A day after the Nats hit four in a row.
The D’Backs hit three in a row, to lead off the game.
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Game 131 // Ninth Inning // Praise You, Jason Heyward
We’ve come a long, long way together. Through the hard times and the good.
I have to celebrate you, Jason.
I have to praise you like I should.
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Game 105 // Second Inning // Snowman in Milwaukee
BOTTOM OF THE SECOND: BREWERS 8 (0) – 2 PHILLIES
First game back after the All-Star break.
The Brewers up five games in the NL Central. Their best season since 2011.
Second inning, down two runs, Domingo Santana up to bat—the beginnings of one of those “But Wait There’s More” innings. Continue reading “Game 105 // Second Inning // Snowman in Milwaukee”
Game 101 // First Inning // Worst Birthday in Baseball History: The End of The Jeremy Guthrie Era
BOTTOM OF THE FIRST: PHILLIES 12 (0) – 0 NATIONALS
It’ll happen to them all someday. The knees creak, the vision dims. The fastball speed drops below 90, the run to first base slows down. The baseball death knell marks the end of a career.
But not like this. On his birthday?
Baseball death on April 8th, 2017. Goodbye, Mr. Jeremy Guthrie.
Game 87 // Eighth Inning // Lost in the Wind
TOP OF THE EIGHTH: METS 5 (3) – 1 PHILLIES
Coming back from commercial break, the furry green Philly Phanatic is dancing atop the dugout with “Franklin The Dog” of the 76ers, with a baggy gelatinous midsection bouncing down to his ankles and back up to his chest, grabbing it, ruffling it, a man inside a suit handling and shaking the suit’s own ass and blue tail, the fans in front unsure when they’ll be permitted to stop smiling. Its long green snout juts out in front of two plastic eyes, with Continue reading “Game 87 // Eighth Inning // Lost in the Wind”
Game 83 // Eleventh Inning // The Asdrubal Game
TOP OF THE ELEVENTH: METS 6 – (6) 8 PHILLIES
It was that week of nationwide baseball migrations.
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Game 76 // Seventh Inning // Chase Utley’s Big Return
TOP OF THE SEVENTH: DODGERS 13 (5) – 2 PHILLIES
Chase Utley of the L.A. Dodgers has returned to Philadelphia, to a giant salad of superfan worship at Citizens Bank Park, a red sea of admiring, cheering, bowing nostalgics, holding up big hand-written posterboards to show their forever approval.
“Welcome home Chase, I miss you!”
“CHASE UTLEY: A PHILLIE FOREVER”
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Game 70 // Eighth Inning // The No-Hit Bat Around
TOP OF THE EIGHTH: PHILLIES 9 (5) – 3 BRAVES
The plate appearance statlines for the Phillies, in tonight’s 8th inning in Atlanta:
0-0, 0-1, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0, 0-1, 0-1, 0-0, 0-1.
Four runs came across with that. And a lead bumped up to 9-3. They batted around (or nearly around), without a single hit. No slugging. A team average lower than it had been. But four runs. And the strangest, least skilled, most lucky, peculiar, pathetic, goofy, slow, inane big inning of the year. Continue reading “Game 70 // Eighth Inning // The No-Hit Bat Around”
Game 51 // Fifth Inning // The Drummer Boy
BOTTOM OF THE FIFTH: PHILLIES 8 (3) – 0 BREWERS
The walls. The walls.
Will there ever be this kind of a coincidence again?
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