Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Game 132 Phillies @ Reds

I love seeing the Reds stadium. The smokestacks in the outfield area look great.
Well they are actually steam stacks meant to simulate a steam boat.
The top of each stack has seven bats each a total of fourteen to honor Pete Rose, his number was 14.

I really like the red seats, they look great on tv and I can't wait till I get to see them in person some day.

I wish the Phils did red seats and not those dull looking blue seats.

Hunter Pence just hit his seventh home run as a Phil. He "Tommy hawked" a ball over the opposite field wall.
Dontrelle Willis is pitching for the Reds and he's looking pretty good tonight.
Has a bunch of K's including two for Howard.
The Phils loaded the bases with only one out in the first but only got one run on a ground out from Howard.
After six innings both teams only have four hits each but Cliff Lee has spread out the Red's hits better.

Willis is out with two outs in the seventh. Got a nice hand from the tiny crowd there.
He pitched a decent game but the Phils just impose their will on teams sometimes and they are doing it tonight
and the first three games of this series.

Whoa, that ninth inning was wacky. Lee looks headed for his sixth shut out is year, he gets the first two outs but Votto doubles, Bruce walked then on an 0-2 pitch he hits Cairo.
So bases loaded two outs.
Lee is out of the game. Madson comes in and gets the save.

Yikes they had the winning run at the plate. That was just an unlucky ninth for Lee.

18th shut out this season.
Cliff Lee threw 8.2 scoreless innings. 30.2 straight scoreless innings on the road.
Lee went 5-0 with a 0.21 ERA in June and 5-0 with a 0.45 ERA in August to join Bob Gibson and Walter Johnson as the only three pitchers in baseball history to be 5-0 with an ERA under 1.00 in two separate months in the same season.
Gibson in 1968: June (6-0, 0.50 ERA) and July (6-0, 0.50 ERA).
Johnson in 1913: April (5-0, 0.24 ERA) and July (6-0, 0.81 ERA).

Odd play in the fourth. Lee hit a grounder to second but in stead of running it out he waved it off and turned and walked to the dugout.

The Phils are 40 games over .500 for the first time since 1977.
The 19th shut out the season.

Home/Road
Split W L RS RA WP
Home 46 22 321 211 .676
Road 40 24 275 218 .625

Month by Month
Split W L RS RA WP
April 18 8 120 88 .692
May 16 13 107 104 .552
June 17 10 102 71 .630
July 17 8 138 94 .680
August 18 7 129 72 .720


Win 3-0
last ten 6-4
After Pence 20-7
Division up 7.5
Magic number 22
Record 86-46

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