Gamenight: Dodgers (22-12) At Phillies (16-14)
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Wed, May 13, 2009 05:27 PM | Comments: 162
Gameday 2009, Posts
Los Angeles Dodgers (22-12) at Philadelphia Phillies (16-14)
Randy Wolf (1-1, 2.95 ERA) vs. Jamie Moyer (3-2, 7.26 ERA)
Time: 7:05 p.m. at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia
Weather: Mostly sunny, 67
TV: Comcast SportsNet, ESPN
Twitter: Phillies Nation
Randy Wolf makes his second career start against his former longtime team as the Phillies meet the Dodgers for the second time in 2009.
The Phillies won game one yesterday, thanks to some slick clutch hitting by Jimmy Rollins and Raul Ibanez, and some even slicker baserunning by Jayson Werth, tying a franchise record with four steals in the game including a swipe of home plate. Now the Dodgers will get Jamie Moyer, searching for his 250th career win yet again.
Moyer hasn’t faced these young Dodgers too much, but of those with experience, Orlando Hudson is hitting .250, and Casey Blake is hitting just .091 since 2004.
The Phillies .498 slugging percentage with runners in scoring position is best in the National League. And on the power note, last night and Sunday marked the first time since August 2008 there were no home runs hit out of Citizens Bank Park in consecutive games.
The Phillies lead all major league teams in total attendance, and are second overall in average attendance (Red Sox are first, inexplicably over 100 percent for the season).
Your gamenight beer: I’ve been needing one of these for a while: Coffee Bender. It’s a beer by Surly that – you guessed it – tastes just like alcoholic coffee. Who wouldn’t like this? Okay, besides non-coffee drinkers … For dinner, turn it upside down and make an omelet. Western.
Go Phillies!
Posts: 0 Geoff
you dont know that itll solve itself over time…this is baseball…not a video game…just because a guy has a good rating from the scouts and has had good numbers over his career means NOTHING. you have to go out and prove it EVERY SINGLE YEAR. it happens all the time
cliff lee goes from solid starter to being sent to the minors to being superhuman and winning the cy young to being just normal again…it happens with relievers all the time…guys just lose it at the plate sometimes…especially if theyve been juicing…yknow…kind of interesting that rollins’ boy romero got caught with some banned supplements and all of a sudden he totally has an outage at the plate and cant hit at all anymore. hmm….maybe somethings going on there??? maybe jimmy was doin a little somethin somethin…
Posted: 10:52 PM on May 13, 2009
Posts: 0 Matt
Geoff, once again you fail to realize that Carlos Ruiz managed one of the toughest closers in the game, due to his hard-breaking slider. Brad Lidge, on average probably throws close toe half of his pitches in the dirt, giving capability to stealing extra bases and setting up a loss. Saying Carlos Ruiz isn’t worth of the WS is, once again a product of your pent up anger of the Phillies’ struggles. May i remind you that he went 2-2 tonight, by far the most productive offensive player. Baseball doesn’t function through immediate idiotic changes to lineups.
Yes, Carlos Ruiz isn’t the BEST offensive catcher, but he manages our pitchers much more efficiently than Marson could, and has more offensive potential than Coste.
Give it up, your ideas are idiotic.
Posted: 10:55 PM on May 13, 2009
Posts: 0 PtheBLovesTheBallGirls
Catcher is a defensive position in this league, other than Russ Martin, Brian McCann and Joe Mauer who else can hit and catch?
Ruiz by far has the best defense and best game calling and the pitching staff loves him therefore he will be here to stay… Marson will be good, just not yet he’s not ready for the bigs and when splitting time with Coste they were basically the same offense player and the team slumped.
SS is also more of a defensive position in this league, if you look around the league not many other SS are putting up the numbers we usually see from J-Roll and that spoiled us. THe NL East has the best SS’s in the league and other than Hanley and Reyes there are not many offense threats.
Posted: 10:57 PM on May 13, 2009
Posts: 0 Matt
Thank you, PtheBLovesTheBallGirls.
Posted: 10:59 PM on May 13, 2009
Posts: 0 Geoff
I understand his value as a defensive catcher…but Marson is clearly better…coste is definitely worse…
No…the guys dont even look like theyre profcessionals. I go to dozens of games a year and its sickening every time. ruiz and coste are just atrocious up at the dish and they are OVER RATED defensively…
Posted: 11:01 PM on May 13, 2009
Posts: 0 Brian of CO
PtheBLovesTheBallGirlshas a good point. Pitching giving up 7 pr 9 runs isnt giving the team a chance to win, but the offense only scoring 2 runs, is also not giving the team a good chance to win. Had the offense scored maybe 5 I would put this loss on only the pitchers, but only scoring 2 puts something on the offense.
Posted: 11:03 PM on May 13, 2009
Posts: 0 PtheBLovesTheBallGirls
It’s funny how Ruiz’s bat and defense last October helped carry the Phils to the WS which Geoff so happily celebrated. If Marson is so great how come when Ruiz was gone the team slumped big time? And when he returned they broke out of the slump? The pitchers prefer Ruiz and maybe that’s why Blanton, Park and Myers have started to look like Major League pitchers again.
Posted: 11:04 PM on May 13, 2009
Posts: 0 Georgie
Geoff, you can’t say for sure that Marson is better than Ruiz at handling the pitchers, he hasn’t even had a chance to catch for them on a regular basis. There’s already enough problems with the pitchers, you can’t change catchers now.
Posted: 11:05 PM on May 13, 2009
Posts: 0 Brian of CO
Sadly many of the players that helped carry us last October have forgotten what they did to win. They will come along I think. We do however need to win consitently in the NL East if we want a chance at even the Wild Card which we havent done beyond sweeping the Marlins. Even the Nats gave us troubles. Early still thankfully. PLENTY of baseball for them to get hot again and whoop up on people.
Posted: 11:09 PM on May 13, 2009
Posts: 0 fanman
When All Star week comes up Moyer should go…and pitch for Howard during the home run derby….they’re not gonna do anything with him won’t send him down and ya can’t trade who’d want him, and Werth boy he was lucky that was a homer cause that would have been all over you-tube….dah which way did it go????? Rollins @ .200 wow! Gatta love that Barkann mocking out Joe Torre on trying to get a win…did’nt “chewing gum” Charlie have Moyer come back out just so we all knew he was crap tonite….12 come from behind wins this year “BARFMAN” ya do what ya gotta do to get a win….check the stats on Torre he has won a few games without excuses.
Posted: 11:18 PM on May 13, 2009
Posts: 0 Don M
Props to The Dipsy for that prediction.. that was pretty damn close
What about Hamels today??
Posted: 10:19 AM on May 14, 2009
Posts: 0 hydraulic presses
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Posted: 10:57 AM on June 23, 2010