Bizarro: Dodgers at Phillies, 8/25/08
by WholeCamels on Aug 25, 2008 7:15 PM EDT
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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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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!
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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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
(Almost) Always an adventure with J.C.
by phillyinportland on Aug 25, 2008 9:45 PM EDT reply actions
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
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
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.
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
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