PHILS CLINCH NLCS BERTH!
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Sun, October 05, 2008 03:55 PM | Comments: 122
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Joe Blanton subdued the Brewers, and Pat Burrell blasted them, as the Phillies defeated Milwaukee, 6-2. The Phils won the best-of-five National League Division Series, 3-1, and will play the Los Angeles Dodgers for the National League championship. Game one is Thursday at Citizens Bank Park.
Burrell hit two home runs in the game. The first was the gamebreaker, a three-run stunner off Jeff Suppan with two strikes and two outs in the third inning. It gave the good guys a 4-0 lead and settled things down. Burrell then knocked a big insurance homer in the eighth inning. After a second-half slump, Burrell redeemed himself tremendously with just two swings.
Blanton was beautiful, striking out seven in six innings while giving up just one run — a no-doubter by Prince Fielder. Blanton threw first-pitch strikes, had Milwaukee hitters swinging early and late, and worked efficiently after a high-count first inning. As far as midseason acquisitions, Blanton has come up huge.
Blanton set the bullpen for three paint-by-numbers innings. Ryan Madson took two of them and gave up just a garbage run, while Brad Lidge closed out the ninth for the third time in the series.
Back to the offense. Jayson Werth backed Burrell’s first bomb with a solo home run, while Jimmy Rollins led off the contest with a longball. Meanwhile, Greg Dobbs contributed with two hits in a starting spot. With Chase Utley and Ryan Howard slumping in the NLDS, the rest of the offense has picked it up. And Burrell joined them in game four, leading the Phils to the NLCS for the first time since 1993.
Posts: 0 Clare
WOOOOOOO!!!!
Posted: 03:57 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
big deal they stinks
Posted: 03:59 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 CT
Burrell for the Ashburn! Big hand for Blanton for pitching a solid game too.
Posted: 04:00 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Dan C.
Ashburn award should be split between Blanton and Burrell. Great win, bring on the Dodgers!
Posted: 04:01 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
asburn should go to the umpire
Posted: 04:02 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Manny
PAT THE BAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 04:03 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Sean
BRING ON THE DODGERS!
Posted: 04:06 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 TJ
Burrell sounded like he wanted to come back when he was interviewing with Aldridge
Posted: 04:06 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
I guess Phillies in 4 was a popular pick for a reason.
Posted: 04:06 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Ryan
LET’S GO PHILLIES!
Posted: 04:07 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Andrew Vazzano
Congrats.
Posted: 04:09 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Craig
Sweet.
Posted: 04:11 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike W.
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?? THE PHILS ARE THE FAVORITES TO WIN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE!! JUST AMAZING.
Posted: 04:12 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
I really like the teams’ attitude, rather subdued celebration again, they look like they want more.
Jimmy-”there’s still meat left on the bone”
Posted: 04:12 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Rick
The bats are heating up! Now if Chase and Ryan can just get ‘em going, they’ll be unstoppable!
Posted: 04:17 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Maddie
Beat LA!!!!
Posted: 04:19 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Gplad
Redsox, chowderhead, fish-bait, arrogant scab needs to shut up. Talk when you get by TAMPA (thats right TAMPA) -the team you couldnt get by all year. YOU ARE A WILD CARD TEAM. The Angel’s seasonal implosion would have happened against ANYONE…. Tampa OWNS you ….ALLL Year BIATCH…..
Posted: 04:20 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Gplad
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Phillies!!!!!! I was 10 years old in 80, 13 in 83 and drunk,pissed off, and 23 in 93. Jesus we, I, this town needs this!!!!!! PHILLY POWER!!!!!!!
Posted: 04:23 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Greg B
HELL Yes. Pat the Bat. You alright.
Posted: 04:23 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
Let’s do it! LA is playing well, but we can do this.
Posted: 04:30 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Paul
Well done Phils!
I was really impressed by Blanton today, he did a great job. He is looking more and more like a smart pickup.
Posted: 04:44 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Maddie
When will we know any game times?
Posted: 04:52 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Chris.I
Who would of thought Burrell would come through, and smash not one, but TWO of his biggest homeruns of his career a day after everyone on the site was bashing him??? My appologies Mr.Burrell. We’re giving you a one day free pass….But Ruiz…YOU SUCK!!
Posted: 04:55 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Clare
I know, I need to know the game times cause we have tickets for games one and six and I have to fly home!
Posted: 04:56 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 christopher
great series win. can’t wait to start the NLCS against the dodgers!
hats off to the organization for putting together a hell of a team. gillick hasn’t gotten the credit he’s deserved for the job he’s done in philadelphia.
Posted: 04:57 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Jack
clare if by chance you can’t fly home. Please post on this board….I’d be glad to take them off your hands :)
Posted: 05:02 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Steve
When the Phillies decided they couldn’t go after CC Sabathia and Rich Harden and settled on a 4-12 Joe Blanton I could not have been more upset with Pat Gillick and co., but here’s all you have to see:
CC Sabathia Game 2 vs Phi: 3.2 in, 6 h, 5 er, 4 bb, 5 k, loss
Rich Harden Game 3 vs LA: 4.1 in, 5 h, 3 er, 3 bb, 4 k, loss
Joe Blanton Game 4 vs Mil: 6 in, 5 h, 1 er, 0 bb, 7 k, WIN
I think that one worked out pretty well, don’t you. BEAT LA!
Posted: 05:09 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 christopher
obviously blanton is not a better pitcher than harden and CC in the long run. but sometimes the best moves you make are the guys you DON’T trade! keeping victorino, werth, marson and carrasco will pay bigger dividends than moving them for a big name pitcher would have. i said it when they traded for blanton and i’ll say it again now.
Posted: 05:20 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
GPLAD Sounds like your ten now idiot
Posted: 05:40 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
Dodgers are 8-5 to win pennant. That is in vegas
Posted: 05:41 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
Clare why fly home to see them lose. sell the tickets to some suckers. Who think they have a chance.
Posted: 05:43 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Chris.I
Redsoxfan..Why are you even on this site? Your replys are pointless….If the Dodgers are 8-5 to win, why don’t you troll their blogs? Your obviously scared of us, and you have every reason to be.
Posted: 05:46 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Manny
I’m going to the game on Friday! Got tix from StubHub 2 weeks ago!!
Posted: 05:46 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
Get this terrorist Red Sox fan out of here…now
Posted: 05:53 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
I’m going friday as well. Billingsley vs. Myers. I’m pumped!
Posted: 05:54 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Geoff
Meanwhile, outstanding performance by Joe Blanton today…offense woke up, bring on the Dodgers now and here we go…now it gets tough. The Phillies are better and they will win this series, but it probably will be a 6-7 game series.
Posted: 05:55 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Gavin
What a sigh of relief today was. I like the Phillies matchup against the Dodgers, their best pitchers are RP, and that should match up better with our lineup. Of course Utley and Howard have to pick it up, but what a sigh of relief. Never a doubt Pat, never a doubt.
Posted: 05:56 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
The red sox will be waiting. If by some miracle the phillies beat L.A. The odds are against it. Red Sox Rule.
Posted: 05:59 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
This just in Utley named choke player of the year .By sporting news.
Posted: 06:00 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Chase Mutley
$20 says that redsoxfan isn’t even really a Red Sox fan but a Mets troll who knows he can’t show his face around here otherwise. Since when were the Phillies on any Red Sox fan’s radar?
Posted: 06:04 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 NEPA
Mutley, I was just thinking that. Definitely not a red sox fan, that would be way too random.
Posted: 06:05 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
I hate the mets more than the phillies. I have been a fan for ten years.
Posted: 06:10 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Keith
redsoxfan has no life, just ignore him.
Posted: 06:11 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 christopher
the dodgers have good SP too. billingsley is an elite pitcher and lowe being a sinkerballer will be tough against the phillies. plus he’d had the post season success. but nobody can take anything away from the phillies’ pitching staff right now. it won’t be an easy series but the phillies are a better all around team and should be able to take it.
Posted: 06:12 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
Keith will you be talking after the phillies lose to the dodgers or become a weisel and not post.
Posted: 06:22 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
You’ve been a Red Sux fan for TEN WHOLE YEARS!? What, since you were three, or just when it started to be cool to be a fan of theirs? You’d be better served chatting on your own blog, picking your newest zits before school starts tomorrow morning, or combing the six pubic hairs you just had come in this last week. Seriously, dude, you need to get a life if you’re trolling a Phillies blog talking a lot of shit when you still have yet to clinch a spot in the ALCS, let alone the pennant.
Posted: 06:22 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Pat
Jamie… come on now. keep it clean homey.
Tim,
anyway you can add IP addresses to comments?
Posted: 06:26 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
Winners can talk. losing fans like you have nothing to say to winning fans like the red sox.
Posted: 06:29 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Mr. Burrell, is that you? (lol)
I thought I was keeping it clean. I didn’t drop any f-bombs.
Posted: 06:29 PM on October 5, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
Terry Francona named manager of the year.
Posted: 06:30 PM on October 5, 2008