Baseball on the radio

I actually listened to all of today's game on the radio. Plans were to go to the game, but we decided to save the money and hang out here. Turns out we missed a great game, but it was good times listening to Uecker on the radio.

This was an interesting game. Brewers "all-star" Derrick Turnbow, our closer, had his 6th blown save in almost 30 attempts. He walked 2 in the 9th and allowed the Reds to tie the game after the Brewers had come from behind to take a 6-4 lead.

Turnbow is one of those guy's that's crazy to believe when he's on, but absolutely painful to watch when he's off. And there is no middle ground. Whenever I'm at a game and he goes in, there's a general groan from the boyfriend and I, as in "Oh no, Tuuuurrrrrnnnnbowwwwwww" all gravelly like.

We pulled Turnbow and put in Matt Wise (he of the salad tong injury), who promptly walked two guys to fill the bases, but managed to get out of the inning.

Then Ricky Weeks, Bill Hall, Geoff Jenkins and Carlos Lee all hit singles to win the game.

Bill Hall had an incredible game, with four hits and a home run. Two more of his hits were off the upper part of the wall, making him mere inches from a three homer game. Hall had been in a slump of sorts, but clearly broke out of it today.

I tease my boyfriend about Bill Hall being my favorite Brewer, as he's "sexy" on and off the field. Then we talk about how his play is decidedly unsexy, really. That he just gets the job done well and that's all there is to it. He's not particularly flashy. Then my boyfriend points out how Bill chews, and as that's also rather unsexy, my attempts to "make him jealous" aren't all that successful.
However, the Crew pulled it back together in the