Question: What do you get when Jamie Moyer pitches poorly against a team he's mastered his entire career, you get nearly zero output out of your offense, and poor bullpen decision are made?
Answer: You get the slop we witnessed last night.
This Phillies game was embarrassing last night. Sure, I sound like the guy who gets on them as soon as they lose, but there were some really disturbing things about last night's game.
First, who the hell is Les Walrond and why in the world is he pitching in the bullpen for a team in the middle of a pennant race?
Also, why in the blue hell was J.A. Happ recalled over a week ago, sitting on the bench the whole time, then thrown to the wolves for mop-up duty last night?
Way to develop the kid's confidence.
With the way the Phillies played last night you'd think that they bet against their team to lose. It was almost as if they were trying to lose this game. Their offense was offensive-which seems to be more of a norm these days then not, their decisions were horrible, and some bum named Walrond shows up in relief of Moyer and you scratch your head wondering if Arthur Rhodes was back.
Just an all-around embarrassing game. The Phillies should have done everything they could have to landed Brian Fuentes or somebody like Ron Mahay from the Royals. I don't fall in love with names like a lot of people do, but the bottom line is you can't be putting career minor leaguers in pressure situations during a friggin' pennant race. Furthermore, if they think Freddy Garcia is any kind of answer then they are fooling themselves, because they sure as hell aren't going to fool us.
Had it not been for a miss-call by the umps they would have been shut out again last night. Shane Victorino's homerun clearly went to the left of the foul pole, but at the time they made it a ballgame and made it a 4-2 game.
Last night's game was about as ugly of a loss as you'll see all season. Hopefully they follow it up with a rebound tonight.
Kyle Kendrick will go up against Annibal Sanchez tonight at 7:05.
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