It's been a roller coaster of a year for Roy Halladay thus far. For the most part it's been a great year for Doc with 8 wins, an ERA at 2.36, 90 strikeouts, and that perfect game in Miami. Tonight it wasn't so great as the Yankees touched him up for 8 runs on 6 hits in 6 innings. He didn't pitch that poorly he just simply left a few pitches over the heart of the plate and the red hot Yankees made him pay for it with 3 homers, 2 of which were cheap New Yankee Stadium homers. If the Phils had been playing anywhere else they wouldn't have gone out and tonight might have been a different story.
In fact, Judging by their 4th inning explosion, the Phils might have even figured out a way to pull it out. In that inning they racked up 3 runs on 4 hits off C.C Sabathia but should have had more. They quickly loaded the bases to start the inning with back to back singles and hit batter. Then Jayson Werth and Raul Ibanez each collected singles while Ben Francisco grounded into a fielder's choice to produce the 3 runs. Unfortunately Juan Castro and Carlos Ruiz followed with a strikeout and a groundout to the end the inning. Although they threatened again in the 5th inning with the bases loaded and 2 out, the Phils never managed to score again and eventually lost 8-3 after David Herndon and Danys Baez finished off the night with a scoreless inning and a 3rd. What a team.
2 comments:
Well I guess you were right when you said the Yanks are pretty good. Roy Halladay seems to be all over the place with his pitching performances although I think we did see a good sign from the offense. Now we wait and see if it starts a fire.
-to ph1llysports
yeah let's see. Maybe tomorrow will be better
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