2025 Phillies Thread
- Thread starter Tom McAndrew
- Start date
Not to make one single play a barometer of a player’s baseball IQ but Schwarber getting doubled off yesterday was baffling. He looked back while running back to first base, what did he expect was happening? (I just happened to flip to the game on TBS during a break in the NBA playoffs.)
They seem to be an aging team with well-established weaknesses that continues to fall off from two years ago.
And…. Lose it in the bottom of the 10th. Romano blows. Castellanos tried to score from
Second earlier and that was a fail. Mets got away with some bs in the 10th with Diaz walking off the mound a third time before waving to dugout about an injury. That was a balk. Thomson on the hot seat now.
Lets see what they do facing a high octane offense in the Cubs.
Second earlier and that was a fail. Mets got away with some bs in the 10th with Diaz walking off the mound a third time before waving to dugout about an injury. That was a balk. Thomson on the hot seat now.
Lets see what they do facing a high octane offense in the Cubs.
The front office had all year to fix that bullpen issue
Bad juju for Romano.......Alonzo hits a good pitch for a double then next batter gets a broken bat single, game over. Just ****** bad luck.
Rude… the new guy will still have the same crappy bullpenAnd…. Lose it in the bottom of the 10th. Romano blows. Castellanos tried to score from
Second earlier and that was a fail. Mets got away with some bs in the 10th with Diaz walking off the mound a third time before waving to dugout about an injury. That was a balk. Thomson on the hot seat now.
Lets see what they do facing a high octane offense in the Cubs.
2 thru 5 hitters went 4 for 45 in this series.
Thompson must be trying to get fired bringing Romano in for the 10th.
Either that or he’s betting on games he’s managing because it sure looked like he wanted to lose that game.
I don't know that he had a lot of options. Sanchez coming out after 2 innings in Tuesday's game caused the bullpen to be taxed. Ross pitched 3 innings in that game, Romano pitched 1 inning, Banks pitched 2/10ths of an inning, Kerkering had his worst outing of the season on 1/10th of an inning, and Hernandez pitched 1 inning.
It seemed that Topper wanted a righty to pitch the 10th inning. From a roster perspective, the options were: Hernandez, Kerkering, Romano, Ross, and Ruiz. Ross was probably unavailable after pitching 3 innings on Tues., and Kerkering probably needed a reset after Tuesday's outing. Of the other options, Hernandez's ERA is 7.88 this season, Romano's ERA is 13.50 this season, and Ruiz's ERA is 6.75 this season. Romano's stats are the worst of the 3 guys listed, but all 3 have terrible ERAs. And as @PSUAVLNC pointed out, Romano wasn't exactly getting crushed today.
Certainly a disappointing series, but too many of you are going a little bit overboard in your reactions. Topper is certainly not on the hot seat. The Fightins were getting really good swings against Peterson today (crushing pitches, at times), and kept hitting at people. I'm not happy with how the Fightins' played this week, but I never make evaluations of a team based on a series in April.
Tom, from my post above, the Phillies have a .500 record since last July! That ain’t getting it done.
They have regressed to the mean and it’s not surprising given how old a team this really is.
