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Showing posts with label Zack Greinke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zack Greinke. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Inside Miller Park: Greinke's Home Debut

Thanks to the sheer genius that is Curly, Murph, Seitz and I were able to attend last night's Brewer game for five dollars. As most of you know by now, it was newly acquired and fresh-off-the-DL Zack Greinke's home debut.

The Brewers' brass thought it would be a good idea to hand out white towels for the first 30,000 fans to cross the turnstyles last night. Unfortunately, there were only 27,000 and change in attendance but the atmosphere was pretty much there.


Greinke came out rolling with two Ks in the top of the first. Obviously, we were a little late arriving to Miller Park and kind of lost track of time while slamming beers and eating raw chicken in the parking lot so we missed the top of the first...barely. Zack made up for our stupidity though by striking out two more in the second inning on his way to 9 Ks for the night in six innings of work.

He was getting a little shaky by the sixth with his velocity dropping and things of that nature but he punched out the Padres' Brad Hawpe with men on with two outs in the sixth. At first, I thought they should have left him in but after thinking about it, Roenicke made the right decision getting him out. Of course, it's easy to say that when the bullpen holds up their end of the deal.

Kameron Loe got into a jam in the 8th when he immediate put men on the corners with no one out. Then Yuni Betancourt (a man not known for his leather) made the best play I've ever seen in person.

He tracked down a sharp grounder up the middle, did the ol' backhand flip to Weeks from his glove in which Weeks bare-handed and tossed to Prince at first for the double play. A run did score but he may have saved the game with that play. The crowd gave him a standing ovation for his web-gem.

It was nice to see John Axford come in and work a fairly clean ninth for the second time in three days. He worked around a one out single to earn his sixth save of the year in eight chances.

Greinke picked up his first victory (of many) and looked fairly sharp last night. You have to take it with a grain of salt since it was against the Padres who have been shutout 8 times this year and don't have any three-hundred hitters. It was good to see though.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Zack Greinke Dominance For Milwaukee Starts Wednesday


All hands on deck! Tom Haudricourt, one of the best in the business broke the story today that Zach Greinke will make his Milwaukee Brewers debut on Wednesday versus the Atlanta Braves.  The Brewers pitching staff has already been throwing smoke, and now we add Greinke?   May will be the Brewers month.  For those wondering, his first Milwaukee start will be the following Monday on the 9th. If I were in Milwaukee, I would be there, noPublish Post questions asked.

-Charlie.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Gallardo To Start Opening Day; Who Will Replace Greinke?

After Zack Greinke decided to play a seemingly harmless game of pick-up basketball and break one of his ribs, eliminating him from contention for the Opening Day start, Yovani Gallardo will be the man for the second straight year.

Manager Ron Roenicke says that Yo will be the starter in Cincinnati on March 31st. This news wasn't the biggest surprise to Brewer Nation after the Greinke developments. Gallardo has done nothing to lose this title but most people felt that Greinke would be in there most likely. The other newly acquired arm Shaun Marcum will start the next game in Cincy on April 2nd.

Without Greinke the Brewers are weighing their options for the guy who will start behind lefties Randy Wolf and Chris Narveson for the April 6th game at home against Atlanta.

One choice is long-time Brewer minor leaguer Tim Dillard, another is former Brewers #1 overall pick Mark Rogers and other long shots would be top prospects Wily Peralta and Amaury Rivas.

My vote is for Mark Rogers. He hasn't made a start this spring because of shoulder tightness but says he'll be ready by the day the Crew would need him. I've been a big fan of Rogers since he came up last September and made a few appearances, albeit short appearances, but he looked real good.

The season isn't won or lost in the first month of the season, but I pray that this broken rib doesn't linger all year.

-Mikko

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Way To Go Greinke

Stick to your day job kid.
Welp Brewers fans...there goes your Opening Day starter.  A stupid decision by your already fragile-minded 2009 Cy Young award-winner and it looks like he'll be riding the pine for a stint on the 15-day DL.  Apparently, this popsicle stick thought nothing of playing a game of pick-up basketball, when he could have been studying film or working on his "award-winning" stuff. 

I am notorious for not liking this trade for many reasons, I understand that, but how does this not worry you? You give up a bunch of solid talent that was going to break out this year or next.  Then you give Greinke the chance to be the franchise guy, and he is worried about playing basketball instead of ways to strike out Albert Pujols or scrolling through the line-up to hone the tendencies of others in the NL Central. 

Now, Doug Melvin will be forced to plug the rotation and pray it doesn't get his team in an early hole.  One of the reasons I didn't like Greinke is because he seemed like he was always the shit in KC when even I could look like the shit in that city.  Something rubbed me the wrong way with this guys character, not to mention that he has issues when the spotlight is on him. 

Beyond his far from impressive statistics outside of the 2009 season, this is only one more reason why I have to laugh at him and the Brewers fans because mark my word, this won't be his last stint on the DL this season. 

-Pat