Keelhaul'd: Phillies 12, Pirates 2
by WholeCamels on May 17, 2010 9:55 PM EDT
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PrintThe Phillies welcomed Jimmy Rollins back to the club after a month on the disabled list, and the shortstop looked like he hadn't missed a beat, going 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs scored as the Phillies pummeled their cross-state rival Pirates by a score of 12-2.
The game didn't start so hot for the Phillies, with starter Kyle Kendrick surrendering a leadoff home run to Delwyn Young. After that, it was mostly smooth sailing for Kendrick, who went a career-high eight innings, allowing two runs on just five hits, with four strikeouts and a terrific 15 groundouts.
The offense was, once again, spectacular, even with Chase Utley getting the night off due to illness. The score was knotted at one run apiece until the bottom of the fourth, when Ryan Howard knocked in two runs with a bases loaded single to left field, and was immediately followed with an opposite field homer from Jayson Werth, his eighth on the season, off Pittsburgh starter Charlie Morton.
Ryan Howard then delivered the final indignity in the bottom of the eighth inning, a titanic grand slam home run to centerfield off reliever and one-time Phillie Jack Taschner, to cap off his 3-for-5, six RBI night.
Antonio Bastardo pitched a perfect ninth inning, with two strikeouts, to close things out.
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fouled a ball off his ankle batting in the 8th. Finished the AB. Francisco came in presumably as a precaution.
by Wet Luzinski on May 17, 2010 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m intrigued by the fact that Manuel kept Shane in the leadoff spot and Rollins hit third. Of course Utley will be back in there when he’s healthy, but it’s nice to see Cholly not mindlessly chained to the notion that Jimmy must lead off no matter what.
by dajafi on May 17, 2010 10:37 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Didn’t he try him at 7th a couple days last year, and then moved him back up to first even though he wasn’t that good at 7th?
by jemagee on May 17, 2010 11:13 PM EDT up reply actions
So the Phils are now leading MLB in runs/game (as long as Papelbon doesn’t screw the pooch in the 9th against the Yankees).
Pooch officially screwed.
nyuk nyuk nyuk
by alcatraz0109 on May 17, 2010 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions
that pooch been done gone and screwed.
4 runs in the 9th. yeowch.
by Wet Luzinski on May 17, 2010 10:59 PM EDT up reply actions
coming back from a 6-1 deficit to lead in the 9th but have your supposedly ‘leet’ closer spit the bit? against your biggest rival, no less?
Shot to the ’nads, folks.
nyuk nyuk nyuk
by alcatraz0109 on May 17, 2010 11:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Closers screw up every once in a while…it happens
by jemagee on May 17, 2010 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I am starting to see the logic in not giving relievers fat contracts.
by Clyde Simmons on May 18, 2010 7:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Howard
Did Howard look as good in person as he did on Gameday?
Besides the huge numbers, I generally was encouraged by the ABs I was charting. From what I could follow, it seems like Howard generally had a different (and better) approach at the plate tonight.
What do the eyeballs say?
I’ve been a non-believer for a while, so I’ll admit bias.
He looked stupid in one strikeout. He dribbled one off a glove for a hit, dribbled on through the right side for a hit, and then Taschner threw him a meatball that he didn’t miss.
That being said…he still had to hit that meatball and he did it. It wasn’t a no-doubter, but it easily cleared the CF wall.
Thanks, Bilzo.
I suppose what I’m encouraged by is that (at least on Gameday it looked like) Howard put himself in a situation to get a meatball pitch by working the count, rather than swing at all these low breaking pitches and inside fastballs that he can’t hit or do much with.
Nice to see Traschner hit as hard by the Phils as was the case when he was in their employ.
by dajafi on May 17, 2010 11:15 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I thought Rollins looked good. He got a gift call on one 6-3 play, but it wasn’t because he made a bad play.
Thanks. I feared we rushed him back, but I’m glad he looked good.
I’ll be at the game Tuesday night, so you guys won’t have to put up with all my eyeball questions. :)
Angry? So what, it’s a great action shot at what he does best. Also,iIt has great diagnols that makes the composition dynamic and it is a display of perfect fielding form. He looks totally bad ass.
Speaking of fielding form, has anyone else noticed the new Cubs shortstop, Starlin Castro? He had the great debut at the plate with six RBI his first game (his only RBI of the season so far) and he’s kept his average up over .300 – but his fielding is something else. 9 games, 5 errors, Fielding Pct of .881. But what struck me was watching him on a couple of routine grounders – I think it was Sunday’s game – and he was making the Little League stab at the ball as it came by him instead of moving his body in front of the ball to field it. I don’t think I can recall seeing another shortstop do that more than once. Somehow I don’t think he’ll last as a shortstop.
by phillyinportland on May 18, 2010 1:20 AM EDT up reply actions
Castro made three errors in his fourth game and had five errors after his first five games. Maybe, he’s starting to settle down, but I, too, will be checking on his D as the season progresses.
by Derekcarstairs on May 18, 2010 7:10 AM EDT up reply actions
Nitpick Alert
Didn’t Kendrick also throw 8 innings vs Atlanta in the Madson Screws The Pooch game?
by EastFallowfield on May 18, 2010 6:49 AM EDT reply actions
Pooch-Screwing...
…should officially become a statistic.
I think it’s way better than the Shutdown/Meltdown nomenclature. For relievers, we should track Pooch-Screws vs…? What’s the opposite of a Pooch-Screw?
I so called the grand slam last night!
Howard’s grand slam last night was almost hillarious to me— after J-Roll was walked, I told my mom they walked J-Roll, the bases are now loaded for Ryan Howard to hit the grandslam this pitcher so richly deserves (From what I was seeing in Gametracks it felt like he had issued a pair of unintentional intentional walks to Polanco and Rollins, particularly with the meeting on the mound in the middle). Less than 2 minutes later he hit the grandslam— I just laughed. An object lesson in why not to give Ryan Howard loaded bases— he still occasionally can find the business side of the wall!!!
Philadelphia: Phinally home to more than just a Hollywood Boxing Champ
- Drunken Bleachers
Re-sign Jayson Werth!!!!
"I never want to look back and wonder 'What if I had tried harder'"
- Chase Utley
Did your mom let you out of the basement after the call? (sorry, old joke meme around here).
I really think there is something to the Howard-Rollins dynamic, some kind of faint echo to Of Mice and Men.
by Wet Luzinski on May 18, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Doesn’t one of them kill the other at the end of that book?
by jemagee on May 18, 2010 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions
We do not have a basement at my house— we have a mutually beneficial relationship— I live in my childhood home for low rent (including high speed [when it feels like it] internet, utilities, and cable, and help my mom (who is both widowed and disabled) out with stuff around the house, running errands, and financial support (I do not think that she could afford to live on her own). I also make sure that she recreationally gets out of the house once in a while… to that end, I am bringing her to the game on Friday night.
I do not get your reference to Of Mice and Men despite having read the book. I would love to hear more about this!
I sometimes think that men on base help Ryan (and to a certain extent Shane this year) hit better. I do not know if it is the pitch selection (read a desire to not give away further bases on walks/ distraction due to concern about a base runner stealing), but it seems that the two of them do their best work with ducks in the pond.
Philadelphia: Phinally home to more than just a Hollywood Boxing Champ
- Drunken Bleachers
Re-sign Jayson Werth!!!!
"I never want to look back and wonder 'What if I had tried harder'"
- Chase Utley
Rollins is small, clever, tough, and worldly-wise. And a dreamer.
Howard is a big guy who hangs out with Rollins and provides implicit physical protection.
The comparison works pretty well, apart from the fact that Howard isn’t dumb and doesn’t like to pet rabbits and such.
I get the analogy to Rollins as George… In some ways it gets to the things that I love best about him. I loved the fact that he was crazy enough to dream big— to pronounce a team tha had not been to the playoffs since I was in 7th grade was the team to beat in the east, then a year later to suggest that the Phillies were good enough to win it all. I know that it may be the just wrong thing normally to talk big and brash, and that the media and others may warn about writing checks with your mouth that your teammates can not cash, but I think that the Phillies at that point in time needed to hear somebody loudly, publiclly say that they were good enough— even if they themselves did not believe it.
Other than physical size, I do not get the idea of Howard as Lennie… Unless swinging at pitches (soft objects) in pursuit of rabbits (homeruns) is where the rest of the analogy goes.
Philadelphia: Phinally home to more than just a Hollywood Boxing Champ
- Drunken Bleachers
Re-sign Jayson Werth!!!!
"I never want to look back and wonder 'What if I had tried harder'"
- Chase Utley
by dannijd on May 19, 2010 12:29 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It’s the size, of course, and the symbiosis. I just have a sense that they feel better when the other is around. Beyond that it breaks down.
by Wet Luzinski on May 20, 2010 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions
I don’t mean to cast aspersions, I really don’t. I was just making a silly joke about blogging that has been a standard yuk around here for a while. But let Steinbeck speak for and chastise me by way of apology:
In every bit of honest writing in the world there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.
– John Steinbeck in his 1938 journal entry[
by Wet Luzinski on May 18, 2010 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s all good. I perhaps should not have been so defensive— it is just that I put up with hearing crud about the fact that I still live at home from people, and sometimes I get tired of it, particularly since it can not be further from the truth. Steinbeck’s quote is beautiful, and really tells the mission of both writing (a hobby of mine), and the legal profession where I work… At the end of the day, I am always Working to both understand my world and to be understood by it.
Philadelphia: Phinally home to more than just a Hollywood Boxing Champ
- Drunken Bleachers
Re-sign Jayson Werth!!!!
"I never want to look back and wonder 'What if I had tried harder'"
- Chase Utley
by dannijd on May 19, 2010 12:11 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
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