Gameday: Phillies (39-36) At Braves (37-40)
Posted by Amanda Orr, Thu, July 02, 2009 05:45 PM | Comments: 224
Gameday 2009, Posts
J.A Happ (5-0, 3.33 ERA) vs. Javier Vazquez (5-7, 3.04 ERA)
Time: 7:00 p.m at Turner Field
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 90
TV: Comcast Sportsnet
Twitter: Phillies Nation
“I think today’s a good indication of what he can do and what his capabilities are,” Charlie Manuel said on Saturday after J.A Happ threw his first Major League complete game shutout. There are now expectations from the rookie and he needs to live up to them tonight, halting the Phillies two game skid.
Happ will be opposed by Javier Vazquez who has been on a hot streak. In his last six starts, he is 1-3, but his ERA is a minuscule 1.90. Like Jair Jurrjens, Vazquez hasn’t received much run support. Vazquez beat the Phillies earlier this season and the Phillies are collectively batting .184 against him in 13.2 innings this year.
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ur Gameday Beer:Today’s beer is Piraat. This Belgian beer is an Amber Triple IPA – and yes, it’s all that and more. It has a full complex flavor: citrus and spices to start with a sweet finish. Don’t let the pretty orange pour fool you, this dangerously delicious brew weighs in at a hefty 10.5% alcohol. Eat a light dinner with some Dutch cheese, like Edam or Gouda, a baguette and grapes. - By Brian
Go Phillies!
Posts: 0 ll
MADSON – WTF?? does he go through this slump every year??
Posted: 10:07 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Jeff
God Ryan Madson is aweful. What happen to him. This braves offense is much better then ours.
Posted: 10:07 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Manny
Ugh Madson….whats the deal lately??? Still a solid ERA but he’s been blowing too many games lately
Posted: 10:07 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 j reed
Madson…the league has caught up with you, please a little variety in your pitch selection…
Posted: 10:08 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Stuart
Why would you take out JA and put in madson when hes been pitching this awful recently. JA did not have that high of a pitch count and was pitching solid.
Posted: 10:08 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 DJ
Im officially done with Madson! You give him the shot n he crumbles! This is pathetic should have put Chan Ho in!
Posted: 10:08 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 River
madson = the bridge to nowhere right now.
Posted: 10:09 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Terri
Madson was suppose to be one of our best, don’t know what happen.
Posted: 10:09 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 mets fan from NY
braves always win a tie game at home . go braves
Posted: 10:09 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Geoff
They better come back to life this weekend or else its going to be red alert emergency time…
Posted: 10:09 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 ll
RYAN F-ING MADSON
Posted: 10:10 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Dave
I think Madson’s let up more homers in the last month than he did all of last season. This is ridiculous.
Posted: 10:10 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Terri
MADSON SUCK!!!!!!! We got swept by the braves, that is pretty embarrassing.
Posted: 10:10 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 DJ
GD thats it! Im not watching them anymore til they start playing like WFC’s
Posted: 10:11 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Manny
Madson was amazing up until we bumped him into the closer role. He’s been horrible since then.
Posted: 10:11 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Doug
I wonder if MLB Network is really regretting making The Pen about the Phillies. Really should have just gone with Boston.
Posted: 10:11 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Geoff
freaking ridiculous…they need the all star break to be like now…they also need to stop SCREWING AROUND and start making trades
Posted: 10:12 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 DJ
If its not a starter messing up the game its a reliever! I can’t blame the offense at all cus you cant score alot everyday but the pitching especially relievers who are paid millions to pitch 1 effin inning a night sometimes a week and u stink it up
Posted: 10:13 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 bm
just wondering if madson goes through this kind of slump every year?? anyone know??
Posted: 10:13 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 j reed
Plus his fastball doesn’t have the same movement..argh! DUBEE take a look at the Madsen’s pitch fx data because every one who plays us obvious does cause they knows what’s coming.
Posted: 10:13 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Dave
Well they do have a dramatic show seeing as how messed up ours is right now. With Boston everyone would be happy, no drama.
Posted: 10:13 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 keeg
these phils disgust me.
Posted: 10:14 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Marc H
Do you think that Madson is smart enough to realize that there is a connection between throwing fastballs in the middle of the plate and the results he’s getting?? He has to be one of the dumbest individuals to have ever worn a major league uniform
Posted: 10:14 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Georgie
yeah, DJ, I’m thinking the same thing, this is torture.
Posted: 10:14 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 MadDingers
Manny thanks for the wealth of info… none of us could figure that out. Boras should of compared him to Flash Gordan not Rivera
Posted: 10:15 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Terri
This team needs a major shakeup. No reason they should have been swept by the braves. Ths phils have been making me mad for the past month. They should be 10 games up in first place. It seems like they don’t want this division.
Posted: 10:15 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 DJ
Geoff- your right get rid of Moyer ( sorry guys but he is too old) trade Bako since we dont need him and Escalona! All we need is pitching and a true Ace!
Posted: 10:15 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Andrew
Babe Diaz. what a time to be facing the mets.
The good news? Marlins are idle today.
so the fightin phils are stil in first place!
Posted: 10:16 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Stuart
Charlie is driving me insane with his coaching moves. Jimmy staying at lead off, he insists on using madson all the time. Cant he just understand that if he does what he did last year it might not work. this only proves Charlie is a terrible manager. He figured something out last year cause every played amazing and now he thinks he can just leave it at that and not change anything. hes pathetic and needs to be fired. we need a manager who knows how to coach baseball.
Posted: 10:16 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Andrew
Trade Bako for a used kleenex?
Come on lets be real. Moyer and Bako have 0 value to any team at this point.
Posted: 10:17 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Greg
This is bad… a month ago for the first time in my many years of being a phils fan i said i liked the team. then this happens. these guys are a complete train wreck. getting one starting pitcher won’t fix this mess.
Posted: 10:17 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Terri
The good news is that the phils come home a play the mets, the bad news is that the have the worst home record.
Posted: 10:18 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 MadDingers
Bako aint gonna get us anything
Posted: 10:18 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Dave
The Phillies really need to get some depth on the bench in addition to another starter. I agree get rid of Bako. There was no point to his signing, same with Cairo.
Posted: 10:18 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 mets fan from NY
phillies will get swept by mets also
Posted: 10:19 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Geoff
The Phillies have THE worst bench Ive ever seen. Dobbs/Stairs are ok, but Coste/Bako/Bruntlett is just BRUTAL
Posted: 10:20 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Andrew
He is not a terrible manager.
The crap he pulled last year won us a title. Our second in what 120 years?
Hes a players coach. He just benched J rol for 4 games.
Something must be done. But calling Charlie a terrible manager is really un called for.
Charlie isnt making J rol not get any hits and Madsen get lit up.
Shake up please. If it meant trading an established player. so be it.
Posted: 10:20 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 bm
why isnt anyone working with madson?
like someone else said, he gets ahead in the count usually 0-2 or 1-2 and then throws a fastball down the middle of the plate AND THE SAME THING OCCURS EVERY SINGLE TIME — HOMERUNS. HAS HE NOT LEARNED?????!!!!
Posted: 10:20 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 DJ
Hey Im just saying get rid of them! If u have ever been close to Moyer he looks 60 not 46 or 47 he is hurting the team not helping and right now they need help! Raul will help the offense especially Howard! All they need is pitching kind of like the Mets last year
Posted: 10:20 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 MadDingers
andrews right on. moyer you couldnt trade even if you did it would be for nothing and we’d eat all of his salery. Bako trade value? as much as kendrick
Posted: 10:20 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 keeg
It’s a good thing the Phils went down fighting in the top of the ninth, otherwise it might have been humiliating or embarassing or something like that…
swept in Atlanta? we really really really need to have something happen to this team to get them to pick the frig up NOW.
Posted: 10:20 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 ATOPTHENLEAST
Even if we play the Mets ( who stink right now) look at the pitching match ups. Livan, who has been awesome for the Mets this year, against a minor league call up. Fernando Nieve (3-1) against Moyer, who is like batting practice. Then we get to face Johan Santana, who we can never beat. Hate to say this but the Mets have the upper hand in the pitching. They could take 2/3 from this sad Phillies team.
Posted: 10:21 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 j reed
Perhaps the show is making him more self-conscious but i doubt it. Look what he did in the WS. Pitching is in part about adjustments which your pitching coach needs to address when your pitcher can’t. I could go on about Dubee but I don’t have the time.
Posted: 10:21 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Dave
I still don’t understand why we use bruntlett. Replacing Jimmy with him is retarded because even though Jimmy is barely above the mendoza line, Bruntlett hasn’t been above .160 this season.
Posted: 10:22 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Greg
mets fan… you are a complete douche, are you really that much of a loser that you need to sit on a message board for another team?
Posted: 10:22 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 mikeB
Well one thing is for sure, Madsen is no longer dependable pitching the eigth or ninth inning; closer, holder, whatever. Needs to go back to long relief to find himself and get it back together again.
Posted: 10:23 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Alex
why does Coste keep calling for pitches right out over the plate in crucial parts of the game?!
…oh…wait that was Ruiz back there wasn’t it?
Posted: 10:23 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Dave
considering he is a mets fan, yes he is that big of a loser
Posted: 10:23 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 DJ
Andrew your right Charlie isn’t bad but if you know Madson is all shaken up dont put him in when the game is on the line! CHan Ho should have gained alot of respect with the way he has been pitching and should have made a 1 inning appearance in this one
Posted: 10:24 PM on July 2, 2009
Posts: 0 Dan
This team has some serious problems. Madson can’t pitch anymore, and the team isn’t hitting. Great performance by Happ, but no offense to support him. Are we out of first place now? If we drop three to the Mets, we can forget about the postseason. The Mets have a Triple AAA lineup. Its become quite clear that this team is not the one we saw in 2008.
Posted: 10:24 PM on July 2, 2009