Carsten Charles in Charge
After making his debut with the Brewers on 7/8, CC Sabathia was among the National League leaders in the following:
Category                                                    N.L. Rank
Wins (11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st
ERA (1.65) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st
Complete Games (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st
Shutouts (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st
Innings Pitched (130.2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st
Quality Starts (15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1st
Strikeouts (128) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2nd
N.L. Pitcher of the Month for July and August

Phillies vs. Sabathia
Pat Burrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..200 (1-5, 1bb, 1k)
Pedro Feliz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..000 (0-3, 2k)
Ryan Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..333 (1-3, 2k)
Tadahito Iguchi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..241 (7-29, 1hr, 2bb, 6k)
Geoff Jenkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..000 (0-3, 2k)
Jimmy Rollins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..429 (3-7)
Matt Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..000 (0-1, 1bb, 1k)
So Taguchi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..000 (0-4)
Chase Utley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..000 (0-3, 1k)
Shane Victorino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..000 (0-3)
Jason Werth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..000 (0-2, 1k)

Brewers vs. Myers
Braun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .000 (0-3)
Cameron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231 (3-13, 2hr, 2bb, 3k)
Counsell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111 (1-9, 2bb, 2k)
Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250 (2-8, 1hr, 1bb, 2k)
Fielder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200 (1-5, 1hr, 2k)
Gwynn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (bb)
Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250 (1-4, 1k)
Hardy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .000 (0-10)
Hart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200 (1-5, 1k)
Kendall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167 (1-6, 1bb, 1k)
Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .000 (0-1)
Rivera / Weeks . . . . . . . . . .000 (0-3, 1k) / .000 (0-2, 1k)

CC Sabathia, 28, is making his fifth career postseason start.....he is 2-2 with a 7.17 ERA in 4 career postseason starts (21.1ip, 17er).....he pitched in the postseason for the Indians in 2001 (1gs) and 2007 (3gs).....Sabathia last started on Sunday vs. Chicago-NL and tossed a complete game in the 3-1 win to clinch the N.L. Wild Card (9ip, 4h, 1r, 0er, 1bb, 7k).....he is making his fourth straight start on 3 days rest

Additional reading material here, here, here and here.

 Karma check, it's Brett Myers....don't want the baseball gods to hand down an automatic LDS loss for mispelling the name of a right-handed junkballer!

fixed.

 Whew!

Thanks Dan!

BTW, someone really liked my LDS Sushi post this morning. It has 5 stars!

Maybe they thought it said LSD Sushi?

 Brewers must win this game if they wanna have any chance of winning this series....

Sabathia has been so consistently, unrealistically good that I keep waiting for the inevitable bad outing. Hopefully it will come for the Dodgers next year.

Let's also hope that the "bad Brett Myers" shows up, not the one who shut the Brewers down a few weeks ago. The Brewers DESPERATELY need to get some runs on the board early tonight.

 Lineup is out - no surprises against a RHP:

CF Mike Cameron
2B Ray Durham
LF Ryan Braun
1B Prince Fielder
SS JJ Hardy
RF Corey Hart
3B Craig Counsell
C Jason Kendall
P CC Sabathia

wisblue:

The Brewers DESPERATELY need to get some runs on the board early tonight.

Fantastic point.  The prevailing trend in the numerous losses to the likes of CHI, PHI, NYM in the second half  of the season was getting behind early.  There were a few memorable bullpen blowups, but most of the time they were behind from the word "go".  This is a frontrunning team, also evidenced by how this team performed in series finales against those same teams after losing the first two games:  not well. 

Score early, build momentum, let CC take over. 

 fired up for this one.

Daubs:

 Lineup is out - no surprises against a RHP:

CF Mike Cameron
2B Ray Durham
LF Ryan Braun
1B Prince Fielder
SS JJ Hardy
RF Corey Hart
3B Craig Counsell
C Jason Kendall
P CC Sabathia

Let's hope it's the same for the rest of the series.

The only thing as good as a Brewer win is a Cubs loss.

 Why oh why can't we go with this lineup Dale?

Durham

Counsell

Braun

Prince

Hardy

Hart 

Cameron

Kendall

C.C.

Base Knox:

wisblue:

The Brewers DESPERATELY need to get some runs on the board early tonight.

Fantastic point.  The prevailing trend in the numerous losses to the likes of CHI, PHI, NYM in the second half  of the season was getting behind early.  There were a few memorable bullpen blowups, but most of the time they were behind from the word "go".  This is a frontrunning team, also evidenced by how this team performed in series finales against those same teams after losing the first two games:  not well. 

Score early, build momentum, let CC take over. 

radio silence:

 Whew!

Thanks Dan!

BTW, someone really liked my LDS Sushi post this morning. It has 5 stars!

Maybe they thought it said LSD Sushi?

alffan:

The only thing as good as a Brewer win is a Cubs loss.

fuel to the fire i love it.