Live Journal

6:35, PST: 5 minutes until gametime. Still haven't figured out exactly how i'm going to do this, so the shape of this could change throughout. Bear with me.

Dbacks are coming off another bad loss last night, and need to bounce back tonight. We got Livan Hernandez pitching against Dave Bush. Let's get out to an early lead and let Livo do his thing...

Top 1st inning: Livo looked good. First two batters flied to right, with a pretty good play on the 2nd one by rookie Justin Upton. He got Prince Fielder to pop-up to end the inning. Keep an eye on Livo's left collarbone though, he seems to have a little pain in it...

Bottom 1st: Bad attempt at a bunt by Chris Young (CY), but i like the idea. Quick 1-2-3 inning though, with Byrnes striking out on a couple of filthy pitches by Bush.

Top 2nd: Don't like the walk Livo gave. And as i write that Estrada pounds one back up the middle. 1st and 2nd with two outs. And another shot up the middle, scoring a run. 1-0 Brewers. A walk and two hits all with two outs. That's supposed to be the Dbacks specialty of late. Estrada goes to third on a error to CY. Pop up to end the inning.

Bottom 2nd: Nice hustle by Conor Jackson (CoJack) to leg out a deep infield hit to third. Drew can't even advance the runner. Fundamental baseball fellas... Mark Reynolds (The Sheriff) had a decent at bat, fouling off a lot of pitches, but struck out looking. CoJack still at first with the rookie Upton up. Groundout to short. Not a good way to utilize an inning opening base hit...

Top 3rd: He should have been out i think... Called out, but he was safe. Lucky break for the Dbacks. 1-2-3 inning for Livo.

Bottom 3rd: Time to score some runs Dbacks. That was a HORRIBLE strike 3 on Montero, not to mention an extremely late call on it. Miggy got hosed. Another 1-2-3 inning. Our bats look terrible the last three games...

Top 4th: 1-2-3 inning by Livo again. Pitching well so far, except for the one walk (which always seem to haunt the Dbacks...).

Bottom 4th: Byrnesie battling for a basehit, nice work. Let's get him home! He should be looking to steal here. And there he goes, no throw. 2nd base, 1 out. Gotta get him home now. Damn it CoJack! Fly to short right, not even enough to move up Byrnes. Fundamental baseball! Damn it again! Stephen Drew just hit it a mile, just foul though. Walk to Drew (could have been strike 3. This ump is all over tonight). The Sheriff has to get it done here... Damn it again! Reynolds is now 0-6 with 6 K's in this series. He is the streakiest hitter i've ever seen. Dbacks strand 2.

Top 5th: Great effort by Byrnes, almost got the runner out at 2nd. Great job fielding by Livo on out 2. And a gapper to left center, plating another run for the Brewers. Inning over on a popup, Dbacks have to get the offense going.

Bottom 5th: 1-2-3 go the Dbacks. This is getting scary how bad they have looked last night and tonight against the Brewers, a team whose starting rotation cab be described as 'really, really bad' lately... Not good.

Moving the rest of the game to a new post, as this one is getting LONG...