Comments on: Bush’s Near No-No

By: DaveBush

DaveBush — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:24:18 +0000

A lot of luck

By: LukeW

LukeW — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:05:29 +0000

Philly is not hitting yet either. Their .263 team BA to date is behind Washington. (Jimmy Rollins is an absolute drag on my fantasy team right now!) To the Phil’s credit, they only have 71 team Ks so far, easily best in MLB.

By: brewersfan729

brewersfan729 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:44:01 +0000

Help me out, Brewers fans. How on earth was Dave Bush able to hold down a line-up with some pretty good left-handed bats while throwing high school velocity and locating it up in the strike zone?
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He got ahead of 18 of 25 hitters before the no hitter was broken up. Nobody could touch his curveball (and nobody really can when he’s locating it) which he was today. Same as last year against the Phillies in the playoffs, he located his curveball and made Jayson Werth look absolutely foolish on one of them.

He probably did get some luck as there were a few hard hit balls to straight away center and it was fairly windy today.

By: dragonflyball

dragonflyball — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:56:40 +0000

I didn’t get it last summer and I still don’t get it, but the Brewers sure needed it today, since both the “you mean if we score more runs than they do, we win?” and the “you mean if we don’t let them score more runs than we do, we win?” parts of the equation are spotty for them, and this time they actually got both.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:32:22 +0000

Clearly the Brewers need to aim better.

By: Kaz

Kaz — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:03:23 +0000

also, through his career Bush has been the pitcher who dominates throughout most of the game, but has 1 bad inning. For many pitchers this occurs like say the 3rd time they face the lineup, but for Bush it seems to be random. Sometimes he gives up 3 in the 1st, and then pitch 5 more scoreless, or maybe it occurs in the 4th or the 7th. What ever the reason, Bush has been an odd pitcher for sure. He has been pretty solid and puts up good secondary numbers, despite having seemingly non dominating stuff.

By: Ender

Ender — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:01:00 +0000

Oh and also he got ahead of most of the hitters. Last year getting ahead in the count dropped the average pitchers BABIP against from .305 to .290, seems like a small difference but it is significant. If you get ahead you will find more success almost every time.

By: Ender

Ender — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:00:05 +0000

His curveball is much better than you suggest, Phillies hitters were more or less completely hopeless against it. It comes in looking like a fastball and then drops low and outside to a RH so there is absolutely no hope to put good contact on it if you swing.

The umpire was generous on the outside corner to all pitchers in the game which really plays into Bush’s strength.

By: David

David — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:12:46 +0000

You would think, though, that having seen hundreds of Dave Bush innings, at least the experienced hitters would know how to get hits off him…

By: vivaelpujols

vivaelpujols — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:01:13 +0000

WHIP treats home runs the same as singles. And Bush allows a crap load of homers.