2022 Phillies Thread
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You just knew they would lose after that. Good teams don’t leave men on base in crucial situations. Only one out and they pop up and strike out with men on 2nd and 3rd.
2-1 loss in 10 innings. Brad Miller kills his old team with a bloop 2 run single in the 10th. Next up, 4 losses to the Mets and bye bye Girardi. Phillies also need to jettison Didi, Segura, Herrera, Quinn, Alvarado, and Hoskins. They are all mutts.
2-1 loss in 10 innings. Brad Miller kills his old team with a bloop 2 run single in the 10th. Next up, 4 losses to the Mets and bye bye Girardi. Phillies also need to jettison Didi, Segura, Herrera, Quinn, Alvarado
Unbelievable...HR was overturned upon review due to FAN INTERFERENCE
What was it, 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position tonight? Painful to watch.
There is one home series early in every Phillies season of late that signals there is no hope for the postseason and that the season might as well be over before it even really begins. This certainly looks like that one this time around.
How many times have we heard some version of the above quote already this year? I'd say five or six, at minimum. Not a winning recipe. When a team built to outscore its pitching can't score when it gets good pitching, this is the result. Frustrating.
So Girardi is toast then. They blew a 7-run lead in the 9th inning to the Mets. This hurts because it was a game this bad roster was built to win. Different season. New bats. Same bullpen problems.
This is absolutely sickening. I stopped following when it was 7-1 after 7 innings only to look back and see the final score. May just started and I have already lost faith for this season.
Me too, done watching, done keeping track online and done giving a damn. Blow it up, trade everyone and bring up minor leaguers. Harper, Schwarber, Castellanos, Hoskins, Bohm, Segura, Didi, Herrera, Quinn, and all the mutts in the bullpen, ship em out. Let Girardi drive the bus out of town.
LOL, well as a Phillies fan it is one less thing to check in on each day. For sanity's sake, It will be very difficult to follow this team more than peripherally. Perhaps that makes me a "fair weather" Phillies fan, but so be it; they are still my favorite team
. I thought tonight would make me angry...instead it is comical and I feel freed to not follow as closely lol. It isn't football with a limited # of games...there are a ridiculous 162.One nuance though...Girardi brought in Knebel in the 9th at 7-3. I don't believe this loss has anything to do with Girardi; it's easy to blame him because he is "in charge", but the game wasn't lost by any "decision". The offense worked (finally) but the bullpen didn't execute. Was he supposed to bring in Knebel at 7-1 at the beginning of the 9th or burn out Seranthony by using him every game? In football coaches make a big difference because of the required amount of coordination, but in baseball the manager's impact, good or bad, is much more limited. As you say, with a bullpen like this, there is no manager that would "win" this game with pitching like that. The team is not interesting at all, that part is true. But replacing Girardi changes absolutely nothing about the makeup of the team.
The other thing is that the Schwarber and Castellanos contracts were both 3 years or more. Except for fans, I doubt 2022 was the year that management actually expected everything to turn around to lead to a World Series, despite the excitement of the signings. Everyone knew that the pitching and defense were still liabilities, below average (with very few exceptions such as Wheeler and Knebel even though they have both been human thus far as well). Schwarber and Castellanos will still be signed for the next couple of years, theoretically still in their prime, but hopefully with better pitching.
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Fair on the blown lead. I think this is more indicative of a clubhouse that is already going through the motions for the year. In early May. The problem I have is that Dombrowski took a roster with "all or nothing" bats and little on-base consistency. He then doubled down with more of the same types of bats. When they're bombing the ball, great. They still have bupkis for a pitching staff. Zilch. It's like this franchise can turn over front office leadership and continue to make the same insane mistakes year after year.LOL, well as a Phillies fan it is one less thing to check in on each day. For sanity's sake, It will be very difficult to follow this team more than peripherally. Perhaps that makes me a "fair weather" Phillies fan, but so be it; they are still my favorite team
One nuance though...Girardi brought in Knebel in the 9th at 7-3. I don't believe this loss has anything to do with Girardi; it's easy to blame him because he is "in charge", but the game wasn't lost by any "decision". The offense worked (finally) but the bullpen didn't execute. Was he supposed to bring in Knebel at 7-1 at the beginning of the 9th or burn out Seranthony by using him every game? In football coaches make a big difference because of the required amount of coordination, but in baseball the manager's impact, good or bad, is much more limited. As you say, with a bullpen like this, there is no manager that would "win" this game with pitching like that. The team is not interesting at all, that part is true. But replacing Girardi changes absolutely nothing about the makeup of the team.
The other thing is that the Schwarber and Castellanos contracts were both 3 years or more. Except for fans, I doubt 2022 was the year that management actually expected everything to turn around to lead to a World Series, despite the excitement of the signings. Everyone knew that the pitching and defense were still liabilities, below average (with very few exceptions such as Wheeler and Knebel even though they have both been human thus far as well). Schwarber and Castellanos will still be signed for the next couple of years, theoretically still in their prime, but hopefully with better pitching.
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