Gameday: Diamondbacks (47-47) At Phillies (51-44)
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Sun, July 13, 2008 12:27 PM | Comments: 124
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Today the first half of the 2008 season closes. The Phillies could find themselves in first place in the National League East, but they can also find themselves in second place. Or third place.
It’s maybe the best pitching matchup of the season so far with the Phils Cole Hamels going toe to toe with the Diamondbacks Brandon Webb. The former won’t be at the All-Star Game, so consider this a possible chip-on-shoulder game. Hamels’ 3.18 ERA is actually more impressive than Webb’s. Last time the righty faced the Phillies he threw a complete game, a two-earned run performance in Phoenix.
Phillies: Cole Hamels (9-6) 3.18 ERA
Diamondbacks: Brandon Webb (13-4) 3.27 ERA
Gametime: 1:35 p.m. EST
Weather: 87, mostly sunny
Lineup: Rollins/Victorino/Utley/Howard/Burrell/Jenkins/Feliz/Coste/Hamels
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Your gameday beer: Two of my favorite beer-related things: Sierra Nevada and wheat beer. They come together in this easy-sipping delight, Sierra Nevada Wheat Beer. Finished with French hops, this beer has only a 4.4 percent alcohol content. So you can have a few. Have a couple on this sunny day watching two of baseball’s best slinging their arms for the viewing public. Munch on some cheddar cheese and crackers while drinking.
Go Phillies!
Posts: 0 Greg V.
This one is totally up in the air! Should be a quality pitcher’s duel! I hope Hamels is ready for battle!
Posted: 12:31 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
Futures: Carrasco starting pitcher for the World team. Donald and Marson starting for USA, batting eighth and ninth.
Posted: 12:45 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Carrasco’s fastball and curveball are filthy.
Posted: 12:54 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
Just watched Carrasco’s inning. I liked what I saw. Normally I’d say he’s not quite ready but considering our current situation, I say bring him up!
Posted: 01:16 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
He isn’t ready, but he does look like Josh Beckett. Delivery, mechanics, movement on pitches. Marson just gunned down a guy at 2nd base. He has a fucking cannon. BRING HIM UP!!!
Posted: 01:19 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
I really like Marson. He’s very patient at the plate and has a good eye.
Posted: 01:25 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Truth Hurts
Attention Phillies…. Please move into the extreme right lane and prepare to be passed by a blue and orange bus.
Posted: 01:36 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Oh no, a Mets troll!
Marson is the fucking man.
Posted: 01:36 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Pat
Where were all these Mets guys the past couple months?
Posted: 01:38 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Crying in their parents basements because the Mets suck. Now that they’re winning they can troll on our site and talk about how great the Mets are. They are obviously huge losers if they have time to troll.
Posted: 01:39 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
The Phils have said they want Marson to complete the minor league season. If this guys as good as everything suggests lets keep him in Reading with an incredibly taleted team around him (and where Carrasco, Bastardo, Outman, Castro are pitching to him) where he can catch every day. Bring him up after the minor league season has ended by all means but lets focus on him winning the everyday job in ST.
Posted: 01:41 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
Not scoring first is really starting to piss me off.
Posted: 01:59 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
I missed it earlier. Did Carrasco only pitch the 1st?
Posted: 01:59 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
NJ – you left Myers off of your incredibly talented Reading team….
Posted: 02:00 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Hamels gets the incredibly dangerous Robby Hammock swinging. What a brave soul – Eaton was too scared to challenge him yesterday.
Posted: 02:03 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
Golson just struck out on 3 pitches, he looked athletic doing it though.
Posted: 02:06 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
Anyone else read the who to watch in the future’s game on espn.com? I do not know if the write up about the Phils’ prospects is encouraging, a bit disappointing, or honest….
Posted: 02:06 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
All Webb needs is a one-run lead — this game, my friends, is already over.
Posted: 02:10 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
I swear to God I want the Cubs’ and Rockies’ players to all get hurt in the ASG…Hamels got shafted again by freakin’ Marmol and his 4+ ERA and 3 saves, not to mention Burrell getting shafted by FUCK-o-dome and his stellar 5 or 7 homers (whatever pathetic number it is). Fans are idiots when it comes to voting, nice to see this year is no different. They’d vote for Cal Ripken at short if they still could.
Posted: 02:11 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
Phils prospects are always talked down in the same way the team are, if they were prospects in the central it would be a whole different story.
Posted: 02:16 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
Come on Chase! Don’t strand Shane on Figurine day!
Posted: 02:20 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
The team is talked down because they have won only one championship in their entire history with all of thos great players. Unbelievable.
Thats why they need to try and go all out this year, next year, and the year after with this group they have now. If they dont get a championship out of this core, then it will be pathetic.
Posted: 02:22 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
DAMNIT! Don’t tell me this is going to be a fucking 1-0 game where Hamels gets no run support!
Posted: 02:23 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
Chase hit the poop out of that one…
Posted: 02:23 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
Meanwhile, Webb just breaks a changeup on this team out of nowhere and they cant even sniff it right now against him.
Posted: 02:23 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
Hamels made a mistake, Webb hasnt yet.
Posted: 02:23 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
Wonderful
Posted: 02:30 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
2 run deficit now against Webb! Jesus Christ.
Posted: 02:30 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Cole is getting out dueled again
Posted: 02:35 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
A 2 run deficit against Webb is like a 10 run deficit against most other pitchers…nearly impossible to overcome
Posted: 02:37 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
We’re just giving up outs now, this teams playing like if there’s not an explosion of offense in the first then it’s not worth playing. Right now doesn’t mater i it’s Webb or Pinero out there, the Phils don’t deserve the credit of being called a team.
Posted: 02:38 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
What a sick double play that was!
Posted: 02:39 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
insteresting. the phillies set their rotation after the break for the florida series.
moyer
kendrick
hamels
this means that by the time the break is over, moyer will be the 4th starter, kendrick the 5th starter.
eaton will be DFA by then or moved out of the rotation. Basically, they are giving themselves until then to trade for a starter. I think theyll have something in place during the all star break, thus filling the number two slot. Then, the three slot will be filled either by Happ or Myers.
hamels
number 2
happ/myers
moyer
kendrick
thats a little bit better because moyer is a 4. so is kendrick though, so thats a solid back end.
i complain about moyer a lot, but its because he is a 4/5 at best at this point in his career becuase he throws junk. you cant have your old junkballer as your 2nd/3rd guy. thats insane.
so the second and third slots will be filled by next weekends series is over.
its definitely something to anticipate with both excitement and trepidation
Posted: 02:40 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
My problem is, it looks like every batter is trying to be a hero and hit one out of the park! These guys can’t manufacture runs to save their lives!
Posted: 02:41 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 MS
It is funny that everyone thinks the mets are hot right now. They beat a struggling phils team and a terrible giants team. If the were really hot they would have passed the phils 2 weeks ago. Pedro blows.
Posted: 02:44 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
That’s one way of putting it on both fronts there…
Posted: 02:47 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
Yeah Hamels! Way to help yourself and your team!
Posted: 02:47 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
No they cant. Theyre so tight and wound up its crazy. If theyre going to play like this down the stretch then just keep utley howard rollins and blow up the rest of the current lineup. If you cant manufacture runs and play like professionals then you dont deserve to be called a contender. If youre not a contender, then youre a seller at the deadline.
This team needs to relax and recollect themselves during the break.
This is the most immature, impatient baseball team ive ever seen. Please trade shane victorino, he is an immature jackass. Without Aaron Rowands patient influence in the lineup its reverted to shane victorinos immaturity and…
HOLY SHIT cole hamels RBI double!
Posted: 02:47 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 NC Jason
NICE HAMELS!
On the radio LA just said ‘Manuel going with a hit-and-run with one of hi best hitter in the line-up’
I do not know whether to laugh or cry with that comment
Posted: 02:48 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Time to K the heart of our order again.
Posted: 02:48 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Hey! How about that!? Maybe Hamels should sit the hitters down and coach them…
Posted: 02:48 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
ok, now lets manufacture a run here.
get cole hamels home now. SHANE, its on you now.
Posted: 02:49 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Can Utley
Come through
Please
2 for last 26 with runners in scoring position.
Please
Posted: 02:49 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
Why do you say that about Vic?
Posted: 02:49 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
ok shane, just dont hit GIDP. i wont even be mad at you if you K here.
Posted: 02:50 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
victorino is a clown. i feel like in the absence of aaron rowand they have taken to this clowns personality.
aaron rowand was a professional in every sense of the word. the team took on his personality last year. they had heart and fight. i realy havent seen a whole lot of heart, discipline, and fight out of them this year.
they coasted by on talent alone in the first half and its caught up to them now.
chase should drive a run in here.
Posted: 02:52 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Utley is baffled by Webb
Posted: 02:53 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Hamels is our best hitter
Posted: 02:55 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 christopher
who cares what type of pitches he throws if he’s winning you games? of all the things to complain about this season, the fact that anyone is picking jamie moyer is mind blowing.
Posted: 02:59 PM on July 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
carlos carrasco does remind me of josh beckett
Posted: 03:01 PM on July 13, 2008