Today’s Lineups DIAMONDBACKS PHILLIES Ketel Marte – 2B Trea Turner – SS Corbin Carroll – DH Kyle Schwarber – DH Geraldo Perdomo – SS Bryce Harper – 1B Adrian Del Castillo – C Brandon Marsh – LF Jose Fernandez – 1B Bryson Stott – 2B Nolan Arenado – 3B Adolis Garcia – RF Tim Tawa […]
Here are the lineups. For the Phillies: For the Diamondbacks: Let’s talk about it.
According to Jon Heyman, the Mets will call up Craig Kimbrel before today’s game against the Athletics. Kimbrel, a 16-year veteran who was an All-Star with the Braves, Phillies, Cubs, and Red Sox, signed a minor league deal with the Mets in January. Kimbrel is currently fifth all time with 440 career saves, just ahead […]
The Phillies took another loss last night that probably should have been avoided. A hot start to the game where the first four batters all scored was followed up by more swings and misses than Disney live action remakes. One of the bigger culprits of the game was Alec Bohm, whose struggles continued thirteen games […]
So we’re gonna do this Brandon Marsh as the cleanup hitter thing now? I guess it’ll work against a team without left handed relief pitching, but later on? What then? On to the links. Phillies news: MLB news:
Game Summary The Diamondbacks starting rotation has had a habit of being sunk by the “Blow Up Inning” over the last couple seasons, and after the first inning tonight, I thought Soroka was just another member of the club. In a rare twist on that tired trope, the Diamondbacks offense punched through with their own […]
The Orioles and Phillies came into this game with good vibes. The Orioles had three consecutive wins against the White Sox, while the San Francisco Giants had scored 11 runs in two games vs the Phillies. Shane Baz and the Orioles were not up to the task, and by the end of the night, the […]
The Phillies gazed upon their scoreless streak and said: no more. And so it was, in the bottom of the first inning on April 10th, 2026, that Trea Turner singled to left, and Kyle Schwarber walked, and Bryce Harper hit one to right to score Turner. The scoreless streak thus passed away at the age […]
Today’s Lineups DIAMONDBACKS PHILLIES Ketel Marte – 2B Trea Turner – SS Ildemaro Vargas – 1B Kyle Schwarber – DH Geraldo Perdomo – SS Bryce Harper – 1B Gabriel Moreno – C Brandon Marsh – LF Nolan Arenado – 3B Bryson Stott – 2B Jose Fernandez – DH Adolis Garcia – RF Tim Tawa – […]
Here are the lineups. For the Phillies: For the Diamondbacks: Let’s talk about it.
Which team is projected as better? On 9 April, FanGraphs projected the Phillies to win more games (89 vs 81). Nevertheless, both teams have significant odds of reaching the playoffs (68% and 35%). And either team could win this series. Why cheer for the Diamondbacks? The Diamondbacks values include don’t cheat by taking performance enhancing […]
Most of the time, a new season means a new beginning. It is infrequent that iterations of a roster are repeated year after year. When things don’t go right, it is common for significant changes to be made. As all of you reading this know, the Phillies have sought to buck that trend in recent […]
Considering the competition, a .500 record on the Phillies’ six-game road trip was disappointing. But considering the stadiums they had to play in, the result was acceptable. Can we just burn Oracle Park to the ground? The Phillies will now have nine straight games at home. It’s still plenty early in the season, but with […]
When the Phillies acquired Jonathan Bowlan in a trade over the winter with the Kansas City Royals in exchange for Matt Strahm, you would have been forgiven if it was the first time you were ever hearing about someone named Jonathan Bowlan. The 29-year-old had only appeared in 37 career MLB games to that point, […]
The Diamondbacks. the D-Backs. The Snakes. The Desert Dudes. I made that last one up. Anyway, Arizona is up next. Onto the links. Phillies news Runs have been in short supply recently. Here’s a look at why. Aidan Miller’s back injury has kept him out of action, but he’s on the path to recovery. Zack […]
One of their missing pieces to their roster, the Phillies saw Zack Wheeler make his third rehab start with the Lehigh Valley IronPigs Wednesday evening. The results were better this time around, if that’s something that you’re looking at closely. The real thing to watch with Wheeler is how the stuff is coming out post […]
There will be a few baseball obituaries about Davey Lopes written in the coming days, most of them better written than this. Going over the full career of Lopes as it pertains to his playing days would require me talking about his days with the Dodgers, days in which he was part of a hated […]
It’s no secret that the Phillies offense hasn’t gotten off to the greatest of starts. Up and down the lineup you can see hitters struggling to get going to various degrees. Many, if not all, of them will figure something out eventually, but it’s the waiting for that to happen and the creeping doubt that […]
The baseball world received some sad news yesterday, as it was announced that former Phillies first base coach Davey Lopes passed away at the age of 80. A prolific base stealer, Lopes first etched himself into Phillies lore with the infamous “Black Friday” game in the 1977 NLCS, a series Lopes’ Dodgers would go on […]
Things were very different in 2013. Barry Zito was completing a wildly successful eight-year contract with the San Francisco Giants. America was falling in love with a prehistoric family called The Croods and an up-and-coming rapper from the Pacific Northwest named Macklemore. Anthony Weiner was running for mayor and Toronto mayor Rob Ford (R.I.P.) was […]
The Phillies got their obligatory series loss in San Francisco out of the way early this year, going out with a whimper in the rubber match of the series thanks to a silent offense and a back-breaking home run allowed by Aaron Nola. They have still not won a series in San Francisco since 2013 […]
The San Francisco Giants wrap up this series against the Philadelphia Phillies this afternoon from Oracle Park. Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Tyler Mahle, who enters today’s game with a 7.00 ERA, 5.04 FIP, with nine strikeouts to three walks in nine innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ […]
After splitting the first two games of the three game series against the San Francisco Giants, on Wednesday afternoon, the Phillies will go for the rarest of feats: Winning a series in Oracle Park. Aaron Nola gets the ball for the Phillies, coming off of a strong start against the Rockies. He will be opposed […]
On Tuesday night in San Francisco, the Phillies faced left-handed Giants’ starter Robbie Ray. The 34-year-old lefty entered the contest with two solid starts under his belt, a 5 1/3 inning performance against the Yankees in which he gave up two earned runs on five hits with four strikeouts in a 3-0 loss, and a […]
Good morning, Phillies fans. You can be forgiven for being a bit bleary-eyed this morning, given that yesterday was another 9:45 eastern start. Fortunately, today’s game is a reprieve in the form of a 3:45 start. But there will be more late nights this season; a road trip to San Diego and Los Angeles in […]