Is it Sabathia vs Blanton tomorrow?
vr, Xei

the outcome effing sucked donkey kong

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:::blinks, jerks upright::: I think I was just channeling McCarver. Ick.

From our official ground rules:
Ball strikes top of outfield fence or scoreboard and rebounds onto the playing field: In Play.

So how was that double call overturned? Was it because A-Rod whined really hard? Because I didn’t see any video that suggested that ball would definitely have gone over the fence if that camera wasn’t there.

Maybe a better question – why is the camera in the field of play?

That certainly sucked. But the reality is that we’re down one game. The next one will be tough to get, but we’ve gotten to Sabathia before and can do it again.

Think of it this way; if we win tomorrow night then we’ve got Lee v. Burnett in Game 5. All the pressure in the world is on the Yankees then.

that was not conclusive enough to be a homerun, rules state otherwise, but i am more pissed at that non-called third strike on tex before the homerun, that was a strike, ump missed it, and thin-skinned hamels clearly got rattled because of it, he should not have, it was just a walk, therefore i am also pissed at hamels, grow a pair, a walk is not the end of the world up 3-0

Boo to this game.

Cliff Lee should really be pitching tomorrow. I don’t like the idea of our season riding on Blanton.

A guy with no pop, who has had a terrible year at the plate. And throwing curveballs to Swisher and Petite with two strikes were quite suspect. Still, I have faith in the Phils tonight. The Yankees have been getting the bounces and breaks the past two games, and that’s bound to change. And Howard has to have at least one game where he takes over, like he did in Game 4 last year with two bombs.

I really hope that the stupid fans give Hamels some time and don’t run him out of town for his perceived “softness”.

well, it’s an enjoyable ass-thrashing so far. The Giants just fumbled the opening kickoff after coming out of the lockerroom down 30-7. But I really don’t want the only Philadelphia wins over NY this weekend to be regular season variety. And Akers makes it 33-7.

Thats a buyers price my friends.

The story of the game last night was that Pettitte was mostly effective when he got in trouble, and Hamels mostly was not. Pettitte had thrown 51 pitches and allowed three runs through two innings; he threw about the same number over the next four, and allowed just one more run.

I hate chalking things up to intangibles, and I particularly dislike Pettitte as I do any athlete who’s ostentatiously religious—I was waiting for him to be lifted so I could bellow, “Where’s your messiah now, Pettitte?”—but he kept his composure superbly and controlled the pace. He threw over when the Phils got runners on, antagonizing the crowd—and probably making the hitters antsy. And once the Yankees gave him the lead, he ran with it. Even the second enormous Werth homer was a good piece of pitching in that, with a three-run lead and nobody on, he went right after him.

Hamels, again, couldn’t get out of his own way. One thing went bad, and he let it snowball. It was all the more baffling and frustrating because you couldn’t have distinguished his first three innings from the great work he did in October ’08.

Tonight surely seems like a steep uphill climb, but this Phils team is comfortable with that. They don’t scare and they won’t lie down.