The Phils winning streak finally came to an end tonight as Roy Oswalt made his Phillies' debut. Oswalt was not quite what the Phils expected tonight, as he allowed 5 runs on 7 hits over 6 innings of work. It wasn't all bad for Oswalt, he did have some good moments including a great reflex catch on a ball hit right back to him. It also wasn't all Oswalt's falt as the Phillies played poorly behind him. If they had played even solid defense he probably would have given up only 3 runs instead of 5. Unfortunately, they didn't play very good defense in committing 2 errors, Oswalt did allow 5 runs , and that's just the way it goes sometimes.
Meanwhile, Craig Stammen had electric stuff for the Nationals in holding the Phils to just 1 run on 5 hits while striking out 5 in 6 and 1/3rd innings. He simply had good velocity on his pitches and kept them away from the middle of the plate, and seemed to throw everything right into umpire, Dana Demuth's curious strike zone. The Phils simply couldn't figure him out enough to do anything. They did have a few scoring opportunities early on with runners on base in the 1st and 4th innings but came up empty. Jayson Werth's solo shot finally got the Phils on the board in the 7th but it was too little too late. They never scored again and the bullpen surrendered another 3 runs as the Phils fell hard 8-1. While it is hard to fathom why they played so poorly and now at 56-47, trail by 3.5 games in the NL East. It is not hard to still see them taking care of Washington the next 2 days and at least winning this series. Anything less would be a waste against a poor team like the Nats.
2 comments:
Its sad to see the streak go but it had to end sometime. They can just start a new one today considering that the Nats arent so great and there is still plenty of time to make up those 3.5 games so I'm not panicking yet.
-to ph1llysports
yeah i'm not about to panic either
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