Swept: Braves 2, Phillies 1
by David S. Cohen on Jun 2, 2010 3:46 PM EDT
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PrintOmar Infante got the game winning RBI today, as the Phillies lost yet another to the first-place Braves. But, as has been the story for the past almost two weeks, Infante isn't to blame here. Kyle Kendrick pitched well, giving up only 1 run in 7 strong innings.
To blame, as you know just from seeing the headline, is the Phillies offense. Once again, they were offensive. 6 singles and 2 walks is all they could manage against Derek Lowe and Billy Wagner today.
Jayson Werth and Ryan Howard contributed a single each, with Werth getting an RBI as well. Chase Utley, on the other hand, continued his abject failure at the plate. In the third inning, when the Phillies looked like they might actually have a rally (if you're not sure what that word means, and I understand if you've forgotten, you can look here), Utley came to the plate with one out and bases loaded. The result? Double play.
After that, Lowe faced the minimum until the 8th. The Phillies had base runners in each of the last two innings, but nothing materialized. Wilson Valdez spoiled the only real chance the Phils had, when he flied out with Ross Gload on third and two outs in the eighth.
Enjoy the off-day tomorrow. We know for sure the Phils won't lose.
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Broke the Bad Baseball Boycott to watch the 4th through 8th innings this afternoon. I imagine it’s like being a meth addict: you know it’s bad for your physical health, but just can’t help yourself.
Werth’s shot back up the middle in the middle frames was indicative of how this stretch has gone: a sure up-the-middle single that hit Lowe’s ankle and caromed to Prado for your routine 1-4-3 putout.
by PhillyFriar on Jun 2, 2010 3:54 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
You bring up something that I have been somewhat curious about with these batting slumps— how much of this is BABIP bad luck— simply put, if given the opportunity to put enough balls in play, eventually this will naturally return to normal?
I am with you on the addiction, though… I want to boycott them, but I can not just walk away… I keep hoping that they will turn it around— and this is even though I pronounced them dead and buried last Thursday. I just want to know why I am still crazy or stupid enough to continue to have hope.
Traitor! Scab! How are you gonna leave our two man picket line and go and join the pinkertons on me? That hurts, man, that hurts.
I actually completely insulated myself from today’s game and I have been in a much better mood because of it. A 1pm game is way too early to watch this team anyways. If I had followed this thing I might have been liable to attack random strangers. Even for me that’s over the line.
by FuquaManuel on Jun 2, 2010 6:04 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I know, I hang my head in shame. When they come out with a TGP commenting video game, I’m likely to have a replacement character named “FullFlyer” because I won’t be in the commenter’s union (a la Kevin Millar).
Seriously though, you were smart to stick to the boycott. I started throwing random things in my apartment when Infante’s blooper dropped over Utley’s head. My fiancee thinks I’m certifiable at this point, but 14 runs in 11 games tends to do that to you.
Seven division games. Yee-owch. This was supposed to be a telling stretch, but I don’t like what it told me.
I suggest a Friday night burning of the red apostate Phanatic at home plate to exorcise the bad juju.
On one hand, I want to believe that this team has one bad stretch a year, that injuries and bad hitting has caused this stretch, and that the team will come out on the other side and play lights out. But the longer they go (15 days and 14 games now) without it reversing, the more I am starting to doubt for the season. Hopefully, Polanco’s return will be him at something that looks closer to 100%. In those 14 games, they are 4-10… I am really hoping that they are not heading to 6-16, but am starting to think that is what it is going to look like before it ends… I was looking at the schedule, and I think we are going to be 4-14 come Tuesday over this stretch.
I hope the Braves caught whatever disease the Phils have and the Phillies can resume playing good baseball again.
"Tortorella’s got it all wrong ... Gaborik shouldn’t be messing with our skilled player." -Peter Luukko
Braves got over that disease in April with the nine straight losses.
I fed a fish to a pelican and Frisco bay and he tried to eat my cell phone he ran away
Next up for them, though, is the Dodgers, who are playing really well too, followed by the Diamondbacks (a bad team in general, but a .500 team at home), and the Twins… if our upcoming schedule was not such a landmine, I would have some hope for catching them… but right now, I don’t see a winnable game on the schedule.
Well, I would just like them to catch it again. No offense.
"Tortorella’s got it all wrong ... Gaborik shouldn’t be messing with our skilled player." -Peter Luukko
It’s like Chicken Pox, you only get it once then you’re immune.
I fed a fish to a pelican and Frisco bay and he tried to eat my cell phone he ran away
Frankly, I want them to all catch the clap. That would be a lot funnier. Except for Larry, I want him to die of syphilis. And Cox can die of a yeast infection.
by FuquaManuel on Jun 2, 2010 6:08 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
We missed your contributions in the thread today, FM. Our vitriol levels were running dangerously low.
Sorry, you are gonna have to do without me. I’m on strike. And given that PhillyFriar seems to have gone scab, it looks like I’m gonna have to go it alone.
These are the conditions to bring about my return to watching games:
1. A 5-run game (win or lose)
in which
1.5. the aforementioned runs are scored over a span of 2 or more innings
and in which
2. at least one home run is hit
2.5. by one of the following 4 players: Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Jayson Werth, and/or Raul Ibanez.
Moreover, in said game it would be preferable that
3. no double (or triple) plays are to be grounded, lined, or otherwise bumbled into,
4. no errors are committed,
and
5. no blatant baserunning mistakes are made.
Finally,
6. the team must combine for no worse than a 2.5 to 1 strikeout to walk ratio for the entire game.
There is, of course, the time-honored “Halladay exception” to our collective Phillies-watching agreement which states that
7. on days which Roy Halladay is the starter, Phillies watching may resume even in the event that the above conditions have not yet been met.
Our demands are thus submitted to whom it may concern on this day, the second of June, two thousand and ten.
You will never get 1-6 in one game.
While I think that you may get items 1 and 2 really soon (I believe that there is such a thing as guys being due— see Pujols, Albert), you and I both know that at least one of three or four will happen. Further, I am unsure of what you mean about number five— are you talking about stupid steal attempts (see Ibanez last week) or also things like Ruiz last night (where going proved to be stupid, but a dp between first and second was probably expected).
Chipper and Cox will be gone after this year, you need some new people to hate.
I fed a fish to a pelican and Frisco bay and he tried to eat my cell phone he ran away
In football any team can beat any other team on any given Sunday… (ask the 2007 Giants or the 2010 Redskins about this). That being said— if I place the over under on the team’s next win at my 29th birthday party (at the 6/27 blue jays-phillies game), will you bite on taking the under?
Man, i thought for sure after utley hit that double last night that maybe he was starting to round back into form. But, of course, that was hit without anyone on base. This just plain sucks. This team has always seemed to struggle against lowe. I fucking hate this team right now. plain and simple.
Uhhh..
As a Braves fan, believe me, you guys don’t always struggle against Lowe. You’ve beaten him twice just this year, scoring 12 runs in 10 innings.
Of course, that was before he found his mojo, and before your hitters lost theirs.
"Yeah, and I have an enchanted jock strap." -- Karl Karlson
by Jacob Peterson on Jun 2, 2010 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions
up until this year, the sinkerballer/groundball pitcher lowe was a challenge for the phillies
by PhilsForever on Jun 3, 2010 12:22 AM EDT up reply actions
I know this isn’t the reason they lost, and I still consider Cholly the greatest manager in Phillies history… but batting Exxon Valdez second is a pretty good definition of baseball malfeasance.
On the 0-1 pitch in the top of the 8th today, and runners on 1st and 3rd, Valdez tried to bunt his way on. Seriously. I guess on one hand it’s good self-awareness by him (he knows he’s a terrible hitter), but on the other hand, it tells you everything you need to know about our recent 2-hole hitter. Hell, I’m pretty sure I would rather have had Dobbs there — at least he’d have gone down swinging (probably on 3 straight pitches, but still).
We should file a class action suit. C’mon, we have a lot of lawyers here. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Please……….
And who precisely do you want to sue??
by dannijd on Jun 2, 2010 8:24 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It was Jim Joyce. The same guy who made that call on Greg Dobbs’ ball over the foul pole vs. the Red Sox last June. He might have gotten that one right, but this one was clearly wrong. Wow.
I know Bruce Froemming cost Milt Pappas a perfect game when he called a 3-2 pitch a ball on the last batter of the game. But there was at least a dispute in that case as to whether that call was right.
There was a third perfect game this season in all but the official record book. If ever there were the need for an asterisk, it’s here.
by phillies fan in bowie on Jun 2, 2010 9:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, well. I am glad I missed this . I had more fun wincing in the dentist chair as I had three mega filling bored out than watching the Slumpapotamuses be slumpy. Wll I guess the worse bit of it was is burning a good KK start – your not gonna get alot chances where he holds down a team to 1 run. That’s like getting a snow day in April when you had a test you didn’t study for and not studying.
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