World Series Game 5 : Rays At Phillies (3-1)
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Mon, October 27, 2008 05:00 PM | Comments: 416
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Game 5 : 2008 World Series
Phillies lead 3-1
Tampa Bay Rays at Philadelphia Phillies
Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia
8:29 p.m. / 47, light rain
Scott Kazmir (12-8, 3.49 ERA) vs. Cole Hamels (14-10, 3.09 ERA)
If the Phillies win, they are world champions.
News & Notes
Hamels defeated Kazmir in game one of the series. Hamels gave up two runs, while Kazmir surrendered three. … Chase Utley homered off Kazmir in that game. Carl Crawford homerd off Hamels. … Hamels is 1-0 in elimination games and 4-0 in the postseason. … This is just the second game the Phils will play with the chance of eliminating their World Series opponent. The last time that happened was Oct. 21, 1980. The Phillies won. … Carlos Pena and Evan Longoria are a combined 0-for-29 with 15 strikeouts in the series. … If the Phils win tonight, they win their second world championship in 125 years.
The Lineup
Jimmy Rollins / SS
Jayson Werth / RF
Chase Utley / 2B
Ryan Howard / 1B
Pat Burrell / LF
Shane Victorino / CF
Pedro Feliz / 3B
Carlos Ruiz / C
Cole Hamels / P
Your Gamenight Beer
Not that I want to jump the gun, but I was given a recommendation by our own Julie Michael, and it’s fitting. Let’s go with Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale. Yes, celebrate. Celebrate because tonight may very well be the greatest night in Phillies franchise history. Here we are, everyone, at the climax of an incredible season. Time to do it. Time to win. Just win.
Go Phillies!
Posts: 0 Scholar in Training
Doh.
Posted: 10:28 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Matty
Shit
Posted: 10:28 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 BrewTownPhilsPhan
I didn’t leave my chair – I swear!
Posted: 10:28 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
Oh, this sucks .
Posted: 10:28 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
God Damnit!
Posted: 10:29 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Scholar in Training
Pena is a good hitter. Very clutch.
Posted: 10:29 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 BrewTownPhilsPhan
None of these umpires should ever work again. I can’t believe they’re letting the ws be played in these conditions. Bunch of putzes!
Posted: 10:29 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Chuck
Whew!!!!!
Posted: 10:29 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 lets throat punch Buck
Come on bats……..
Posted: 10:30 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 CT
we need a run dammit. let’s get hamels that W
Posted: 10:30 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Keith
k time for the Phillies to do something
Posted: 10:30 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Kruk is the Best-93
yes victorino you are the man
Posted: 10:30 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Scholar in Training
Now that it is tied I think they should delay this sucker.
Posted: 10:30 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Dave
I’m worried. We need runs. Lotsa runs.
Posted: 10:31 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 SJ Mike
I’m sorry, but this really feels like an unfair game to both ends.
It isn’t about talent anymore. It is whoever survives the weather the most.
Posted: 10:31 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
I don’t know if the umpires are the ones deciding the game. I think MLB executives do that in the World Series.
Posted: 10:31 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Chuck
Maybe you should SWITCH chairs, Brew
Posted: 10:31 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
haha-”lets throat punch Buck”, I like the name.
Posted: 10:32 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Joel
C’Mon Phils….take this game HERE in Philly
Posted: 10:32 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 A Couple Things
They should suspend this game…
It’s just too messy out there.
……
Posted: 10:32 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Kruk is the Best-93
game should be stopped now at 2-2. ridiculous. mccarver and buck are just voicing how the world feels about philly.
Posted: 10:32 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 lets throat punch Buck
game delayed
Posted: 10:32 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Scholar in Training
Jamie: Bud Selig decides on playing/not playing WS games. It’s not the umps.
Posted: 10:32 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 SJ Mike
Now they delay it once Tampa ties it up.
Posted: 10:33 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 james
it’s as miserable t watch this in my living room as it is for those people in the stand. god damn it.
Posted: 10:33 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Dave
This figures. They wait for Tampa to tie it before they pull the Tarp…..
Posted: 10:33 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike W.
Yeah this isn’t even baseball any more. It’s complete luck with these conditions.
Posted: 10:33 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Joel
These F*ing umps purposely waited…I’ll bet ya
Posted: 10:33 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Matty
So after the Rays tie it up they put the game in a rain delay?
Posted: 10:33 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 A Couple Things
They listened to me!…
Suspended for now, since it is a tie.
……
Posted: 10:33 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike W.
Yep…absolute horsecrap. Just unbelievable.
Posted: 10:33 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Keith
geesh, we have to wait now :(
Posted: 10:34 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 CT
so i guess if cole can’t come back up, he won’t have a chance to get a win?
Posted: 10:34 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
Well, we’ll be suspended until tomorrow evening at least. 100% chance of rain throughout the night.
Posted: 10:34 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 J-Man
The Rays tie it and they all sudden decide to delay it?What a joke these umps are.
Posted: 10:34 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Phils2611
Well bed time for me. Even if this game does finish, it won’t be until 3:00 AM…
I must say, I couldn’t be more pissed. Ugh.
Posted: 10:34 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 AC in NJ
Unf*cking believable, god damn MLB horsecrap.
Posted: 10:35 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Anth
You knew they would call it when the Rays tied it. This is BS…they wanted to save the Rays chances…f’in wack!!!!
Posted: 10:35 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 A Couple Things
Weather forecast for tomorrow…
……
Posted: 10:35 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Scholar in Training
Here is the radar: http://www.acouplethings.com/blog/2008/10/weather-forecast-for-tomorrow/
They aren’t playing this thing tonight. Maybe not till Wednesday.
Posted: 10:35 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
It’s so obvious they were waiting to call it until the Rays tied it up or went ahead.
Posted: 10:35 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Mike
What the hell. What the hell
Sure, now they call rain delay.
Posted: 10:35 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Dave
Alrighty, Weather Underground looks pretty bad at this point.
“Suspended Game?” WTF?!
Posted: 10:35 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Chuck
I really don’t know what to say. I completely speechless and numb. It’s as if we lost or something
Posted: 10:35 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 SJ Mike
This is complete and total horseshit. I can’t believe this is happening.
Posted: 10:35 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 I know Sal...
is it me, or does it seem like everyone is pissed about the weather…and acting like it Philly’s fault
Posted: 10:36 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Scholar in Training
This is a bad situation, but I don’t know what else they could have done.
Posted: 10:36 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Georgie
Chuck, it’s always something. Unbelievable.
Posted: 10:37 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 AC in NJ
i cannot believe how we have been jobbed by the umps, by MLB, by the media…
Posted: 10:37 PM on October 27, 2008
Posts: 0 Anth
Oh and those of you who are going to bed? WTF!?!?
Posted: 10:37 PM on October 27, 2008