Archive for April, 2009
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009The Phils worked through a short, weary pen and injuries to Cole Hamels, Brad Lidge and Carlos Ruiz in their series against the Nationals, riding their high-powered offense to wins in the first two games of the set. Chad Durbin gave them 3 2/3 innings of critical relief in game two, saving a pen […]
Desperate search for that guy selling O’s for a nickel finally pays off
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Here’s hoping last night’s O’s didn’t cost the Phillies a lot more than a nickel.
An ankle injured kept Cole Hamels from making it out of the fifth inning last night as the Phillies won their fifth-straight game. What he did do before he left, though, was keep the Nationals off the board. For […]
And if they could get the starters getting some people out, maybe the Phillies would only need one grand slam a game
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009If you say it out loud — Hamels, Myers, Blanton, Moyer, Park — it sure doesn’t sound like the Phillies should have the worst starting rotation in baseball. And yet so far in 2009, almost inarguably, they have. Opponents have hit .326 against Phillies’ starters, the worst mark in all of baseball. […]
Never be closing
Monday, April 27th, 2009The Florida Marlins quickly jumped on top of the NL East to start 2009, but there’s a couple of things they might want to iron out before anybody writes them into the World Series. Twice in the first two games of the three-game set the Marlins took a lead into the ninth inning. […]
Phillies doing their best to ensure one will not be the loneliest number for long
Friday, April 24th, 2009Apparently the Phils are unsatisfied with baseball and think expansion into the one-breeding business is the way to go. Soon we’ll have ‘em running around everywhere. It’ll be like our own little Weeble village, but with ones instead of weebles. It’s what we’ll have in town instead of a successful baseball team. […]
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