The NLCS Game 4 Post Game Analysis-2011

How do I start an analysis of this game? Do I begin with the HUGE and obvious reasons for Tony (entitlement) Larussa's failure managing a pitching staff during the NLCS? Do I begin with a bold, but justifiable prediction for an NLCS win on Sunday night?

Nope. I am going to get right into a very important observation during this Win. I feel confident when I say that your batting avg. for the game does not over shadow your RBI's. That being said, lets investigate which members of the Swat Team contributed with RBI's tonight. And would ya look at that!? 3 out of the 4 RBI's belong to the 6, 7, and 8 batters in the lineup tonight! Jerry Hairston Jr., Yuni B, and IC3's accountant George Kottaras step up their game and get the runs in! It's no surprise that BK3's MVP candidates during this postseason include Yuni B and Jerry Hairston Jr!!!!! It is only a walk and a hit away from the obvious strength of the 1-5 hitters combining forces with an improving 6-8 hitting squad and 8 runs in an inning are seen.

Now I want to get to what You, the Brewers fan will probably enjoy reading. If you're reading this, I hope you're familiar with the often overlooked, but IMPECCABLE need for a Bull pen with reliable long relievers, and most importantly strong situational pitchers. Tony Larussa is slowly but surely driving his team into the Beast's mouth with his constant lack of trust in his bull pen, which leads to using 5 pitchers tonight vs. the Brewers 3. Although that doesn't seem like a big difference, the situations for calls to the Bull pen were vastly different. KROD and AX pitch 8th and 9th with a lead. Other than that, Wolf was the man. Larussa's Losers were used and abused. If I may use a stat; the Cardinals Bull pen was responsible for more blown leads in the 7th, 8th, and 9th innings than any other Bull pen in the MLB. Over worked pitchers don't fair well.

That being said, I'd like to point out the number of pitchers used out of the Bull pen in Games 3 and 4. Total pitchers used by the Brewers out of the Bull pen in those two games totaled 5 and none of them pitched both days. The Cardinals on the other hand used 8 pitchers and 1 of those pitchers was in both games.

Even with that loss in Game 3, The Milwaukee Brewers Bull pen remains very strong, with momentum shifting towards The Brewers after tonights perfect succession of pitchers and a win. Game 5, if it becomes a battle of Bull pens that must pitch 4 innings from both teams, will be won by The Milwaukee Brewers and with the way our Batting lineup produced with RISP and the success of the bottom of the order in Game 4, I think that our Team is in perfect position to Finish the Cardinals on SUNDAY!!!

-BK3-