Phillies offense thru 5 innings:

Phillies only down 2-1 after 5 but have had 13 straight hitters retired:

The Phillies offense in the 6th:

phillies offense watching Sanchez thru 6:

Phillies getting a hit after 18 straight retired batters and JT brings home Stott but still down 3-2:

Banks in the 7th to keep it at 3-2:

Phillies fans getting frustrated at the offense in the 8th:

Thomson pinch hitter Stevenson for Rojas with Bohm and Sosa on the bench. And he gets a walk:

Phillies with risp in the 8th:

F Turner

Thomson bringing in Ruiz in a 1 run game in the 8th:

Thomson after Ruiz has a 1-2-3 8th inning in a high leverage situation:

And the Phillies lose 3-2:

12 pitch inning to end the game. Fitting.

It’s not their year. 

So tomorrow let’s go tropic thunder or step brothers 

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

So tomorrow let’s go tropic thunder or step brothers 

I’m cool with either one. Well done tonight. 

Tired of Marsh, GOODNIGHT!!

Phils offense make any average pitcher look like Roger Clemens in his prime. 3 hits and 14 strikeouts for the night collectively. This offense will not go anywhere in the playoffs like this.

17 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Loser Mentality

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5 hours ago, DrPhilly said:

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Loser team

Well now the season is really over

https://www.si.com/mlb/phillies/news/philadelphia-phillies-infielder-suffers-season-ending-injury

According to Matt Gelb of The Athletic, Rodolfo Castro will now miss the rest of the year after tearing a ligament in his right thumb this week.

 

correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't this "hitting season" ?

 

It's pretty simple to me - early in the season the Phillies beat up on trash teams on the way to a great record.  The schedule has been significantly harder in the second half, with much better pitching, and they're struggling.  They are closer to a .500 team than they are to the nearly .600 winning % they currently have.  They still haven't fixed their issues going back to when they got no-hit against the Astros in the World Series - they chase way too many pitches out of the zone and make it way too easy for these pitchers to get through innings without laboring at all.  

One other thing I noticed last night - once JT hit that double and Stott scored to get us within one, Snediker immediately went to the pen.  Up to that point Schwellenbach had been dominating us, but the minute Snediker sensed it was starting to unravel for him, he yanked him.  Topper would have left him in for at least 2-3 more batters and lost the lead in the process.  He sometimes trusts these guys WAY too much - can't sense when it's time to be a manager and stop trying to be everyone's buddy.  

Oh look, Marsh in the starting lineup again. I see at least 12 k's tonight with Marsh having 3 of them.