Gamenight: Phillies (58-49) At Nationals (38-69)
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Thu, July 31, 2008 05:39 PM | Comments: 105
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Back to actual baseball — the Phillies will attempt a sweep of the Nationals tonight..
Ultimate Weapon?: Our Vic — Shane Victorino — just ended a sweet July. He went .327 with 7 HR and 17 RBI during the month.
Wash Them Win: After starting 1-3 against the Nationals, the Phils ahave won four straight against them.
Back At The Top: The Phillies will attempt to hold onto first place tonight.
Phillies: Kyle Kendrick (8-5) 4.70 ERA
Nationals: John Lannan (6-10) 3.33 ERA
Gametime: 7:10 p.m. EST
Weather: 83, cloudy
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Your gamenight beer: So the Phillies didn’t make a deal. Well, I’ll have more about this later. But for now, enjoy a Fuller’s London Pride, an English pale ale. Sure, maybe we don’t have the prospects or the money necessary to do explosive things at the deadline, but we have our beer, and that’s what counts, right? For dinner, have some red curry chicken and basatmi rice.
Go Phillies!
Posts: 0 NEPA
After a disappointing day, it’s gonna be nice to sit back and watch the Phils complete this sweep. I’ll be having some Yuengling with a pulled pork sandwich. I feel Howard going deep tonight, he’s due for one. Phils win 6-4.
Posted: 05:43 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Paul
Yes… we still have beer! Amen! Go Phils!
Posted: 05:53 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 ped
A 15-10 record in July ain’t bad. Go Phils.
ps. Can’t wait til Ryan Howard dominates in St. Louis like he always does.
Posted: 06:08 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Josh
I believe it’s spelled “basmati”. Now I’m gonna have to go get some Indian food. Go Phils!
Posted: 06:14 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 fred
Big win today, with Howard exploding for 2 HR’s. Get the brooms ready !
Posted: 06:19 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
I’m hoping for a big start for Kendrick against a terrible lineup. I have a bad feeling about this one for some reason….
Posted: 06:43 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
NEPA, that sounds tasty. Nothing like a delicious ice cold Yuengling to wash that tasty sandwich down (Pulp Fiction pun intended). Do me a favor and put a little BBQ sauce on that bad boy…I’m going to live vicariously through you tonight!
Posted: 06:48 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
I’m kicking it old school style with a Papa Murphy’s pizza and a case of Blue Moon. The wife can cater to me, as well…
Posted: 06:49 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Gary B
Im smelling a Phillies sweep! Kendrick got robbed of a quality start agains the Braves, lets hope they give him some run support tonight! Chase makes it three games in a row!
Posted: 06:50 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Haha, already done Jamie. I threw some of Greg “The Bull” Luzinski’s BBQ sauce on it in celebration of the Phils little win streak.
Posted: 06:53 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Dom M
Corona in the fridge.. and some NY strip steaks ….might as well throw them on the grill and make a night of it..
Shane Victorino back-to-back Ashburn Awards!
Posted: 06:54 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Dom M
Is that sauce any good?? Is the wild thing mitch williams salsa any good?
Im a SWEET BABY RAYS BBQ guy now…stuff is amazing
Posted: 06:58 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
haha, I put sweet baby ray’s on my other pork BBQ. Both sauces are good, but ray’s is better.
Posted: 07:02 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 VK
Haha, I love how we are talking about food here and barely the game…GO PHILLIES!!! METS SUCK!!!
Posted: 07:04 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
we made make one good move today… not going after arthur rhodes and letting the marlins pick him up. great move.
Posted: 07:05 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Haha, good point VK. But food and beer is a part of the entire baseball watching experience. They go hand in hand. The fact that I pounded the food a solid hour before the first pitch is beside the point.
Posted: 07:06 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
See, I knew we shoulda traded Burrell for Manny.
No way Manny makes an out! HAHAHAHA
Posted: 07:18 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
NEPA, well done my friend. I tried Ray’s on some chicken last week for the first time and must say it’s pretty darn good stuff.
Posted: 07:26 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Nice, Werth. That ball was ripped.
Posted: 07:29 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Man, Ruiz should play against the Nats every day.
Posted: 07:31 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Paul
Geez, another hit for Ruiz! What’s going on?!
Posted: 07:31 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Ruiz: Man or T-1000?
Posted: 07:32 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
It’s called hell freezing over.
Posted: 07:32 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
I guess the “Hunt for .200″ starring Carlos Ruiz is officially out of production. Damn..
Posted: 07:33 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
See Geoff, they tried to do a 3 team deal, but couldn’t get the third team to go for it. We would have received a starter.
Posted: 07:34 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 christopher
great bunt by kendrick to set up the rbi for jroll. good start to the game.
Posted: 07:34 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
oh man, I wish we could play this team everyday.
The Nats announcers are THE worst in all of baseball. For those of us who have to watch the games on the computer, it’s sheer torture to listen to them.
What are the odds that the worst team in baseball has the worst announcers in baseball?
Posted: 07:38 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Pat
Griffin, if you think that’s bad, you should have heard HK saying Vic made it to third… is this guy going senile or something?
Posted: 07:40 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 TJ
I like the way this has started, small ball wins games!
Posted: 07:40 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Griffin, I especially enjoy Sutton’s little insights that we know he thinks are special. Doesn’t the whole Nats broadcast seem like a high school production?
Posted: 07:42 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Nice start. KK needs to keep the ball down and the offense needs to keep rakin’.
Posted: 07:43 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Joe
Doug Glanville had an OpEd in the New York Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/opinion/31glanville-online.html?scp=6&sq=glanville&st=cse&pagewanted=all
Posted: 07:44 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Paul
I actually don’t think the Nats guys are bad. I’d much rather listen to them than some other teams… the Astros come to mind as a team with brutal announcers.
Posted: 07:44 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
danny, I’m listening to the game on the computer. I’m curious to listen to the Nats announcers – are you listening on radio or TV? I want to get the full experience.
Posted: 07:46 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 TJ
That isnt a half bad article by Glanville. I liked him as a player too
Posted: 07:48 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 TJ
How’d you stumble upon this? NY Times? Mets Fan. Kidding.
Posted: 07:50 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
That run was Bruntlett’s fault, he should’ve been on the bag and they would’ve nailed that runner on third. What a crap run that was.
Posted: 07:50 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Rob Cowie
Harry Kalas can say that Chuck Klein hit a triple in today’s game, I wouldn’t care. His greatness makes him immune to any gripes on accuracy.
Posted: 07:51 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
The biggest “homer” announcers are the White Sox by far. With Hawk Harrelson and company. They’re at least entertaining unlike…
Sutton, who got dumped by the Braves and now is stuck doing the crappy Nats. Their play by play guy is just terrible.
Posted: 07:53 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
I absoltely hate Hawk Harrelson and that faggy “YEEEESSSS” bullshit he does after home runs. Absolutely makes me cringe. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his privates.
Posted: 07:56 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
“put it on the booooooooard….YES!”
yeah, it’s a little over the top. They openly root for the Sox. “Come on big Jim” when Thome is up.
Posted: 08:05 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Is it just me, or is KK throwing way too many pitches tonight? At this pace, he’ll be lucky to get through 6.
Posted: 08:06 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Rob
An EYE FOR AN EYE. Hit the Nats best player on the hand… good job KK.
Anyone see how deathly afraid Lannan is everytime Flores sets up inside on Utley? He missed his inside spot on Utley at least 3 times in a row and all of em were juuuuust a bit outside (if you know what I’m sayin).
Posted: 08:11 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
typical Kendrick. We need to score at least 6 or 7 tonight.
Posted: 08:12 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Well that was a freebie. Weird play.
Posted: 08:17 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
right now the Nats announcers are interviewing Ryan Langerhans dad. How’d they book that spot, he’s impossible to get!!
The best part about the interview is that you can’t hear Langerhans’s dad at all. You just hear the announcers verbally fellate his son and then dead silence for 20 seconds.
High comedy
Posted: 08:17 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
yes!!!
Posted: 08:18 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
There’s that fucking bum J-Roll hitting a home run again. Prick. Get him off the roster!
Posted: 08:18 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 Gary B
Rollins baby. This is what we need, everybodys swinging the bat! Oh yeah!
Posted: 08:18 PM on July 31, 2008
Posts: 0 TJ
Jimmy Rollins… home run? Yes.
Posted: 08:18 PM on July 31, 2008