2025 Phillies Thread
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ESPN Game of the Week tonight and a chance for a four game sweep - let's go Phillies!!!!
He never had it....another disastrous appearance.
Tend to agree. I mean you gotta give more than a run in support, but if you take a 1-0 lead into the 8th, championship caliber teams gotta have the horses to protect it
And Alvarado muffed that routine grounder which led to the extra batter and his doom.
So is the offense. Averages look good because of the periodic blow outs, but too many good SP performances are wasted. Won't work in the playoffs.
He struggled at LV coming off Tommy John surgery. Started 19 games and pitched 92 innings. Finish there, and shut him down till next year. Will turn 23 next April. Let's keep our fingers crossed all goes well enough for him next spring, and he makes the 5-man rotaion for the Phils.
Speaking of game within a game stuff so Waldrep's go to pitch is the splitter threw it 45 times last night av velo of around 87 had a high swing and miss rate.......the lack of spin on that thing is amazing by the way
1) I assume the phils know this going into the game
2) most of all those pitches fell off the table even side shots of the swing an miss the ball is at the knees
so i ask why wouldn't you as a professional hitter move up in the box and reduce that break and speed up the pitch to what you are seeing normally [velo 94+]? sure Waldrep could come with more cutters if you move up (but why not take away his best pitch? force him out of that comfort zone)
Avg velo on his cutter 92---- Marshy blasted one
MLB did not do the Phils any favors. Make them play Sunday night at home, then an afternoon game in Milwaukee the following day. I would not be betting on the Phils today.
Professional piece of hitting there by Mundo, to get in bader to go ahead. That’s what this team is missing, is professional hitters. Long ball is way too feast or famine.