Gameday: Phillies (53-44) At Marlins (50-46)
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Sat, July 19, 2008 02:40 PM | Comments: 63
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Jamie Moyer moved to 10-0 against the Marlins and the Phillies moved to 12-4 on Fridays with a big 4-2 win. They’re back alone in first place.
Of course, the Phils are 11-4 on Saturdays. Ouch. But today Kyle Kendrick goes to the hill to face the Fish. He’s 8-3 this season, and the Phils win a lot when he pitches. Here’s hoping that happens again.
They’ll have to do it against Florida starter Scott Olsen. The lefty is 5-4 with a 3.77 ERA this season, and loves facing the Phils. Today’s game is FOX’s Game of the Week, so the whole country will be watching the Phils. Well, almost the whole country. New Englanders will get blacked out watching the Red Sox.
Phillies: Kyle Kendrick (8-3) 4.47 ERA
Marlins: Scott Olsen (5-4) 3.77 ERA
Gametime: 3:55 p.m. EST
Weather: 89, sun, storms
TV: FOX
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Your gamenight beer: Back to Sam Adams, and it’s time for an Irish Red. Like many Irish reds, it’s full-bodied and not a bad sipper. Usually a good beer around September, I’m bringing this one in early, as this weekend resembles the kind of September baseball required out of great teams. Let the September play continue.
Go Phillies!
Posts: 0 Mike W.
Here in nyc we also get blacked out. What a GD joke.
Also, I’m sure this has been pointed out (but i haven’t been able to read for a while), but Manuel’s complete jerkoff decision to wait til tomorrow for Cole, means he wont face the mets.
Posted: 03:06 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 chris m
tailgaiting it. Duck the marlins
Posted: 03:20 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Brian G.
Let’s do this.
Posted: 03:37 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
I feel a big day is in store for Burrell. We need a good 6 or 7 from KK, with 3 or less allowed. Go Phils!
Posted: 03:56 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Whoa, Cantu didn’t make an error.
Posted: 03:59 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Victorino shoulda bunted there.
Posted: 04:01 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
yeah, in NYC we’re blacked out. sucks. Also, Mike W., we’ve been wondering why Hamels didn’t pitch yesterday and can’t figure it out. Truly idiotic.
Posted: 04:12 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
These announcers are so dumb that they’re making my brain hurt. Kendrick’s looking good. Shoulda been a 1-2-3 inning, but Feliz didn’t feel like getting dirty.
Posted: 04:14 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Matt
Yeah, Phil – Dick Stockton has no business doing baseball, he needs a better color man than McCarver to help him out.
Not starting Cole yesterday (so he faces the mets on Wednesday) really says a lot about his psyche.
Posted: 04:15 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Good call Jamie. Let’s see if Werth can get it done.
Posted: 04:18 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Matt
Howard may be able to hit homeruns, but he has below average baseball IQ.
Posted: 04:21 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
is it just me or do the Phillies seem to always run on contact from third base? They just seem to get a ton of runners thrown out on infield grounders
Posted: 04:22 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 sean
finally cantu does something to help us other then crush our pitching
Posted: 04:23 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
How clutch would a 2 run single be here for KK?
Posted: 04:25 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
who is the dipshit announcer taking Anderson’s place today? He sucks like a Met fan
Posted: 04:28 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Matt
What a waste of an inning. I can’t believe that with 0 outs, and runners on second and third, they couldn’t hit one ball out of the IF.
Posted: 04:30 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Ugh. We could really have used more than one there. What a waste.
Posted: 04:30 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
That shit pisses me off. We shoulda gotten 5 runs that inning. Rollins is a fucking choke artist this year.
Posted: 04:32 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
that totally sucked. Since the game is blacked out for me, I was wondering if the plays at the plate were bad running plays or great defensive plays or what?
Posted: 04:33 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Coste has been choking Ruiz style lately.
Posted: 04:33 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Oh, they were horrible running blunders. Howard should have trampled their catcher. He would have ran into him so hard that he’d fly into the fucking stands.
Posted: 04:34 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Look, the Marlins can capitalize with men on base, but we can’t. This is fucking retarded. I’m about to turn the game off already.
Posted: 04:36 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Matt
Phil – But then he might have injured his shoulder and he wouldn’t have been able to make $13M next year.
Posted: 04:36 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Wow, is Kendrick the new Eaton? WTF!
Posted: 04:37 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Matt
Time to get Eaton up…
Posted: 04:37 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Fuck. That hurt. John Baker of all people. Later in the game, we’ll see Frank Poncherello homer.
Posted: 04:37 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
haha probably true Matt.
Posted: 04:37 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
This game is lost.
Posted: 04:38 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Matt
After thinking about it for a few minutes, in all fairness to Howard, there’s only 2 Phillies that I can think of that would have bowled over Baker in that situation : Utley, and Victorino.
Posted: 04:42 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
haha probably true Matt. Maybe Burrell if he was in the mood. Huge throw by Burrell btw. Kendrick needs to step it up and not let up any runs the rest of his outing.
Posted: 04:46 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Chris L
Bruntlett and Jenkins would have also run him over. Not sure about the Coste but the team and the league in general have a ton of pretty boys
Posted: 04:46 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
As soon as the Muts fans figure out we’re down by 2 they’ll come out of the wood work and start talking shit on the blog.
Posted: 04:47 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
No shit Phil. I hate them even more.
Posted: 04:50 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
YEAH UTLEY!!!
Posted: 04:52 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
The trolls might be waiting to see if they win and we lose before they jump on our blog to talk shit.
Posted: 04:52 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Man, if he would have gotten his bat about 1 inch more under that ball it woulda been gone.
Posted: 04:53 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
God dammit. I’m sick of these douche bags not being able to situationally hit. They deserve to lose this game.
Posted: 04:55 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 christopher
nice work from pedro and coste. one run game.
Posted: 05:08 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 christopher
and now tied! very nice inning.
Posted: 05:13 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 christopher
werth sure isn’t looking like an everyday player this game.
Posted: 05:16 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
that’s a great point about guys on this team who would run over the catcher. Howard and Burrell definitely not. Utley, Victorino and Bruntlett yes. I don’t know enough about Jenkins (he hasn’t gotten on base since May). I think Coste yes and Ruiz yes. What about Werth, he seems like the kind of guy who would. Rollins is too slight.
On another note, Josh Beckett is filthy. And since Eric Karros is the color man for this game, I can only imagine that you guys are getting McCarvered.
Posted: 05:20 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
yes, Pat!
Posted: 05:28 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Way to pull an Eaton, Kendrick.
Posted: 05:35 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Wow Kendrick…how does it feel to be back to having over a 5.00 ERA? I’m sure it will be.
Posted: 05:38 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
You know what, maybe this isn’t Kendrick’s fault. Ruiz makes his pitchers SO much better.
Posted: 05:40 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Thom
I think kendrick hit the wall of innings its more then his total last year so he hit the wall.
Posted: 05:42 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
No, he just sucked the big Eaton cock today, like a Muts fan. He hasn’t had this bad of a start since his 2nd this year. Maybe Pat will rescue us yet – we’re only down by 3, and there’s a few innings to go.
Posted: 05:50 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Thom
no one can do as bad as eaton.
Posted: 05:52 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Gavin
How do you think Eaton will do in that situation? That will be his role when Condrey gets sent out. He pitches his ass off. I’m not saying he’s the next Lidge for God’s sake, but he is a solid long reliever.
Eaton would have thrown 25 pitches in 1/3 of an inning and then rolled his eyes when they ripped his tits.
His quote after he pitches 1/3 of an inning in relief, ” I just have to figure out how to stay out of the big inning.” No shit.
Posted: 06:13 PM on July 19, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
These announcers are the worst of all time. All they’ve done this whole game is talk about other teams. They’ve gotten players names wrong too. It’s horrible. How are they allowed to announce a major league game?
Posted: 07:02 PM on July 19, 2008