PHILLIES WIN BY “THIS MUCH” (POST 8/28/10)

August 28, 2010   ·   philliesmania   ·   Jump to comments

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GOOD NEWS IS PHILLIES WIN AND THE BRAVES LOSE!

 

 

BAD NEWS IS PHILLIES OFFENSE CONTINUES TO SUCK ROTTEN EGGS AND OSWALT GETS THE SHAFT

 

12th inning is the charm …… and no ejections!

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Roy Oswalt pitched his Asstro off and has nothing to show for it. And really the offense should be past embarrassment now as they continue to play with their heads up their rear end. And as I always say every team and every player is going to have bad times and look foolish, that is just baseball. But when it becomes a practice than it is ridiculous.

 

Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA
R Oswalt	8.0	5	1	1	0	6	1	102-78	3.12
B Lidge (B, 5)	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	24-14	4.02
R Madson	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	12-9	3.38
C Durbin (W, 4-1)	2.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	35-21	3.51

 

 

This is the first time they have scored more than 2 runs since Monday and only the 2nd time in the last 8 games they have scored more than 2. And get this they broke this “streak” by scoring 3 runs.

 

 

I also feel bad for Lidge who did blow the save in the bottom of the 9th and it didn’t help giving up a lead off single to Matt Stairs! And then with the Padres Eckstein bunting, pinch runner Hairston advanced to 2nd. The Phillies opted to walk Adrian Gonzalez but Lidge took it a little farther by hitting Ryan Ludwick to load the bases! It hit rock bottom when Lidge balked home the tying run! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

 

I will restrain from getting on Lidge since he has put together a nice string of outings and was probably due for one of these. Although it does send his ERA back  over 4 runs per game!

 

 

Now in the spirit of fairness the Phillies did face a stud pitcher in Matt Latos and he too pitched a great game. The Phillies managed 5 hits and 1 earned run in 8 strong innings off of Latos. The one semi-good thing about the Phillies offensive effort is this is the first time in a few games they actually generated some opportunities.

 

• 9 Hits and 2 Walks

• Rollins had a big night with 3 hits and a double, a walk, and he scored twice

• Polanco had 2 hits and an RBI

• Utley was 1 for4 with an RBI and 2 walks

• Howard walked and got a hit but he also whiffed 4 more times!

• Ibanez had a hit and and a big RBI

• The former Clean up hitting Roy Oswalt also had a hit – maybe Howard should hit 9th in games Oswalt pitches?

• 3 for 9 with men in scoring position is not great but 9 opportunities is far better than 4 or 5!

• Strand 11

 

So we all breathe a sigh of relief but we will need to start panicking by Saturday afternoon because we have the pleasure of knowing it’s Blanton’s turn to pitch. Ironically Blanton has had back to back great starts, well at least by Blanton standards and that only heightens my fears of disaster. What are the odds that he has a third straight very good or great start?

 

 

That said it would be really cool if he could just keep it close and then the offense …………………. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH …. with the recent track record of that, I am more fearful they won’t score at all now that they just scored 3!

 

 

NOTE TO SELF: Buy more Maalox and Tums for tonights game!