Afternoon game today at Nationals Park for Memorial Day. Since it's about 93 outside it's a good day for 73" viewing in the theater room.
Halladay vs. Levon Hernandez who besides Randy Wolf Probably has the slowest curve ball in the league.
He usually has a good game against the Phils because they just don't hit junk ball throwers.
Very annoying second inning for Halladay. Gave up a home run and that's fine but then he let's them get two more hits for runners on the corners. Levon then puts down what looked likes safety squeeze.
Different then a regular squeeze, the runner on third doesn't break for home until the ball is bunted.
In their half of the fourth the Phils actually managed five hits in a row.
Including back to back homers from Howard and Ibanez, then three more hits for one more run including a hit by Dom Brown who is looking very good since his return.
Halladay is having very mediocre game. He has given up three solo homers today and now they're losing 4-3 in the seventh.
A key inning so far in this game was the Phils third. Mayberry leads off with a double and Halladay bunts him to third but then Rollins wiffs and Polanco lines out to third. Rollins is back into is usual self of flying out and striking out with runner on base.
Seventh inning for the Halladay starts off bad. He gives up a loop hit on a bat that was splintered then a bunt base hit. Cora goes to third.
Then Halladay shows why he's great. Gets the next guy to hit a ball right at him. Halladay knocks it down but Cora heads home and Roy throws home and gets Cora out in a rundown. Next batter flies out to right and then a Werth strikeout on a high pitch, great job by Halladay.
All of that was after the Phils took the lead in the top of the inning. The Phils got a couple of clutch hits, another RBI from Howard and a sac fly from Ibanez.
Mood is concerned about Halladay as he hasn't had a great start in a little while, he hasn't been bad but he hasn't been awesome in enough starts yet. He needs to have a few awesome starts in a row. It is nice to the offense pickup the pitcher. That hasn't happened too much this season.
Exactly one third through the season now so I'll try and add the standings too if I can.
Win 5-4
Streak 1 win
Record 34-20
East. W L PCT GB L10 STRK vs E vs C vs W HOME ROAD
Philadelphia 34 20 .630 7-3 W1 19-11 7-5 6-3 19-10 15-10
Florida. 30 22 .588 3 6-4 L1 11-10 9-6 8-4. 14-12 16-9
Atlanta. 30 25 .545 4.5 5-5 L1 11-10 12-6 6-7 16-12 14-13
NY Mets 25 28 .472 8.5 4-6 W2 11-13 5-5 8-8 12-14 13-14
Washington 22 31 .415 11.5 2-8 L3 11-19 6-7 4-3 12-12 10-19
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Oh well. Added the standings but don't know how to format it to make it look right.
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