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Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread
| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 07 2009 12:36 PM |
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Game 1 starts in a few minutes, Jiminez vs. Lee. Colorado is vulnerable to LH pitchers, this series is not a good match for them, but good luck all the same!
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| metirish Oct 07 2009 12:47 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Rockies with two hits in the first , nothign to show for it but a promising start.....they get this game who knows.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 07 2009 01:49 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Scoreless through 4 and a half, 3 hits apeice. Just watching the boxscore, but the play of the day so far is Werth throwing out Torreabla at 3B for a DP after Torreabla doubled in the 2nd. Nothing doing since then.
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| metirish Oct 07 2009 02:31 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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5-0 tot he Phillies in the 6th.....
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| TransMonk Oct 07 2009 02:53 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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BOO!!
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 08 2009 11:23 AM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Game 2 at 2:30 today: Cook vs. Hamels. I expressed admiration for the way the Phillies built their team in the preview thread but the Rockies are no slouches in player development themselves. Today's lineup: Gonzalez, acquired in the Holliday-Houston Street trade Fowler: 14th round Rockies draft pick, 2004 Helton: 1st round, 1995 Tulowitzski: 1st round, 2005 Atkins: 5th round, 2000 Torreabla: Trade from Seattle Spillborghs: 7th round, 2002 Barmes, 10th round, 2000 Cook: 2nd round, 1997 When Ianetta catches and Seth Smith or Brad Hawpe subs for Gonzalez, the Rockies can go with an all-homegrown starting 9.
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| Frayed Knot Oct 08 2009 12:48 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Early 1-0 lead for the Rox courtesy of some less-than-crisp defense from the normally reliable Phils infield gloves Single - steal (on a botched pickoff) - sac bunt - then a dribbler where Hamels attempted to get the runner coming home but was too late Tulowitski then GiDP'd so there was no further damage
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 08 2009 02:49 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Yorvit Torrealba harnesses...
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| Ashie62 Oct 08 2009 02:57 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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These teams both suck
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 08 2009 03:40 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Well, I'll say this much for the Philly bullpen-- it gives Charlie Manuel something to do. After burning through Joe Blanton (1 IP), JA Happ (LOOGY appearance?), and Scott Eyre (1 IP), he yanks Brett Myers after the old charmer loads the bases for PH Jason Giambi. Antonio Bastardo ends the threat with a strikeout. 5-3, Coloradans after 7 1/2.
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| attgig Oct 08 2009 03:55 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"]Yorvit Torrealba harnesses...
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 08 2009 04:20 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Rocks hold on 5-4.
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| Frayed Knot Oct 08 2009 04:51 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":2dph5hlw]Well, I'll say this much for the Philly bullpen-- it gives Charlie Manuel something to do. After burning through Joe Blanton (1 IP), JA Happ (LOOGY appearance?), and Scott Eyre (1 IP), he yanks Brett Myers after the old charmer loads the bases for PH Jason Giambi. Antonio Bastardo ends the threat with a strikeout. 5-3, Coloradans after 7 1/2.[/quote:2dph5hlw] Happ took a liner off the shin and was pulled on account of that. He looked like he wanted to continue but Uncle Charlie wouldn't let him. So he was replaced with fellow lefty Eyre. Bastardo for Myers was a L/R switch specifically for Giambi. Then in the 9th after Stairs got on via a 1-out walk, Manual tapped Cliff Lee to pinch-run. I guess stealing a base yesterday got him the part-time pr job.
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| Kong76 Oct 08 2009 05:59 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Nothing wrong with going into the defending champion's building and splittin' the first two! Go Rockies!
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 08 2009 06:40 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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[quote="Frayed Knot":3u8xit83] Happ took a liner off the shin and was pulled on account of that. He looked like he wanted to continue but Uncle Charlie wouldn't let him. So he was replaced with fellow lefty Eyre. Bastardo for Myers was a L/R switch specifically for Giambi.[/quote:3u8xit83] Just saw that. The Rox had a shot to break it open in the eighth when they put the first two on, until they decided to sac bunt with the guy who hit a 2-run homer earlier and the bottom of the order coming up. That said, with a slightly achy Happ (x-rays negative) probably being held out (right?), it looks like a coinflip between Pedro and Fatty for Game 3. If Manuel's smart, he'll go with Blanton (who only threw 19 pitches). I'm hoping he goes the other way.
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| metirish Oct 09 2009 02:29 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Manuel goes with Pedro for Game 3 .
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| Frayed Knot Oct 09 2009 02:47 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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The weather for Sat night in Colorado (I think it's 5:30 start - local time) is expected to be around 30-degrees and maybe snowing. There's a good chance the game doesn't get played at which point a whole different set of pitching possibilities open up. Sunday, in typical Denver - if you don't like the weather just wait a few hours - fashion, it's expected to be back in the 60s
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 09 2009 03:48 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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[quote="metirish":2w02ls5g]Manuel goes with Pedro for Game 3 .[/quote:2w02ls5g] 4.97 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, .820 opponent OPS, 14 ER in 25 innings. I'm okay with this.
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| Frayed Knot Oct 10 2009 05:38 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Game 3 postponed in Denver long before they ever got near game-time. That allows the Phils to NOT start Pedro when the game is played on Sunday night ([u:n7yp3m4p]10[/u:n7yp3m4p] PM EDT) and I suspect the unlikelihood of that game ever being played was half the reason they scheduled him in the first place. Happ will go instead. And so after getting complaints about the starting times on account of trying to stuff three games in on Wednesday, they wind up with only one played on Saturday.
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| Ashie62 Oct 10 2009 07:36 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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boring
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 11 2009 08:58 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Chutley does his best-player-in-baseball-not-named-Pujols thing with a bomb to center, and the Rockies chip back in the bottom of the inning as Happ starts off in exceedingly shaky fashion (40 pitches, 4 hits, 1 RBI groundout in the first). Unfortunately, though, he seems to have settled. Still, 2-1 MileHighClub after 2.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 11 2009 09:17 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Garrett Atkins wants your offseason dollars-- his second hit of the game's a double over Pricktorino's flat noggin, scoring the Old Man of the Mountains from first. 3-1, forces of relative Good, after 3. And Happ's got MAYBE 1-2 more innings in him.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 11 2009 09:43 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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I forgot: when he's not cruising and striking dudes out like you read about, Jason Hammel sucks. To the tune of bases-loaded, nobody out walks to Raul Ibanez, and RBI singles to the bottom of the lineup. Even a 1-2-3 DP can't keep the Phils from tying and pulling ahead. 4-3 after 3 1/2, and we're into the Rox pen.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 11 2009 09:56 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Carlos Gonzalez hits a home run. That's cold. Because it's outdoors, and it's 30 degrees. 5 innings to go. All even. New pitchers for both squads. It's like this is a video game simulation, and someone hit "reset" and set the game on "crappier pitching."
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 11 2009 10:56 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Jose Contreras is on this team? Christ, this team is like the Island of Misfit AL Starters/Relievers. Anyway, league talent gap aside, he still stinks. So, like most stinky pitchers, he gives up hits, which lead to a run. Meanwhile, bad news for the Rockies: all Rockies not named Carlos Gonzalez or Garrett Atkins have gone ice-cold. The good news? Gonzalez is up this inning. He doubles. 5-4, "heart" of the order coming up with no out, bottom 7.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2009 05:39 AM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Terrific recap, but I came here to find out how it ended! (looks it up) Fuk.
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| Fman99 Oct 12 2009 06:52 AM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket":3gyu5ex5]Terrific recap, but I came here to find out how it ended! (looks it up) Fuk.[/quote:3gyu5ex5] I can't even watch to root against them, they make me sick. Between this and the A-Rod resurgence the 2009 postseason is setting up like a bucket of Nickolodeon-style grolph propped at the top of a door jam, waiting to drop on my head while I make a stupid face.
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| metirish Oct 12 2009 07:00 AM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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I recall G-Rod having a great ALDS against the Twins a few years back and then nothing.......I hope the same hold true now.
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| Frayed Knot Oct 12 2009 08:16 AM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 12 2009 08:27 AM |
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Huston Street piles on the evidence that it's 'Bad Closer Week'* in MLB. Not that he got smacked all over the park, but he came into a tied game in top 9 and went: Single (Rollins) - Bunt (Victorino) - Infield Single (Utley) - Sac Fly (Howard) for what turned out to be the winning run. He then walked Werth but got the 3rd out. Manual went to Lidge for the save (had already used Blanton, Durbin, Eyre & Madson) in bottom 9. He gave up 2 walks and a stolen base but got Tulowitski on a fly out to end the game. But of course nobody saw any of this because the game didn't end until past 2 o'clock in the freakin' morning (EDT). A 10:07 first pitch and a 4 hour 6 minute game. As the saying goes, you do the math. The NYY/Twins game, meanwhile, went 3:25 despite getting through the first 5 innings (of what was practically a double perfect game) in 1:20. So the last 4 innings took over 2 hours. 5 runs were scored total. The Boston/Angels game went 3:49. Bud, you've got a problem. * Ryan Franklin, Jonathan Papelbon & Joe Nathan all blew save opps in the first week of post-season
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| metsguyinmichigan Oct 12 2009 08:21 AM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Sadly, I watched this to the bitter end. Stinking Phils. But thank goodness for 44 oz Diet Coke at Speedway for $1.37, since I don't drink coffee.
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| Frayed Knot Oct 12 2009 08:31 AM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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6:00 game today -- 4:00 local time so the conditions should be a bit better anyway. They got a break from the fact that the other three series all wound up a sweeps so there's no need to shun this series to the ghetto time slots anymore.
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| metirish Oct 12 2009 08:48 AM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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These TBS games have the oddest of starting times...
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| Number 6 Oct 12 2009 01:59 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Even the relatively quickly-paced games are significantly longer, it seems to me, due to the stretching of the typical commercial break from just under 2 minutes to about 3. Combine that with more pitching changes than the average regular season game and that's a lot of extra time.
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| Frayed Knot Oct 12 2009 03:09 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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[quote="Number 6"]Even the relatively quickly-paced games are significantly longer, it seems to me, due to the stretching of the typical commercial break from just under 2 minutes to about 3. Combine that with more pitching changes than the average regular season game and that's a lot of extra time. |
| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 12 2009 03:34 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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To their credit, most of the Phils fans I know aren't gloating about being one-away the same way most of the Yank fans I know were after Game 2 Friday night. Could it be that they realize what a gift they got in the doubly-blown ninth-inning call on Utley, and that braggarts' talk would be gauche? The 2 AM thing may have something to do with it, too.
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| MFS62 Oct 12 2009 06:42 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"]To their credit, most of the Phils fans I know aren't gloating about being one-away the same way most of the Yank fans I know were after Game 2 Friday night. Could it be that they realize what a gift they got in the doubly-blown ninth-inning call on Utley, and that braggarts' talk would be gauche? The 2 AM thing may have something to do with it, too. |
| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2009 06:56 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Nice play by Fowler!
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| metirish Oct 12 2009 06:58 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Fowler going from first to second on a sure DP jumped clear over Utley and is save at second. Needs to be seen really.
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| metirish Oct 12 2009 07:03 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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He'll of a catch from Francisco that saves two runs , Manuel switched him is as part of a double switch .
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2009 07:03 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Gee, I am Bi.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2009 07:05 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Yorvit up your ass, Madson.
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| metirish Oct 12 2009 07:06 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Gotta love this game, Rockies take the lead on hits from Giambi and then Yorvit plates two.
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| metirish Oct 12 2009 07:25 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Nothing but heartburn these closers are.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2009 07:27 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Geez. The Rockies don't deserve this.
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| metirish Oct 12 2009 07:28 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Ah fuck, Howard ties it up
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2009 07:31 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket":2heak4s4]Geez. The Rockies don't deserve this.[/quote:2heak4s4] By 'this' I mean, winning. The Twins and Rockies have really shown some rotten execution this postseason.
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| bmfc1 Oct 12 2009 07:32 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Papelbon yesterday, Street today. Makes you wonder if it's worth giving any closer, other than Rivera (sorry), big money.
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| metirish Oct 12 2009 07:36 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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2001 baby
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| metirish Oct 12 2009 07:40 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Bang bang play my arse , Young was out by a foot.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2009 07:51 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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And the Phillies win the damn thing.
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| metirish Oct 12 2009 07:52 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Gotta hate this game at times.
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| Fman99 Oct 12 2009 08:07 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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Huston Street, you just made the list.
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| Frayed Knot Oct 12 2009 08:21 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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At least we got one non-sweep out of this round. MLB (and their TV partners) are definitely getting hit with short series lately. Long games but short series aren't a good combination. Need to reverse that. This one was a pretty good series over all. 3 of the 4 games were close and the final two ending with Lidge getting Tulowitski w/tying & winning runs on base makes for some good drama.
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| Number 6 Oct 12 2009 10:26 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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It seems that any team I pull for this season falls apart rather spectacularly.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 12 2009 11:14 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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[quote="Number 6":bfzenr5s]It seems that any team I pull for this season falls apart rather spectacularly.[/quote:bfzenr5s] Please root for the Yanks and Phils this round.
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| Number 6 Oct 12 2009 11:52 PM Re: Phillies-Rockies In-Serious Thread |
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[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":nfwsfbcv]Please root for the Yanks and Phils this round.[/quote:nfwsfbcv] Considering that made me throw up in my mouth a little.
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... launching a two-run shot off the popped-collar'd one. 4-0 Rox after 5 1/2.
EDIT: And 4-3 after three straight hits chase Aaron Cook. A nicely-turned double-play stanches the bleeding with two on and one out. 6 complete, bottom of the order coming up for the Mile-High Club.