Game 75: D’backs 3, Braves 2
June 28, 2012 at 10:49 pm by David Lee under Atlanta Braves
Source: FanGraphs
Game MVP: Chris Young, .323
Least Valuable D’back: Aaron Hill, -.278
Most Valuable Brave: Chipper Jones, .206
Least Valuable Brave: Craig Kimbrel
Jason Heyward, -.191
Andrelton Simmons, -.136
Dan Uggla, -.122
Big plays:
2nd – (ARI) Aaron Hill flies out, Jason Kubel thrown out at home, -.126
3rd – (ATL) Brian McCann RBI double for a 1-0 Braves lead, .149
6th – (ARI) Kubel two-run double for a 2-2 tie, .284
9th – (ARI) Young solo homer for a 3-2 D’backs lead, .400
Jair Jurrjens allowed two runs on six hits in 5.2 innings, walking three with no strikeouts. Comments on his outing will be made in tomorrow’s news. Feel free to discuss it in comments.
Kimbrel gave up the home run to Young in the ninth to break the tie and earn the loss, his first this season. It was Kimbrel’s first run allowed since May 4 and first home run allowed since Sept. 19, 2011.
The Braves had a runner reach scoring position in five of nine innings.
Trevor Bauer gave up two runs on five hits in four innings, walking three and striking out three. It wasn’t an overwhelming first outing for Bauer, but he also fought some defensive issues.
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Amazing how when Fredi makes the right decision to use Kimbrell it backfires on him… Uggs is definitely in a slump and on nights like tonight just one ball in play by him instead of 3 SO could have changed the outcome.
Really I think they are very happy with JJ’s performance. If he can go 6 and give up around 2 ER regularly than he’s a very solid 3-4 starter. Now there may not be much behind him to rely on (Delgado and Minor), but if anything JJ is helping solidify the rotation with his last two starts.
Sorry that post was a reply to Steve.
Unfortunately, the lesson Fredi probably learned last night was “that’s what I get for bringing in my closer with the game tied at home”.
I would think that this outing by JJ would increase the sense of urgency in the front office around finding another SP….
We still need more hitting
I assume you mean adding a hitter. Where would you play this new bat? (Except off the bench). With our ideal starting line-up the weakest spots right now are Uggla and McCann. I’d take either of them for the rest of the year rather than about any replacement possible.
The bench is terrible, other than Ross. Diaz, Hinske, Francisco, and Wilson are all putrid this year.
Good point
Anyone know what’s going on with Teheran? He got clobbered last night.
WE NEED A NEW CLOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, though, Mccann and Uggla are pretty much a blackhole in the middle of the lineup right now.
It’s funny to me because we’ve talked about how Uggla has become a True Three Outcome hitter, but it seems to me he’s furthered that morph into a True One Outcome hitter… a strikeout.
There was no excuse for letting JJ pitch to Kubel and then Montero in the 6th. Zero. Why would you even have Venters warming up if he wasn’t going to be brought in to face those guys?
Jurrjens did his job. The team didn’t hit, Kimbrel didn’t hold the tie. Arizona simply beat our best reliever. It happens.
Braves could be looking at Marcum.
Honestly, I feel like losses like these are the easiest to take. The team was getting on base, just not getting hits at the right time. Okay to solid outing by JJ. Kimbrel has to give up a run every now and then; it just happened to be in a tie game.
Braves get that many base runners on again, the odds are that they’ll probably score more than 2 runs. Sometimes, you just got to ………….
………… tip your cap
Have to agree with you here, Stephen. Losing in never easy to swallow, but in this case, the other team just beat us. There wasn’t a lot of the Braves losing the game more than the D’Backs just winning it.
Almost swallowed my gum when Kimbrel was out there in a tie game – blind squirrel finding a nut, or a true change?
With the exception of Jack Wilson getting a pinch hit appearance, it was actually a pretty well-managed ball game. Making the right managerial decisions will never win a game on its own. Stephen’s exactly right, this was the easiest loss of the year to swallow for that reason.
That’s another reason this loss was tough to take. Very rarely do we get games where Fredi does pretty much everything right.
You just got to tip your cap….please make that the headline on he main page!
These are the hardest losses to take because we should have won. Playoff teams know how to fight and scrap and win close games like the Braves did in 2010. If we end up missing the playoffs by a game or two these are the games you look back and lament.
What exactly is the knowledge and scrappiness the Braves were lacking last night when they couldn’t get a hit with runners in scoring position? And how did they overcome that deficiency when they scored 8 runs Tuesday?
I think the bigger question is what did we win in 2010? Because, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the World Series. So, if there is a knowledge and scrappiness, we didn’t have it then either…
I was just thinking they needed to add fight and scrappiness stats in advanced metrics.
I agree. These are the losses that are the hardest to take because the Braves would have won this game with 1 big hit in a key situation. They had baserunners all over the place all night and couldn’t get 1 damn hit when it mattered the most. These are the losses that give me high blood pressure. The losses were we just get it handed to us are much easier to take because we never had a chance to win those games. But games like this we’ve got to find a way to win. We only had 5 hits on Wednesday but scored 6 runs because we did the little things like moving runners up with outs. We didn’t do that last night.
Anybody else think Uggla just might need an off day?
Fredi hinted at giving him a day off day after the game 2 win, but that he wasn’t going to yesterday because of Bauer being a hard-thrower. But, apparently he threw to hard for Uggla anyway.
Personally, I don’t think a day off would really help him. Yeah, he might be pressing again like he was last year, but he’s also just a free swinger. Have to let him hit his way out.
Only problem with giving Uggs a day off — who is better as a replacement? No one on the bench who plays infield can hit. Bring up Pastor might work.