Philadelphia Phillies: 64-56
Los Angeles Dodgers: 61-59
Brett Myers (5-9 5.09 ERA, 3-1 2.76 ERA)
Hiroki Kuroda (6-8 4.02 ERA, 0-0 -.-- ERA)
Projected lineups
Rollins SS N/A
Werth CF N/A
Utley 2B N/A
Howard 1B N/A
Burrell LF N/A
Dobbs 3B N/A
Jenkins RF N/A
Coste C N/A
Myers P
Kemp CF 1/3, .333/.333/.333
Ethier RF 0/0, .000/1.000/.000
Kent 2B 5/12, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .417/.500/.917
Ramirez LF 3/13, 1 HR, 8 RBI, .231/.353/.615
Loney 1B 0/1
Garciaparra SS 1/8, 3 RBI, .111/.200/.222
Martin C 0/3, .000/.250/.000
Blake 3B N/A
Kuroda P
They have to salvage this last game or this road trip is already a pretty unfortunate failure. People were worried that the improved Dodgers would provide problems, and they were proven correct. They outpitched the Phillies early in the series, and they outhit the Phillies last night. Six runs should usually be enough to win, but when you don't get a hit after the 4th inning, I'm not sure the offense did its job. It got shut down by pitchers such as Jason Johnson and Chan Ho Park.
I think the outrage over Rollins' frontrunners remark is funny. I hate to criticize other people in this great fanbase, but he's completely correct. If you don't play well, the player gets booed. It's fact. They acknowledge it. Fans acknowledge it. Fans say all the time that they boo because they're passionate about sports. When you're booing a guy who's playing poorly but will cheer when he's hot, that's playing exactly into what Jimmy's saying! He probably shouldn't have said it, but he's 100% correct.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Rollins And Snelling DL'd; Harman And Bohn Up
The Phillies' website tells us more.
Obviously, Jimmy Rollins has that ankle injury that he suffered in the Mets' home opener. The organization didn't handle this one very well. It was initially diagnosed as an ankle sprain, and even though Rollins wants to play badly, they have to hold him out of the games. That's not the kind of injury you can just come back from immediately, and he could've spent these past couple weeks rehabbing. It left the Phillies short a man on the bench, and no one benefited from how this was handled. You can make the case that he won't be back in 15 days anyway, but the will he or won't he dramatics didn't help anyone.
Chris Snelling was hurt, and no one knew. It's a knee injury, so who knows when he'll be back. He hit that home run which was great, and I like him on the roster over So Taguchi.
Brad Harman will take the place of Rollins on the roster for the time being. He was the only other infielder on the 40 man roster, so it made sense to bring him up. He's swinging the bat pretty poorly right now, but there's a question of whether or not he'll actually play at all. His prospect status is decent because of his bat, not his glove. That's not good news for people who aren't happy with Bruntlett's glove. He probably won't be able to play SS in the majors.
Bohn was claimed on waivers late last season. He has decent speed and a decent glove, which is probably okay for a backup OF. I doubt he'll play that much.
Obviously, Jimmy Rollins has that ankle injury that he suffered in the Mets' home opener. The organization didn't handle this one very well. It was initially diagnosed as an ankle sprain, and even though Rollins wants to play badly, they have to hold him out of the games. That's not the kind of injury you can just come back from immediately, and he could've spent these past couple weeks rehabbing. It left the Phillies short a man on the bench, and no one benefited from how this was handled. You can make the case that he won't be back in 15 days anyway, but the will he or won't he dramatics didn't help anyone.
Chris Snelling was hurt, and no one knew. It's a knee injury, so who knows when he'll be back. He hit that home run which was great, and I like him on the roster over So Taguchi.
Brad Harman will take the place of Rollins on the roster for the time being. He was the only other infielder on the 40 man roster, so it made sense to bring him up. He's swinging the bat pretty poorly right now, but there's a question of whether or not he'll actually play at all. His prospect status is decent because of his bat, not his glove. That's not good news for people who aren't happy with Bruntlett's glove. He probably won't be able to play SS in the majors.
Bohn was claimed on waivers late last season. He has decent speed and a decent glove, which is probably okay for a backup OF. I doubt he'll play that much.
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