Chipper Jones and Kenshin Kawakami Lead Braves to 4-3 Win Over Tigers

lets go get the sweep

Wagner’s pitched with a sore ankle for about 10 days, and today it was too sore for him to pitch without changing delivery. Wagner tried to warm up in bottom of 8th after taping it more than usual, but it was too sore. He got cortisone shot after game. Wagner said he should be good to go as soon as tomorrow, though he’ll have to see how if feels when he gets here.

I have always and will always be a Braves fan, but the last called strike was ball 4. The boys should have wrapped it up before it got to that point, but I still think that they need to thank the home-plate umpire for that one. Either way, great game offensively. Keep it up!

is the anti-Bill Hohn. Thank you for giving KK his first (and well-deserved) win.

And even nicer to see KK pitch so great—and get the win! I’ve said it a million times—he’s a good starter and does not deserve to be demoted to the bullpen. I’d like to think this game would shut up the haters, but I’m not that naive.

Of course, no one “deserves” to be sent to the pen right now, but there are plenty of reasons to think that Medlen is exactly what we need in the pen right now—a shutdown, strike-throwing, right-handed reliever. He was exactly that earlier in the year, and we’ve missed him up there lately. With the latest news about Wagner, bullpen depth becomes even more important. I feel like Medlen is probably a bit better than KK as a starter, but I also feel like he’s a MUCH better reliever than KK, so that’d be the tie-breaker for me.

You rock.

As of right now, Kawakami has a 3.77 ERA in 62 innings with McCann catching, and a 6.98 ERA in 19-1/3 innings with Ross catching.

Meds is going to the pen. With Saito still having a sore hamstring, Wagner a sore ankle, and Moylan struggling a little sometimes we need someone who we know can get those critical outs.

I personally would want to see another start from JJ in the minors as none of them have looked very strong. Of course there is the reasoning of him working on pitches however I want to see a start or two of him pitching how he would if he was in the majors. He sounds like he is still trying to get a feel for some of his pitches which was his problem before the DL.

Also I think its quite remarkable that Wagner has been so freaking filthy through this injury.

Hopefully Tommy can pitch deep into the game for us tomorrow and give our pen a rest or the offense goes to work and we can use Martinez and Chavez

It sucks more so that they’re winning and I’m watching the freaking Yankees/Dodgers game on FOX. The only pleasant outcome of that game would be a stadium collapse.

ATLANTA — Sitting at his locker and clearly unhappy with himself, home-plate umpire Gary Cederstrom said that when he saw the replay of his game-ending strike-three call tonight on Johnny Damon, “It didn’t look very good.”

Cederstrom said he called the pitch too quickly and that, when an umpire makes a call too quickly, he “usually gets in trouble.”

Tigers manager Jim Leyland said the pitch was several inches outside.

If Cederstrom had called the pitch a ball, Damon would have had the game-tying walk, and the Tigers — remarkably — would have had their fifth consecutive walk with two out in the ninth.

Instead, the called third strike from right-hander Peter Moylan on Damon allowed the Braves to escape with a 4-3 win.

“It was a sweeping pitch, going away from Damon,” Cederstrom said. "It looked good coming in, then broke late.

“My timing was fast. Whenever you have fast timing as an umpire, you usually get in trouble.”

I wonder who orchestrated Chipper’s curtain call? My guess is Huddy

Tigers manager Jim Leyland said the pitch was several inches outside.

When he gives back his ’97 World Series ring, they can have this game.

Curtain call: Awesome

Ump calling ball 4 to Damon a strike: Equally awesome
 
Where are the haters today????