7:05 PM on PHL 17
Pitching Matchup:
Roy Oswalt (7-9. 3.88 ERA)
Jake Westbrook (12-8, 4.61 ERA)
The Braves won this afternoon. The Phils magic number is one. A win tonight clinches the division. Lets pop some fucking corks tonight.
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Friends of the Fightins:
Phila-Centric
5 will happen tonight.
We got this.
I’m feelin it too.
So nice of Atlanta to do what they could to give the fans here a nice celebration.
JUST WIN, BABY, WIN.
Is that you Al Davis?
YEP.
There we go… center aligned.
Here’s to the offense not going totally brain dead tonight.
Here, here!
God I hope so. That is SO efin’ frustrating!
Lii Roy lookin strong. Now let’s put up a crooked number early.
Gameday said that third pitch to Pujols was 94…where the fuck has that been??
I was gonna say. 94? HOT SHIT.
Don’t care as long as it sticks around through October.
Maybe the cooler weather is good for his arm?
Im a pitcher the cold doesnt feel that great haha
you’re a pitcher? funny. I’m a catcher. #gayjokes
First time I’ve seen tonight’s lineup. I think Charlie wants some offense too.
Looks like he was serious when he filled out the lineup card.
did Rollins finally hit the damn ball?
YES!! Kinda surprising as of late.
anyone got a stream? i wanna see some champagne pop!
small ball? hope so. time for some really foul crooked numbers!
cards may be playin for a wild card…but the phils are playing for booze.
Was the a semi-intentional walk of Howard?
*that
totally, Pence made them pay
i never want to hear wheels talk about getting a guys juices going again..
Hunter fucking Pence!
Pence delivers a 2-out run! Something Werth could never do
Amen
I second that
THANK YOU, RAJ.
….how do you let Berkman steal a base??
berkman looked like he needed a diet coke after that steal
With a doubleshot of oxygen
And a gym membership
Okay, fellas, 1 run isn’t gonna cut it tonight. More offense.
Lil Roy is doing really well tonight, seems like his back decided to stop messing with him
He’s probably feeling a hell of an adrenaline rush right now, all things considered.
Imagine if by letting him bide his time all season getting into game shape we get to see the Lil Roy from 2004 for the postseason.
NEEDS MOAR OFFENSE.
Pantaloons.
OFFENSE. GET SOME.
Good show Rollins, good show
can someone spare some gasoline???
Chase needs to get his head in the game, and play harder.
He’s the one that concerns me in this lineup going forward.
That was another unintentional/intentional walk.
Damn it. This 1 run isn’t gonna be enough. It just isn’t. OFFENSE.
Breath deep, and come back in from the ledge.
Utley is fucking killing us. I think that beanball jarred something loose
Lil Roy…looks fucking good.
Yeah he does!
He looks like he’s playing for his life
Oh, Ibanez. So love-hate with that man…
What the fuck happened to the rally towels?
C’mon Chooch!
They’re getting base runners out the ying yang tonight. Let’s do something about it fellas!
WOW. Huge gift from Furcal there
2 on 1 out… Maybe????????
I’ll admit, that was a sweet jump over chooch
Bases fucking juiced!
Come ON Sarge shut the hell up!!!! The play is 5 minutes OLD!
That shut Sarge up…finally! GO JIMMY!!!!!
J Roll 3 for 3
Oswalt hitting 94…
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?
We’re getting close to October, that’s what’s happening.
I like how you think.
Rollins is finalllyyyyyyy getting his swag back. Took long enough
YEA!! JIMMY!!!!
Bases loaded again?! C’mon! Get the men home!
No damn popups please!
DO IT SHANE!!!!!!
Walk it out, Shane!
F*CK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Walked’em in!
DRINKIN!
Tony LaRussa’s signal for Arthur Rhodes is my favorite thing on TV tonight.
Vampire strippers on skinamax is mine. jus sayin.
I thought maybe he was trying to summon Sasquatch
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Let’s get this done here & now.
Give Chase credit he’s still staying in tough after the beanball. He just needs to find his stroke.
He also appears to still be wearing the same batting helmet. I saw the mark on the back.
Fuck Furcal.
Damnit!
I hate the Shift.
Seems real pu**y to me. Like beating up a women… or SF Giants fan. Too easy and no fun.
They’ve been doing the shift off and on at least since Ted Williams. Granted Ryan ain’t no Teddy ballgame. That last one looked like it hit the mound and was slowed up enough for Furcal to get to it.
It looked like it would have made it through, but either way it was close.
I know it’s nothing new, and you’d be stupid not to if a guy pulls as many balls as Howard does. But it still annoys me.
I’d be interested to see analysis of how much facing the shift affects batters like Howard. I’m sure some stat geek has it figured out.
Well it’s the 4th and we’re into a susceptible bullpen. Here’s hoping for more and more and more and more and more….does that sound too greedy? Or not enough?
Not enough
OOPS 5th… what the hell game am I watchin’??? (idiot)
Kinda what I thot. Walking a fine line with greed tho…but we deserve it after all….
This ump is blind as hell
This leaving RISP is really nerve-wracking. OFFENSE. BASE HITS. GET SOME.
It is frustrating but at least they are getting runners on. Sooner or later they have to bring somebody home. They’re just that close.
Jesu D Christi!!!!! Leaving ten so far???? What the hell?!?!?!?!?!
I’ve missed this Lil Roy so much =D
Fuck yeah, Vic
…put’em on ice, fuck yeah Shane!
Oswalt isn’t that different than what he’s been other nights. He hasn’t been that far off of 94 previous nights, and he was victimized last time out by shit luck and awful defense.
Not to be arguementative Mike P but i’m seeing a little more pop and some serious location with Roy tonight. I agree he did get fu&*ed by his defense last time though.
It’s fine to be argumentative. That’s part of the fun of baseball. In fact, one of the few endearing aspects of the Castro regime is that they license people to argue about baseball in a public square in Havana.
I liked what I saw from Oswalt last time out, despite the results. I felt like I saw that pop, and I didn’t think his location was really all that bad. With some defensive competence, he would have come out of that game looking a lot better. But just because I feel that way doesn’t mean you have to agree.
His late-riser (which it seems has more giddy-up than his straight 4-seamer) seemed to disappear down the stretch today. I wonder if he felt less comfortable throwing it as his pitch count rose, or if they just decided to use his offspeed and breaking pitches to change things up in the late innings.
ManIwasThinkingIcouldReallyGoFurSomeChampagneRightNowSoISawItAndHitIntoDaBullpenn
heydidyouseethatihittheballreallyreallyfarthenitwentoverthewallandiranthebasesandtouchedhomeplate.ireallyshoulddothatmoreoftenitsreallyreallyfun
What? Oh yeah, Nice Shane.
+1 to Ben Francisco.
Officially my favorite game recap of the year.
Pretty sure I wrote “All I do is Win”
Burn
A couple of old whities in the booth. And not of the Ashburn kind.
Wheels? remember that time Roy threw a curveball to strike out Jorge Cantu?????
DUDE, wheels cant remember the curveball he threw to the last batter
I thought the same thing LOL
My heart stopped for a moment.
WOW! I don’t like me any Molinas
God damn….Just end this inning
That was one of the nastiest curves I have EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh shit I just did the Wheels double fist pump on that strike out. I need to get out more.
6 mo outs bitches
Fuck the Mets
Who are the Mets?
^Exactly
Fuck Scott Barry
John Clarke is gonna POP a cork in my white-out zone in 6 more outs!!!
God, I can barely watch. JESUS.
Two on for Berkman. FUCK
NOT LIDGE!!!!!
And that’s why that fucker is a guaranteed first ballot HOFer
He sure is. Certainly on of if not THE best.
one of… sorry
Get the rookie outta there. GET HIM OUT OF THERE.
Now I’m nervous
as a cat on a hot tin roof
This bum can not get anybody out! GET HIM OUT OF HERE!
Ohhhhhhhhh boy, here we go!
FUCK YOU MIKE STUTES…. I WANT HERNDON TO PITCH…jk you can stay in there
FUCKING SHIT SHIT SHIT. GOD FUCKING DAMN IT.
I know this sounds crazy, but right now, I might have more confidence in Lidge than Stutes or Bastardo.
Also, don’t turn over the order for the top of the 9th. JESUS. CHRIST.
And of course Lidge will walk the first batter
Have no fear Lidge here.
Lights Out…I believe.
That ASS wheeler… Give them the credit for 4 straight pitches… when I could have hit what Stutes was offering… Now we got Lidge in so even more angst and uncertainty…
HITS sorry I was pi**ed and typing… never a good mix and some really weird statements
I sure wish those 10 RISP come back to haunt us
Tell me about it. That’s what always comes back to haunt us. ALWAYS.
3 MORE OUTS
It’s about fuckin time
finally!!!! a good outcome
Whew
Inning over!
This game has a really bad feeling to it.
i hate larussa. and herdon is better than stutes, just not more handsome.
1 pitch, lights fucking out!
That was delightful.
I did not like that inning
I don’t know what needs to happen with Stutes and Bastardo, but SOMETHING has to happen. And fucking soon. Unacceptable.
Gload the load…maybe just maybe he’ll get a hit.
They were so good all season. Figures they start having issues so close to the post season.
It’s not that surprising that they’re struggling down the stretch. They’ve never pitched this many innings before.
Where are all the Lidge haters now?
I wish Harry was here to call the 9th inning.
R.I.P. HK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M98De78tPC8&feature=related
Yadi leading off next inning. Not liking this at all
CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCHHHHHHHHHHHHH
yeah chooch
gimme JMJ instead of gload
Pinch Hit Cliff Lee
GET. CHOOCH. HOME.
that guy has 8 consonants and 3 vowels in his last name….and thats IF you count the Y as a vowel.
Was that ball four?
Did JMJ swing at even one pitch that was in the zone?? What a goddamn waste
They need to get this run across the fucking plate. No fucking joke.
Yay Rollins
JROLL!
Can Charlie pull a squeeze out of his bag of tricks?
YES!
*sniff* that was just beautiful.
HELL YES WE BROKE THE 3-RUN CEILING
Now would be a great time for Chase “The Man” Utley to show up.
That’s a Charlie Manuel Squeeze.
i’mgonnasmashi’mgonnasmashiti’mgonnakilltheballi’mhungrychompasaurasohlooktheballheyguyslookihittheballandtheycantgetitthatletsevenaslowrunnerlikechoochgethomeandnowwerewinningby2letgoeat
Chompasauruses rule.
agreed
Ok Uts is back on his game now.
I think baseballs are just naturally attracted to Utley
and vance worley
Yeah, it must be their molecular make up or something
Uh. I think ive seen this before…
God, Ryan. MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST PINCH HIT.
I am so surprised Utley hasn’t gotten into about 30 infield fights with the various pitchers who’ve hit him
He saves it all for Sanchez.
Gee I certainly didn’t see that breaking-ball-a-mile-off-the-plate coming! Gosh.
Dotel. The same guy who was throwing BP to Pence last night
I love Ryan Howard. But he frustrates me more than anyone else in that line up.
Did that fat guy behind home plate just flash the camera? I took my benadryl too early… Yawn. GO PENCE
That was some HUSTLE
HUNTER PENCE I’LL HAVE YOUR BABIES
HUNTER HUSTLE
YEAH! A dinky little infield hit that normally probably would have been an out but I’ll take it!
Raaauuul!!
RAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MOTHEREFFING RAUL IBANEZ HOLY SHIT
SUPERCLUTCH
Man, Raul wasn’t going to fuck around with the bases loaded all night! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAUUUUULLLLL!!!!!!!!!
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
lol…as awesome as that was….tmac just called it a grand slam…i didnt know you could have a grand slam without a runner on 3rd
scratch that…i got crossed up :X
I’m sure Shane Victorino will be pleased to learn that his cloaking device works effectively on tea baggers.
you are drunk
aww c’mon bag it’s tmac…their stupidity is truly amazing
tooo many shots. maybe.. or not enough..CHAMPAGNE!
GRAND FUCKING SLAM.
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!! ITS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What one run lead?
FUCKIN AYE RAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL
NOW we’re talking lopsided…more
Fuck yeah Rual…got home just in time for that…sweet!
thats 9 shots. hurry up and catch up
I’m on it my man
THREE MORE OUTS!!! LETS GO
#WISHINGHARRYWASHERE
Never, never, never doubt Rauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuulllllllllllllll!
That was glorious.
2 OUTS
I hope they can talk Ibanez into coming back as a platoon player/ pinchhitter.
breaking out the pots and pans
+100
The Philadelphia Phillies are the 2011 National League East Division Champions!
5 years in a row! BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE RULE!!!!!!!!!!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Somewhere in heaven right now Harry is looking down saying
“GROUND BALL UP THE MIDDLE UTLEY IS THERE THROWS TO FIRST GOT HEEEM!!! AND THE PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES ARE THE 2011 NATIONAL LEAGUE EASTERN DIVISION CHAMPIONSSSSS. CHASE UTLEY YOUUU AREEE THE MANNNNNN”
And Whitey is saying “Harry they make it look so easy sometimes.”
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i just saw utley smile…
Is Pence crying?
So glad they made this a blowout
It never got old!
got old???? IT NEVER GETS OLD
that’s what I meant dammit
HUNTER’S. FACE.
Sweet play by Utley, too. Added a little excitement for what seemed like a foregone conclusion.
Now let’s see some of those AAA prospects
11 wins to go.
Alert the press! HALLADAY IS SMILING
DOC IS SMILING.
I love watching men getting wet with champagne
Ryan Howard is not fucking around. He has ski goggles on.
Fuck yeah boys
Pence is hilarious
Pence’s celebration was one of the most endearing things Ive ever seen
NEW SLOGAN:
Good Game, Let’s Pop Bottles!
Pence is killing me here.
wheels looks absolutely ridiculous in that shirt and hat…i love it
haha dubee just chillin with the big boy can!
Utley spraying beer on people. What a jerk, amirite?
He’s just such a meanie.
list of first time phils division champs? Mini Mart, Vanimal, Stutes, Pence, Schwimer….am I missing anyone? Not counting recent call ups
Juan Samuels?
Mayberry, right? Get that man a mermaid. Stat.
Champagne burns as much as bleach!
It must not be cold enough.
Oh wait you got the bottle in too far.
I told you all before and I’ll say it again.”We are the team to beat”
Champagne Bukkakes all around
Holy fuck, Cliff Lee is one sexy motherfucker!
J-Roll was channeling Bootsy Collins in that locker room interview just now.
“2011 NL East Champs: Groove Is In The Heart”
***pffftt*** Ooops, ‘scuse me. Greasy pizza for dinner.
Watching this celebration, you can’t help but reflect on how we are the envy of our grandfathers and great grandfathers, die-hards who had to watch 100-loss seasons and decade after decade of baseball without playoff appearances. What a time to root for the Fightin’ Phils.
You don’t have to be that old to remember when the Phillies sucked. I remember plenty of shitty seasons . In 99′ I made a list.
☑ Division Title
☑ NL Pennant
☑ A World Series Winner
☑ An MVP
☑ A Cy Young
☑ A perfect game
and a 100 win season.
I thought I’d have to give an un-finished list to my grandchildren and I was only 17/
Now I’m going to be an old fogey- and the only thing that will keep me happy is telling my great grandchildren how know Phillies team will ever be as good as this one.
I can see it now-
“Yea, but he’s no Chase Utley.. Yea but he’s no Ryan Howard.. Yea but you should have seen Jimmy Rollings.. Victorino was faster…. Cy Young Shmy Young he didn’t throw a perfect game or a no hitter in the Play-offs- Yea that happened… Google it… it was a search engine…. so you could search the internet… no with a keyboard…. you typed letters with your fingers….and Cliff Lee took less money….like ten million less…. no dollars we didn’t have Yen then……………and if you think he’s bad you should have heard Wheels SENIOR…..”
@feeling nostalgic: Thanks for the laugh. I love the posters on this site.
+1 brilliant.
@Feeling Nostalgic
I hear that, and of course I remember those seasons well. But as bad as the Phillies were in the mid-to-late 90s, and as bad as they were in my childhood in the late 80s, those teams can’t compare to the pathetic squads that took the field in previous generations. My dad didn’t see the Phils win a pennant until he was almost 30; I saw them win one when I was 12. His dad was born just after the team won the pennant in 1915, so he wouldn’t see the team win the pennant until he was 35. Moreover, in that stretch, he witnessed 12 100-loss seasons, something we never saw in the 80s or 90s. My point is that there is sucking and there is REALLY sucking.
I love the checklist, though. Funny shit. In 2007, before the amazing comeback, I considered making a bet with a friend who is a Cubs fan that the Phils wouldn’t win the World Series in my lifetime. There wasn’t a way to make bank on that bet–and thank goodness I didn’t make it, because I would have looked like a fool a year later–but it goes to show the differences in mentality from June 2007 to present.
@mike P
The month was april…the year was 2008. My girlfriend asked me what it would take to get me to quit smoking. I said 1. Pregnancy 2. Eagles win Super Bowl 3. Phillies win NLCS.
I sat in a car listening to XM Phils call when Brett struck out Willie Mo to win the division in 07 in a Target parking lot with her…annoyed with me because i wouldn’t leave the car.
I sat with her in 07 when the Phils got swept by the Rockies in that series where the power went out.
I’m gonna get to smoke forever, right?!
Nope.
Nowadays, i’m a non-smoker who happens to be a fan of the best team in MLB every year.
So, I feel your bet. Sometimes it’s nice to lose.
@Nick – Amen, man!
Speaking of bets with fans. I was sitting with in the Venitian with some random Mets fan in 06′. I didn’t know him from adam but he was talking so much shit on the Phillies. So i laid some money on the Phils to win as a long shot. It was Hamels v Pedro. Hamels went 8 scoreless and the Phillies sent Pedro to the showers after 1 inning. I scored some nice cash. So I was taking a piss after the game this Mets fan is standing write next to me in the next urinal still talking smack cause it’s august and the Phillies are still 12 or so back. Anyway I bet the guy a million dollars the Phillies win the World Series within three years.
So when the Phillies won in ’08 one of the first things i thought was, ‘ that fucking mets fan A. must feel like shit and B. owes me a million dollars.
So if anyone ever hears a mets fan tell that story make sure to post it here so i can get my monies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbJrAAaUcKg <- I still miss Harry.
You got to have a bittersweet tear in your eye when you think about it.
just got home from the game….wow what a fucking zoo the parking lot was with the combined Phils/Temple v Penn State peeps….WHAT A GAME, WHAT A WIN! 2011 National League East Champs!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH (fuck that guy)
Just got home from work. I miss anything interesting?
Also, let’s go eat.
So happy I could cry. Lets get that ring, boys!
Hai guys, amilate?
Obviously, the Phillies, the Cardinals, Charlie Manuel and Tony LaRussa are all conspiring against the Braves since now the Phillies will start all their AAA scrubs against the Cardinals and let them win the last 2 games of the series and fuck the Braves out of the Wild Card!!! It’s not FAIR!!! None of them have any CLASS!!! They’re all CLASSLESS!!!
I was there and there are very few days as lovely as clinch day.
I was there last night. Fucking brilliant. Best game I have ever been to.