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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
All together, Torre's mistakes (and the stupid fck'n up by airheads on the field) I'd say they should be 10 games above .500. They are 1 game above .500. So, to answer your question, they are 9 games better than their record.
I would say more, but they don't hit good pitching well. See, your team is a good one for us to face, because you have a couple decent starters, and evidently not much out of the pen(other than Lidge, and I guess you don't use him unless you're ahead.) I figured we would beat Romero. I saw him pitch for the Angels , and he was pretty bad. Sometimes he got out acouple lefty batters, but overall , he got hard regularly. I don't know how the f you have gotten anything out of that guy, but just be aware you been lucky, cuz he ain't much. We do o.k. against your type of club. You like a small park to hit balls out of, and this park just frustrates your hitters a bit. Mainly, your pitching is the type we need in order to score some runs. Dodgers, for sure, do better against some teams, and struggle with others. We struggle against St. Louis and Atlanta. Wouldn't want to face the fish, either. Chicago is a bad match-up for us(good starters.) We can't beat good starters. Your boy had us tonite. Did he run out of gas? Believe me it ain't us. It was him.
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I definitely hear ya about the park frustrating them. Some of those outs would have been 4 baggers at the Bank. I agree with Romero, a similar situation to Rheal Cormier a few years back. His stats were inflated and looked better than he really was. Our bullpen was the strength of our team early on, its about time for it to fall apart like the Berlin Wall. Typical Philly fashion. I hope the Trolley Dodgers (are they still considered that???) beat out the DBacks for the West, it would make for a more interesting post-season. (wildcard seems out of reach).
As for Hamels, he usually gives up a solo jack, settles in, pitches lights out, then loses some mustard towards the end. (dont they all). Lohse was teh king of it. The first 2 times batters faced him he looked like the second coming of Cy Young (not really, but get the drift), but the 3rd time around he got shelled. It looked like the hitters knew what was coming. Hamels will be okay though, with a little friggin run support. Chuckles still seems to be in AL mode, he needs to brush up with his substitutions.(he has the player relations down pat)
Durbin had a trip form hell to the mound tonight, and he better pick it up or he'll find himself on fantasy waivers by me. Lidge is 'lights out' when used properly, and for the most part he has been. He's had a few brushes with blown saves but managed his way out of them. If we get this train moving in the right direction (like the EAGLES
we are a force to be reckoned with. We need another series with the Rockies to liven us up a bit.