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LEE AND HOWARD DOWN METS
LEE AND HOWARD DOWN METS
by Max Blue
http://maxblue3.tripod.com
So this is how it’s to be:
a win every fifth day from Cliff Lee,
and when Howard unloads,
let’s face it, all roads
lead to one more grand jubilee.
Monday, August 24, 2009. Citi Field, New York, New York
Philadelphia – 6, New York Mets – 2.
WP - Lee (5-0), LP – Parnell (3-6).
H – Park (8).
HR – Howard – 2 (34), 1st, 2 on, 3rd, 1 on
PARK KEYS MOYER WIN
PARK KEYS MOYER WIN
by Max Blue
http://maxblue3.tripod.com
Chan Ho Park’s relief was the key,
blanked the Reds in a tidy and crisp three.
Speaking of Parks, Utley hit one inside,
then Dusty Baker cried
when Werth capped the night, don’t you see?
Thursday, July 7, 2009. Citizens Bank Park. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia – 9, Cincinnati – 6.
WP – Moyer (8-6), LP – Owings (6-9).
H – Park (6). S – Lidge (17).
HR – Encarnation (2), 4th; Phillips (14), 5th, 1 on.
Utley (20), 3rd, inside-the-park; Werth (20), 6th.
Moyer’s 254th career win, tied with Jack Morris and Red Faber for number 40 on all-time list.
Victorino received 15.6 million votes to win final All-Star spot.
Phillies have four players with 20 or more homeruns, only the second team (2000 Toronto) to achieve this before the All-Star break.
ORDER RESTORED
ORDER RESTORED
by Max Blue
http:maxblue3.tripod.com
At last the team’s back on its feet;
to watch Lidge close it, a treat.
Moyer went five for the win,
Park, Madson, and Lidge then pitched in,
and the Champs took big step to repeat.
Sunday, June 28, 2009. Rogers Centre, Toronto, Canada
Philadelphia – 5, Toronto – 4.
WP – Moyer (6-6), LP – Tallet (5-5)
H – Park (4); Madson (14).
S – Lidge (14)
HR – Aaron Hill – 2 (19), 1st, 3rd; Jose Bautista (2), 2nd, 1 on.
DON’T BLAME MAX
DON’T BLAME MAX
by Max Blue
What can I say? I tried out six hats;
Did my best to wake up Phils’ bats.
Hamels outpitched by Jays’ rook;
Ejected when questioned ump’s look.
Team seems cursed by black cats.
Friday, June 26, 2009. Rogers Centre, Toronto, Canada.
Toronto – 6, Philadelphia – 1.
WP – R. Romero (5-3), LP – Hamels (4-4)
More bad news: Brad Lidge returned, but was awful. He threw 24 wildly ineffective pitches; walked two, gave up two hits, and threw wildly to catcher Ruiz on a potential 1-2-3 doubleplay ball. His ERA stands at 7.86. J.C. Romero relieved Lidge and walked in a run. Chan Ho Park relieved Hamels with two out in the fifth and got the final out, but at great cost: a smash off his knee that he managed to retrieve in time for the out at first. Toronto rookie lefthander Ricky Romero took a no-hitter into the seventh before Utley singled to lead it off. Werth followed with a hit, and Ryan Howard hit a rocket that was short-hopped by Toronto second baseman Hill in a blind backhand stab that became an easy doubleplay. Black cats.
The team is gasping, but so is the rest of the NL East. In spite of losing nine of ten to AL teams, they continue to lead the division by a half game over the Mets.
SIX IN SEVENTH SINKS SOX
SIX IN SEVENTH SINKS SOX
by Max Blue
Another comeback win for the Champs,
helped by well-known Francona brain cramps.
J-Roll homered in seventh to break tie,
five runs followed, my-oh-my.
Park and Mad Dog then turned out Sox lamps.
Sunday, June 14, 2009. Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia – 11, Boston – 6.
WP – Chan Ho Park (3-1), LP – Beckett (7-3).
HR – Baldelli (3), 2nd; Green (3), 2nd; Beckett (1), 6th.
Rollins (5), 7th.
Cramp one: Fifth inning, Josh Beckett dominating Phillies with 95 mph heat and knee-buckling curve ball, cruising with 4-1 lead. Shane Victorino, bless his Flyin’ Hawaiian heart, lines a clutch two-out single to right to cut the lead to 4-3, and Chase Utley dribbles one to third where Mike Lowell tries the bare-hand pickup, off balance throw that major league third baseman seem to feel is the mark of their trade, but more often than not fails miserably. Like now. Victorino is on third and Utley on second after Lowell‘s throw gets past Youkilis at first. Beckett is cool; he takes the ball and glares at Ryan Howard digging in.
Red Sox fans attention! Phillies fans have seen this before, here is a question for all arm-chair managers. Let’s take a poll. With first base open, tying run at third, go-ahead run at second, do you pitch to the guy who over the past four years has more runs batted in than anyone in baseball, or do you put him on and take your chances with a right handed hitter batting somewhere around .260?
For Terry Francona it’s a no-brainer.
The first pitch to H-bomb was fine,
and he hammered it tight to the line.
A double to right,
what a beautiful sight;
making Red Sox lead die on the vine.
Cramp two: Seventh inning. Josh Beckett is a warrior, but he’s not superhuman. His answer to Howard’s go-ahead double – he drills J. Happ’s first pitch in the top of the sixth over the 370 foot sign in left center field for a game-tying homerun. It was the first homerun by a Red Sox pitcher in three years. The last was in May, 2006 off Brett Myers at Citizens Bank Park by – drum roll, please – Josh Beckett. Yo, Tito: Is that why you left him in to start the 7th, even though he had already thrown over a hundred pitches? What about all those big arms in your bullpen, Tito?
Jimmy Rollins in season-long slump,
all efforts to break out, a failed jump.
Do we dare to take hope
from his game-breaking rope,
that at last he is over the hump?
A final note about those Red Sox fans, calling themselves a Nation, that made so much noise at the Bank yesterday. They were easy to spot with their jerseys, caps and such. And easily approachable, friendly, and not at all confrontational. But what does it say about Red Sox fans in general, when a random sampling reveals they didn’t know that Babe Ruth started as a Red Sox pitcher, and that the Red Sox won the 1915 World’s Series with a game five win just a few blocks up Broad Street from Citizens Bank Park here in Philadelphia?
LIDGE BLOWS ANOTHER
LIDGE BLOWS ANOTHER
by Max Blue
http://maxblue3.tripod.com
In 2008 he was Lights Out,
a season-long perfect-save route.
That was then, this is now,
can he still show us how
to save games without any doubt?
Saturday, May 23, 2009. Yankee Stadium (new), New York, New York.
New York Yankees – 5, Philadelphia – 4.
WP – Veras (3-1), LP – Lidge (0-2).
H – Durbin (2), Madson (8). BS – Lidge (3)
HR – Jeter (7), 6th; A-Rod (7), 9th, 1 on.
Ibañez (17), 2nd; Mayberry (1), 5th, 2 on.
How is it possible to suffer a crushing ninth inning meltdown and still come away feeling good about the game? It’s because the Champion Phillies got a fine six-inning performance from young lefty, J.A. Happ, making his first start of the season after at last taking the job from the failed Chan Ho Park. And he did it on possibly the biggest stage of all – Yankee Stadium – and a national TV audience. The kid was cool – very cool – four Ks, no walks, and only 75 pitches. He left with a 4-2 lead, outpitching Yankee veteran Andy (4-t) Pettitte. The lead was forged on the backs of Raoul Ibañez’s major league leading 17th homerun, and a 3-run bolt from a six feet six inch, 230 pound right handed hitting kid (25-years-old) named John Mayberry, Jr, called up from triple A Lehigh Valley to face Yankee lefties Pettitte today and C.C. Sabathia tomorrow. How could you not feel good about that?
Okay, there was no place for good feeling in the painful ninth, when Lidge gave up a game-tying homerun to the tainted Alex Rodriguez, then a game-winning single to Melky Cabrera when Charlie Manuel, stunned by the tie, neglected to bring in a left-handed pitcher to face Cano and Cabrera.
Facing reporters after the game, Lidge said, “I was pretty impressed that he was able to do that with that pitch. He’s a great hitter.”
It’s baseball, fans. The drama continues.
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