Categories: 2018 Gameday

Gameday 2018: Reds (2-6) at Phillies (3-5)

After an up and down start after which the Phillies find themselves 3-5, they get to face the Cincinnati Reds, owners of a 2-6 record. So, this is a golden opportunity for the Phillies to really make a move in the National League East. Hopefully the boys come out swinging tonight.

Gametime: 7:05 p.m.

The lineup:

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

Pitchers: Ben Lively (0-1, 3.18 ERA) vs. Cody Reed (0-0, 0.00 ERA)

Maikel Franco moves up to the five-hole after a hot start, while Nick Williams and J.P. Crawford join Pedro Florimon on the bench.

Your Gameday Beer: The New England IPA scene is crowded. Nearly every brewery takes a stab at some hazy, fruity cloud smacker that aims to pep you up like some hop-tastic elixir. It’s hard to go too wrong in the northeast, with both warehouse facilities and one-room shack breweries from New York to Maine all doing the style some justice. One of my favorite farm-style NEIPAs is Kent Falls Brewing’s The Juicemaker

. Kent Falls does a lot of good stuff with primarily farm-grown ingredients – this one is brewed with not-so-Connecticuty mango, but it certainly has some lemony tones, too. Also lots of brett. Juicy.

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.