Looks like Charlie Manuel listened to my advice (read yesterday's blog) and shook up the lineup in a major way. I suggested building this lineup more around Werth and Coste to give it a kick-start and it worked.
Chase Utley came out of the witness protection program yesterday and came up a homerun shy of hitting for the cycle on his way to 4 hits.
Kendrick was absolutely lights out last night and in this case great pitching trumped everything, but it was nice to see the offense come back to life.
Word is that the A's players headed back to the dugout and said they couldn't even see the ball. Kendrick was in the zone. He certainly could've thrown a no-hitter last night with the way he was pitching. He held them hitless for 4 1/3 innings and allowed just one hit through 7 innings.
Even though it was an impressive win there was one disturbing number that once again stood out; runners left on base. The Phillies had 26 of them.
With the win, the Phils moved to two games ahead of the Marlins in the division.
Tonight Adam Eaton takes the hill against Rich Harden. This looks like a total mismatch on paper, but then again it looked like the Phillies had a mismatch last night as well.
That's why you play the games.
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Ed Wade gets a beat-down
If you haven't heard yet, you sure will now. Ed Wade got his ass kicked by pitcher Shawn Chacon yesterday.
Apparently Chacon was enjoying his dinner a few hours before the game when Wade walked in on him and told him to go see his manager. Chacon told him to wait til he was done eating and then Wade escalated the situation and started cursing and screaming at him.
And, then Chacon did Wade like Adebesi did to one of his enemies in Oz.
He promptly threw Wade down on the floor and jumped on top of him.
"So at that point I lost my cool and I grabbed him by the neck and threw him to the ground. I jumped on top of him," he said. "Words were exchanged."
And, Chacon went on to say, "I wanted to beat his ass."
Wade suspended Chacon indefinitely and that means he'll be traded or released.
I would pay top dollar for footage of that ass beating. And, in the words of Nelson from the Simpsons, here's to you Ed Wade.
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