Big Man Bust this Citi in Half: Phillies 6, Mets 2
by dajafi on Aug 24, 2009 4:28 PM EDT
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After yesterday's freaktacular 9-7 win over the Mets at Citi Field, the Phillies were looking for a more conventional and relaxing win to close out their four-game visit to Flushing. After some early weirdness, that's exactly what they got, with Ryan Howard's power and Cliff Lee's poise leading the way to a 6-2 win.
For the second straight afternoon, the Phils played longball to take an early lead. After Shane Victorino was hit by a pitch and Chase Utley walked, Howard took a 2-2 fastball from Mets starter Bobby Parnell out to left-center and a quick 3-0 advantage. Two innings later, with Jayson Werth on first, Howard got Parnell again with a second-deck smash to right. That was it for the Phils until the ninth, when doubles by Utley and Raul Ibanez added an insurance run.
Lee shook off the worst defensive play of Utley's career in the bottom of the first. Angel Pagan, who started yesterday's game with an inside-the-park home run, popped up to shallow right field. Utley settled under it with two hands--but the ball squirted out of his glove for an error. He committed a second miscue on the play with a wild throw toward second base that eluded Eric Bruntlett and headed toward the left-field foul line; by the time Ibanez retrieved the ball, Pagan was circling the bases with a "Little League home run." The Mets added another run in the inning on a Gary Sheffield triple and Fernando Tatis sac fly, but Lee held them off the rest of the way to finish with seven innings, six hits allowed, no walks and five strikeouts. He's now 5-0 with a 0.68 ERA in five starts since joining the Phillies late last month.
The club heads to Pittsburgh for a three-game set with the Pirates starting Tuesday night. Joe Blanton will face Ross Ohlendorf in the series opener.
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Look at those empty seats in the pic above. When I went Saturday night, the upper half of the stadium was pretty much totally full, and there were large empty swaths downstairs. That’s a pricing FAIL by the Mets.
Today would be more understandable, no?
It’s not like today is a holiday. Then again, the Phils don’t seem to have any trouble getting folks for their BPS day games.
How much are the tickets there? Since everything is inflated in NYC I’m guessing they’re pretty expensive, but I’m also guessing not prohibitively expensive a la the Yank Me’s.
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
Well,
All I can tell you is that when I tried to get tix to Saturday’s game six weeks ago, there were not three seats together anywhere in the park on the Mets’ site; I had to go to StubHub and pay $60 each for three $30 seats which were in the 500 section, the upper park of the upper deck, albeit behind the plate. If there’s a similar effective markup for the seats lower down, you can see why people wouldn’t pay double face value for a lower deck infield seat to watch a AAA club. Then again, the StubHub asking prices may well have come down from six weeks ago.
"I am the Walrus?..... I am the Walrus." - Donny Kerabatsos
by The Navigator on Aug 24, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions
$700 for a ticket?
That’s nuts. It’s not a $60 pizza, but still.
Citi field is affordable
You can get weeknight ticket for under $20 and the food and beer is about the same price.
Below Face
I got seats in the front row (RF) on StubHub with face value of $60 for $40 for the UTP game.
Guessing prices will be even lower next time Phils are there.
by EastFallowfield on Aug 24, 2009 8:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Weird thing about ERA
Doesn’t it seem as though Lee ought to get tagged with an earned run for the triple followed by sac fly? I don’t know all the details of how it’s calculated but I assume the theory is that without Utley dropping that pop-up, the sac fly would have been out #3 and Sheffield wouldn’t have scored. That makes a certain sense, and naturally I see why it’s not a good reflection of Lee’s performance if Pagan’s run on a fluke popup-turned-2-error play is counted against him, but once that play’s over, he’s the guy who gave up the triple and then the fly ball to score the runner.
That being said, Lee is awesome and his performance today would still be just as excellent even if it were reflected slightly differently in his stats.
"I am the Walrus?..... I am the Walrus." - Donny Kerabatsos
I remember there was one game back in the day when Curt Schilling gave up something like 8 unearned runs in one inning because of this.
Anyway, yes sometimes pitchers get breaks on unearned runs, but this kind of thing tends to even out over a full season.
Unearned all the way.
If the fielder field appropriately, here’s how the inning goes:
1) Pagan pops out to 2nd base. 1 out
2) Castillo flies out to center. 2 out
3) Sheffield triples to right. Man on 3rd, 2 outs.
4) Tatis flies out to right, inning over.
Lee didn’t ‘get away’ with anything there. His fielders allowed the other team an extra out which led to 2 runs that shouldn’t have been plated. A triple with two outs is much less likely to turn into a run as opposed to a triple with 0 outs.
Yes, I understand why it was unearned. It’s still partly luck, because it’s dependent on the order of events. If Pagan had hit the triple and Sheffield had hit the dropped pop-up, then then run would have been earned even though Lee’s aggregate results would have been exactly the same (1 triple, 1 popup, 2 flies).
i hear you…but that’s not a good argument. You could often rearrange the order of ABs in an inning and generate runs even when there’s no errors. Pop ups, Ks, and GIDPs are worthless ABs. Flyballs and groundballs to the wrong side of the infield can be productive.
It’s possible to get 4 hits in an inning and not score(single, single, single, X-2-5 GIDP, single, popup)….it’s possible to get no hits in an inning and score..BB, SH, PB, SF)
Johan Santana is going to miss his next start to go see a doctor about elbow pain he’s had since the all star break.
I almost feel bad for them.
They have 15 games left against the Marlins and Braves, so if anything, we should really be rooting for them.
I absolutely feel bad for them
The baseball season, for me at least, gives some structure to a good half of the year, hopefully more. Imagine trying to follow the Phils with almost literally every exciting player injured. It’s unpleasant, but also for the serious fan almost impossible to tune out baseball altogether for those months.
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