08/02 Milwaukee (Gallardo) @ CUBS (Wells) 7:05 CDT, WCIU TV

[Ball And Glove]

So I caught the 9th inning on the radio and heard Santo ranting about Milw rubbing it in the Cubs faces and he was getting pretty angry. Said something about Fielder going into 2nd base really hard or something in the 9th inning up 17, is this true or just Ronny pissed off?

 

He took out DeWitt. Was that the 9th?

 

Yup it was the 9th and Pat and Ron said DeWitt was shook up. If thats the case I really hope someone plunks his fat ass.

 

If I had to guess, Fielder going hard into second probably had to do with the 3 HBP's earlier in the game. I doubt many (if any) of them were intentional, but the Brewers are starting to get a bit touchy about the huge number of HBP's they're racking up this year. Since Ken Macha claims to be against retaliating by throwing back at the other team, it seems like Fielder's been trying to take matters into his own hands lately. There was a similar situation in Atlanta where he went into second extremely hard, and then in Pittsburgh he tried to kill the catcher on a play at the plate where he probably knew there was like a 5% chance of scoring.

 

Macha's claim that the Brewers don't throw back at the other team is pretty ridiculous, though. He whined about his team constantly getting thrown at, then Kameron Loe goes out at drills Alex Gonzalez in one game, they hit Jason Heyward in another, and Todd Coffey threw behind Jose Tabata before hitting him on the next pitch. It's just stupid.

[Guest]

If the Brewers are mad about HBPs, then they've found something even dumber than untuck 'em. I mean really, they are idiots. The thought of them trying to retaliate for HBPs by doing stuff like taking a guy out in a 15 run game makes me want to hit them in the nose with a rolled up newspaper. You get hit a lot because Fielder and Weeks stand on top of the plate. Those 2 combined have more HBP than 20 teams.

[TruffleShuffle]

plus fielder is a whale and if you miss by just a little bit, you're probably going to hit him.

[erik316wttn]

plus fielder is a whale and if you miss by just a little bit, you're probably going to hit him.

 

Gravitational pull and all.

[imb]

plus fielder is a whale and if you miss by just a little bit, you're probably going to hit him.

 

Gravitational pull and all.

 

must .... resist ...