Phillies and Fans Sweep Washington
Posted by Brian Michael, Fri, August 01, 2008 01:34 AM | Comments: 13
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Well, there’s nothing like a series against the worst team in baseball to get a club back on solid footing; after a sweep of the Nats, the Phils have reclaimed first place by a full game. All though the opponent was subpar, the games this week were all quite enjoyable. This is mostly due to the fact that Phillies fans turned Washington, DC into Greater South Philly as they came out in droves to fill Nationals Park. Without exaggeration, between one-third and one-half of the fans were rooting for the Phils. It was great to see the Nation make its presence felt.
Here are a few shots from Thursday night’s game:
Posts: 0 Amanda
i was at wednsdays game, it was really like full of phillies fans, and after we won as we were walking to the metro people outside were playing the rocky theme song haha, kinda sad for the nats when u have no fans
Posted: 01:47 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Sam
Yeah, but to be fair, I can’t think of many teams who are gonna be coming out in flocks to see if their team can get to that elusive 50th win before the season is over. They’re on pace to lose 110 right now.
Posted: 01:56 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Here’s a question. How many of the Nats wins are against the NL East? The Nats compete in their own division for some weird reason.
Posted: 01:58 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Mark
Way to go Phils! A sweep in St. Louis would also be sweet. Great to see the Flyin’ Hawaiian still in Philly after the trade deadline!
Posted: 02:15 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Steve
I don’t think it’s just the quality of the team that explains why Nationals fans appear to be few and far between, remember that this franchise is only a few years old now. Most DC area people have grown up as Orioles fans, and it doesn’t help that their team is abysmal. I think people have still been coming out just to see the new ballpark, but that will fade in time as well. It will be a while before they establish a real fanbase, they’ll probably need a few winning seasons to do so.
Posted: 06:34 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Space Mutley
As of July 31:
Last year: 106 games: 56-50 0.528 3 games back of Mets
This year: 108 games: 59-49 0.546 1 game up in first over Mets
Considering the horrible June our Phillies had, this is pretty amazing. It looks as though Chase and Jimmy are coming back into their game and our schedule is favorable. The Phillies will win the NL East. Beyond that, I do not think they will go very far unless everyone on the offense gets red hot all at once.
GO PHILLIES!!!!
Posted: 07:25 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
It was good to see a usually lifeless Utley stare down Colome after getting hit in the hip – of all places.
Posted: 08:42 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Mike T. can you find video of that for me please?
Posted: 09:00 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
Phil, if you have an mlb.tv subscription, you can definitely watch it on there. Normally I could bootleg a clip or something, but I don’t have any of that software at work. I could try later this weekend.
Posted: 09:03 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Yeah, I’m just curious. It would be nice to see Utley glaring someone down. Normally he wouldn’t do anything about it.
Posted: 09:06 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike T.
it was only for about 2 seconds.
Posted: 09:10 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Probably not worth it then.
Posted: 09:11 AM on August 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Doug
I’ve seen several different references on these postings at various times about the Nats rising to the occasion against the NL East. So, I thought it was time to investigate.
This season their record against the NL East is 16-25, against the remainder of the NL is 14-35, and in interleague play is 8-10. So, it seems that interleague has been their most successful winning percentage at 0.444, followed by NL East at 0.390, and they are at their worst against the rest of the NL (0.286). They’d actually have an even better NL East record if they weren’t 2-10 against the Marlins. They have a winning record against the Braves (7-4) and are 4-5 and 3-6 against the Mets and us, respectively.
On the other hand, the Phillies are 24-19 in the NL East and 31-19 against the rest of the NL. They’re 0.558 in their division vs. 0.620 against the other NL divisions. At least their NL East record isn’t as bad as their interleague (0.267) Thank god they’re 10-2 against the Braves. If you exclude the Braves, they’re 14-17 against the Marlins, Mets and Nats. Ugh!
Let’s hope they get up for their meeting with the Marlins next week and all the NL East matchups in September!
Posted: 10:19 AM on August 1, 2008