Bizarro: Dodgers at Phillies, 8/25/08
by WholeCamels on Aug 25, 2008 7:15 PM EDT
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Los Angeles Dodgers at Philadelphia Phillies, Aug 25, 2008 7:05 PM EDT
This week's home series against the Dodgers has been almost an exact mirror of last week's road set in Los Angeles -- timely hitting vs. lack thereof, late inning dramatics for the home team, and total domination in the win/loss column.
Tonight the Phillies go for the four game sweep, effectively negating the four-game butt-whoopin' that they took in L.A. earlier this month.
Red-hot Brett Myers squares off against young Chad Billingsley.
The Phillies enter the night just a half-game back of the Mets, and could go into their two game series with the Mets a half-game ahead with a win and a Mets loss. It's funny how no one seems to want to take control of this division.
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Crap, I thought this game started at 8.
by taco pal on Aug 25, 2008 7:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
WHIP winners
WHIP people!!! Talk about hits and walks from both sides! Great to win those but its not often 13 hits come up with a shutout!
-Dave
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by esellout on Aug 26, 2008 12:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think it’s a mistake not to send Rollins home there.
by christonabike on Aug 25, 2008 7:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Good god, Howard’s done enough fanning this summer to air condition my house.
That one really hurt.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 7:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
You know he admitted in an interview that he hasn’t been comfortable at the plate all year. Gee, don’t you think he’d maybe, just maybe, try somethiing different?
by Steve-O- on Aug 25, 2008 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, it seems like its a combination of a shit approach at the plate where he refuses to work the count and and inability to make adjustments for the shift.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Stupid ESPN…I wanted to be able to watch it on my big plasma rather than on the computer screen. But they are having ‘technical difficulties’….BAH! It makes no sense…same network, two straight night, same crew, same equipment, total crap.
by Cluttered_JML on Aug 25, 2008 7:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Live outside the Philly area. I get the Baltimore/DC CSN. I get MLB.TV, but anytime I get to see them on ESPN and in HD, I jump at it, even if it means listening to the insufferable Joe Morgan on Sundays and Steve Phillips on Monday.
by Cluttered_JML on Aug 25, 2008 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think Phillips is the worst of them all. Morgan will at least say something funny every once in a while, or tell an interesting war story. McCarver talked a lot of nonsense on Saturday but I enjoyed his story about the Captain Noah show. Phillips is annoying 100% of the time.
by taco pal on Aug 25, 2008 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Phillips is awful, but I like Shulman and Hershiser.
by dajafi on Aug 25, 2008 8:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
so instead of seeing the phils – I get to watch the team I utterly loathe, and worse, just in time to see a 3-run gong.
At least down here in NC, I get to see the Phils all the time, so it’s not a big deal….
by Bilzo on Aug 25, 2008 7:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Myers walks the pitcher…and a little piece of me dies. God I hate that so much.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 7:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Hey, that’s Angel Berroa the onetime Rookie of the Year. I’d totally forgotten about that guy and didn’t make the connection at all last night.
by taco pal on Aug 25, 2008 7:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, what the heck happened to him? He seemed like he had a lot of potential.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 7:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good take by Werth….very tempting pitch
by Cluttered_JML on Aug 25, 2008 7:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow now 5 for 47 since the ‘Statement’.
by Steve-O- on Aug 25, 2008 7:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
That will make Philly fans shut up at least until his next AB.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 7:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I don’t know. The jerks who will want to boo are going to continue to do so, even if he sneezed the wrong way.
by Cluttered_JML on Aug 25, 2008 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, i was being kinda sarcastic…hehe
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 7:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You know there is a lesson here. Take Utley, he bust his ass in practice and the field. He’ll have a monster game and yet turn the attention to another player, like a great defensive play by Dobbs. Point he slumps and the fans give him a break knowing he’ll come out of it. Rollins, OTOH, is full of well….Rollins. So he just needs to learn from this and be the player he has the ability to be.
by Steve-O- on Aug 25, 2008 8:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
True, but when it works, what it does is take the spotlight—and the pressure—away from guys who maybe can’t handle it as well. Had Rollins not made the statement, the glare on Howard might be that much more intense, given how hard he’s sucked of late.
I love Rollins. Always have, probably always will. He said something dumb. But he’s a great competitor and a great player.
by dajafi on Aug 25, 2008 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I had a problem with Rollins his first 3 years as I feel he wanted to be a home run hitter instead of a single/double/SB hitter which suits his build. This is when his FB ratio was running at 40%, totally unacceptable. Anyway taking away last year which I can’t heap enough praise on, he was in a once in a career zone all year but he’ll never do it again. This year starting with the stint on the DL assured his numbers wouldn’t be close but that’s baseball. All that said I love his glove and his bat when he’s on but his OBP is pathetic.
I agree with your point about taking pressure off the other guys and if it is true I admire him for it. It’s past and we need him. Time to get on with the future and put this in the rearview mirror.
by Steve-O- on Aug 25, 2008 8:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jesus, can he not get the 8th hitter out ever?
by Cluttered_JML on Aug 25, 2008 8:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Myers has been pretty hittable tonight but he’s managed to avoid trouble. Hopefully he can buckle down and keep people off base from here out.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 8:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Rollins, 2 straight AB’s now! That’ll show em!
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 8:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Can we show a little love for Pedro here? Thanks to him a lot of us went to bed happy last night.
by phillyinportland on Aug 25, 2008 8:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The customary Pedro Feliz 2 pitch AB. It’s a lot cuter when it wins you the ballgame.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 8:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
No question about that. I was just saying the guy’s done some good things in the last 24 hours. I just didn’t want to see him dumped on if he made an out there – which he did. Speaking of good things, I just logged on this site and I don’t see that Brett Myers is doing anything good tonight, although the Dodgers might disagree. From what I read I guess my tape of the ESPN feed might not be working, so I might miss what Myers has done. Whatever it is, I hope it continues.
by phillyinportland on Aug 25, 2008 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sorry if I confused the situation. I’m just surprised to see nothing favorable about how Myers is pitching tonight. And I was worried that a bad at-bat by Feliz would bring out some of the negative comments that have been directed his way. That’s all.
by phillyinportland on Aug 25, 2008 9:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I am just trying not to jinx anything.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Another PBF to get out of the inning.
by Cluttered_JML on Aug 25, 2008 8:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Rollins now a homer short of the cycle. Make it happen cap’n.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 9:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
WHEW!!!! Too close for comfort! Great job Brett (assuming that is it for him).
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 9:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
(Almost) Always an adventure with J.C.
by phillyinportland on Aug 25, 2008 9:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Stupid decision to pitch Condrey here because you are just going to have to take him out when he loads the bases.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 9:58 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Sounds like Charlie was into one of his “let’s roll the dice and see what happens” moods and decided to check out Condrey – looks like you were right. Do we want to see Lidge in a save situation? I don’t.
by phillyinportland on Aug 25, 2008 10:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Maybe we don’t give Condrey enough credit – he did a nice job of finishing the shutout there.
by phillyinportland on Aug 25, 2008 10:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The rare 13 hit shutout and the Phils sweep the 4 game set!
Woo hoo. Let’s beat the Mets now.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 10:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, if I were a Dodger fan, coming off last night and getting the 13-hit, 3-walk shutout thrown at me, I’d probably be putting rounds in the gun.
Wonder how often teams have traded four-game sweeps in the same season.
by dajafi on Aug 25, 2008 10:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, even we haven’t had a two game stretch this torturous.
by FuquaManuel on Aug 25, 2008 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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