picks
1. 39,804
2. Yunel
3. Tex hits 2 birthday dingers
Picks
1-38,650
2-Frenchy
3-Frenchy is a triple short of the cycle
picks.
1.37,243
2. Huddy
3. McCann stays hot and gets at least two more hits.
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picks
1.35,555
2. Hudson
3. The top 6 in the order all have hits tonight!
Bustins
PICK!
1) 35,000
2) Huddy
3) Braves bat around in an inning
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picks
1. 24,496
2. Tex
3. Braves hit 5 XBH's
PICs
1. 29839
2. Chipper
3. I will actually get a point for my above and beyond pick.
Picks
1. 22,698
2. Chipper
3. The bullpen does not blow the lead and gets a save
NAHWAL
1) 38,473
2) Huddy
3) Huddy helps his cause with an RBI
ugh
I tune into the radio broadcast (because I'm blacked out of the Nats games...grumble grumble) and who do I hear but CHIP CARAY. Goddammit, I know Skip isn't traveling to road games, but what the fuck. Is he doing this alone? I haven't heard A WORD from Pete.
Oh he's there. Just barely.
But he's there.
Pitch Counts
So all I have tonight is GameDay (for now), but at least all the stats are right in front of me. So I look and see Chico has thrown but 78 pitches through 7 innings. What the hell!?!
It's becoming evident that, at least at this point in time, this is NOT a team that is willing to work the count. It's no wonder we're being defeated by the likes of Mark Redman.
Matt Little Boy
How is pitching this well against us?
Looks like Hudson will start the 8th. I like it.
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And he is
that means Moylan will be my choice to close the ninth if we need it. Otherwise I'm all for a CG from TH
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Stat?
Anyone got the date on the last CG we had from a Braves pitcher?
I honestly can't remember.
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Please do well if you stay in Huddy!
I'm hoping to avoid remembering last year. Yech.
Moylan Warming Up
Looks like Huddy will take it easy from now. Let's get some runs for Pete. He's the only one I'm excited to see come out of the pen lately.
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I can breathe now
I'm glad Diaz came up with that hit - for his sake as much as the teams'. He's finally getting his chance.
101
The gun on Sports South just said that Moylan threw a pitch that was 101 mph. And the next one was 97. That's gotta be a case of the gun being turned up or something... I mean, 101, for a side-armer.
Moylan gets the save.
Chipper tweaked something....
.... he had a noticeable hobble towards home plate on the base hit by Diaz.
-sdp-
woo hoo
Nice pitching game. Hudson looks good, Moylan looks really good. Hard to believe Chico kept us to 1 run...but he pitched pretty well too.
Hope Chipper is okay. LAST thing we need.
Thank god for once.
Good pitching and we win. Who saw that coming?!
The Pitching
I wasn't surprised by. The bats could've been more alive but we got what we needed. Moylan and Hudson have just been on fire lately.
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Results... finally
Attendance for the game was 28,051. With a guess of 28,625, rawleigh gets the point
The picks to click for the game were Yunel, Huddy, and Moylan. One point each goes to:
JBinATL
VegasAces
6stringbeliever
10-4
torchy
OntheGo
brndn
sdp
Perrinbar
ghos
NickATL
mycr0ft
mccannfan
hippybustins
chance13ga
ejruiz
jess7
supesk6
AAB pick points, one point each to:
Smoltz's Beard
VegasAces
torchy
755aaron
brndn
mycr0ft
jess7
godawgs (if it was go tech, then you would not have gotten that point)
hbkbraves
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