Der Sieg mit Deutscher Kraft und Leistungsfähigkeit: Phillies 5, Nationals 2

by Wet Luzinski on Sep 19, 2010 1:16 AM EDT

On a beautiful night in South Philadelphia when the Phillies celebrated German Heritage Night, no better metaphor than the old heavy weaponry of the Krupp family serves to describe Phillies Kraftwerker Ryan Howard, whose third inning home run vaulted him past Pat Burrell into third place on the Phillies all-time career home run list with 252, just seven behind Del Ennis (beyond that, the long slog to surpass Mike Schmidt at 548).

Equally impressive is that it was the 30th home run Howard hit this season, setting a franchise record for Howard of five consecutive 30 home run, 100 RBI seasons. Factor in a year when Howard's power has been off a bit (it's the Year of the Pitcher, haven't you heard? I'm right, you know that?) and he's been on the DL for a stretch this season, and it's a noteable accomplishment. Volk, this is about as powerful as a power hitter gets. Ein großes Stück indeed.

At the start, however, the game felt more like the League of Nations responding to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia than anything all that German. Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick resurfaced on an evening after the Braves won in New York and promptly used 29 pitches to get out of the first inning, giving up a run in the process. But Nationals starter Jordan Zimmerman responded in kind with a similar inning in the second, when Jayson Werth homered to tie the game. After allowing singles to Raul Ibanez and Carlos Ruiz, Wilson "The People's Sub" Valdez hit a go-ahead double (with a slight limp into second; he stayed in the game).

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The Phillies offense got on its Bismarckian timetable in the third, as Howard's 2-run homer was followed by a solo HR by Raul Ibanez that put the Phillies up 5-1. Kendrick allowed another Nationals run in the sixth, but finished the inning with a quality start, one walk, three strikeouts, and, as it turns out, the win. So saug es, haters, Kyle Kendrick is a winning pitcher (WIP'd myself there). Bullpenners Chad Durbin, Ryan Madson, and Brad Lidge finished the game, although Madson's eighth inning was not without drama, as he had to strike out Willie Harris with the bases loaded to keep the score where it was.

Madson must have swapped look-alike masks with Brad Lidge. Convinced that the inevitable 21-pitch 9th inning was on its way, the pre-emptive potty break I took with my boys was almost too long, as we returned to our seats just in time to watch the final out.

There, now I've included a reference to the bathroom in my German'd up game recap, so it's echt Deutsch.

Vielen Dank for the ausgezeichnet Deutsch-chatter. Such a beautiful language. Ich lachte sehr oft laut!

via www.fangraphs.com

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by ajay on Sep 19, 2010 2:15 AM EDT reply actions

Was at the park for the game

So I didn’t get to post tonight. As soon as Kendrick threw up a Single, Triple & HBP, I started to get that… I don’t know, how to describe it… “Fuck you, Kyle” feeling in my gut.

Even when the Fightins’ started raking, I still wanted a couple more with Kendrick on the mound and needless to say, I hated to see Mad Dog warming up (don’t get me wrong, TONIGHT is the situation you use him… up 6, not s’much).

So color me shocked when, after they won, I realized to my surprise and delight that Kyle actually pitched relatively well.

No crazy multiple GIFs tonight, but in honor of tonight’s theme, I can’t NOT post this one…

by Chutley's Impressed by Mac's Speed on Sep 19, 2010 3:22 AM EDT reply actions

BTW, RememberthePhightans....

FANTASTIC PICTURE.

The yellow-mained cutie with the pert douseldorf’s is heading straight into the ol’ bank,

That chesty fraulein is threatening to give me a Thousand-Year Boner and make me wanna invade Poland, if ya follow my incredibly clever, hard-to-decipher euphemism.

by Chutley's Impressed by Mac's Speed on Sep 19, 2010 3:28 AM EDT reply actions

Beautiful Language

Rilke’s epitaph

Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust,
Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel
Lidern.

Translated

Rose, oh pure contradiction, delight
of being no one’s sleep under so
many lids.

Oh yeah. German, the language of poets. Having to work with German – Goethe and Rilke get uber props for that.

by j reed on Sep 19, 2010 3:29 AM EDT reply actions

NIce write-up WL.

Had to listen, couldn’t see it live. Sounded like Chooch had a couple balls within a gust of wind of leaving the park. Was that true or was it radio enhancement?

by Bilzo on Sep 19, 2010 8:57 AM EDT reply actions

Not just Chooch

lot of long, warning-track fly outs.

by Chutley's Impressed by Mac's Speed on Sep 19, 2010 9:29 AM EDT up reply actions

in the 7th (i think) Werth flew out to the wall also (as did Chooch). And Exxon smoked a line drive to right. Lots of really hard hit outs last night

by PSUcup1 on Sep 19, 2010 9:42 AM EDT up reply actions

Did we ever learn what caused the delay last night?

by essman on Sep 19, 2010 9:53 AM EDT reply actions

Another laser, apparently.

by Spoilt Victorian Child on Sep 19, 2010 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions

I listened to the last six innings on the radio. Sounded like about the most impressive scoreless six innings of hitting imaginable: lots of base runners, good long ABs, many at-em balls. Pretty different from the Slumpmas scoreless jags of earlier this year, though if it weren’t for having scored a few runs earlier it would have been as or more frustrating.

by dajafi on Sep 19, 2010 12:54 PM EDT via mobile reply actions