The Pajama Jamie Jam: Phillies 8, Braves 3

by WholeCamels on Apr 22, 2010 11:08 PM EDT

It might be hard to tell which Jamie Moyer we're going to get from night to night, but tonight was a vintage performance for the lefthander.

Moyer allowed just two runs (both unearned) over six innings, striking out four and allowing just four hits and two walks. He kept the Braves hitters off balance all night with his classic mix of slow-slower-slowest stuff, in and out of the zone. Impressively, he struck out rookie hotness Jason Heyward looking in the sixth inning.

After the absolute clinic the Phillies defenders put on on Wednesday night, tonight the gloves were just so-so, including two errors from Chase Utley.

But it's easy to overlook those things when you're scoring eight runs. And the star of the offense tonight was shortstop Juan Castro, who was 3-for-5 with two runs scored. The Phillies had 12 hits, 11 of them singles (Greg Dobbs contributed the only extra base hit of the night -- a double).

Braves second baseman Martin Prado was the offensive stand-out for the Braves tonight, collecting three hits to lead the team.

A satisfying end to an exciting series. Two out of three on the road against a key rival = good stuff.

The Phillies head west to Phoenix for a three game weekend series against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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There’s something poignant and sad about an old man sitting by himself at a baseball game. I honestly can’t decide if the effect is lessened or intensified when you know it’s a former president, and that there are probably a dozen Secret Service badasses just outside the frame.

Anyway, so our starters worked 23 innings this series without allowing an earned run. Pretty strong.

by dajafi on Apr 22, 2010 11:28 PM EDT reply actions

Perhaps we should invite prominent old men to attend all of Moyer’s starts.

by Wet Luzinski on Apr 22, 2010 11:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Well 65 is the median age for baseball fans unless the Baseball Renaissance has changed that.

Good work against a pitcher who usually hurts us. Moyer confounds his critics, puts up a performance that causes PC’s to crash all over the Atlanta region from all the dismayed posts clogging up the Braves Blogosphere. I guess that might have been from all the people who didn’t show up at the game.

Interesting side note Jimmy Carter is an accomplished woodworker who built all his own furniture.

by j reed on Apr 22, 2010 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions

And quite a few houses

by jemagee on Apr 23, 2010 9:22 AM EDT up reply actions

Setting aside our opinions of him as a public figure, he’s really a very impressive guy just as a person. He was also a nuclear engineer. And although people sometimes talk about the peanut farming thing in a humorous vein, running a large farm is as difficult as running any other large business and he was very successful at it.

by taco pal on Apr 23, 2010 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions

When I was applying to colleges, I applied to emory just for a chance to learn from Jimmy Carter.

by jemagee on Apr 23, 2010 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions

Coming from TC, I just wanted to say the Phillies were the better team this week. Congrats on winning two of three.

We’ll see each other in two weeks and maybe the results will be different.

The birth of Jason Heyward was God’s punishment for the sins of the people in New York and Philly.

by TonyAlmeyda on Apr 22, 2010 11:55 PM EDT reply actions

If there's any justice...

…we won’t get a blown save and just get the sweep next time?

by EastFallowfield on Apr 23, 2010 7:07 AM EDT up reply actions

That’s unlikely, but very funny.

The birth of Jason Heyward was God’s punishment for the sins of the people in New York and Philly.

by TonyAlmeyda on Apr 23, 2010 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions

Malaise Forever

Jimmy Carter?! But he’s America’s worst monster!

((Shameless Simpsons reference aside, I always love to see Moyer when he’s doing well. There’s something aesthetically pleasing about methodical, intelligent pitching.))

by Trev223 on Apr 23, 2010 12:45 AM EDT reply actions

He is a pretty shitty American

He fucked us hard about North Korea back in 1994. Look it up, he went to North Korea, cut a deal with Kim Sung-Il, went on CNN to tell everyone about it, etc. All against the ACTUAL President Clinton’s wishes. Then, Sung-Il died and his batshit nutty son took over, and well… One of the reasons the world is so fucked up with nuclear proliferation is that dipshit right there.

God, I absolutely loathe Jimmy Carter.

by JamesFromPhilly on Apr 23, 2010 3:03 AM EDT up reply actions

How do you feel about the guy who was president from 1980 to 1992?

by jemagee on Apr 23, 2010 9:23 AM EDT up reply actions

Um...

George Reagan? Ronald Bush?

(Actually, Jimmy Carter was still president in 1980…)

by phatj on Apr 23, 2010 10:02 AM EDT up reply actions

Number of people who would have died from an invasion of one of the most densely populated, heavily armed regions of the world: Hundreds of thousands

Number of people who died because of what Carter allegedly did instead in 1994: 0

Being a keyboard warrior: Priceless

by taco pal on Apr 23, 2010 10:14 AM EDT up reply actions

Being a keyboard warrior from 10,000 miles away from where the carnage would have happened, I should add. How does that line from Shrek go again? “Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.”

by taco pal on Apr 23, 2010 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions

But…but…Jimmy should have had a direct line from God telling him that Sung-Il was going to die and that his son was drinking the Norky propaganda Kool-Aid!

[/sarcasm]

Honor is no substitute for victory.

by The Dark on Apr 23, 2010 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions

Just to be clear, I like Carter and did not assume that I would start a political spat.

Much like a pitcher can’t control HR/FB rate, I can’t control decent reference/awful snowballing political argument rate.

by Trev223 on Apr 23, 2010 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions

Watch out, taco pal, you might incur the wrath of the 101st Chairborne.

by ThinMountainAir on Apr 23, 2010 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions

LOL!

by FuquaManuel on Apr 23, 2010 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions

It might be hard to tell which Jamie Moyer we’re going to get from night to night ….

Or from inning to inning.

by taco pal on Apr 23, 2010 10:23 AM EDT reply actions

hey WC

the pajama jammie jam, did you get that from ‘Freaknik: the musical’? if so – awesome, if not, still funny, but that t-pain stuff cracks me up every time…

by PHIGHTINPHILS on Apr 23, 2010 11:40 AM EDT reply actions