Gamenight: Cardinals (51-40) At Phillies (48-43)
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Wed, July 09, 2008 06:02 PM | Comments: 275
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First off, VOTE BURRELL.
Next, this team needs a win. Bad. And the offense needs to score. Bad. We’ve seen far too much of this pressing, pushing crap this team is doing. No more weak groundouts to start the game. No more 1-2-3 first innings. No more stranding a runner on second with no outs, or stranding a runner on third with one out. No more horrible Ryan Howard strikeouts on a low-and-away slider. No more Carlos Ruiz double plays. No more Jayson Werth strikeouts. No more fly balls to the outfield by Shane Victorino.
No. No more of any of that. The Phils will have to hit off Mark Mulder, making his first start since September. And they’d better. There’s really no excuse.
The Phils counter with JA Happ, who pitched well enough to earn an ovation last time out against the Mets. That was, of course, the team’s last win.
Phillies: JA Happ (0-0) 3.86 ERA
Cardinals: Mark Mulder (0-0) 13.50 ERA
Gametime: 7:05 p.m. EST
Weather: 82, scattered storms
Lineup: Rollins/Victorino/Utley/Howard/Burrell/Werth/Feliz/Ruiz/Happ
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Your gamenight beer: Salvation, please! The offense needs to wake up and see the err of its ways. Tonight, pop open a Salvation, a peachy, amber kind of beer that is sweet to the touch. It better be the magic elixir this team needs. If not, is there anything this team can do?
Go Phillies!
Posts: 0 Geoff
pete happy!
Posted: 10:44 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Keith
way to go Pete happy
Posted: 10:44 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
That’s fine Joshua, and you’d take Delgado over him you tool?
Posted: 10:44 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 MIKE FLO
just like yanks teams of years past…will hit tons of homeruns now in the regular season and then come the playoffs against good pitching it will be one series and done
Posted: 10:44 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
Fuck you Joshua. Haven’t you ever made a typo?
Posted: 10:44 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
hack wilson holds the mlb single season rbi record with 191. wow. in like the 30s.
Posted: 10:45 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike W.
How many times in history has a player led a league in home runs and RBI by the all star break, and not been an all star?
Posted: 10:46 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Probably 0, but Berkman is having a monster year, and Pujols is the best player in the NL. You can’t really argue that. Pads need a representative too, that’s why Gonzales made it over Howard.
Posted: 10:47 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
for a long time it was 190… Not long back a baseball fanatic found another RBI for Hack to take it up to 191
Posted: 10:47 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
thats an impressive record 191 rbi in one year. 80 rbi is a lot for july and hes on pace for likk 140-150 rbi is he keeps up the pace.
but 191? damn.
Posted: 10:47 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
nice. thye foun d another one. lou gehrig is next with 184
Posted: 10:49 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 MIKE FLO
No gonzalez made it bc hes batting 281 with 22 homeruns and 70 rbis…..not batting a shitty 220. like howard
Posted: 10:49 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Joshua
well, howard IS on pace to strike out 200 times he already has the record for season high K’s and he is on pace to beat that.
Delgado, I don’t like him, however. He went 3-4 tonite, 2-3 yesterday, 2-5 the day before (against the phils), 1-5 w/ walk, the day before that, and 2-5 the day before that..actually if you been watching the mets lately, it looks like he’s been warming up himself.
Posted: 10:50 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
mike w, howard is not an all star cause none of his rbi’s are in late and close games, and he’s a terrible “situation” hitter. oh, and anyone could have howard’s rbi totals in this lineup. that’s why.
Posted: 10:50 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
That .281 avg would be nice if he had a guy like Burrell batting behind him and not someone shitty like Khalil Green or whoever it might be.
Posted: 10:50 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
What an at bat by Schumaker, Holy Schnikes
Posted: 10:51 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
Gonzo made it as a Padre was needed, rules are rules
Posted: 10:51 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Um, how is Howard a terrible situational hitter? A .350 BA with 2 outs and RISP isn’t situational? I would like to see how many of them are singles too.
Posted: 10:52 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 MIKE FLO
that makes no sense Phil….By what your saying then teams would just pitch around Gonzalez and pitch to shitty khalil green…
Posted: 10:52 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Keith
Hey Howard is batting 230 now and has a 12 game hitting streak best all year and another thing I just looked at is he does have a higher strike out % with nobody on base then runners on and with RISP and 2 out batting 345
Posted: 10:52 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
I would love to see Lidge strike out Pujols so bad.
Posted: 10:53 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike W.
Hey A-holes, go back and look at my post. At what point did I say Howard should be an all star?? Never. I’m just saying we might be witnessing the first time in history this situation has come up.
Posted: 10:53 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Keith it was .345 going into tonights game. I’m sure it’s around .350 now.
Posted: 10:53 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 558 Brian Michael
good enough
Posted: 10:54 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
haha take that Pujols.
Posted: 10:54 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
I so didn’t need to see a clip of that home run!
Posted: 10:54 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Keith
yea probably cuz he did that get that one RBI single with 2 out
Posted: 10:54 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
i was being sarcastic, if it makes you feel better mike.
Posted: 10:55 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Lidge is so nasty, I love that he comes up and in on Glaus, frickin sweet!
Posted: 10:56 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
How are people still hating on Howard? He’s been the only guy doing anything in this line up for the past couple of weeks.
Posted: 10:56 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
he has 80 rbis he isnt even a problem right now. there are so many more pressing needs for this team.
Posted: 10:57 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
and hes tied for NL lead in HRs like hes supposed to be
Posted: 10:58 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
it’s philly fans, phil. your guess is as good as mine.
Posted: 10:58 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
Howard takes slack because a guy of that calibre needs to be a leader and he pure and simple hasn’t been.
Posted: 10:58 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Pujols is a hell of a story.
Posted: 10:58 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
I understand he is the most one dimensional player ever, but give the guy a break. He’s had to have had close to 40 RBI’s in the past month.
Posted: 10:59 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Keith
yea he is hitting like 340 so far in july and slugging 700
Posted: 10:59 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Howard isn’t a leader type. He gets paid to drive in runs and that’s it.
Posted: 11:00 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
look at that patience and that at bat by glaus. if rolllins and victorino did this wed be 8 games up right now.
Posted: 11:00 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
People hate on Howard because they want him to be Pujols
Posted: 11:00 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Keith
34 RBIs since June 8th
Posted: 11:00 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Hahaha Geoff, you’re so right! Instead Rollins and Vic hit like Ankiel.
Posted: 11:01 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Told you close to 40…34 RBI’s in a month is ridiculous.
Posted: 11:01 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Keith
Lidge should just keep throwing them those sliders in the dirt
Posted: 11:01 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
YES!!!
Posted: 11:01 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
Your the man Lidge! Gotta love that slider!
Posted: 11:02 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
yes. ankiel looked silly.
Posted: 11:02 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 scot
hot damn.
Posted: 11:02 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg V.
Oh I’m sorry, if that prick Joshua is watching, I meant “You’re the man Lidge”
Posted: 11:02 PM on July 9, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
so JA Happ is the stopper here this time around…
Posted: 11:03 PM on July 9, 2008