Bullpen Coalition Shines as Braves top Phillies, 4-1

I sure hope Heyward makes the game on Sunday. But I’m glad the Braves proved they can win without him, especially because of the bullpen. (though not preferably!) I was also glad to see Chipper hitting this game!

DOB tweet: Chipper had a mild groin strain on his infield hit in the sixth inning, but says he expects to play tomorrow.

Wow. Kind of a stressful game to watch, but the result was great. Was anyone else a little surprised to see Kimbrel come in when he did?

Takes a lot of pressure off. I was hoping for a sweep of the Brewers to make this a successful road trip. Coming into the road trip I was hoping for at least a 4-5 road trip. Just gotta split the next four. Go braves!! Gotta keep scratching out wins till the bats heat up. Schedule finally gets humane for the rest of the month.

Diaz on the offensive slump:
“I know it’s not from a lack of work or a lack of effort,” Diaz said. “We’re all down in the cage doing what we can do. If we all do bust out at the same time, it could be dangerous. We just hope that day comes sooner rather than later.”

Looking forward to said breakout on Sunday—hopefully J-Hey will be back!

too many LOB, but i’ll take it!

TBS has a bad spell check program. They spelled Heyward’s name: “Hayward”!
http://www.tbs.com/sports/mlb/

the damn ump wouldn’t give us a call, and our bats took forever to get going. but watching the bullpen blow this potent phils lineup away was satisfying!!! Go Bravos for tomorrow!!!!

Ugly win. But whatever. If they can not get stomped out for the remainder of this road trip, they have a chance to gain ground. Schedule has been brutal. Starting with the brewers, the schedule gets better

a) Why did Medlen only go 4.1 innings?
b) what are the early returns on Krimbel? How good is he? I’m yet to see him get in a game

Ahh, I feel so much better when the Braves win. Hopefully Kawakami can pitch good Sunday and get some run support.

Answer to a. Medlans conditioned to be a reliever. I heard Bobby wanted 75 pitches from him. He threw damn near 90. Great effort

Kawakami has come to a point where he must win. You can only be awful for a certain amount of time. I’m fairly confident he’ll pitch well tomorrow—I just hope the offense will explode.

Followed the game on AtBat while at work, and the boxscore said we had 22 LOB. I’m glad for the win but I must’vs stared at that for 5 minutes wondering how the hell it was possibe with I think 7 hits and 6 walks?

what everybody else said

The official scorer should have option to assign the win to a starter, even though he didn’t go five. I wouldn’t want to make that a habit (and very few guys who went less than five would even deserve one), but when you have a guy who is a spot starter with medium expectations for pitch count going in, he should be eligible. No big deal, but Meds deserved a “W” for his effort today.

And I couldn’t care less how many guys Glaus left on. He brought home the one who gave Billy enough room to work.

I’m also glad Saito rebounded from his last outing. He looked fabulous today.

He wouldn’t have gotten the win if he they were up 1-0, either.

Medlen did a wonderful job in his outing, and as much as I have cringed watching Prado and Chipper allow balls to pass the last few games, the pitchers and defense have been absolutely rabid about inducing Vidros. Seriously, I really can’t recall seeing so many GIDPs in such a short span as this week.

All the BP pitchers today did great work, maybe with the exception of the nervous Kimbrel, but Moylan and Venters both getting out of huge critical jams was gigantic, and Saito was a flat out door slammer in that 8th. And watching Billy Wagner freeze Chase Utley in the 9th had me doing the imaginary chainsaw strikeout motion from my couch, yelling like Tom Hallion.

Great win today, hopefully there will be more of that tomorrow.

The combination of FOX and the allure of alcohol wouldn’t let me watch until after the game was nearly over, but I watched the “Enter Sandman” outs at my local Buffalo Wild Wings and was the only consumer to applaud when the Braves won. Let’s go win a series on the road in 10 hours, mkay?

LET’S GO BRAVES!

I hope this game helps Bobby realize that he needs to use Hinske as the LH in the LF platoon against RHP.

LHP:
Infante, O.
Prado, M.
Jones, C.
McCann, B.
Glaus, T.
Heyward, J.
Diaz, M.
McLouth, N.

RHP:
McLouth, N.
Prado, M.
Jones, J.
McCann, B.
Heyward, J.
Glaus, T.
Hinske, E.
Infante, O.

Both of those line-ups have amazing potential – and when Esco comes back, are deep 1-8.

..and watched it late last night. It was so nice to see our guys come away with a WIN against the dang Phillies!!!

The BP sure backed up Medlen and it was nice to see. And better yet, we scored more than 2 runs!

Looking forward to today’s game and hopefully we’ll do to Philly what we couldn’t do to the Nats – and take the series.
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And.. pet peeve here…. his name is spelled MEDLEN for goodness sake!
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