Well all good things come to an end eventually. Tuesday it was the Phils' win streak that came to an end, tonight against the Cardinals and newly acquired outfielder Matt Holliday, it was J.A Happ's win streak that came to an abrupt halt. Happ pitched well as usual ,allowing just 1 run through the first 5 innings, but got unlucky in the 6th inning as St.Louis used 4 bloop hits to bleed out 4 runs and a 5-0 advantage. Most of the damage was done by Holliday with 4 hits, 1 RBI, and 1 run scored. The Phils, meanwhile did very little damage. In fact they didn't even score a run until the bottom of the 7th inning when Jayson Werth singled and scored on a wild pitch to cut the lead at the time to 7-1, after Tyler Walker allowed a couple runs in the top of the inning. Later Andrew Carpenter allowed another run in the 8th inning for an 8-1 lead. The Phils on the other hand never managed to score another run. Thus, it's hard to put this loss on Happ, becuase it's not his fault he got no run support. The Phils had plenty of opportunities to score runs with 8 hits and 10 baserunners, but for first time in a long time they weren't able to take advantage of those opportunities at all. So thus far it's 1 game for the pitching, 0 for the hitting. I woudn't expect the Phils bats to be dormant like this for the rest of the series though so no worries. Anyway so the Phils are now 54-40 overall and down to 5.5 games up in the NL East.
2 comments:
The Cards are a good team so I dont feel too bad about the Phils losing to them as long as they still get a win at least in the series.
-to ph1llysports
yeah and at this point in the season all that really matters is winning 2 out 3 consistently because if you do that no one is going to catch you
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