Phillies Nation

Where last friday it seemed like the whole team won, last night the whole team lost. Everyone contributed to the failure in one way or another. Not very convinced that Myers will perform well tonight but it appears he is running out of chances to. Even the official website is saying his spot in rotation is no longer safe.

We’ll see about this one tonight though. Somebody is bound to do something that gets this team rolling be it today or tomorrow, or next week sometime.

Amazingly, i don’t think Benson is the answer. His gruesome stats from his outing at single a…

Benson faced 13 batters, allowing five runs on three hits and two walks. He struck out three and surrendered three homers. While it wasn’t pretty, it was progress.

“He made progress, and that’s the important thing,” Phillies general manager Pat Gillick said. “He’s a little bit better than his last time out [in an extended spring training outing]. “His arm was OK. He has to have better control. If he’s going to pitch with the fastball that he had last night, he needs to have better control. But he’s improving.”

But hey, he made progress.

they need more than another starting pitcher now. i actually think they need to IMPROVE the lineup too. these guys just dont hit good pitchers. not all of these pitchers that get them are THAT good. theyre good.

this is a trend, not a freak event. you cant go out there against the american league and look feeble like that. against good pitching, thats what they become. feeble.

this has to stop tonight they need to demolish joe saunders, who is exactly the type of pitcher that they REALLY have problems with. remember lester last week? this guy is just as good. they need to stop the trend.

i hate the american league because of the DH. thats garbage to me. however, they are WAY beyond the national league. the royals sweeping the cardinals the rays over the cubs.

if brett myers doesnt get the job done tonight thats it. time to go to the bullpen.

im SICK of that guy sucking out there. ive had enough. im tired of arguing the fact that they have beyond inadequate pithcing. one starter might not even fix this. the lineup is way too inconsistent. they made santana work early a little but it wasnt enough and they didnt hit the bullpen at all. terrible performance.

bring dykstra back as a gm, he knows good risks and good investments when he sees them.

I posted this yesterday..

“Hey, did it occurred to anyone that Johan…. err… Ervin Santana was not only dominant tonight with electric stuff against the Phillies but he had the same kind of success against other clubs this season (9-3)?”

In deed , he is very, very good. That was the third time in the last ten starts he struck out nine. He now has two game completed starts (including a shutout). He lowered his ERA to 3.19. My point is give credit where credit is due. The 25 yr kid is on a roll and few if any teams (including Boston) would have done any better than the Phillies showed last night.

I hope Myers can turn it around tonight or its time to bring in Chad Durbin. I give credit to this guy. He just chills in the bullpen, never says anything and I would have been complaining to let me pitch especially with Myers and Eaton throwing Garbanzo beans every start. The Phillies need a pitcher and I hope that they get somebody good. Too bad we don’t have Kyle Loshe! He shut down the Red Sox. If we had him and then Hamels we maybe could have taken 2 outta three from the BoSox! F@#$ SCOTT BORAS!

What an ugly, ghastly game that was! Eaton looked like last year, Utley 0-23 and a bunch of strikeouts on the meat of the order. Brett Myers need to straighten it out.