Devoured By Wolf: Brewers 6, Phillies 2
by WholeCamels on Sep 5, 2010 7:44 PM EDT
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PrintUp against their former lefty "ace," the Phillies dropped a deuce. By that I mean they only scored two runs, en route to a 6-2 defeat in the final game of the season against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Kyle Kendrick turned in his fifth straight poor start, allowing five runs on seven hits in just four innings, "highlighted" by Prince Fielder's three run bomb in the first inning. Randy Wolf turned in a solid outing, allowing just two runs over 6 2/3 innings.
Scott Mathieson made his first appearance for the Phillies since June, allowing an unearned run due to an error by first baseman Ryan Howard.
The game was not without questionable moves from Phillies skipper Charlie Manuel. Notably, the decision to use Mathieson in a close, pressure situation, in addition to not pinch-hitting for left fielder Ben Francisco in the eighth inning, with runners on first and second and representing the tying run against righty reliever John Axford. Francisco flied out to right, effectively ending the day for the Phillies.
Both Phillies runs scored in the bottom of the second inning on a two-RBI double from Carlos Ruiz.
With the Braves ten inning loss to the Marlins in Florida, the Phillies remain just a game back in the NL East.
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Dang the luck.
Pesky FIP and xFIP. Wolf should have been much worse, except that he really isn’t. And imagine how you’d feel if you were a Brewers fan and your multi-year offseason starter signing waits until early Sept to uncork this beauty.
True, though if I was a Brewers fan I would probably be more concerned with Prince’s pending FA…on the bright side it might push the Brewers to move the defensive disaster that is Ryan Braun try a new position…like 1b.
Looking forward to the Kevin Kolb era.
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
Who looks good in left? Braun? He’s awful.
Looking forward to the Kevin Kolb era.
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
Ibanez may not be a very good fielder, but he is a better fielder than Braun, if that’s what you’re getting at.
Alfonso Soriano has been pretty awful, well at least anytime I watch the Cubs he’s always finding ways to embarass himself and the game.
Is it just me, or did Ben Francisco look awful yesterday in the field?
by dannijd on Sep 6, 2010 10:11 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
He misplayed two balls that allowed two runs to score. He let the ball play him on both instances.
First, on the Hart double down the line, he sat and waited for the carom instead of going to get it, which wasted about 4-5 extra seconds that could have been used to throw out Rickie Weeks.
Secondly, the single that scored the 5th (?) run, he was on his heels when he fielded the ball that it was impossible to get the throw home with any force.
by WanderingMoses on Sep 6, 2010 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions
Francisco’s fielding has always been an issue but during the plague of injuries when Manuel had no choice but to use him, his glove work showed improvement. However now that the team is back health wise, Ibanez is being run out there everyday like he’s 26. There have been several opportunities for Francisco to play and Ibanez to get some rest that Manuel failed to take advantage of.
So what to do about KK. Some thoughts.
1. Far be it from me to defend Kyle, but he isn’t really as bad as he’s looked recently, any more than he was as good as he appeared at certain points earlier in the season. He is and always has been a below-average-but-not-ridiculously-horrible pitcher who looks OK in his lucky stretches and awful in his unlucky stretches. This is one of his unlucky stretches.
2. Worley’s probably better than Kendrick right now. But I worry about throwing a rookie into such an important spot in a pennant race. Could it be bad for his development?
3. We probably don’t have any other options who are better than Kendrick.
4. We still need a fifth starter to make four more starts this season, unless we want to start pitching some of our other guys on short rest.
5. If Kendrick could somehow get a tenth W, it might raise his offseason trade value much more than it really ought to.
I would rather they rotate arms for the 5th start over having any of the top 4 going on short rest.
Looking forward to the Kevin Kolb era.
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
Kyle’s last good line came against the Mets. That’s his next scheduled start. Maybe we give him one last chance, then make the change if need be.
I agree with letting him start vs the Mets. I don’t see it as a last chance so much as using up an arm vs a team that he has moderate success against. Outside of yesterdays results the Mets offense is pretty much shit.
Looking forward to the Kevin Kolb era.
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
It looks like it is official now. Vance Worley will start Game 1 tomorrow against Adalberto Mendez. Oswalt gets the Game 2 nod against Anibal Sanchez.
The best thing about Tim Tebow is his former roommate.
Dear Tim Kurkjian:
When was the last time a team playing a doubleheader faced two pitchers named Adalberto and Anibal?
Never.
Thank you. That’s what I thought.
by phillyinportland on Sep 6, 2010 3:44 AM EDT up reply actions
San Fran up 3-0 on LA in the 8th.
Looking forward to the Kevin Kolb era.
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
So the Padres have lost 10 in a row…talk about shitting the bed.
Looking forward to the Kevin Kolb era.
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
Don’t actually talk about it please, that was just a phrase.
Looking forward to the Kevin Kolb era.
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
On these nights when my stomach really aches and the bathroom is really far away……….
In all seriousness, the Padres fall from grace really is stunning. I have not been watching Padres games so I really can’t comment on what is wrong with them, but all of a sudden the Giants are one game back of the NL West. It’s almost like people expected the Padres to not hang on, but I don’t think anyone expected this kind of collapse.
The best thing about Tim Tebow is his former roommate.
They are really a small ball team: solid rotation, excellent bull pen, quality defenders and alot of contact hitters. The inherent weakness is how affected by variance this style of play is. Manufacturing runs comes with more risk. Essentially your often trading runs for outs which works as long as your RISP is higher than normal and this is difficult to maintain with any consistency – there are 7 defenders plus the pitcher and catcher that are available to make a play at a ball in play. To see them come down to earth doesn’t suprise me but the failed parachute does – it’s is just as hard to win ten games in a row as it is to lose ten in a row . But then again it doesn’t – it’s the NL West, this shit goes down often towards the end of the season unlike its boring counterpart in the AL. Remember the Rockies 20 plus game winning streak. Crazy.
The way the Marlins won was pretty amazing. Logan Morrison was hit near the eye with a foul ball while standing in the on-deck circle. Then Cousins comes off the bench and wins the game. And don’t miss Maybin’s catch off teh McClouth ball.
I might also want to try to bring a little coin my way by shaking down MLB player agents to keep them off my fantasy team.
their clients, I mean, although Scott Boras may be able to get on base at a better clip than goddamned Franklin Guitterez.
by Wet Luzinski on Sep 5, 2010 11:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Holy crap at that Morrison clip. OMG.
Something has got to be done. First Juan Encarnacion has his career end while getting hit in the on-deck circle, and now this. They need to start putting screens up or something.
There’s really a controversy going on about the Marlins not honoring Bobby Cox? Why would they be expected to honor him? Who is he, Dr. J? It’s totally bizarre.
So I see there really is a farewell tour for Cox around MLB. But why? I realize he’s up there on the list of most wins by a manager, but seriously, who gives a crap? If it were a Phillies manager, I wouldn’t care one way or the other whether other teams did anything like this.
And the Marlins just became the 1st team to not “honor” him this year. I’m with you, I don’t understand why this is a big deal. At the end of the season, he should be honored by the Braves during their last home series and that’s fine, but to expect every team in the NL to honor them after he manages the last game in their respective stadium? It makes no sense.
The best thing about Tim Tebow is his former roommate.
It just MLB marketing. The game is so caught up in its own long history. If the median age of the baseball fan is 65 or there abouts then this is the classic tug on the heart strings, ratchet up the sentimentality – christ, listen to the music Fox uses for WS coverage, it so War World 2 movie soundtrackish -epic, nostagilic, " I cried when Mickey Mantle died" longing, fathers passing the game down to their sons…
I’m actually fine with a little bit of sentimentality and nostalgia (and this kind of thing is not, as a matter of fact, unique to baseball in any way – see the aforementioned Julius Erving), but the problem here is that this is entirely superfluous and poorly executed sentimentality and nostalgia. The guy is a manager. Who cares about managers? Not to mention that he only ever won World Series. Did Sparky Anderson get a farewell tour? If not, neither should Cox.
I don’t even know why opposing teams would honor an opponent— it feels weird somehow. I totally believe that he should be celebrated when he plays his final game (or even throughout the final series) at Turner Field. Interestingly, this series in Florida marks his first “farewell” to a divisional opponent. I wonder whether the other NL East opponents (including the Phillies) intend to honor Cox. Considering the ongoing pennant race between the two teams, I almost think any honoring of Cox in Philadelphia is likely to seem awkward, and likely to go over like a fart in a spacesuit with many Phillies phans, who would most like to bid Cox adieu by walloping the Braves.
He would get booed mercilessly and it would be another silly “tut-tut at the misbehaving Philadelphia fans” moment for the national media, but oh it would be so worth it. I hope every single fan at CBP comes prepared with one of these to hold up during the ceremony.
We really ought to get this going. Someone e-mail thefightins on September 19! That’s probably the most effective tactic I can think of.
The whole Brett Myers fiasco would just invite (arguably deserved) “glass houses” commentary.
Although no one is bending over to “honor” Myers for much of anything.
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I doubt that Sparky Anderson got a farewell tour but I seem to remember something along those lines with Cal Ripken. (He saved baseball in 1995, you know.) And weren’t the Mariners ready to do something to honor Junior this year, but then he up and retired early on them?
I agree that the whole concept of honoring the manager is ridiculous, and crazy if you’re in a pennant race against the guy.
by phillyinportland on Sep 6, 2010 3:54 AM EDT up reply actions
honoring ripken or griffey would be fine, and I feel like the fans in Philadelphia would appreciate something like that. You wouldn’t hear many boos if Griffey took his last at-bat in CBP, then they made an announcement or even did something before the game. I hope they do something for Bob, just to see what the reaction is. I’m so used to being vilified that it really isn’t a big deal.
"My grandmom's favorite grandson, ask my grandmom" --Rone
by layout ultimate on Sep 6, 2010 8:27 AM EDT up reply actions
I tend to think it would really depend on who the person being honored was, and the extent to which that player had owned the Phillies over the years. If that player had an extra gear found when playing here, or was at th center of a number of losses by the Phillies, I think the reception may still be a little less warm. It is easy for the Phillies to like Griffey or Ripken- they did not see either of run frequently because both spent the best part of their careers in the AL. But Chipper Jones would not be warmly received by Phillies phans in a ceremony here.
by dannijd on Sep 6, 2010 10:43 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
braves vs. pirates matchups (era/fip/xfip/siera)
Mon: Tommy Hanson (3.60/3.37/4.13/3.69) vs. Brian Burres (6.31/5.55/5.67/5.47)
Tue: Tim Hudson (2.30/3.75/3.82/3.62) vs. James McDonald (5.62/2.91/3.963.62)
Wed: Derek Lowe (4.53/4.28/3.93/4.04) vs. Zach Duke (5.24/4.88/4.38/4.46)
Burres only has 45.2 IP this year. McDonald has 41.2.
Burres and Duke are lefties.
It will pretty much be a miracle if the Pirates win tomorrow. But, of course, that’s why they play the games.
Struggling lefty skates into his former town with something to prove.
Brew-Crew doing everything they can to avoid a season-series-sweep.
Kyle Kendrick.
We were pretty-well fucked from the jump on this one, fellas.
by Chutley's Impressed by Mac's Speed on Sep 6, 2010 1:27 AM EDT reply actions
Yup. Sort of like during the Astros series, I kind of knew that the team was screwed on the nights Myers and Happ pitched— “How do you like me now?” is more than a Toby Keith song.
On a side note: I went to the game on the night that Happ pitched. It was the first time that I went to a Phillies game and they lost (after going 9-0 lifetime, and 7-0 in the last two years). Happ, however, has a 3 game winning streak in games that I went to!
I went on the night Myers pitched. I, unlike you, have a losing record for games I’ve attended. I’m 1-2. ‘Course, the starters I’ve seen have been, in order: Bastardo (vs. the Orioles last year), Kendrick (opening night), Blanton (vs. Myers).
Keys to the Game: Offense, Offense!! Where are you?
by LeepinLizardz on Sep 6, 2010 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions
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