Gameday: Marlins (60-54) At Phillies (62-51)
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Thu, August 07, 2008 11:56 AM | Comments: 358
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Kyle Kendrick and the offense led a shutout of the Marlins, 5-0, Wednesday night. Today the Phillies wrap up the important three-gamer with the Fish with a Businessperson’s Special.
Cole Snap: Cole Hamels hasn’t won a game since early July. His last two starts are ones we’d like to write off — he gave up four runs in an inning to the Cardinals last time out (five total), losing to Kyle Lohse.
Can’t Do: Hamels should see better success against the Fish today, since the Marlins cannot hit him particularly well. Only Jorge Cantu (.375, 3 HR, 3 RBI) has hit him this season, but Cantu is hitless for the three-game series in Philly.
Another Welcoming Party: For the third straight game the Phils will face a Marlins pitcher making one of his first starts in 2008. Chris Volstad, making his fifth ever, has never faced the Phillies.
Vampires?: The Phillies are an ugly 14-20 in day games this season.
Phillies: Cole Hamels (9-7) 3.37 ERA
Marlins: Chris Volstad (2-2) 3.25 ERA
Gametime: 1:05 p.m. EST
Weather: 84, partly cloudy
Lineup: Rollins/Victorino/Utley/Howard/Burrell/Jenkins/Bruntlett/Ruiz/Hamels
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Your gameday beer: As I love my raspberry beers, I present to you Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock. A German beer, it’s brewed in Michigan. So you can find it in America. It’s a nice choice for a summer day such as this. Eat a nice garden salad while enjoying this fine sipper.
Go Phillies!
Posts: 0 Don M
Coste getting some playing time again…
Alright, im off to the game.. peace out
Posted: 12:01 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Asphincter
Seems like Chollie has given up on trying new lineups
Posted: 12:06 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Dave
“Drop Dead Fred(dy)”
Assistant general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said Wednesday that the Phillies aren’t interested in re-signing free agent Freddy Garcia after watching him work out in front of a dozen teams earlier this week.
“He’s got a ways to go,” Amaro said. “For us, I don’t think we believe that he’s a guy that could help us this year. He threw OK. The feeling is that he’s going to come back, but he probably couldn’t help us in September.”
Posted: 12:08 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 MA Phanatic
need a big game out of Hamels today, to put some of these injury questions aside for at least the next 4 days.
Posted: 12:10 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Hamels better pitch well or we’ll be in trouble. I have a horrible feeling he’s going to pitch a piss poor game and then go onto the DL.
Posted: 12:28 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 matt
“Vampires?: The Phillies are an ugly 14-20 in day games this season.”
Props to the brass for bringing back the blue hats. It really worked well last time…
Posted: 12:34 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
anyone have mlb.tv PREMIUM? is it worth it?
Posted: 12:39 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Paul
Yep, must be the hats.
Posted: 12:40 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Brian Giles was claimed by the Red Sox…at least it wasn’t the Muts. Where will they even find room for Giles in that stacked outfield?
Posted: 12:42 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike M.
Ruiz is starting instead of Coste.
Posted: 12:55 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Ruiz should start over Coste in a Hamels game. Ruiz calls a great game for Hamels, and when Hamels starts you typically don’t need as much run support.
Posted: 12:59 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
And so it begins…
Posted: 01:07 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
True, but Cole typically gets no run support.
Posted: 01:07 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
he’s definitely hurt.
Posted: 01:08 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 JJ23
Hey guys have some questions for you guys?? that ok
Posted: 01:08 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
Yeah I didn’t replace the lineup immediately. It’s fixed now.
Posted: 01:08 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Hamels’ fastball has some nice zip on it today.
Posted: 01:08 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Eb
Goddamn MLB TV package doesnt work because I live in NJ, therefore I can only listen to the game at work
Posted: 01:10 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 JJ23
I am going to my 1st phillies game with my fiance’ Aug. 22nd and we are staying 2 nights and may watch the game on sat. Is there anything we have to do in the bark or out of the part. I dont wanna miss anything. WE like to have fun and shes a HUGE baseball guy and she wants to know if any players are real-close with each other. like Best Friends. Do they seel the old scholl player shirts for todays plauers???
Posted: 01:10 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
I hate Wheeler.
Posted: 01:11 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
jj23, of course.
Posted: 01:11 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 JJ23
ok thanks Mike T. any suggestions???
Posted: 01:12 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
eb: first, go into your account, change your information to a different part of the country, let’s say texas. of course, leave your credit card info as it is, and tell the customer service rep that you’ve been down there for awhile and it has always worked, but for some reason today you’re blacked out. he/she will ask for the zip code, shoot some random texas zip code off, and then they should reset it for you.
Posted: 01:13 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 JJ23
Like best storep- best place to eat- to visit on are day off
We wanna go go the “ROCKY” steps thats a must and build my little niece a philly phantic
Posted: 01:13 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
JJ23, I had some serious trouble making sense of that post. All I got out of it is that your fiance is a “huge baseball guy.”
Posted: 01:14 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
sorry jj23, i have no idea what you’re asking, haha.
Posted: 01:14 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
wheelers gotta be the biggest dufus
Posted: 01:14 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
interesting..the red sox claimed giles
Posted: 01:15 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
sorry eb, i left out the 2nd step: call customer service.
Posted: 01:16 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 JJ23
I am going to my 1st phillies game with my fiance’ Aug. 22nd and we are staying 2 nights and may watch the game on sat. Is there anything we have to do in the bark or out of the park. I dont wanna miss anything. WE like to have fun and shes a HUGEfan and she wants to know if any players are real-close with each other. like Best Friends. Do they sell the old scholl player shirts for todays players???
Phil Says:
Posted: 01:16 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Why would you want to know which players are best friends?
Posted: 01:19 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
Way to swing first pitch after a four-pitch walk, Ryan.
Posted: 01:19 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 JJ23
sorry just had a minor procedure so im on a little meds.. I am just looking for things we can do when we get there. Is there something we must do or somewhere we must see??? WHo has the best stores to buy things?? I my niece wants a phily phantic, but we staying on Sat and dont know if we are going to the game yet and didn know if theres something around that will be good to see Thanks for your help
Posted: 01:19 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 JJ23
She wanted to get both of their shirts to wear for each game if go to both
Posted: 01:20 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
You can do the build-a-phanatic right in the park, so that takes care of that.
Posted: 01:21 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
hahahahaha Kalas is so old.
Posted: 01:21 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Yeah Tim…these hitters are just not fundamentally sound at all.
Posted: 01:22 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
those player shirts are like 40-50 bucks, those t-shirt number things.
Posted: 01:23 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
alright jj23, here it goes:
in the park – i suggest getting there as early as possible, around 2 hours before the game. go in through the outfield gates to Ashburn Alley, watch batting practice, walk around the stadium, etc. get some food at tony luke’s or bulls bbq. enjoy the game.
outside the park? – um, i dunno man, there are plenty of things to do in philadephia. kinda depends on where you’re staying or where you’d like to go.
are the players close? – i am friends with zero of the philadelphia phillies. not sure why your fiance wants to know that. someone else may have those answers for you.
shirts – you can get some 70′s/80′s style jersey t-shirts in the stadium. they’ll run you 25-30 bucks.
Posted: 01:23 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
hahaha “i am friends with zero of the philadelphia phillies.”
Posted: 01:25 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 JJ23
Thanks man for your ya we are staying in DOUBLE TRee..
I heard ROlins and Howard were tight and Howard lived with Jimmy b4
Posted: 01:26 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Something tells me we’re losing this one. I wish Feliz was at 3B. He woudlda had that.
Posted: 01:27 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 JJ23
I hear the place is awesome and can not wati to go.
Posted: 01:27 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 1650 Tim Malcolm
Matt Treanor? Cody Ross? Come on, Cole.
Posted: 01:28 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
T-Mac is killing the game because he wants to suck Kurt Angle’s dick.
Posted: 01:29 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
I absolutely feel the sexual tension there
Posted: 01:30 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
i hope english is not your primary language, because if it is, i wouldn’t call those “little meds”
Posted: 01:31 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Rob Cowie
Tim,
I sent you email to hit me up on AIM. Just get at me on my screen name – Mistaaah Cowie. I want to go over the itinerary that I reserved for the trip and all.
Posted: 01:32 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
our 6, 7 and 8 hole hitters are straight junk.
Posted: 01:32 PM on August 7, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
I think my favorite comment on here about T-Mac was someone called T-Mac a closet Mets fan, and someone responded with “Yea, he’s a closet somethin.” I laughed out loud on that one.
Posted: 01:32 PM on August 7, 2008