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Monday, October 03, 2011
The Phillies entered the 2011 postseason with high hopes behind the strength of their four aces.
The Cardinals got to one of them Sunday in Game 2 of the National League Division Series. Cliff Lee, who was a postseason hero for the Phils in 2009, tied a career high by allowing 12 hits and gave up five runs in six-plus innings in a 5-4 loss to St. Louis, evening the best-of-five series at 1.
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The Phils’ offense went into hibernation after the second. Carpenter retired the last four batters he faced and the bullpen retired 11 consecutive batters until Rollins singled to left in the seventh. He was caught stealing to end the inning.
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1. phredbirdA good throw nails Craig at home right? I was surprised they sent him until I saw it was Raul in left.
Think you're thinking about theriot, who is incredibly slow? I can't see Craig getting thrown out from second on a roller like that. He's faster than he looks.
Earlier in the game, jay should have been safe, but he decided to try to knock Ruiz down instead of slide. Point to Ibanez on that one, though probably undeserved.
my thoughts exactly. he couldn't go head first on the first base side and reach for it?
Yeah, good point.
OTOH, he should have had someone from the on-deck circle gesticulating madly at him to "Slide, JJ, Slide!" And, WAY Over THERE -----> .
I cringed at "Ryan Pujols"
Honestly though I'll take Stockton/Brenly over just about anyone else likely to call these games, to be honest.
Lies.
/sarcasm
I like Brenly, however, even though it could be a result of listening to him all season for the last seven seasons. He still gets a lot of #### for being a bad manager, but he's improved a lot as a commentator.
This is brilliant.
He still gets a lot of #### for being a bad manager, but he's improved a lot as a commentator.
I agree with this completely. In particular, I think Brenly and Kasper are outstanding together.
Intense game and an excellent performance by the STL bullpen. They've got a shot.
I can carbon-date him back to 1970, when he did the halftime "show" for CBS from the Cotton Bowl field at the Lions/Cowboys playoff game.
A Chooch-hater? Sir, you must be a very, very bitter man. I can see hating Victorino, Utley, Rollins, heck even Howard. But Ruiz????
I, on the other hand, am only available during the regular year.*
* Note that I, too, thought he did a good job yesterday. And he actually called it the regular season twice that I heard.
I wasn't watching; what'd he say?
I'm no LaRussa fan but in that case he was right and Brenly was right to agree. Lee was getting the low inside corner called strike; Carpenter wasn't.
It reminded me of the 2010 Orange Bowl (Iowa-Georgia Tech) where I thought he would stumble all over the place but instead was quite good. In that game he did screw up and say that Iowa had last won one of the BCS bowl games in 1991 (it was actually 1959) but that bit of errata was probably fed to him by someone else. I guess if you give him a lot of time to prepare for one game in a sport he still has it.
Yep, this is the key point. There was a pause after LaRussa said it where it felt like Brenly was thinking "huh?", but then just ended up agreeing with him out of general wussiness.
LaRussa is a real jerk. It's one thing to work the umpires; it's another to tell a national audience that you think the other team is winning only because of the umpires. Show some respect for your opponent in a public forum, and then ##### from the dugout.
He was but his command is irrelevant. Whether he wanted to or not, he put several pitches at the knees and on the black that were called balls; Lee's pitches at the same location were called strikes. Fair enough on Brenly being chickenshit, but then again he didn't just drop it, either. Once he agreed with LaRussa he didn't get wishy-washy about it later.
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