We won on Saturday. We won yesterday, that's two in a row. If we win again today, that's called a winning streak. It has happened before!
I never thought 6-11 would look so good. Now the Phillies need to take a visit to Apu Nahasapeemapetilon at the nearest 7Eleven and get that record closer to .500. Howard homered, Utley doubled, Garcia got the win. All is right with the universe. Let's hope Adam Eaton can continue this new thing the Phillies have discovered: winningAnd it always seem unnecessary to complain about managerial moves when a team wins. The ultimate goal of a baseball game is to win, and if a team can accomplish this, there shouldn't be any reason to criticize the manager. This, however, should not pertain to the Phillies trusty skipper, Mr. Charles Manuel. I just have a few questions/complaints about Sunday's game
- Why is a bench player, Greg Dobbs, batting ahead of Aaron Rowand, who has the 7th highest batting average in the National League? Manuel's reasoning is probably the whole lefty vs righty situation that is completely overblown by everyone in baseball, especially Charlie.
- Freddy Garcia was brought to Philadelphia to be a workhorse and eat innings. Then why the hell did Manuel take him out of the game in the 6th inning when he only threw 89 pitches? He may have let the first two men on, but this team is going to need their starters to go deeper than 5 innings if they are going to have a shot at winning. And don't give me give me a "he was on a pitch count" answer. I hate pitch counts and the pussy pitchers who live and die by them.
- Along with the above argument, when there are two men on base with no outs, you would hope for a strikeout. Now, why did Manuel bring in our only reliever who has yet to strike someone out? Not to mention that Matt Smith is the worst reliever we have. He may have gotten through 2/3 of the batters he faced, but why does Manuel keep giving the ball to him in tight situations?
- Another bullpen query. I wasn't watching the last 2 innings of the game, but why was Brett Myers in the game in the ninth during a mop-up situation? Shouldn't someone like Rosario be pitching here? Why waste our best pitcher (he still is) with a 7 RUN LEAD!!!
- Does Gillick, a supposed baseball man, see these obvious faulty moves? And these aren't even big faults of his. He has had MUCH worse.
Who's thirsty for a slurpy?
5 comments:
With Garcia still working his way back from injury, I can kind of understand Manuel pulling him after 89 pitches.
But Dobbs batting ahead of Rowand and using Smith, who can't seem to get LH OR RH out, in that situation were both extremely questionable moves.
Myers in the 9th with a big lead? Yikes. That was totally inexplicable.
Should have been Madson or Rosario at that point.
Still, TWO IN A ROW!!
We better be 7-11 after tonight's game against the Ass-tros.
Manuel continues to make dumbass more after retarded decision. Myers should have never pitched the 9th yesterday- it's not like he "needs the work".
Hollywood should have definitley quit while they were ahead in terms of Major League II, but it did have its moments.
Manuel's argument for using Myers in the 9th was that he was already warmed up. It does seem rather stupid to waste some of Brett's bullets in a mop up situtation in the 9th, but that is why the Phillies pay Charlie Manuel the small bucks! He is a growed up boy after all.
Do we dare hope for a 3 game winning streak tonight?
I'm not sure hope is the right word... it's more like praying for three.
I'll do my part tonight. I'm heading to the game in an hour to see if the Phillies can start a little streak.
I played hooky from work today and went to Sea Isle. So look for me on TV...I'll be the one with a sunburn.
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