Gameday: Phillies (41-29) At Cardinals (41-29)
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Sun, June 15, 2008 01:10 PM | Comments: 151
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Happy Father’s Day, dads.
Today marks the final game of a nine-game road swing for the Phils. Currently they stand at 5-3 on the trip after a 3-2 loss to Kyle Lohse and the Cardinals yesterday. Today Brett Myers will try to take the series, and he’ll have to pitch better than his last start, a five-run performance against the Marlins Tuesday. He surrendered three homers in that game, adding to his league-leading total of 18 given up. He has given up four or more runs in half (7/14) of his starts.
Myers and Co. will face Cardinals rookie Mitchell Boggs. Besides having a weird hybrid name, Boggs is a 24-year-old right-hander from Georgia. In his first start he went five innings, giving up two runs on four hits against the Reds in Cincinnati. According to scouting reports, Boggs will work his fastball to set up an effective slider, making him more of a late-inning bullpen type of pitcher. The Phils will need to be patient with Boggs and make him miss with the fastball.
Both Shane Victorino and Pedro Feliz are getting the day off — Jayson Werth and Greg Dobbs are in the lineup. Chris Coste, a father for the second time now, is back and in the lineup, as well.
Phillies: Brett Myers (3-8) 5.34 ERA
Cardinals: Mitchell Boggs (1-0) 3.86 ERA
Gametime: 2:15 p.m. EST
Weather: 86, sunny
Lineup: Rollins, Werth, Utley, Howard, Burrell, Jenkins, Dobbs, Coste, Myers
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Your gameday beer: Time to pull out a win and finish the road trip 6-3. That would be nice. For today’s drink, go with Old Stock Ale from North Coast Brewery. It’s a long sipper, brewed with classic Maris Otter malt and Fuggles and East Kent Goldings hops. It’s the kind of sweet beer you should enjoy with your dad today, as you sit back and catch the Phils. (Then Tiger’s closeout on Torrey Pines, then the Celtics’ closeout on Los Angeles.)
Go Phillies!
Posts: 558 Brian Michael
I figure you’re reading this so, Happy Father’s Day, Dad! I remember my first game with you when I was 6 years old – Ozzie Virgil hit a homer.
Go Phils!
Posted: 01:25 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
Lineup posted. Couple guys get days off.
Rollins
Werth
Utley
Howard
Burrell
Jenkins
Dobbs
Coste
Myers
Posted: 01:46 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Why give Victorino off?!?!?!?!?!
Posted: 01:56 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
Is this the second time in a week that Dobbs has started for Feliz? Hopefully Myers doesn’t get hit too hard to the hot corner today.
Posted: 01:59 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Bruce
It’s interesting to note that there are two remaining players that have started all 70 games…. Utley and Howard.
I too wonder why Victorino is not in the line-up, especially with Rollins in a mini slump.
Posted: 02:06 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 chris m
howard hasnt started all the games…hes probaly played in all of them but he was benched earliier for his lack of hitting … it didnt help though
Posted: 02:12 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Charlie has benched him a few times this year. Utley will start every game this year.
Posted: 02:15 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
My God this woman singing the anthem SUCKS.
Posted: 02:18 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 chris m
hes back!!!!!!
Posted: 02:28 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
Myers NEEDS to shut the Cards down in the first – the most important inning is the one after you have scored. 1,2,3 then get back to hitting.
PS Jroll steals second – where has that been?
Posted: 02:31 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
Chris, not yet. Let’s hold off on the es-hay, ack-bay.
Posted: 02:32 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 chris m
he hasnt been on base
Posted: 02:33 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 chris m
i know im messing around the guy has to have a couple good works before i officially declares hes back
Posted: 02:34 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
can any pitcher on this team have a shutdown inning after the offense scores? my goodness.
Posted: 02:34 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 chris m
weeks***
Posted: 02:34 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
This game is over. A crazy phillies fan needs to assassinate Myers.
Posted: 02:34 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
huh. aaron miles profile pic on gamecast sorta looks like msnbc’s chuck todd.
Posted: 02:37 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
It has been the same story with both Myers and Eaton – pitch well enough to get a quality start but not good enough to dominate. It is almost like they wait for the offense to bail them out.
Posted: 02:37 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 chris m
our situational hitting wasnt good yesterday and it hasnt started off well. werth has to get that guy over to third. it didnt hurt us here but yesterday it cost us the game… miles did the job…nice start by the fat slob myers
Posted: 02:37 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
Memo to Myers – you suck
Posted: 02:38 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
Over/under 45 pitches in the first inning for Myers
Posted: 02:38 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
damnit myers.
Posted: 02:38 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 chris m
well id say myers leads the league in runs in the first inning
Posted: 02:41 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
Tim, what are the chances that during Myers starts you switch the gameday beer to a stiff whiskey?
Posted: 02:42 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
It’s possible, scot. It’s possible.
Posted: 02:44 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
How about gameday cyanide for Myers?
Posted: 02:44 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
If you’re drinking a stiff whiskey when Myers is starting that means there will be a lot of broken TV’s.
Posted: 02:45 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
I think Myers drinks before he starts
Posted: 02:46 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
Ya know, the thing with Myers, and maybe it’s just in my mind, but it seems when he gets hit he gets hit HARD. I mean you can look at a Kendrick box score after the game and see that he gave up 8 hits in 6 innings, and it doesn’t really seem like it was that many. But the amount of extra base hits Myers gives up is just extraordinary.
Posted: 02:50 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
I really do not know what it is with him – I think he is a real head case. I am just tired of his BS
Posted: 02:51 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 chris m
good job helping your own cause
Posted: 02:52 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
So glad he helped himself with getting the bunt down.
Posted: 02:52 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
Why can Moyer (who has been playing since the umpires first said ‘play ball’) can get bunts down but that fat slob can’t?
Posted: 02:53 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
This umpire is absolutely horrible.
Posted: 02:57 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
It’s because he’s a head case like you said Jason. Everyone keeps saying they want Burnett. He’s just as big of a head case as Myers. We don’t need another one of those in our starting rotation. Kendrick and Moyer are the epitome of what a pitcher should be if they let runs up or get guys on base. They have so much poise. Maybe Myers should stop thinking he’s a great pitcher and let Moyer teach him how to stop being a head case. Maybe it’ll help him to stop beating his wife too.
Posted: 03:01 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 chris m
i dont even think he has a hit yet..he might of got his first 1 in his last start
Posted: 03:01 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
i think Myers should get the Steve Jeltz award already and it’s only the bottom of the 2nd. I came outside for a smoke because I don’t even want to watch him pitch.
Posted: 03:02 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
The thing with Moyer and Kendrick is that they are not gifted (as far velocity is concerned) so they had to learn how to pitch. With Myers he wants to throw heat and ‘announce his presence with authority.’ And he has not developed
Posted: 03:04 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
Myers gives up a homer – there is something that does not happen often.
Posted: 03:08 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
at least florida is winning, and the mets are in the midst of a comeback. who wanted a stress free september anyway?
Posted: 03:08 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Moyer never had heat. From what I’ve read about him he was throwing 80 mph fastballs when he was 30. He just has a devastating change up and can confuse the hell out of batters. Myers has good breaking balls too. He needs to locate his fastball if he wants to throw it. If he doesn’t learn how to locate it he mine as well not even throw it.
Posted: 03:08 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
Tim – Open letter to Myers time?
Posted: 03:08 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
I quit smoking cigarettes a year ago, Scot, but I find myself buying a pack everytime Myers takes the mound(or when I go out to a bar.) haha I’m so sick of his shit, and it stresses me out. I don’t know why I get so worked up about it. It’s just a game and I’m cheering for a team I’m not even part of.
Posted: 03:09 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
I hate Myers even more than I hate Ryan Howard. Myers deserved the open letter more so than Howard.
Posted: 03:10 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
Phil, if i wasn’t in training for the Philly Marathon, I’d be right with you. Instead, I’m just waiting till I can get home from work (on a sunday) and drink down my last 3 dogfish head ipa’s in rather quick succession.
Posted: 03:11 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Matt
For all the good things that the Phillies have done this year, they really made a terrible decision bringing Myers back in the rotation this year. This year is too important not to admit their mistake and send him back there, what a shame. I’m sure Happ, Carasco or Mazonne could pitch better than this every 5 days.
Posted: 03:11 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Steve
somebody needs to put Myers out of his misery – it’s a sad day when Adam Eaton is more consistent and reliable.
Posted: 03:12 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
But Matt brinning in Lidge was one of the best moves the Phils have made in a long long time. If they kept Myers in the pen there would be no need for Lidge
Posted: 03:13 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
I would love to hear what Coste says about Myers’ stuff today. If he was throwing good pitches or not. Because in my view, he stinks today.
Posted: 03:14 PM on June 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
That’s it, I’m done with this guy. I gave him a chance, and this is what he does. He’s done – he’s terrible – get him off my team.
Posted: 03:15 PM on June 15, 2008