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jalaram said:
I don't know how long our pitching can hold up a horrible offense. Meanwhile, here comes a big test after going 4-7 in our past 11 games.
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The Rays offense is far from horrible. It's been good enough to make the Yanks sweat a little... and David Price vs Cliff Lee should be spectacular tonight. The two best lefties in the AL, yes even better than CC.
 
SP33Demon said:
Yep, Hamels has really had tough luck vs the Mets in his last 2 starts... 11 and 8 K's, only 1 run allowed in each and 2 L's. Pretty much why L's don't mean anything statistically.
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i think the batters secretly hit hamels. he's been amazing this year, and has had no run support in his last what, 5 outings?
 
evident said:
i think the batters secretly hit hamels. he's been amazing this year, and has had no run support in his last what, 5 outings?
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So true. I've really started to feel badly for him, he has been consistently lacking run support. He's pitching a pretty solid season and just not getting the backup he needs.
 
TheVrolok said:
So true. I've really started to feel badly for him, he has been consistently lacking run support. He's pitching a pretty solid season and just not getting the backup he needs.
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Yeah, from crashburnalley:

Hamels’ numbers since May 4 (excluding June 1): 122.1 IP, 2.64 ERA, 8.8 K/9, and 2.6 BB/9. He has won only five of those games, lost five, and received seven no-decisions. In that span of time, his offense has only scored four more runs than he has allowed. It’s as if, when Hamels toes the rubber, the offense hits like they’re facing another Hamels.
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Those numbers are very good and his K/9 and BB/9 match up with Oswalt, Wainwright, Lincecum, Josh Johnson, Kershaw, Latos, Gallardo; and surpasses big names like Carpenter, Hudson, Johan Santana and Jimenez. Really the only ones clearly better than Hamel's 2.6BB/9 + 8.8K/9 are Halladay and Strasburg. That is some elite company.

Oh, and speaking of someone who has a stellar K/9 (12.1) and low BB/9 (2) and has really improved this year is Ryan Madson. It seems he's been drinking the same water as Hamels and crashburnalley really makes a damning case for him to be closer over Lidge:

Since coming off of the DL on July 8, Madson has a 27-to-3 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a 1.93 ERA in 18 and two-thirds innings. His SIERA is ninth-best in baseball at 2.19. Although Lidge has been better lately, he is simply not reliable. If and when Lidge falters, Manuel needs to be quick in assigning Lidge’s higher-leverage innings to Madson. Unlike last year, the Phillies don’t have a division lead cushion on which to sit. They are currently two games behind the Atlanta Braves for the NL East lead and tied with the San Francisco Giants for the Wild Card lead. At the same point last year, the Phillies were up 4.5 games in the division.

Madson strikes out as many batters as Lidge; Lidge walks batters at nearly two and a half times the rate of Madson.

Madson still has a fastball that hits the high-90′s; Lidge didn’t hit 90 once in his appearance last night against the New York Mets.

Madson’s bread-and-butter pitch (change-up) induces swings-and-misses a whopping 42% of the time; Lidge’s (slider) only 17%. Overall, Madson induces 6.5% more whiffs.

Madson is a ground ball machine (50%); Lidge is not (37%).

There is no reason not to make a change, even now. Lidge has an average leverage index of 2.3 on the season while Madson owns a 1.7 mark. Those higher leverage innings should belong to Madson. The Phillies know from experience how close the playoff races get, having won the division on the last day in ’07 and on the last weekend in ’08. Making a change now can pay off exponentially later.
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SP33Demon said:
Oh, and speaking of someone who has a stellar K/9 (12.1) and low BB/9 (2) and has really improved this year is Ryan Madson. It seems he's been drinking the same water as Hamels and crashburnalley really makes a damning case for him to be closer over Lidge:
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All those factoids are indisputably true, but they don't cover the reality of the situation, which is that Madson has been tried TWICE as the closer and has failed miserably both times.

He just doesn't have the make-up to be a closer.
 
I LOVE BEING A METS FAN!

Here's a fun article from SI that says the Mets are the worst franchise in baseball. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/jeff_pearlman/08/16/pearlman.mets/index.html?eref=sihp

It gets better! That punk ass bitch Francisco Rodriguez is out for the season with a torn ligament in his thumb which he got when he beat up his father in law a couple of days ago! I hope the Mets find a way to void that assholes contract if that is even possible.

YA GOTTA BELIEVE!
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SP33Demon said:
They must be really scared of the surging Phils who get Howard back next week and will be firing on full cylinders... don't blame em. This makes that offense almost able to match up with Philly.
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Saw this on ESPN earlier today. The Braves are a class orgainization. All I can say, as a Philly fan, is, "WOW. Interesting times ahead."
 
Been a bit quiet here lately..

Lou Piniella is retiring after today's game and his third base coach, Mike Quade, will take over the rest of the way. Sweet Lou says his mother's declining health is the main reason for his early departure.

Lets see whats going on in the majors..Reds, Padres and Braves are still on top in the NL. Phillies are still closing in while the Giants are playing mediocre baseball.

The Rangers are still in first with the A's and Angels 7 games back. The AL West is the only division that looks like it has a clear winner unless the Rangers do what my Mets did for two wonderful years. The AL Central is a two team race with the Twins and White Sox while the Rays are just a game back of the Yanks. I wouldn't discount the Red Sox yet though they are 6.5 games back.
 
anyone following the rangers/twins game right now?

check out mlb network. 3 more to go.

edit: fly out to hamilton. 2 to go.

story behind it: harden yanked after 7, threw 111 pitches on first start from the dl. rangers working on a combined. jim joyce is home plate ump btw.

edit: and mauer spoils it with 1 out, 1 on (walk) with a frozen rope single up the middle on an 0-2 count.
 
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Oh yeah, Tigers are clearly getting back into this thing 😉 Only 9 back if the Rangers hang on, have 6 games left against the Twins, schedule is ridiculously easy down the stretch, we got this.
 
evident said:
phils still playing in the 14th..
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What a game! Now in the 15th. Ryan Howard gets thrown out of perhaps his FIRST game ever over the second of TWO semi-BS check swing calls on appeal by the asshole third base line ump!

NO position players left for the Phils, so Roy Oswalt is in left field and the first hit ball goes to him for an out, lolololol!

Second and third outs made by Raul Ibanez, who's emergency playing first base for the first time since the year of our lord 2005!

Baseball! You gotta' love this game!

Did I mention that the only reason they're still playing is that Jimmy Rollins hit a 2 out home run in the bottom of the ninth to tie it up? :awe:

Bottom of the 15th now. Of course, poetic justice, NOW the Phillies will win.

That ump was BUSH league, George BUSH league, Sally league!

It's midnight on a weeknight and most of the sellout Phillies crowd is still there, feeding pricey stadium beer to their kids to keep 'em calm. 😀
 
evident said:
umpires are such a joke this series man. this game is retarded!!!!
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I almost NEVER bitch about the umps, who have a tough job, but that ump was BUSH LEAGUE . . . even lower, *gasp* CHENEY LEAGUE! :awe:
 
David Herndon in his second inning pitching for the Phils. The only reason Herndon is in the majors is that, since he didn't even make the Angels 40 man roster and so was nabbed by the Phils for 50,000 in the Rule 5 draft and, raw not ready for prime-time sub rookie that he may be, HAS to stay on the Phillies 25 man roster all season or be lost back to the Angels for nothing.

NOTHING, I tell you, nothing! :awe:
 
Perknose said:
What a game! Now in the 15th. Ryan Howard gets thrown out of perhaps his FIRST game ever over the second of TWO semi-BS check swing calls on appeal by the asshole third base line ump!

NO position players left for the Phils, so Roy Oswalt is in left field and the first hit ball goes to him for an out, lolololol!

Second and third outs made by Raul Ibanez, who's emergency playing first base for the first time since the year of our lord 2005!

Baseball! You gotta' love this game!

Did I mention that the only reason they're still playing is that Jimmy Rollins hit a 2 out home run in the bottom of the ninth to tie it up? :awe:

Bottom of the 15th now. Of course, poetic justice, NOW the Phillies will win.

That ump was BUSH league, George BUSH league, Sally league!

It's midnight on a weeknight and most of the sellout Phillies crowd is still there, feeding pricey stadium beer to their kids to keep 'em calm. 😀
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It was pretty clear that ump just wanted to go home... oh well another quality start by Hamels wasted.

And how about the call from last night where Bourn was out of the baseline? All we ask are that the umps be consistent, look at the bottom where Victorino was called out:
http://crashburnalley.com/2010/08/24/was-michael-bourn-out/

Luckily the Phils are still tied for first in the wild card standings in two games they should have won.
 
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It looks Manny is going to the Sox, just White this time.

And Hamels won for the first time in nine starts. I guess it's easier when you give up 0 runs. 🙂

Carl Crawford is now the eighth player since 1900 to get at least 100 homers, 100 triples and 400 stolen bases in a career. The others are Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Lou Brock, Frankie Frisch, Kenny Lofton, Paul Molitor and Tim Raines.

And Bob Feller, 91, has leukemia.
 
The Phillies get swept four straight by the lowly Astros and look bad in the process. Then they go on the road to San Diego and sweep the Padres, the team with the best record by far in the entire National League, and the Phils play heads-up, intelligent small ball all three games.

Baseball. Go figure.
 
Arodis Chapman hits 103 on the gun tonight with the Reds. crazy


Looks like Jeff Francoeur is heading to the Rangers for some tex-mex burritos or something. I don't care..good bye Frenchy you fucking suck.




...can you take Luis Castillol and Lollie Perez with you?
 
raystorm said:
Arodis Chapman hits 103 on the gun tonight with the Reds. crazy


Looks like Jeff Francoeur is heading to the Rangers for some tex-mex burritos or something. I don't care..good bye Frenchy you fucking suck.




...can you take Luis Castillol and Lollie Perez with you?
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Yeah 103 holy shite. And he hit 105 on the gun in the minors (scout gun and stadium gun both confirmed it). Just what the Cards didn't need after Wainwright is pitching horrible and Carpenter is off as well.

Votto is 3 HR's away from tying Albert to vie for the Triple Crown, can he do it? Albert hurt his ankle 2 nights ago and went 0-3 last night, dropping his average down to .316 while Votto is up to around .329 now. However, it would be foolish to count The Machine out of anything.

In other news, Justin Morneau still needs more time from that concussion as the Twins hold onto that 4 game lead vs the White Sox and Manny. The good news is that they still have Mauer, who is 1 of only 3 players to have more walks than K's (Miggy Cabrera and Daric Barton are the other 2) in the AL.

Derek Jeter was finally demoted to the #2 spot as Gardner rightfully takes the leadoff spot as he should have done all season (I've always said Girardi is not a good manager, great example there), /golfclap.

Marquee matchup tonight: Jimenez vs Lincecum as both teams are chasing the Phils in the wildcard and desparate for a win. Oswalt vs Kershaw should also be a great rubber game. In the AL, Marcum vs Price and Scherzer vs Liriano should be good ones too.
 
Nine run seventh inning explosion carries the Phils past the Rockies. Sure, it's Coors Field, but Howard and especially Chase Utely are finally showing signs of life after coming back from injuries.

If those two and Jimmy Rollins catch fire, the Phils will be tough to beat down the stretch.

The Braves are are a hella good team, but if the Phils offense returns to form that two game NL East lead the Braves have will be hard to hold onto.
 
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