Brady Clark now has 21 lifetime homers in 928 at-bats.

He has 6 of those against the Cardinals, in 77 at-bats.

And Clark has 22 of his 123 career RBI against the Cardinals.

The Cardinals are quickly 0-for-6 in the first two inning, possibly en route to their 9th consecutive game in which they don't surpass 10 hits.

Season high so far is 11 hits on Opening Night.

Bert's bobble may not cost us: Miller woulda scored anyway, and if Marquis gets the pitcher---and he should---and then retires Clark (the way things are going, he probably won't) then only the one run will score..

Marquis carves up Clark to end the inning---good job keeping the ball away, but close enough to swing at.

Another lead-off extra-base hit, another ball hit on the fly directly over Mabry's head.

Great catch by Edmonds, with a belly flop to the warning track, then two terrific strikeouts by Marquis to wriggle out of it....

The Birds need to get some hits now. Marquis is not pitching badly, and this game is very winnable, but just 6 innings left.

Okay, that's more like it---a couple of hits = a run.

I'm not sure I like Albert's slo-mo jog from second to home in scoring on the hit by Rolen, but I guess I'm OK with it if it helps him to conserve his energy for the late-season pennant run...

Alright, a 1-2-3 inning from Marquis for the first time.

62 pitches through 4 is better than usual for Marquis: in his first 2 starts, 78 and 71 pitches through 4.

Another 1-2-3 inning by Marquis, this time on 11 pitches (10 pitches last inning), and now he's retired 8 straight.

The Cardinals just have the two vack-to-back hits in the 4th, but now they've got the top of the order up and it's time to get some RUNS.

The Brewers just gave the Birds a run---Clark should have caught Rolen's pop fly, and then the defense just let Pujols run all the way around the bases from first. What sloppiness!

Well, it's been all Pujols and Rolen: Twice, Pujols gets a hit, Rolen follows with a hit and Pujols scores.

The rest of the team is 0-for 16.

Lee is a sucker for that pitch 8 inches off the outer edge of the plate. I ahve no idea why.

Third straight 1-2-3 inning for Marquis, just 9 pitches. He's retired 11 in a row.

He's at 83 pitches through 6, compared to 111 through 6 in his first start, and 113 in 6.1 in his second start. I guess that's what 1-2-3 innings will do for you.

Last fifteen Brewer at-bats: 7 groundouts (four 4-3, one 6-3, 2 unassisted at 1st); 5 balls hit to Edmonds, 3 Ks.

Chris Magruder just did to Larry Walker waht Mabry couldn't do in the 1st: he went straight back to the wall and caught the ball at the yellow line, instead of slowly drifting back, as Mabry did, and stopping at the wall and watching it go over, without even putting his glove up.

7 innings from marquis... incredible. On only 95 pitches too.

Holy sh*t: The ump really does need glasses (the trainer came out and fixed his contacts).

Marquis looks awesome down in the zone. Sinkers coming in hard and I thought I saw low curve come in too. He's getting that low strike.

Another 1-2-3 inning for Marquis---6-3, 5-3, K, just 8 pitches--18 in a row retired.

C'mon, Albert---how bout a homer!!

Scott Rolen everyone. All he needed was to play the Brewers.

I really hated to see Marquis get pulled to start the 9th after having retired 18 in a row.

But Izzy's "role" is closer, and it's a save situation, so Izzy pitches for the 3rd day in a row and escapes, despite 2 walks, to "save" the win.

Great job, Birds---they somehow keep winning games even though they only get like 7 hits a game.

Marquis has looked really sharp his last two times out. Now if Mulder would just get his shite togther...

Not sure how these game chatters are valuable at all. If I need to listen to two guys who can't get enough of each other talk about the game, I'll turn on Hrabosky and McLaughlin.

Not that I'm contributing as much, but this site is quickly drifting into a craptacular area far from the high bar that RBN set.

Don't you guys have someone to watch the game with?

Game chatters work better when there are more people to participate; the Yankees ones on Baseball Primer are works of art. What happened to all of the people who commented on RBN?

I don't think they're that bad as is, though.

I like the game chatters, but I recognize that I have odd tastes.

I don't think people appreciate just how talented Brian Gunn is/was and really didn't recognize just how much time he put into that site. In spite of what the URL said, RBN wasn't a blog. It's a disservie to compare TBW to RBN.

Somebody needs to send that last comment to Brian and beg him AGAIN to restart RBN. The Birdwatch is fine, but I miss RBN terribly.

That request really isn't fair to him. Just try writing half as much as he did and half as well as he did it. Unless Brian has magical writing powers, that site must've taken an ungodly portion of his free (and not-so-free) time. See the glass as half-full, let his site RIP and do the best you can here or elsewhere.

Great point. The time he was spending on it was clearly evident in the quality. I should have pointed out that I would have gladly paid for access to that site, and still would if he restarted it.

But in the meantime, I happily lurk here...