July 28, 20241 yr 26 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: Frankly that’s only part of the problem. Like I posted in the tweet, they haven’t scored a run outside of a homerun since Wednesday. This series they are 2 for 16. Going to see the same outcome they had in the nlcs where they hit .230 but outside of game 2 they were .159. Life is too short. I'll just enjoy the ride... and not fear the possible crash at the end.
July 28, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said: Life is too short. I'll just enjoy the ride... and not fear the possible crash at the end. The crash ending might not exist if the Phillies decide to actually make the move they don’t want to make. Castro wasn’t the solution last deadline and an actual bat vs. dbacks may have been the difference in multiple games that series. might be looking at the same issue this postseason cause they went with the lesser and cheaper solution
July 28, 20241 yr 10 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: 3-6 not what we wanted to see I’m thinking they go 9-13 in this 22 game stretch. Like I keep going back to the NLCS last year and their postseason. They couldn’t hit with runners and scoring position. It was all about the homers and when they dried up, they really struggled. we can hate kimbrel and put some blame on him but the Phillies went 0-4 in game 3 with RISP. You go 1-4 or 2-4 that game is not tied at 1 and more wiggle room. Scoring 1 run and expecting to win is a tough way to win. Game 4 if the Phillies weren’t 2-7 with RISP. They easily should’ve had more than 5 runs in that game. This doesn’t take away from the fact that Kimbrell was bad in that series. But their risp was an issue all playoffs but covered up due to the amount of HRs they were hitting
July 28, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: I’m thinking they go 9-13 in this 22 game stretch. Like I keep going back to the NLCS last year and their postseason. They couldn’t hit with runners and scoring position. It was all about the homers and when they dried up, they really struggled. we can hate kimbrel and put some blame on him but the Phillies went 0-4 in game 3 with RISP. You go 1-4 or 2-4 that game is not tied at 1 and more wiggle room. Scoring 1 run and expecting to win is a tough way to win. Game 4 if the Phillies weren’t 2-7 with RISP. They easily should’ve had more than 5 runs in that game. This doesn’t take away from the fact that Kimbrell was bad in that series. But their risp was an issue all playoffs but covered up due to the amount of HRs they were hitting They will lose the next 2 series pretty easily
July 28, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, GoEagles5921 said: They will lose the next 2 series pretty easily Frankly I’d be surprised that 10 game road trip to Seattle, dodgers and dbacks if they go better than 3-7 with how they are hitting.
July 29, 20241 yr 28 minutes ago, mikemack8 said: Hit's the nail on the head here I agree with going in on pitching. Because you could never have enough of it. But at some point in time you have to score runs. They lost games 3,6 and 7 because they couldn’t score runs and pitching was asked to win games when they scored one, one and two runs. It’s really hard to win in the series when you’re only gonna score in four runs in 3 games and the dbacks begin pitching around your stars. you can say well stars don’t step up, teams are going to pitch around your stars if the guys around them aren’t good enough or aren’t consistent enough. That’s what the dbacks kinda did after game two. You think they’re gonna pitch up Bryce Harper when they don’t have to pitch the Bryce Harper? no. We can say the hitting doesn’t have that silver bullet but when your solution to trying to fix the hitting woes (replacing hoskins and a terrible hole in your five hole) are Castro, Austin Hays, and with merrifield your solution hasn’t been very good. Frankly, you’ve gone on the cheaper method of fixing it. at the end of the day if you wanna go that route, you usually get what you pay for. example: Alex Bohm comes up runner at 2nd with realmuto behind him. Why am i going to pitch to Bohm who’s good with RISP and driving guys in? Meanwhile realmuto is hitting .167 with RISP behind him. I’m gonna either pitch around Bohm and see if he chases out of frustration or just not let him beat me cause the analytics say realmuto is far likely not to do damage and if he does tip of my cap
July 29, 20241 yr 28 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: I agree with going in on pitching. Because you could never have enough of it. But at some point in time you have to score runs. They lost games 3,6 and 7 because they couldn’t score runs and pitching was asked to win games when they scored one, one and two runs. It’s really hard to win in the series when you’re only gonna score in four runs in 3 games and the dbacks begin pitching around your stars. you can say well stars don’t step up, teams are going to pitch around your stars if the guys around them aren’t good enough or aren’t consistent enough. That’s what the dbacks kinda did after game two. You think they’re gonna pitch up Bryce Harper when they don’t have to pitch the Bryce Harper? no. We can say the hitting doesn’t have that silver bullet but when your solution to trying to fix the hitting woes (replacing hoskins and a terrible hole in your five hole) are Castro, Austin Hays, and with merrifield your solution hasn’t been very good. Frankly, you’ve gone on the cheaper method of fixing it. at the end of the day if you wanna go that route, you usually get what you pay for. example: Alex Bohm comes up runner at 2nd with realmuto behind him. Why am i going to pitch to Bohm who’s good with RISP and driving guys in? Meanwhile realmuto is hitting .167 with RISP behind him. I’m gonna either pitch around Bohm and see if he chases out of frustration or just not let him beat me cause the analytics say realmuto is far likely not to do damage and if he does tip of my cap I don't think Stolnis is saying he's happy about the current situation, just that the way this roster is currently constructed, this is likely what we're going to get. You could even go a step further and say WHY do the stars all seem to go through slumps like this at times? I think it's because of their approach at the plate, which comes down to coaching. We all know that these guys can hit - when Harper, Turner, Schwarber, and even Castellanos are completely locked in, they're unstoppable. When they aren't they press, they chase bad pitches, and they don't ever settle for just making contact. Every swing is trying to hit a HR.
July 29, 20241 yr 37 minutes ago, mikemack8 said: I don't think Stolnis is saying he's happy about the current situation, just that the way this roster is currently constructed, this is likely what we're going to get. You could even go a step further and say WHY do the stars all seem to go through slumps like this at times? I think it's because of their approach at the plate, which comes down to coaching. We all know that these guys can hit - when Harper, Turner, Schwarber, and even Castellanos are completely locked in, they're unstoppable. When they aren't they press, they chase bad pitches, and they don't ever settle for just making contact. Every swing is trying to hit a HR. I think they have larger slumps because they’re missing a bat in that lineup; Guys behind Bohm and Harper who can consistently protect them and teams fear so they have to pitch to them. People hated Rhys but he grinded at bats and saw a lot of pitches which helped with mistakes being made to guys in front or behind him. go look at the Phillies production out of the 5 hole this year. It’s either realmuto who hits .167 with RISP. Marsh who hits .158 in the 5th spot. Stott who is hitting .194 out of the 5 hole. Castellanos is the one guy who’s hit well in the 5th spot at .274. Granted I’m high leverage spots he’s hitting .206. Also they don’t want to use him at 5 hole when everyone is healthy and he’s super streaky so teams are willing to make Castellanos beat them. bohm RBI have gone down since first two months of the year. Why? Because teams aren’t giving him the same pitches consistently anymore. He had 47 rbi after may. He has 33 in June and July (just 12 in July). They’re saying to themselves why am I going to allow Bryce Harper and Alec Bohm to consistently beat me (they’ve shown they can) when I don’t believe the guy behind them can hit well enough consistently to do it. That’s what happened in the nlcs after game 2 outside of game 5 where Harper and schwarber got hold of pitches (if i remember correctly the Harper wasn’t a great pitch but he got it). Harper didn’t look good this weekend. He was 1 for 16 but some of that is you saw with the pitches he got. Yesterday he only got 1 pitch that he could do damage with and he missed it late in the game. I’ve said this for a while now you don’t lose a guy who on average the last 3 years with the Phillies hit 30 HRs and 80 RBI (would’ve been your 5 hole hitter— he’s not Harper but he gives quality at bats every time and makes pitchers work) then your replacements for him are Austin Hays, Castro and Merrifield. That’s not good enough. It’s never been good enough. It’s why all last year and during the offseason i said go get an impact bat for the middle of your lineup otherwise you are going to run into the same issue during the playoffs. If you do it might still happen but can say at least we made a better effort then what they’ve tried also everyone keeps saying well if they had an extra bullpen arm, they could’ve beat in the diamondbacks. If you had an extra bat like a Hoskins and he goes off like he did against Atlanta you also would’ve likely beaten the diamondbacks. No offense I have less problem with the bullpen losing a 2-1 game when you can only score one run and blew a ton of RISP chances to bust it open. If you are banking on winning games with 1 or 2 runs you are going to lose more often then not. yesterday is a perfect example. The bullpen went five innings and gave up only one run. Meanwhile, our hitters had one hit the final 5 2/3 of the game. Even if I had another bullpen arm, it wouldn’t make a difference as we could’ve played another 5-6 innings with how they were hitting and not done anything even if they gave us a runner at 2nd.
July 29, 20241 yr Off to a good start tonight yup we are gonna get our asses kicked especially cause wheeler is doing his best 2023 nola impersonation
July 29, 20241 yr Like to point out it’s been 7.2 innings since our last base hit. And 8 innings since our last run.
July 29, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: Like to point out it’s been 7.2 innings since our last base hit. And 8 innings since our last run. We did it!!!! We got a hit!!
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