NLCS Game 2 (10/10/08)

Brett Myers was the one to knock in run number two for the Phils just moments ago. After a Rollins double, Shane Victorino steps up with two runners in scoring position and two men out.

Billingsley is gonna need some defensive help to get out of this one.

4-1 Philadelphia. Big hit for Victorino who is now on first base. LA now needs to relax and take a deep breath.

Can Utley hit postseason HR number 2!?!?

If I was Billingsley, I would've wanted to give Utley a free base and pitch to the struggling Howard. But oh well...

Ha, nevermind. Utley takes ball four on a 3-2 count and trots to first anyway.

The 6-4, 245 pound Howard will step in, striking out in AB number one today. Big AB for him here.

Well, what a surprise. The 18 minute half inning is over with a called third strike on Howard. The Phils really could've gotten something out of it if, say, Brett Myers was in the batter box.

I hate it when I hit the ball right back to the damn pitcher!!

Russell Martin definitely looks bigger than 5-10, 210 pounds.

MANNY!!!

Well Manny pops out and is now 0 for 2, and Ethier is walked. Myers second of the inning. That can't be happening in the playoffs. Like Romi said, every run counts. You obviously don't want to be giving guys free bases. Let's see if the young Loney can drive in a few runners now.

Well, as soon as I posted that last comment Loney singled to left, and Russell Martin helps LA pull one run closer with two down.

I forgot all about that Manuel/Myers altercation earlier in this season. Looks like Myers has bounced back from that pretty well.

And that's why Feliz started at third last night. Dobbs commits a costly error at third, and the bases are juiced for LA.

DeWitt, facing a 2-2 count against Myers, strikes out with the bases loaded. Myers surely dodged a bullet there. That may come back to haunt the Dodgers...But I sure hope it doesn't.

BTW, I just wanted to point out that Charlie Manuel's mother, June Manuel, passed away this morning at the age of 87 due to a minor illness.

I'm saying a quick prayer right now, and I know that she's watching her son from above right now...

RIP, June Manuel.

If maybe Tim McCarver perhaps could possibly, more vaguely and less assudredly make a hypothesis somewhat based on a theoretical imaginable scenario of concievable likelihood he might not actual SUCK.

McCarver blows dead donkeys and call himself an ethical journalist.

SHUT UP McCARVER!!! SHUT UP!!!!

(Thank GOD the ALCS is on TBS)

What is up with Brett Myers!? 2-for-2... 3 RBI's! Those are more RBIs than he's had in his past three season combined!

I hope the Phillies Bullpen can pitch with a 6 run lead... If Myers leaves before the 8th, it could be *gulp* clay condrey time...

Hmm, so this is what B.J. Honeycutt did after the Korean war...

Is Chase Utley going to walk every, single inning?

Why does Buck say that...(paraphrasing) Ruiz, Victorino and Myers have done all the damage... I'm not minimizing some nice hits, but you don't score runs like that w/o people on base...and you don't get pitches to hit w/o a willingness to pitch to you (versus a guy like Chase Utley...who's walked thrice)...

Ryan howard struck out 199 times...that's right Joe but that's still better than last year...when he struck out 199 including a nice size DL stint he's IMPROVING!

McCarver is a fucking idiot. And Joe Buck is useless. These two BY FAR are the worst tandem in the history of announcing. They make watching a baseball game VERY HARD to tolerate.

I'd rather hear a retard with tourette's and a stutterer that's never seen a game of baseball do the announcing.

Is it TBS time yet?

I'm confused about this new Budweiser slogan; "Drinkability"

i mean...what does that mean really...

"Hey, Budweiser doesn't taste completely like piss"

Maybe its more like "Budweiser: C+...just better than average"

I don't get it...I miss Yuengling...

MILT THOMPSON!!! I will never forget that catch he made over the fence at San Diego in 1993 - robbed a Grannie. It was the turning point of the season for the Phillies that year.

I keep hearing McCarver and Buck talk about a Dodgers comeback, the need to save a pitcher (kershaw) and prepare for extras...

If this game goes to extras and the Dodgers somehow win, I'm personally writing Bud Selig a letter explaining why if he's going to fix games, he shouldn't do it with the Phillies and he sure as shit shouldn't tell McCarver and Buck, because they're making it pretty obvious

Look, foreshadowing is a nice writing convention...doesn't work in baseball though

I'm calling it: Walk #4 for Utley...

wow...2 times today... Ok world, i get it, the Phillies were right, Keep Pat Burrell, let Aaron Rowand walk (because he wouldn't have made the play Vic just did)...you can stop now, I was wrong...

Seriously though...are Buck and McCarver blowing the dodgers or is it just me? I wanna know if they're biased or I am so severely biased any time they mentioned Ramirez or the Dodgers I just grind my teeth... anyone?

Why does McCarver keep saying Madson has the best change-up on the staff...does he mean bullpen?

He doesn't...Cole Hamels does...

I hope if/when Cole Starts again, he says Hamels has the best change...