Gameday: Phillies (75-62) At Nationals (52-85)
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Mon, September 01, 2008 02:00 PM | Comments: 253
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Headline: Take care of business in the capital
The Major Players: Chase Utley, Kyle Kendrick, Tim Redding, Ryan Madson
The Venue: Nationals Park, Washington D.C.
The Number: 1 game behind (Mets)
Jayson Werth and Co. put together a nice win to split a crucial four-game set with the Cubs. Now it’s onto Washington for a three-gamer with the Nationals, whom the Phils have beaten soundly much of the season (8-4). And if you’re watching this Labor Day spectacular, look for Phillies Nation to be covering major ground at Nationals Park. Today is our annual bus trip to our Nation’s Capital. As you read this sentence, we’re outside Nationals Park enjoying some brews, good food and a lot of good friends.
Mad River: With Chad Durbin going two innings yesterday, and Kendrick not one to go deep into games, Ryan Madson might see some time today. Despite recent struggles, 12 of his last 14 appearances have been scoreless.
Werth The Playing Time: Jayson Werth had a 7-for-13 series in Chicago. His 2008 numbers: 21 HR, 56 RBI, .529 SLG. All career bests.
The Redd Line: These guys have faced Redding a lot this season. Chase Utley: 5-for-10. Ryan Howard: 1-for-10. Shane Victorino: 4-for-11. Jimmy Rollins: 1-for-12. Pat Burrell: 2-for-10. Pedro Feliz: 1-for-7.
Not The Light! Part IV!: The Phillies are 18-22 in daytime.
Phillies: Kyle Kendrick (11-7) 4.83 ERA
Nationals: Tim Redding (9-8) 4.54 ERA
Gametime: 3 p.m. EST
Weather: 85, sunny
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Your gameday beer: As some of us drink properly on a air-conditioned bus and at Nationals Park, you can dive into Extra Special Ale from Yards, our own very popular Philadelphia brewery. It’s a perfect drinker for Labor Day — not too light, not too strong, but extremely tasty with loads of hops. You’d better be grilling today — it goes with anything you put on the grill, from burgers to dogs to ribs to steak. Do it up.
Go Phillies!
Posts: 0 Jamie
Liking the lineup today:
Rollins
Victorino
Utley
Howard
Werth
Dobbs
Stairs
Coste
Nice to give Pat a little breather while not sacrificing power (i.e. Bruntlett or Taguchi)
Posted: 02:49 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 TJ
Tim Redding again, could be bad. Dont suppose this board will be alive today because of the trip.
Go Phils.
Posted: 02:59 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
Nice line-up… Did the batboys hand out balls in the locker room for the starters to team the cover off?
Posted: 03:05 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Lucky bastards, wish I was there.
Posted: 03:12 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 fred
Awful K by Howard. Gotta drive ‘em in with only 1 out.
Posted: 03:18 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
NEPA, I’m seriously considering getting MLBTV for the last month. Do you like yours so far (or anyone else that has it)?
Posted: 03:19 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 TJ
Redding giftwrapped a run there but we didnt take it. Second and third with one out, no runs. Why cant we get them in
Posted: 03:22 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Yea, I love it. I’ve gotten it for every April and September for the past 3 or 4 years because that’s when I’m away at school. I’ve heard the Premium MLB.tv is much better and worth the upgrade but it takes up too much bandwidth for my school so I’ve never gotten it. Highly recommended though.
Posted: 03:28 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Ben Sheets just left the game after 54 pitches through 5. He must be hurt. They still lead the Muts 1-0, and Santana has thrown 85 pitches through 5, so it’s nice that the Brewers will see the Muts pen.
Posted: 03:28 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
A friend of mine bought one of them last year – that plays several games at a time, and he said it was unbearably slow and choppy. I’m afraid of that, but I’ll give the regular one a chance.
Posted: 03:29 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Kyle Kendrick, Buzz Killer
Posted: 03:31 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Fred
Right there Schmidtie would have taken care of business, especially in September.
Posted: 03:31 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 griffin
Kendrick just sucks the life out of the game. He’s slow and bad, nothing worse than that.
Posted: 03:31 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 TJ
This is gonna be a long day for the pen.
Posted: 03:33 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
TJ, you aren’t kidding. Kendrick looks terrible. Time to warm up Eaton. (I’m kidding). I’ll try Happ instead.
Posted: 03:35 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
The regular has a crappy picture, but it’s a no-brainer for $15 a month.
Posted: 03:37 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Jamie, he was using MLB.tv Mosaic which is an option that comes with the Premium version. If your watching only one game at a time I’ve never experienced any chopiness, but I can imagine 6 games at a time would slow everything down quite a bit.
Posted: 03:39 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 TJ
its been only one inning. Ill give Kendrick til through 4
Lets go Matt Stairs
Posted: 03:39 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Thanks guys. I just ordered the regular, so I’ll see what I think of it in a few minutes.
Posted: 03:42 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Stairs is a lot quicker than I thought he was. I thought he was Burrell 2.0.
Posted: 03:42 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
Well you should have known better… Canadians like to run!
Posted: 03:47 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Kendrick was MUCH better that inning. On a happy note, Redding has already thrown 47 pitches through 2, so maybe we’ll get rid of him after 5 today.
Posted: 03:52 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Harris and Guzman with the J-Hole Special – first pitch swinging. It takes so much pressure off the pitcher its ridiculous. Ya gotta make someone like Kendrick pitch a little bit, he’ll eventually give ya something to hit.
Posted: 03:52 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Santana just balked in a run! Sweet-ass!
Posted: 03:54 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Well, so far I’m not impressed with MLBTV. It’s been “transferring data” for the past 15 minutes and I haven’t even seen a damn picture yet. I’ve tried getting out of it and back in about 6 times, so maybe I just wasted $15.
Posted: 03:55 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 551 Brian Michael
Tim, Rob and the rest of the Phillies Nation Bus Trip are in left field…look for us on TV. Lots of Phillies fans here.
Posted: 03:55 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Side note – Santana just balked in a run. 2-0 MIL.
Posted: 03:55 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Jamie – I don’t know what that’s all about. Maybe restart your computer? No clue, but hopefully it gets going for ya.
Posted: 03:56 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Does Redding no hit us through 3 innings every time?
Posted: 03:57 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 griffin
Tim Redding just shuts us down all the time. We did get him on the 3rd to last game of last season when Cole Hamels shut down the Nats. I was at that game and I think we won 6-0. But this year, he’s back to being Cy Young against us.
Posted: 04:01 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 BDuns
warm up Eaton
Posted: 04:02 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
We beat up on Redding one or two starts ago but other than that, nothing.
Posted: 04:02 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Okay, got it to work. Apparently there’s some sort of problem with Firefox, which is what I usually use. They told me to use IE7 and when I did, it works fine. BTW, I upgraded to the Premium once I got it to work – much better picture.
Posted: 04:06 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Yea, I never watch the games full screen so I figure the regular version does fine.
Posted: 04:08 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 philsphan
I’m more worried about the Phillies offense against Tim “Cy Young” Redding than about Kendrick. If Kendrick can’t get past 4 or 5 innings I wouldn’t mind seeing Happ today.
Posted: 04:13 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
The best thing about this is listening to Don Sutton and his friends. I am privileged to have the Nats feed.
Posted: 04:15 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Wow, great catch by Dukes.
Posted: 04:15 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Luckily if Redding wants a no hitter, he’ll need 200 pitches
Posted: 04:16 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 danny
Don Sutton makes me want to become a hermit
Posted: 04:17 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 griffin
the Muts just scored 1 and Reyes flied out to end the inning with runners on 2nd and 3rd. 2-1 going to bottom 7
Posted: 04:17 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
And the 1 run was on via a wild pitch, that series is gonna come down to which bullpen is the least shittiest.
Posted: 04:18 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 CT
pull kendrick now please
Posted: 04:24 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Great catch by Dukes, poorly placed bloop single by the Nats, and we’re officially in trouble here in the 4th.
Posted: 04:25 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
the old 6-4-3 would be nice right here…
Posted: 04:25 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Man, the Phils are lucky that the Nats are so inept at bunting and running on the basepaths.
Posted: 04:28 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 J-Man
Geez Tim Redding has the Phillies hitless now through 4 innings…Charlie,please take Kendrick out of the rotation and put Happ in his spot.
Posted: 04:29 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
The Phillies HAVE to sweep this series because when the Muts play these guys, they’ll sweep them too. Okay, I’ve seen enough of Kendrick for the day.
Posted: 04:30 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 CT
it’s clear now that Kendrick is the weakest link in the starting rotation. it’s definitely time to give Happ a chance as a starter again
Posted: 04:31 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Uh…did the Nats announcers just say that Adam Eaton was once a highly coveted pitcher in the league? Was I asleep during those years?
Posted: 04:32 PM on September 1, 2008
Posts: 0 CT
jesus christ. Kendrick for the Jeltz award no matter what the outcome of the game
Posted: 04:32 PM on September 1, 2008