Categories: 2018 Gameday

Gameday 2018: Diamondbacks (16-7) at Phillies (15-8)

The Phillies will try to take two of three from the Diamondbacks and double up their record again.

And they’ll have to do it on Facebook.

Gametime: 1:05 p.m.

The lineup:

Hernandez – 2B
Santana – 1B
Herrera – CF
Hoskins – LF
Altherr – RF
Knapp – C
Franco – 3B
Lively – P
Crawford – SS

Pitchers: Ben Lively (0-1, 4.64 ERA) vs. (Matt Koch, 0-0 1.13 ERA)

The struggling Scott Kingery is on the bench again. Andrew Knapp gets another start at catcher. Koch, who is filling in for Taijuan Walker, who will be out for the year with an elbow injury, is making his second start.

Your Gameday Beer: Day drinking! Go with a light-hopped pilsner. I like 5 O’Clock Pils from Saint Arnold Brewing out of Texas. Pilsners are hard to master because precision is necessary, but this one really hits the mark with Saaz hops from the Czech Republic.

Go Phillies!

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.