Comments on: Gamenight: Phillies (64-53) At Dodgers (58-59)

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:56:26 +0000

Yeah, me too Geoff. I wanna see Lou Marson and Jason Donald rake.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:51:17 +0000

agree. USA baseball starts tomorrow at the olympics. i hope theyll air it instead of some of the other garbage theyve got on there.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:49:24 +0000

I’d much rather see this team lose 8-6 than 1-0. Anyone else agree?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:55:31 +0000

Keendrick got squeezed, plain and simple. Hes a location sinkerballer. He doesnt have the stuff to overcome being pinched at this point in his carreer. If you have to throw it over the middle of the plate in the happy zone to get a strike called, then youre going to get knocked around unless youre stuff is just plain filthy.

By: NJ

NJ — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:51:51 +0000

There’s positives to take out of last nights game, every pitchers going to get tagged once in a while but the offense responded and although we took the loss we worked the Dodgers pitching and made them pay for the win, in game 1 of the series thats good baseball if you can capitalise in games 2 and 3.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:51:35 +0000

Kendrick is the least of their problems. The NL East is just a garbage division, plain and simple. The Phillies have to win this division, its simply not that good at all. Thats exactly right, rob. The phillies have failed to capitalize on several strong performances from him this year, as well as ALL of their other starters. I estimate AT LEAST 12-18 wins have been squandered by the offense failling to score AT ALL for strong starting potiching performances.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:58:27 +0000

Ugly! Kendrick was real ugly, and so was Howard with that shift. He’s gotta hit to the left side of the infield.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:48:02 +0000

“Terrible starting pitching as usual”

I’d like to see evidence to back this statement up. As far as I can tell this was a rather unusual early blowup. Shouldn’t have squandered the consistent outings they’ve been getting all along. This is Kendrick’s like once every 4 starts blowup that keeps his era up there.

At least they managed to patch together some innings and manufacture runs, albeit too little too late.

The big boys are down and out right now. Get Howard and/or Burrell going pleaseeeee.

Good game by Utley and Rollins. Victorino showed some heart, but that middle lineup needs to extend rallys so the back end can flip over the lineup.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:54:45 +0000

4 #5′s Christian? Last time I checked a 3.81 ERA doesn’t constitute you as a #5 starter. Most #5 starters don’t pitch 7 scoreless innings with no run support. I could keep going if you’d like.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:52:50 +0000

Oh, I totally forgot to mention that the offense hit a very good bullpen tonight.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:51:52 +0000

To me this was one of those you can’t win them all games. Now that I have took a deep breath I’m not as upset about this loss. You really can’t win them all. The baseball season is a really long season. The offense did hit tonight, and that’s promising.

By: rob

rob — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:51:34 +0000

Is anybody willing to concede that the NL East just isn’t very good?

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:39:34 +0000

go eagles.

By: J-Man

J-Man — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:39:22 +0000

Agreed Christian Kendrick ain’t no good he usally just gets alot of run support…If Hamels got the run support Kendrick usally gets,he prolly wouldn’t have any losses.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:38:08 +0000

Phils bullpen is great, but there is nothing really to be “working” with our starting pitching. We have a pseudo-ace and four #5s.

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:36:54 +0000

Just another absurd night for a phillies fan. Game is “over” within the first 3 innings. Phillies crawl back only to lose in the end because of Ryan “Groundout” Howard. This team amazes me because they have the caliber to be the best team in the NL if everything was working at the same time. AKA Pitching and Hitting, not just one of the two.

By: J-Man

J-Man — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:33:49 +0000

Well this is how it usally goes,when the offense shows up,the pitching forgets to and when the pitching show up,the offense forgets to…The Phils pitching as usual is a fucking joke.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:32:49 +0000

Cmon man, enough about the damn ump. Kyle Kendrick sucks. Okay? – He sucks. If he didn’t average something absurd like 7 runs per game in run support in the first half, he’d have no wins. His WHIP is 1.52. 1.52!!! Kyle. Kendrick. Sucks.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:31:47 +0000

The Padres are awful. Then again, where they play – it aint no bandbox like Citizens Bank, where routine fly balls turn into homeruns, so I worry about our offense there. 4-3 is do-able, but they are looking like 2-5 right now.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:31:00 +0000

The ump tonight should be fired.