Last week I mentioned the Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde analogy with Brett Myers, who went from pitching magically in his prior start to pitching an absolute stinker his last time out.
The Phillies' offense assumed this role this weekend. After ringing off 20 runs on Friday night, the offense crawled into a hole somewhere in Missouri yesterday and everybody will point to the controversial play in the 9th inning that may have cost them the game.
Nonsense. The offense deserves the blame for falling back into the great one day/dead the next pattern. What causes a team to play this inconsistently at times? Certainly it takes something for a team to put up 20 runs twice in a season. After all, they're the first team since the 2000 A's to do that and the first Phillies team in about 100 years to do it.
Yesterday Kyle Lohse gave the Phillies some payback for not signing him this offseason. And, boy are they regretting that one. He's 8-2 on the season with a 3.77 ERA and he would've shut out the Phillies had it not been for Pat the Bat's 2-run homer.
Which Phillies team can we expect to show up today? It's hard to say because their offense has been poor since the Florida series-scoring just 11 runs in the four games other than the 20 run game Friday night.
If Brett Myers can get out of the first inning without getting shelled then look for the Phillies to come out of this 9-game road trip with a pair of series wins. If he puts them in a hole early on then it's going to be brutal on the offense because this team is just about out of gas after playing 9 in a row on the road and having just one day off so far this month.
The Phillies and Cards will face off today at 2:00.
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