Gameday: Marlins (73-72) At Phillies (79-66)
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Wed, September 10, 2008 03:03 PM | Comments: 189
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Headline: Gunning for series win, Phils turn to Myers
The Major Players: Brett Myers, Chris Coste, Jayson Werth, Chase Utley, Ricky Nolasco, Mike Jacobs, Dallas McPherson, Luis Gonzalez
The Venue: Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pa.
The Number: 2.5 games behind (Mets)
Brett Myers takes the hill for this evening contest, which the Phillies need to win to keep pace with the Mets in the NL East. With their loss yesterday, the Phils are now 2.5 games behind New York and three behind the Brewers for the Wild Card.
Oh, Ricky: In 19.2 innings this season, Ricky Nolasco has a 2.75 ERA against the Phillies.
Chump Chase: Chase Utley is hitting just .233 in “late-and-close” situations, and .210 in “high leverage” situations.
A Lorimar Production: Marlins’ third baseman Dallas McPherson, who hit 42 home runs in the minors this season, is getting his second start of the season today.
Phillies: Brett Myers (11-8) 5.06 ERA
Marlins: Ricky Nolasco (13-7) 3.56 ERA
Gametime: 4:05 p.m. EST
Weather: 74, sunny
Lineup: Rollins/Werth/Utley/Howard/Burrell/Victorino/Dobbs/Coste/Myers
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Your gameday beer: Cheating because this is a January-March seasonal, but Buzzsaw Brown Ale fromthe Deschutes Brewing Co. is our beer choice today. Nutty like most browns, it froths well and goes down with class. Browns are good in the beginning of spring, but also in the middle of fall. So it’s not unlikely to go brown today. Eat a barbecue chicken sandwich with this offering.
Go Phillies!
Posts: 0 CT
jeltz for the offense
Posted: 06:31 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
agreed-can’t get more than 3 runs for Myers, pitiful.
Posted: 06:33 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg B
after the tie Phils:10 ABs, 10 outs. What inspired play.
Posted: 06:34 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 CT
i have a bad feeling about this…
Posted: 06:36 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg B
Ugh. la.
Posted: 06:36 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Fred
Nice job Romero.
Posted: 06:36 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
Don M , can I borrow your rose-colored glasses for the rest of the game?
Posted: 06:36 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 MARLINS FAN
AND HIS NAME IS DAAAAAN UGGLAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 06:37 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Choke Utley
always next year
Posted: 06:37 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
there goes the season, its over
Posted: 06:37 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 CT
i have this sinking feeling in my gut that’s saying the season’s over
Posted: 06:37 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg B
welp. Maybe this will wake the Fightin’s up and they will sweep the Brewers. Outlook is pretty bleak if they don’t.
Posted: 06:37 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Evan
This is just great
Posted: 06:38 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 MARLINS FAN
Don’t worry, there’s still a chance for you guys. The Mets might go 5-12 over their last 17 like they did last year.
Posted: 06:38 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
They’ve given up.
Posted: 06:40 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Choke Utley
this team sucks
Posted: 06:40 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Evan
Can someone please shoot JC Romero for me?
Posted: 06:41 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 MARLINS FAN
I thought you guys were supposed to have the best bullpen in the NL or something? Even the Mets bullpen has done better than this! HA! Don’t count the fish out. They are still hungry!
Posted: 06:42 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Biggest game of the next week has now become Eagles/Cowboys.
Posted: 06:42 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 SJ Mike
What is it with the Marlins and killing our playoff hopes in September yearly?
Posted: 06:43 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
Well it might be time for the Phils to gracely conceed the division and give some of the kids some playing time. Have to give it to the Mets, they’ve had it far worse than the Phils have for much of the season but there at the top no-one can be blamed but the players, the coaches and the front office if they genuinely feel they should have won.
Posted: 06:45 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 rivlez
this is a really bad loss, nolasco is a pretty good pitcher
Posted: 06:46 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Choke Utley
burell is the number 1 reason this team is going to be watching october, what hes done lately
Posted: 06:46 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Rob
And now, on to Shea….
Posted: 06:47 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Choke Utley
Sj, dont yo remember the marlins got us in the playoffs last year
Posted: 06:47 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 KM
Three runs is not going to get it done most nights. Brewers won, and there’s a good chance the Mets will beat the Nats tonight, leaving us 4 back in the loss column to both teams.
This bullpen is taxed, and I don’t know why – The starters are top 5 in innings pitched, and Myers went 7 1/3 today in another solid outing.
Am I blowing this out of proportion, or is Romero nothing more that a situational lefty?
Posted: 06:47 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 SJ Mike and Geoff are Haters
GOOOOOOD NIGHTTTTT!
Posted: 06:48 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 SJ Mike
And the Marlins kept us out of the playoffs every year before last year.
Posted: 06:48 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Paul
Stick a fork in em.
The bullpen is falling apart, both Durbin and Romero have been bad lately.
Posted: 06:49 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Choke Utley
durbin has been just as bad lately, inherited runners score every time he comes in
Posted: 06:49 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Evan
I agree with Choke Utley. I wouldn’t be surprised if Burell set a major league record for worst BA with runners in scoring position.
Anyway, the season is not over. Winning the division doesn’t seem likely, but the Phils need to play every game like their lives depend on it. Esp with the 4 against the Brewers coming up.
Posted: 06:49 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 rivlez
its actually making me sick that some of u are throwing the season away already with a good amount of baseball left
Posted: 06:50 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
And another wasted starting pitching performance, I’m curious as to how many times that’s happened this season???
Posted: 06:50 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Dave
Thats it.
Its over, Johnny.
Posted: 06:50 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Dan
And here come the weekly Phil fans waving there white flags…it seriously does happen on a weekly basis on this blog
Posted: 06:50 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Phillies fan
Phillies loose, it is over. What has happened to this team? Mets will now most likely take the division.
Posted: 06:50 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Fred
Don’t worry the Mets will fold, the Brewers will get swept this weekend and gas will drop to $2 a gallon.
Posted: 06:51 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Smith
I just don’t see it happening, even if we start to play better. That Mets team is not going to collapse this year. They are a different team.
Go Eagles.
Posted: 06:53 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 MARLINS FAN
DON’T COUNT THE FISH OUT!
Posted: 06:53 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Dave
I hate to say it but it is really over, there is no real chance with how the mets have played. The wild card looks like it would be the way to go but with the way we have played who the hell knows and can we really see a somewhat consistant phillies team?
Posted: 06:54 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 SJ Mike
I just wish that fight and excitement was there and they just don’t have it. It just feels like they’re going through the motions. Since the All Star Break, they just haven’t had it….
Posted: 06:54 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Smith
MARLINS FAN: Are you the only Marlins fan in existence? Take a hike.
Posted: 06:55 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
In fairness this was over a while ago but it took the Mets a long while to take advantage of the Phillies inept play over an extended period. Dan your right we’ll bitch and moan about the pitching but the reality is the offense wasted too many games and it’s natural for your pitching to hit a wall, other teams jump on our mistakes but we rarely this season have been able to capitalise on theirs.
Posted: 06:55 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Shana
Mets won’t fold. They held the Phillies in check this year. That is the difference. We couldn’t dominate them like we did last September. Won’t it be our luck, Mets take it all. I’m done.
Posted: 06:55 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Smith
Interesting quote from Jimmy today in a pre-game interview. Final question of the interview: “Any message for the Mets?” Jimmy: “Oh no, we’re done with them. If they’re not there in October with us, we’ll just see them in 2009.”
This man’s arrogance is exactly the sort of thing that cost the Mets the division last season. I really don’t like him right now. I know he’s been good lately, but overall he has had a bad year, and he is unreasonably cocky.
Posted: 06:56 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
Nicely said Fred… We can Dream… We can sure dream…
Posted: 06:58 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Fred
The offense has cost the Phils dearly this year. J-Ro, Howard, Utley, Victorino, Burrell, Coste, Ruiz, on and on it goes. No clutch or situational hitting at all.
Poor coaching but the bottom line it’s the players who are too blame for this mess. Guess they just got knocked off their high horse.
Posted: 07:08 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 SJ Mike
I didn’t want to look forward to 2009 until 2008 was over, but this Front Office has got to get off their high horse and do something.
Posted: 07:10 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 Durbinator
Unless the Phillies sweep the Brewers, which won’t happen since Moyer will be pitching on 3 days rest, the season is over.
Posted: 07:13 PM on September 10, 2008
Posts: 0 KM
The season is not over, but realistically there is like a 3% chance the phillies make the playoffs.
Next year I hope to see a drastically different team – shop Howard for some pitching help; let Burrell go and add a contact bat in the outfield; drop the dead weight(Jenkins, Taguchi, Eaton, etc.); do something about the catching situation.
Posted: 07:17 PM on September 10, 2008