The following video contains two separate clips of newswomen from Philly TV stations getting the customary champagne dousing after the Phillies punched their ticket to the World Series last night. Up first, Jamie Apody is back for her second go-round. This time the Action News reporter gets sprayed from the bottle of Jayson Werth. Next, the lovely Leslie Gudel of Comcast SportsNet fame is drenched by Chase Utley. Observe:

Notice the different styles of saturation used by the two Phillies. Jayson Werth employs an aggressive, “take that!” approach, while Chase goes with the much more subdued slow pour.

Both completely different; both equally as effective.

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Following the Phillies division-clinching victory over the Nationals on Saturday, Philadelphia stations did a rather poor job of covering the post game shenanigans. Honest to God, after FOX went off the air, I had a hard time finding any channel with the exciting Live! footage that you’re accustomed to getting after the game is long over.

Although, just because no one showed anything good, that doesn’t necessarily mean nothing interesting happened. As phan_in_babylon, Clare, and James Beale pointed out in the comments of another post, Pedro Feliz and Chris Coste were riding around the field on police bikes while Ryan Howard and Jayson Werth were practically running people over on a groundskeepers cart.

I couldn’t find the Feliz/Coste video, but here’s Ryan Howard and Jayson Werth on a groundskeepers cart:

It was a rough day yesterday for the Phils. A heartbreaking loss to the Mets in fourteen twelve innings (it just felt like fourteen) gave us an anti-climactic conclusion to a rain-delayed, thrilling comeback in the ninth inning on a two-out, two-run blast by Jayson Werth off of Billy Wagner.

(So that’s — what, six blown saves for Wags now? Not that I’m counting or anything.)

To make matters worse, the Daily News reports that Tom Gordon has been placed on the 15-day DL following yesterday’s game. So, yeah… tough day.

As is often the case with me, when the major-league teams come up short, I look to our minor leagues for a morale boost. The Soul beat the New York Dragons in the AFL playoffs Saturday, and yesterday Les Walrond of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs made team history. Walrond struck out seventeen batters in nine innings of shutout baseball as the ‘Pigs triumphed over the Louisville Bats*, 2-0.

Les Walrond: Call-up material? Let’s examine why and why not.

Why: In his last week of pitching, these are Walrond’s stats: 2 starts, 15 IP, 11 H, 3 ER (1.80 ERA), 4 BB, 21 Ks. He has some big-league experience (2 call-ups for a total of 17 games). His repertoire of pitches includes a fast-ball, a curve, a slider and a change-up that he’s now improving. Did I mention he’s a lefty? No? He’s a lefty.

Why Not: Despite his recent excellence, Walrond is 3-7 on the season. He’s averaging less than six innings per start (13 GS, 73.1 IP). The sum of his major-league experience (one year with the Royals, one with the White Sox) resulted in a record of 0-3, with an ERA of 7.46. Did I mention he’s 31 years old? No? He’s 31 years old.

*Why didn’t they just call themselves the “Louisville Sluggers?” Must have been a trademark issue.

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