Jorge Julio News

With Manny Parra getting sent down to AAA Nashville last week, they created the need for a 5th starter in their rotation.

Jun. 9, 2009 3:42 p.m. The Brewers just reinstated Mark DiFelice from the bereavement list and optioned Mike Burns to Class AAA Nashville, also opting to keep right-hander Chris Smith, who has yet to pitch in a game since having his contrat purchased from Nashville last Thursday.

Some Triple-A bullpen news today. Chad Orvella has been released and Jorge Julio signed.

The Tampa Bay Rays have agreed to terms with right-handed reliever Jorge Julio and assigned him to the team's Triple-A affiliate in Durham.

Jorge Cantu had two RBIs for Florida. Ramirez finished with three hits. Eleven Marlins batted in the sixth, with the first eight reaching base safely.

Dear Kevin Gregg , DON'T THROW THE BALL DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE PLATE IN A TIGHT BALL GAME.

Jorge Julio provided Marlins fans with plenty of stomach-turning moments before he was traded a month into the 2007 season.

It doesn't take long for a bullpen to go from being in great shape to crisis mode.

Where will he suck next? For a few years now, I've harbored a strange obsession with Major League journeyman reliever Jorge Julio.

The Milwaukee Brewers made changes to their thin bullpen on Tuesday. One day after reliever Jorge Julio allowed five runs while facing six batters in the sixth inning of Milwaukee's 7-4 loss to the Florida Marlins , the Brewers released the right-hander. Julio entered Monday night's game with Milwaukee leading 4-2. He gave up two hits, hit two ...

By the time Brewers catcher Carlos Corporan checked his cell phone late Wednesday night, he had 20 new messages.

Things I never thought I'd see this season but happened at Miller Park tonight: *An intentional walk to Jason Kendall to get to Craig Counsell This couldn't have been most shocking.

Milwaukee Brewers pitching coach Billy Castro and right-handed reliever Jorge Julio sat in the team's lunch room and head a heart-to-heart chat Tuesday afternoon.

Brewers reliever Jorge Julio had just notched his first win with the club on Tuesday night, but he was incredulous when a reporter approached him to talk about it.

Rickie Weeks' two-run home run in the sixth frame proved to be the difference, as Milwaukee continued its mastery of Pittsburgh with a 6-5 victory in the middle test of a three-game series.

Baseball fans hear it every year: bats win you games in April and bullpens win you games in October.

When Ken Macha pulled Manny Parra for a pinch-hitter in the top of the fifth inning on Tuesday night, I thought to myself, 'Why?' Don't get me wrong - Parra wasn't exactly tossing a gem.

Manny Parra struggled and so did the relievers who followed him in Milwaukee's rain-lengthened 11-4 loss to the Phillies on Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park, a place that's become a house of horrors for the boys in Brewers blue for more reason than the weather.

The Brewers gave their budding ace a four-run cushion on Monday. Yovani Gallardo gave it right back and then some.

Easter Sunday, 1987. Rob Deer crushes a game-tying, three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth.