Gameday: Phillies (26-19) at Mets (24-23)
Posted by Pat Gallen, Thu, May 27, 2010 08:42 PM | Comments: 176
2010 Gameday, Posts
Philadelphia Phillies (26-19) at New York Mets (24-23)
Cole Hamels (5-2, 3.92 ERA) at Mike Pelfrey (6-1, 2.86 ERA)
Time: 7:10, Citi Field
Weather: Partly cloudy, 68
TV: MyPhl 17
Twitter: @philliesnation
Not sure there is really all that much to say in this spot. The Phillies need to score runs, and that’s all there is to it. They haven’t scored a run since Sunday and haven’t scored a meaningful run since Friday! They’ve beaten up Mike Pelfrey once this year and they’ll need to do it again to break out of this awful slump they’re in.
Cole Hamels toes the rubber in the quest for his 6th victory. He’s been very good lately, however, the Mets are a pesky club at home that can make it hell on opposing pitchers. Just ask Moyer and Blanton. The love to wreak havoc on the basepaths, so Cole might be firing to first base a lot tonight with that pickoff move.
Offensively, it’s not as if the Phils aren’t getting guys on base. They’ve managed 24 hits the last three games combined. It’s just what they do with those guys on base that is so unsavory. This trend of stranding runners is a bit unnerving to say the least. They’ll need a pick-me-up tonight.
Tonight’s Lineup: Victorino CF, Polanco 3B, Utley 2B, Howard 1B, Werth RF, Ibanez LF, Ruiz C, Valdez SS, Hamels P
Your Gameday Beer – Yards Extra Special Ale
I’m going with my favorite beer for tonight’s must win. Yeah, I said it – must win. Yards ESA is a hearty amber ale with a malt body and aromatic hop finish. It’s got some kick to it, 6.0% by volume, but is one of the best beers around, in my opinion. Plus, it’s made in Philly, so what’s not to love. Enjoy it with a porterhouse and mashed potatoes and be sure to scream at the TV all night. The Phillies need all the help they can get. – By Pat
GO PHILLIES!
Posts: 0 beta sigma delta shag
I am just fed up with this lack of energy this team has shown and lack of heart that this team has shown. Why we love this team, they are never out of a game, always have faith that they score runs when they need it and they look like they wanted to play this game, now they just look beaten when they come up to the plate. that is what I miss about this team. I think it is going to come back right here in the top of the ninth with the boys that make this offense feared Utley, Howard, and Wreth, double single and a HR in that order, not sure who we have to pinch hit for Baez, Schninder, or Castro, oh year Dobbs I know they can do it
Posted: 11:51 PM on May 27, 2010
Posts: 0 glutenous
No, it was surely a ball. Oh well. Big boys coming up let’s DO SOMETHING.
Posted: 11:52 PM on May 27, 2010
Posts: 0 beta sigma delta shag
Because if I have to see his dance tonight I may throw up
Posted: 11:52 PM on May 27, 2010
Posts: 0 beta sigma delta shag
Chase has been late on a lot of pitches and K rod is only throwing 90 mph, he is getting the timing down now, come on Chase
Posted: 11:54 PM on May 27, 2010
Posts: 0 beta sigma delta shag
off course right at someone, come Ryan start us up
Posted: 11:56 PM on May 27, 2010
Posts: 0 jeff
Ryan should just give us a refund. Pathetic.
Posted: 11:58 PM on May 27, 2010
Posts: 0 beta sigma delta shag
this is just sad sad sad just a pathetic display in NYC unless they somehow explode right now
Posted: 11:59 PM on May 27, 2010
Posts: 0 Terri
someone needs to get fired. atrocious and embarrassing.
Posted: 11:59 PM on May 27, 2010
Posts: 0 jeff
wwwwwwweeeerrrrthhhhleeeessssss is back
Posted: 12:00 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 Manny
Wow..just wow Phillies.
Posted: 12:00 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 Ed R.
Well hopefully the bitch slap the Met’s just served the Phillies will be a wake up call.
But I doubt it.
Posted: 12:00 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 glutenous
Ouch. So this must be what it feels like to be a mets fan.
Posted: 12:01 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 Morris Buttermaker
Just plain embarrassing.
Posted: 12:02 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 Scott in D.C.
It’s now a psychological problem as much as bad juju. You can see it on their faces as they walked out of the dugout … They’ve got to ride it out somehow.
Posted: 12:03 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 glutenous
The thing that worries me is that in the two “slumps” the offense has had this season, they didn’t look bad. They looked like the worst offense in baseball.
Posted: 12:04 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 David, the Mets fan from Queens
Charlie Manuel is going to rip someone’s head off. The question is, whose head?
Posted: 12:05 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 Manny
So NOW is when you gotta sign Werth!!
12-15 million per year, do it!
Posted: 12:05 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 Morris Buttermaker
Which of the past three games is supposed to be the wake-up call? They have not done a damn thing since scoring 12 against Pittsburgh last Monday. Horrible effort and just plain old stupid baseball since then.
Posted: 12:06 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 beta sigma delta shag
I do not think I have ever had to watch such lifeless, no heart, no pride ball playing in my entire life. And I lived through 100 lose seasons at the Vet in the early 70′s and that team was pretty young and bad, but they showed more pride and heart then this team has shown this week.
I know they still have it in them and maybe they will break out of this funk in FLA. The mirrors that they used the last time JRoll was on the DL have all been broken. And do all you JRoll haters see what he means to this offense now. It is truely pathetic to be this lifeless. Ruining a great start by Cole, really only giving up one run, if Polly does not misplay that ground ball.
But it is time to move on and pretend this week never happened and cheer for the Phillies in FLA, KK will be the benificiary of this pathetic 6 games, by getting some run support tomorrow night. So all he will need to do is pitch 6 or 7 and give 3-5 runs and get the win.
Lets just all move on, and start a new day tomorrow
Posted: 12:07 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 Rivlez
Hamels did what he needed to do but the bats were again on vacation
Posted: 12:11 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 glutenous
I might add that the phils did hit SOME balls hard and the mets did make some plays in the field, but all in all they looked bad. Good, solid start from cole. Its a shame he hasn’t been getting the run support. The silver lining? Even the rays, as great as their offense is, had a perfect game thrown against them. **** happens. Phillies will snap out of it in a big way.
Posted: 12:11 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 Morris Buttermaker
Maybe they just stink.
Posted: 12:12 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 glutenous
Morris, that could be, but how would one year separate a wfc, nl championship, and stinking, with all of the pieces and then some still in place?
Posted: 12:20 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 Morris Buttermaker
Sometimes teams have it, and then they lose it, and then gain it back. I just have not seen that spark in the team this year. They have played some good baseball. But they just don’t seem to have that spark they had the past few years. I don’t know if it is just missing Jimmy or whatever. But I have not seen that many comebacks from them. They had the one game in San Fran and the Sunday night game against the Mets. But just have not really shown it this year.
Posted: 12:24 AM on May 28, 2010
Posts: 0 glutenous
Iknow what you mean, they really haven’t been that team against which, “no lead is safe,” and they have played some uninspired baseball. I hope they realize that if they are the team that everyone in the nl wants to knock down. Nobody is going to give them anything and if they expect to win they have to want it. Its still early lots of baseball left. Go phillies.
Posted: 12:48 AM on May 28, 2010
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Posted: 03:21 PM on May 28, 2010