Last night had the privilege of participating in the time-honored tradition of going to a ballgame with your dad. I get gas at BP for only one reason, and that reason is free Brewers tickets. I've already gone once this year (see my last BONUS POST) and hope to go at least 5 more times. Pops wasn't busy (at least comparatively) and so we decided to take in a game at the old ballpark.
When the game finally ended at 10:45 pm we were both glad we came. A brilliant pitching performance by AJ Griffin was ruined by some poor relief appearances and series of clutch hits by the Brew Crew. In the bottom of the 10th, Yuni Betancourt walked off with his gapper off of sidewinder Pat Neshek into right that scored the speedy Carlos Gomez from first. Had it not been for the game the 2nd basemen Erick Sogard wouldn't have even attempted to throw him out, it wasn't even close.
Several clutch things occurred to get the game to that point. First of all, Kyle Loshe didn't fold after giving up a pair in the first. For the second game in a row I was walking up the ramps while the opposing team was homering in the first inning. Yeonis Cespedes, who is rapidly becoming one of my favorites, drilled a ball into the right center bleachers with Coco Crisp on base. When we heard that as we found our seats, we figured Loshe would get shelled at that at least there would be a lot of runs. However, he went 6 strong only allowing one other run, an absolutely annihilated missile to right center off the bat of the same Yeonis Cespedes in the 6th. I tweeted "I've never seen a homer leave the ballpark as fast as Cespedes' 2nd, holy #crushed." Check this baby out. It doesn't look nearly as awesome in the video, but it left the park before he reached 1st and never really got higher than the bottom of the scoreboard. Destroyed. But, Loshe still didn't cave.
Secondly, Jean Segura hit a two-rbi triple off of lefty Sean Doolittle in the 8th. The ball barely sneaked by 6'8" 1st baseman Nate Freiman into the corner scoring Rickie Weeks and Nori Aoki. Then, after Ryan Cook blew Ryan Braun away, Am Ram blooped a broken bat single into center completing the comeback and tying the game at 3 apiece.
None of this would have mattered if the following pitchers hadn't completed scoreless innings; Tom Gorzelanny, Brandon Kintzler, Micheal Gonzalez, Francisco Rodriguez and John Axford. Essentially the whole Brewers pen pitched, a pen which is much maligned and for good reason. However, despite Gonzalez loading the bases, each pitched extremely effectively and gave Milwaukee (and Axford) a W.
Fun game. Next one I'm going to will be game 1 of the 3 game series with Atlanta. Marc Tanis should be joining us so that will be fun.
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