Brew News for July 10th

As of 7/9: 44-41, 2nd NL Central Previous Game: Cardinals 5, Brewers 1

Today’s news is especially hard to write. I’m suffering a major loss. Here the Brewers go and send the weakest link in the rotation down to AAA Nashville to regain his command and confidence. About a month later they call him back up. He pitches a near flawless game, by far his best of the season, if not his career. I’m talking zero runs, three hits and one base-on-balls. That in seven solid innings right there. He left after seven with a pitch count of 110 and a standing ovation from 40,357 fans. Moments later, and I mean just a few minutes, all is lost after his relievers give up five runs without even retiring one batter.

I don’t want to continue my efforts wasting time on the fire sale that was the St. Louis eighth. I’d rather continue to praise the return of Manny Parra in hopes that he will continue to pitch with the effort and confidence that he did Thursday afternoon. Parra has 3-up-3-down innings in the 1st, 2nd and 4th innings He would have had one in the 3rd if it weren’t for a throwing error by Casey McGehee. The 5th, 6th and 7th Parra battled a base-runner or two but continued to be superb. He had seven strikeouts and surely would have been able to complete the game were his pitch count not so high. Thanks for returning Manny. Good luck after the break!

Adam McCalvy, as well as the rest of the world wide web, writes on Parra and how he was called a “whipped puppy” before being sent down. After the game, Parra said, “I was aggressive. It came down to being confident and trusting that I can throw the ball over the plate. We put them into counts where they had to swing the bat. Before, I was trying to make perfect pitches. Today, I just trusted it and went with it.” Read the blog here.

Today the Brew Crew start a weekend series with the LA Dodgers. Yes, the number-one-team-in-baseball Dodgers. McCalvy also writes on the fact the Dodgers were in the running for Trevor Hoffman in the offseason. This is the first time they will face each other this season. Let’s hope Trevor gets three saves. Read please.

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